Posts by chewitt

    Manual update to the current v7.90.007 alpha (as nothing will be fixed in Jarvis now) retest. If the problem remains share the URL for a debug log + mediainfo for a file that doesn't work. If possible upload a 30-60 second except of the file that demonstrates the problem somewhere so we can download and test the file.


    Can the boot screen/splash screen be changed to customised animated or GIF kind picture?

    It can be done in milhouse images for Raspberry pi where there are custom patches for the pi bootloader to add the capability. It is not something easily ported over to other bootloaders so is unlikely to become a mainstream feature.

    Which version of OE are you upgrading from and how large is your audio/video library? .. and if you SSH in to the box (note: password has changed to libreelec) run "cat /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log | paste" and share the URL here so we can see the log file. If it's an older OE and the library is large it can take a while to process multiple old databases. If something got stuck (usually due to corruption) the log will show where.

    Once changes to add $DEVICE support to our build system are merged I will adjust things to Slice/Slice2 are sub-devices of the RPi/RPi2 projects and then PR support to our main git repo. That should make long-term maintenance of Slice things fairly trivial regardless of who does the image building and publishing part.

    For community/official status: There's no current plan, but there's a plan to have a chat about plans which might lead to a plan :)


    chewitt Is there a wiki for submitting the addons to your repo? I think zap2xml is at the point of being ready for a 1.0 release.

    No wiki. You can submit a pull request (PR) to add the add-on to our main git repo, or if you'd prefer to manage your own repo, i.e. rates of change are still higher and you want direct control over changes and publishing, you can PR your repo installer to our repo. If you want to go the 'own repo' route we'd be happy to provide some edit4ever.libreelec.tv webspace to serve files from, or you can abuse free github hosting. Whatever works for you and users works for us :)

    It's good to hear all is okay with the packaging; thanks for testing that. The alpha splash is used in all LE alpha builds. It will change again in beta and then revert to the "clean" one for final release. I still need to adapt Gordon's lirc enable/disable function into the settings app. Subject to me finding the time it will probably appear in the next alpha build.

    I'd like to stop this thread. If you want a hardware listing it should be in a maintained wiki page not a forum thread that very quickly becomes 20+ pages and hard to follow. I would also ask you to refrain from using the terms "to buy" and "not to buy" as forum rules ask you not to promote commercial products (and we'll extend the same idea to the wiki). I would also prefer if the eventual wiki page had a consistent maintainer who keeps the content up-to-date as LE software and vendor firmware evolves, i.e. not a free for all. Make sense?

    It uses the MT7610 chipset. I created an experimental driver package for the MT7610 back in OE days which "worked" in a loose sense. The drivers that are in circulation (can be found) are poorly written and are missing kernel interfaces for a range of wireless features. I've never transported that package over to LE as the radio configuration is ultimately dependent upon a config file which you'd need to edit to set things like region code and we'd need to embed into the read-only kernel image (spot the editing challenge). If that situation ever improves we can add the driver, but I wouldn't hold breath. If you have some dev skills and can custom build LE it should be possible to hack things in using my prior art, but IMHO it's not worth the hassle and you are better off picking up another card. Find something that uses the in-kernel ath9k driver, it's the best written one.

    I did a full rebuild with the 4.8.1 kernel bump which grabbed the correct/updated files and I now see the file timestamps matching other items which are normally updated as part of an OS update:

    image files on the webserver are still named 7.90.007 but are updated.. would be great if you can do the full update test.