Posts by chewitt

Please test LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.0.1.tar and report whether the card works?

Kodi profiles need a major code overhaul and don't really work for this kind of use case. However, in my experience kids watch the same ~5 things over and over and over (and YouTube) so clever Kodi features like central watched status are utterly lost on them. I separate "kids" content at a source level, and manually scrape that one kids source to the new device while other devices use a MySQL config. The kids room has a hardware box that cannot be suspended etc. so I set an overnight cron job to update the library. As long as it gets some artwork kids think the GUI is amazing. They are kids so don't over-think the solution

Try resetting Kodi to defaults. If this does not resolve it, the issue has nothing to do with Kodi. I suspect that's the case anyway because in ~8 years of using Kodi I've never observed what you're describing.

pastebin a Kodi debug log demonstrating the problem please

Estuary does not support changeable backgrounds. You will have to change skin or persuade the Kodi skin developers to add that feature.

Hard reset in the LE settings add-on will fix the problem with this and any other 'build'

Pirate add-on repo's are installed so no further help will be provided.

Put your NAS/share names in /storage/.config/hosts.conf and then it will use IP resolving with names, and the stupidity that is Windows networking has been removed from the equation.

Did you configure Estuary to use the Weather add-on you have installed?

Confluence supports a custom background. No need to modify the skin:

Settings > Interface > Skin > Configure Skin > Background Options > Configure custom background > Point to local file somewhere on /storage

The Chromebox probably needs updated firmware to work with newer video drivers etc. in the 8.0 release.

MrChromebox.tech

Amlogic video support is now "as good as it gets" until the next wave of VideoPlayer changes land in Kodi v18. We might see some tinkering around the edges if small changes backport easily, but nothing substantial. The developer in question has already stated he does not support attempts to backport larger 'agile' changes to Krypton and we will not add things that are not upstream supported.

NB: Raspberry Pi does not use "amcodec" within Kodi so even if it does play VC-1 nicely the comparison is (on a technical level) irrelevant

On what hardware? With what LE version/image?

"journalctl -b 0 --no-pager | paste" from a clean boot, and share the URL, then we can see what happens to the NTP check. The "wait for network" option delays Kodi start and has no effect on NTP/networking.

The fact that SSH/samba access do not work points towards networking not being right, i.e. Ethernet port at half-duplex or bad cabling. Solve that and you may find that NTP suddenly works too.

Quote from mweinmann

syscontact root@openelec

  lsellens (cough)

I would start by updating the UEFI firmware on the device. I completely forget the details of which boxes involved etc. but other reports of blank screens and issues on Chromebox devices have been resolved with an update.

MrChromebox.tech

Pulseaudio - LibreELEC

it can be configured as discussed in that wiki article, at the expense of multichannel audio over HDMI which most people consider to be more important (hence it is not a default configuration).

parted -s /dev/sdb mklabel gpt
parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary ext4 40s 100%
parted -s /dev/sdb name 1 'MEDIA'
mkfs.ext4 -L "MEDIA" /dev/sdb1
fsck.ext4 -y /dev/sdb1

this creates a GPT partition structure, creates a single primary ext4 partition that is 100% of the available space, labels the partition "MEDIA" then formats an ext4 filesystem labelled as "MEDIA" (for consistency) then fsck's the partition to ensure all is okay. Commands assume /dev/sda is the boot SSD and /dev/sdb is the secondary HDD. You need to check/validate /dev/sdb by checking dmesg output as the commands are destructive.