Posts by chewitt

There's an LE icon in Kodi settings when using the default skins. If not using the default skin you'll find the settings add-on under "add-ons" and then "program add-ons" ..

You can backup Kodi data but if space is the issue causing download failures any process which creates an archive file of the current install will fail as the archive is initially created on the same (full) storage. So it's probably worth doing some spring cleaning before you update. Stop Kodi and nuke the contents of /storage/.kodi/temp and also remove add-on packages from /storage/.kodi/addons/packages .. and if you understand how to run the texturecache.py script from milhouse (found on Kodi forums) that can be used to prune thumbnails too.

Connect a USB drive and do a simple "cp -R /storage/.kodi /path/to/USB" (edit the path obviously) instead of making an archive backup. Then do the update to 8.2.4 and Kodi should auto-migrate settings from Jarvis to Krypton - but if something goes wrong you have a copy.

It's also worth updating the Chromebox firmware from MrChromebox.tech

I've no idea what the issue is but the backup file is just a tar archive. Once you have the basic OS setup to your requirements you can untar the archive to a folder and then copy/move the bits you want from the previous install to where they need to be in the new one.

Either you used the RPi image (which is for RPi 0/1 devices) not the RPi2 image (for RPi 2/3 devices) or you have the RPi2 image but your RPi2+ is actually an RPi (1) device. The rainbow screen shows when you have the wrong image.

The WeTek device wrxtasy linked above is designed for markets where wireless 4G (LTE) networks are more prevalent than fixed-line broadband and it's targeted at ISP/telco customers (along with IPTV middleware which is WeTek's main business). The second one I saw first-hand in January is an S905X evolution of the Hub (slightly smaller and like all S905X, it uses 100BaseT Ethernet). I was told that device may be available to consumers later in the year but there were no specific dates.

The laptop dates from 2005/6 and the GPU inside dates from 2004. LE has never intentionally supported laptops or ancient hardware (we target recent HTPC devices) so if it works that's nice, but if it doesn't; sorry but we're not going to investigate to fix support. FWIW, I never heard of any LE supported devices using S-Video output. Raspberry Pi 3B+ would be a major upgrade in performance over your old laptop.

The website supports RSS, and official releases will pop a toaster message saying "new release available" as long as you're on the same base release, e.g. you'll see a notification for 8.2.5 (once released) if using 8.2.x and the notification hasn't been disabled.

WIFI will depend on whether the router is forwarding UDP broadcast packets to the Ethernet segment of the network. Some routers do, some routers do not.

TVH cannot mount network volumes, but you can locally mount a remote NAS share at startup using systemd. Go look at the example CIFS and NFS sample .mount files in /storage/.config/system.d

Either change PKG_URL to point to your repo and set PKG_VERSION to the short githash of the commit that you want to include (typically git HEAD of the branch), or create a git patch of the commit that includes the changes you want, and add that to packages/devel/libcec/patches/libcec-xx-description.patch, then re-run the build command and changes to the package will be detected, old code cleared, and new code with changes built.

You may need to test a current Milhouse release to have working ath10k drivers as support is not enabled in LE 8.2.x, and even then you might be missing firmware for that QCA device, but that would be easy to see in dmesg output as it will show errors.

Sorry.. I stopped recommending hardware to users about 5-years ago

No debug log = No problem.

Get a milhouse release from Kodi forums.

At first glance it looks like an older box with a GPU that supports H264 but not H265 hardware decode, so HEVC is software decoded and this normally requires a decent (newer) CPU to work.

If you write the "RPi" (0/1) LE 8.2.4 image and use on RPi3B+ you get rainbow screen. If you write the "RPi2" (2/3) LE 8.2.3 image (or older) and use on RPi3B+ you get rainbow screen. If you write the "RPi2" 8.2.4 image all should be good.

I never used them, but ISTR Kodi repo has some add-ons for adding bonus feature support into screens/menus.

Netflix requires crypto support that is only available in Kodi v18, so you need to use an LE 9.0 development build not LE 8.2.4 (Kodi v17).

Unless you have disabled auto-update, all official LE release will (by default) auto-update from 8.2.3 to 8.24 (to 8.2.5, etc.). You can manually update using the LE settings add-on.