Posts by chewitt

You need to ask the add-on author in the Kodi forum support thread .. when the Kodi forum reappears.

Changing the Samba server configuration in LE settings to allow SMB1 will not change the Kodi SMB client to use SMB1 .. that setting is changed in Kodi settings > Services > SMB client.

Please take the discussion to the Yatse section of the Kodi forum (when it's back) as this has nothing to do with LE.

No, as there are no commercial HTPC boxes that ship with 10GB interfaces. What specific cards are you looking to use?

ActiveAEResampleFFMPEG.cpp is part of Kodi (going by the name) so you'd have to "patch" Kodi sources at build time and create your own custom image. There are instructions on self-building in the wiki. There are no other current options. AFAIK the ADSP work should reappear in Leia, though that is still some way off.

Add-ons are "banned" under forum/kodi rules; not "illegal" as that invokes reference to laws of a specific country which is a nebulous concept for a global internet based project.

Our forum rules are simple. If your box is has piracy add-ons/repos installed, or you are clearly stealing content, you will be refused support.

There is no official support (or plan to look at it) and last time the Q was asked nobody was aware of anyone creating a community build.

Kodi repo > Look and feel > Skins > Confluence .. but the initial repo will need to complete first else the repo looks blank. If the initial check is done while network drivers are still loading - which happens on ultra-fast booting LE, it can fail. Force an update check in the GUI and everything will appear as normal. Kodi also has long-running issues with settings corruption at shutdown which causes sections or the entire file to be reverted on restart to clear the corrupted (or simply missing) config areas. This affects all OS and is not something LE specific although we know there are also some systemd issues with the shutdown process. Eventually we'll recruit someone who's an expert in systemd things; right now none of us are. If it works on OE and not LE we can assure you it's more by accident than design.

Not really. Kodi Helix (v15) has all languages embedded. Since the release of Kodi Jarvis in Jan 2016 only English is included and other languages must be installed from add-ons to save bulk/size in Kodi.

And does it work if you set one and use it?

Legality is a concept associated with the local laws of a specific country, which is a bit vague for a global internet-based project. Thus we never refer to add-ons as legal/illegal - only whether they are banned by Kodi (and by proxy, LE). To confirm: discussion on AceStream and requests for support from users with AceStream based piracy add-ons installed on their LE box are not welcome in this forum. Users who voluntarily disclose they have AceStream and other pirate crapware installed will be asked to volunteer a Kodi debug log to prove it has been removed from their box before further support is provided.

The basic process is (as you've discovered) making the new package a dependency of something. There are multiple ways to do this and no right or wrong answer, although prior art establishes some conventions that depend on the type of package you're adding?

AlexELEC appears to use Tvheadend 4.3 .. the bleeding edge (unreleased) Tvheadend development branch. It's a bugfest. We will switch to it once it's stable, which is usually a little after it's been finally released.

Kodi add-on repo > Look and Feel > Languages > German

That's more of a Kodi feature request than LE (i.e. wrong forum) but IMHO (and having spent quite a bit of time doing IT things in Africa - so I understand the issue) the better solution would be a small UPS.

systemctl stop kodi
rm -rf /storage/.kodi/temp
rm -rf /storage/.kodi/addons/packages/*
systemctl start kodi

I view 4GB as a bare-minimal size for LE. The distro itself is tiny but with a large media library Kodi will cache lots of thumbnails. It's also common to see pirate add-ons where content lists rotate all the time cache lots of thumbs. The commands above ^ normally clear a bunch of space, but some add-ons also have their own caches and log files - so it's hard to make specific recommendations.

No Xorg = No Chromium. The browser add-on work from AlwinEsch is progressing and once he declares it ready for testing and preferably puts it in the Kodi binary add-on repo we'll start building it.