Posts by chewitt

Get a NAS, and use the C2 as the dumb client device that it (and our OS) was intended to be.

It's a good idea for two reasons:

a) Crapware addons frequently cause issues

b) You won't receive any more support in this forum until we see a clean debug log

We are not clairvoyant. Just try different cables

There is no native support for Netflix/Amazon in our OS. It is possible to make them work with some fiddling, but this will never be truly eliminated as those services don't want to make it easy for Linux use. I never heard of NowTV so I guess that falls down a crack. And if you want to talk about Android, you're in the wrong forum.

I'll have to remember what sock drawer the USB widgets have been cast into at home, because I'm playing around with an S905D box which sadly has 100-BaseT networking

If it doesn't work; either you didn't configure the SFTP client correctly (which is my guess) or you're not using LE.

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.