Posts by chewitt

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.

It should *just* be large enough, but my maths sucks so no guarantee.

In that case you didn't configure the before/after requirements correctly. In some cases a helper script is required to test for conditions and delay the service activation until things are ready. As we have no idea what you're actually trying to do (and I will stop asking now) .. we can only provide vague advice.

One of the changes to 8.2.2 was disabling the blue LED on the C2 during boot, so it going off does not mean the device froze or locked up. Make a DHCP reservation for the device's MAC in your router so it boots to a known IP - then you can SSH in to figure out what the issue is. If multiple OS are failing to give video output it points towards something that is not software, e.g. HDMI cables (swap them to check) or if you're unlucky, something on the C2 hardware.

Create the service file in /storage/.config/system.d/ and then enable it with systemctl

Why would you delay NTP until after a USB drive is mounted? .. that makes no sense.

Please describe the problem you have. Whatever it is, ^ that is not the solution.

LE uses NTFS-3G which runs via FUSE (userspace) whereas EXT2/3/4 use an in-kernel driver. Differences are determined by raw CPU speed and I/O performance of the hardware/disk. On the same drive connected to the same hardware and same interfaces running the same kernel there is *no way* NTFS will outperform EXT because the data flows in/out of userspace to the device are significantly less efficient.

sunxi-ir?

LE has never released images for Allwinner devices (not yet) so whatever code you are running on, it did not originate from us, and we have no idea what it contains, what version of LE it claims to be, or how accurately the unknown author of that image has followed the changes we have made over the last 6-9 months on IR things

On what hardware? .. and specifically, which wireless chipset?

The OE version has a minor board revision and the non-OE version ships with Android installed. Apart from that WeTek "OpenELEC" and WeTek Play (1) are exactly the same. The LibreELEC settings add-on should be visible under Add-ons > Program Add-ons on all skins. The shortcut to it in Kodi settings only exists in Estuary.

Download the .tar image to storage, then validate the md5 checksum against Mirror List to make sure the image isn't at fault. If it still fails, maybe the internal storage has some issues?

LE uses fluxbox as a basic Xorg windowmanager (further in the past we used ratpoison) on x86 hardware. Other hardware currently runs on the kernel framebuffer (no Xorg) and with the next evolution of LE (and Kodi) graphics architecture everything uses DRM/KMS (GBM) and a zero-copy rendering/decoding pipeline based on the kernel V4L2 stack.

The build-system was borrowed from geexbox but the design principles behind the OS are from Welcome to Linux From Scratch!

It's simple to build the OS without Kodi; set mediacentre to 'none' (or something else that matches a package name) in distro options. There are people using it for weather stations on a Pi in addition to multiple other flavours of media app. You need to poke/understand how the build-system works to get anywhere with adapting it for other needs. If you succeed please keep in touch and consider submitting enhancements back to our main repo that allow easier adaption for other uses, because it's great to see our codebase forked and repurposed in this way.

I'll have to go look at wpa_supplicant

NTP is handled by connman