Posts by chewitt

LE 8.2.3 will be released with the revert/fix included this evening. Then the default/normal in-GUI update process can be used.

What does "storage-ServerFolders-Videos.mount" contain?

Laptops are not target hardware for this HTPC box oriented project so it's the kind of thing where we'd ask the user to figure out what changes are required; then we can evaluate their proposed solution for inclusion. We are not against supporting things, but we also need to keep focussed on what our target audience is, and we are constantly striving to avoid "the death of a thousand cuts" where many "little" code additions accumulate and become significant over time.

root/libreelec

Not going to happen for two good reasons:

a) Kodi has no support for the SoC used in those boxes. An attempt to port was started c.2012 but appears to have fizzled out. It's now a dated chipset so developers won't be interested, and because it's dated it also has no Linux KMS/GBM driver support which will be necessary for the next generation Kodi-on-Linux graphics architecture we're currently working on.

b) The last thing this project needs is attention from the scum that resell 'MAG' boxes alongside their illegal IPTV services.

The decision to drop 304.xx was based on packaging logistics; the nVidia drivers are large and including 3x of them would have caused issues for OE users crossgrading to LE due to OE's smaller boot partition size. There are no plans to revisit that decision. However, it's a trivial one-line change to build your own LE image with the older driver (only the 'legacy' driver version number is changed) and last time I looked someone was releasing an image with that change via a thread in these forums. Go Google for it.

HiSilicon SoC's are not currently supported. Work being done in Kodi at the moment could make support technically possible in the future, but there are no current plans for us to do anything (our hands are full with Amlogic, Rockchip and Allwinner) so progress really depends on someone in the community ecosystem around us raising their hand to do the porting work.

I didn't look at the logfiles, but I'm going to point out that you're using a pre-Alpha version of Kodi with an LE software base that isn't considered complete enough to merge into our master branch yet. I guess user feedback is always useful, but until that merge happens we didn't really start the clock on support for that code and I doubt any of the developers are looking for reports.

Unless the community developer who created whatever image you are using has removed it, OpenVPN is a native (embedded) part of the OS so there is no need to install it.

Possibly an Intel AC8265 card .. from a little Googling

Don't double post the same question.

LE does not support brightness controls. It's designed to output from an HTPC device (not laptops) to a TV where such things are not required.

kszaq I added an Amlogic tab to the custom_edid page: custom_edid [LibreELEC]

LE only builds the PVR add-ons in the Kodi repo, and Releases · kodi-pvr/pvr.dvblink · GitHub shows 3.4.5 as the latest version. DVBLogic need to submit their updates to the Kodi repo; then we can pick them up. If the upstream git repo location needs to change to their own one; that change also needs to be submitted to Kodi.

GitHub - chewitt/LibreELEC.tv at leiot-8.0 has an alternative 'distribution' configuration for "LEIoT" which removes Kodi and gives you a more stripped back configuration about 80MB in size. I forget whether I completed it, so YMMV. GitHub - stefansaraev/TB: :D is derived from LE but goes ultra-minimal with an image for WeTek Play 2 that's about 50MB (including Kodi). Lots of good ideas and "prior art" to borrow.

It should be merged back into master branch In the next month, allegedly. The Leia Alpha milestone moved back to April so there's no urgency and devs are happy to poke at more items on their to-do list.

Enable SSH and use an SFTP client like Transmit to remove SMB/Samba from the equation. Fixed?

Just update the Eminent box to one of the community releases.