It's not about us adding support for something. It's about Intel writing reliable drivers. Once they fix their crap (don't hold your breath) our distro will magically work "out of the box" without users needing to hack stuff. We stopped adding the hacks ourselves because what works for one flavour of NUC (which supports 4k when connected to a 4k screen) creates false modes in Kodi for someone who doesn't have 4k hardware.
Posts by chewitt
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Either change the partition labels so the two (or four, or any other multiple of two) sets of partitions are labelled distinctly, or switch to using UUID. It will not work in an OOB config as it is using labels and you have duplicate labels (something will boot, but, roll dice to guess what).
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There will probably be an update file by the time LE 9.0 exists. Anything you find in the forums today claiming to be 9.0 is a little premature.
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I've never actually done it, but reading instructions from the Pi Foundation site something like this should work:
Use our USB/SD creator app to create a bootable SD card with the RPi2 image, then append "program_usb_boot_mode=1" to config.txt and boot the Pi to configure USB boot. SSH in and run "vcgencmd otp_dump | grep 17:" and you should see "17:3020000a" afterwards. If you don't, the Pi will not USB boot. Now use the USB/SD creator app to create a USB using the same RPi2 image. You will need to edit boot=/dev/sda1 and disk=/dev/sda2 in cmdline.txt on the USB stick as the default image is hard-coded for /dev/mmcblk0 devices (SD card) and will fail to boot.
In future LE 9.0 we dropped the hard-coded reference to SD cards (we use boot=UUID= and disk=UUID= format) which will make this easier.
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People that develop Tvheadend have advised that they do not support migration. I trust they know what they are talking about.
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You have to create autostart.sh, it does not exist by default.
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The best way to configure a static IP is to set a static DHCP reservation for the wireless dongle's MAC address in your router. You will still need to join the device to the network when installing - although you shouldn't need to reinstall frequently. It should be a rare event. It is not possible to pre-configure network settings in config.txt.
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The OS name can be changed in LE settings > System. The Kodi name can be changed in Settings > Services. Use the GUI and stop fiddling with xml files before you break something.
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16GB is enough for the largest of Kodi libraries so 250GB is a little overkill unless you also want to store/play media from the same drive; but if it's a spare go use it. If you add another ext4 drive it should show up automatically.
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Pivos XIOS XS - Official Kodi Wiki has basic spec details so I've moved the thread to the Amlogic support area.
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No idea. Having seen a wide variety of issues in the aftermath of the SMB changes nothing surprises me anymore. Some devices just have crap default configurations.
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Yes, we're aware.
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You need to ask droidbox. Their home-grown version of LE is nothing to do with us.
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In 8.2 the kernel default mounts with SMB2. If you needed "sec=ntlm" before it is probably an SMB1 share, so add "vers=1.0" to the options.
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If you want to be insecure, set Kodi smb client to max SMB1 and reboot. However I suggest you make the effort to remember how to enter a server and share name, because once Leia arrives it will probably have new SMB code (i.e. existing crap is ripped out) and there will be no browse option.
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I have RPi3 and LibreElec installed. How do I add either VLC or MXPlayer as a default player for kodi?
Uninstall LE and install Android. It is not possible to use 'external' player apps in LE. It's not necessary either..
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The connections screen GUI reports what connman (the connection manager) tells it, and connman polls the kernel which reads current values from the device driver. So the root cause will be (as normal) in the driver code. I have no knowledge of your wireless hardware, but if it an 802.11ac device there is a 99% chance it uses a Realtek chipset, so the driver code is out-of-kernel and considered to be low quality. LE has no bug to fix.
