Posts by chewitt

It's technically possible to run the entire /storage partition from something external but you'll run into scheduling/sequencing issues attempting to move only the Kodi folders over. WH has 8GB internal space which is more than enough for a large Kodi media collection so it's not really worth the effort and complexity required.

Annual number of user complaints vs. Daily number of USB/SD Creator downloads + Daily increase in LE active installs suggests that it's a reliable and well-used tool. In our opinion ISO files suck, but you can continue using boring desktop distro's if you prefer

You need to set the disk "label" and then the device will mount with a consistent name based on the label. In the absence of one it randomises the mount point each time you connect.

e2label /dev/sda1 new-label-name-here

^ if the device is /dev/sda1

It's just the way it's been coded. If you see 'buffering' the solution is to fix your inadequate network, not fiddle with cache settings. There is no normal reason to fiddle with cache settings.

LE has drivers for most (not all, but most) common WIFI chipsets. Look for something with an Atheros chipset that uses the ath9k driver, it's one of the better written kernel drivers. I'd personally avoid anything with a Realtek chipset inside, but that's just me

codesnake ^

It might be technically possible, but it won't be a simple or attractive target for LE to support. I wouldn't hold breath

Raspberry Pi drivers and firmware should be used in matched combinations. BB using random kernels frequently results in mismatched combinations that result in minute but significant differences. If you have greater skills on this topic than the Pi Foundation engineers who wrote the code and advise us to avoid this; we bow in awe of your superior knowledge and pithy comments.

If you prefer to waste another distro's time that's completely fine with us. If you decide you'd prefer to receive support here please install LE (which is very robust) and we'll look at the problem. If you run BB you are not running LE.

Nagivate left and in the pop-out screen change the view to "Wide List"

Just ship a standard LE image which contains standard Kodi, and an intro email/pdf that explains how to install two add-ons. You save the need for a custom image and loads of extra effort, and the sooner you teach customers how to install their own add-ons from the Kodi repo, the sooner they are independent people who don't need you to spoon feed them.

No plans to add support, for the same reasons inevitably stated in any other thread on the topic of encrypted drives.

The one BT remote that I have is part of an unreleased product so I can't comment further. It works very nicely though

Kodi runs as a GLES app directly on the framebuffer, no Windowing system. I'll also caution that mono support is an endangered species because it's a major pain in the butt to cross-compile (automated builds fail regularly) and we're in the process of reconfiguring add-ons that depend on it to use .net core which is lighter and easier to work with. Once that's done the current mono add-on will be removed from our add-on repo. To add extra incentive; our current (limited) support for .net things has been tested solely with the couple of add-ons that use it, so we couldn't comment on what support there is for your unknown application.

Go into the "update" function in LE settings, set to manual, select LibreELEC 8.0 channel, check for versions and 8.2.3 will be listed.

Or do it the hard way copy/pasting files around.

Nothing changed in 3-months. We are (still) waiting for the output of "dmesg | paste" to be shared.

The general solution sequence with most Pi connectivity issues is:

Disable wifi

Check power supply

Use an external dongle

The radio hardware in RPi0/3B devices is basically the same and is renowned for being "close, but no cigar" on performance. Using an external dongle is normally the thing that gets people happy.

K18 defaults to the MMAL decoder but you can still use OMXplayer, and on RPi1 hardware you probably need to only use OMXplayer.

I published all recent add-on changes ~2 days ago, so it should be in the repo