Posts by chewitt

Post a Kodi debug log.

You need to share "dmesg" within a few minutes of boot. The log you posted has rotated and contains nothing useful.

Python things need to be baked into the OS image, it's not possible to install them.

Nothing leaps out to me as being wrong but I'm no Samba genius. If you use smbclient from the console, what error message is returned?

He already tried "FR" which is a valid regdom. It appears to be something else .. but debugging wireless connectivity issues requires rather specialist knowledge of radio properties and without some nice error messages to Google progress will be non-existent.

MikeKL sprunge.us is offline (and may not return) so can you repost the files to ix.io or pastebin.com?

Hmm.. looking in sources it appears to have been added a while back and I'd not noticed. I must work on my omnipresence

So if that's the location. I'd guess there is some issue with the changes you're trying to make. Alsa config is a bit of a dark art and few people understand it so advice is often not forthcoming.

Quote from Megachip

AFAIK LibreElec supports dual audio output (analog + hdmi) out of the box.

Not with alsa reconfiguration, and in Harry Potter terminology this is a 'dark art' that few people understand.

Like finance investments "past performance is not a guarantee of future performance" and with GPU drivers we are ultimately dumb consumers of what the vendors publish. I'm far from being an expert on the history of things, but VDPAU is dead and newer AMD drivers use VAAPI (as does Intel) which is still evolving. It's worth Googling the driver mailing lists and vendor bug trackers for issue reports and responses, because ultimately that's where things need to be reported and resolved.

Have you enabled BT under 'services' in the LE settings add-on? It is not on by default.

MT7610U has a Linux driver that "works" but makes crappy Realtek drivers look like polished perfection. It does not follow basic kernel standards for important things like wireless regulatory domain and is not of sufficient quality to consider adding into LE. The related but older MT7601U was ground-up rewritten and has had in-kernel support for about 18-months, but there are no signs of it being extended to the the newer mediatek chips. As is usual for far-east wireless chip vendors, they appear to have no interest in Linux.

UPnP uses "bonjour" networking which is TCP/UDP multicasted on the source (first) subnet. If the RPi is behind a NAT gateway the multicast traffic is blocked so devices in a second subnet (behind the gateway) will not be able to see bonjour devices in the first. The router is handling normal TCP/IP traffic so Samba shares etc. can be reached.

I typically see this when people have an internet router and then use a second router to extend wireless into another part of the house. The second router creates a second subnet with NAT on the 'WAN' interface. Despite 'double NAT' it will work for internet access, but devices in the second subnet cannot see broadcast data from the first. In this scenario the easiest fix is to configure the 'router' to be a 'bridge' interface to the original network and not actually route. Most routers support this; it's just not the default option.

Quote from zx-9r

So I should edit QNAP's smb.conf and add the settings. Or should I edit LibreELEC smb.conf and add these settings?

QNAP .. because you are setting "client" min protocol and it's the client.

Quote from mmax

Security for local private network isnt big issue, SMB1 is used more as 20years...

People who experienced the WannaCry ransomware attack might disagree with your bad advice.

zx-9r Samba versions from 4.1 > 4.6 will always attempt to connect at SMB1 unless smb.conf forces SMB2 via "client min protocol" and I'd guess the Samba version in the QNAP falls in that range. If LE samba is set for SMB1-3 it connects at SMB1 and things work. If LE is set for SMB2-3 the client still attempts to connect at SMB1 and things fail. From Samba 4.7 onwards the connection default is SMB3_11 and the client auto-negotiates lower versions if required.

magic

Budget requires some kind of Amlogic box, but LE/Kodi has no browser and most devices will be limited to 720p for Netflix etc. as they must be software decoded. The same box running Android will have a browser and probably supports hardware decoded 1080p netflix.

Perhaps reset Kodi audio settings to defaults. I use a WP2 as the family "daily driver" and have never seen anything like that.

On Android Kodi includes Samba (smbclient) as part of the image and it is an older version that does not support SMB2. The Samba version should be bumped to a newer version that supports SMB2/3 for Kodi Leia.

smbstatus is not included in LE

The OS will auto-mount the drive unless there is an issue with the filesystem. The usual issue we see reported is "unsafe eject" from Windows which leaves the filesystem in an unclean state. If not, it might be worthwhile running chkdsk.exe over the drive.