Posts by chewitt

Does anything happen when you run "eject /dev/sr1" from the console? .. on some wireless devices the fake CD device (with drivers etc.) must be ejected before the wireless part is made available. Otherwise there are some messages in dmesg that I haven't found a clean explanation for yet.

The easiest way out of this is to shift the content off the drive and do a clean reformat, copy it back. As much as a I like debug challenge it would be quicker if you have something to temporarily move the data to.

hammerboy, that image is updated with a large patch from OE's collection that probably solves a bug in the driver. Test again and report back.

If you had an upgrade issue solved by deleting Addons27.db I am interested in obtaining a copy of the previous AddonsXX.db from your box. For users updating from Jarvis this will be Addons20.db. Kodi devs would like to see examples to try and figure out why this issue is (still) seen.

hammerboy.. please test this image Index of /test/ and report back, it has updated misc-firmware. NB: It's tagged as 8.0.2 but don't read anything into the version number; release is a way off yet.

LE already moved master branch (future LE 9.0) back to OpenSSL but there are no plans to move 8.0.x releases as it requires a load of additional rework to add-ons and there isn't the appetite for that. Current milhouse builds (with Kodi Leia code) are available. If/maybe we opt to create an LE 8.2 release to bring a kernel bump and other new hardware changes before Leia (as it's a long way off) we will do it then, but there's no guarantee we'll do that.

If you combine the S905 build project from @kszaq's github repo and the WeTek Hub or Play2 projects in the OpenPHT-embedded repo you probably get a working image. Some of the OpenPHT folks actively contribute and collaborate with LE and their version of the OS is deliberately not too different.

If you want a reliable network experience use Ethernet. It's a sucky answer, but it sucks less than the sh1t quality realtek drivers that we are forced to embed in our otherwise reliable distro.

connmanctl
agent on
scan wifi
services

leave 10 seconds between scan and services; this will list the networks in-range assuming the drivers are loaded and the wireless device is working

a smorgåsbord of missing firmware bits should be present in LE 8.0.2 which is under preparation (but no dates just yet)

I would avoid doing this split set-up because Windows\saves\files\paths\like\this and Linux/uses/paths/like/this .. so while most config will work, there is always a percentage off stuff that will not. Unpicking the stuff that does not work usually takes longer than doing it the 'hard' way.

dmesg | paste
blkid | paste
parted -s /dev/sdb unit s print | paste <= where /dev/sdb is the 2TB drive

share the URLs here

"SMB" encompasses multiple not-quite-compatible versions of a shitty designed networking protocol that is implemented via a third-part integration library (smbclient) that is wrapped in Kodi code that hasn't seen much love in aeons. Somewhere in that list resides a mess of problems. The current resurgence in reported issues (which may or may not be your issue) is largely due to Microsoft changing things in their SMB server stack. I forget what changed and thus what might be required to coerce things to work again; but it probably involves registry hacking to downgrade features on the Windows end. Best solution is to get a NAS because this will run "Samba" with an older SMB protocol version which is more widely supported (and powered on permanently which solves other silliness) or use NFS on the server side to sidestep SMB completely. Sorry if that sounds a bit shitty-worded, but Windows networking has been a complete turd since Windows '95 and I'm struggling to work up the enthusiasm for it today..

RPi3 and RPi2 are essentially the same device but RPi3 uses a newer generation of the core SoC that runs at higher clock speeds. As the hardware is so similar we can use a common kernel/OS image that supports both devices. One quirk of the Pi firmware in this configuration is that 64-bit RPi3 hardware reports itself as a 32-bit RPi2. It is possible to make RPi3 run a 64-bit image and report CPU etc. correctly but this requires you to run a different kernel configuration, and then Kodi doesn't run as nobody 64-bit ported the mountain of very highly optimised 32-bit video code that Kodi depends upon. TL;DR - it's a cosmetic issue and there's nothing to see, move along please

Auto-update is supported by custom channels, but this is not a simple URL/page scrape and requires something server side, and most community builders do not provide/support the server side bit needed to use a custom channel.

Kodi sometimes fails to retrieve addons.xml from Kodi server(s) which leads to 'get more' etc. not showing anything. If you context click on the repo and "check for updates" manually that forces it to be retrieved and Kodi now has a valid list of whats available.

The hard reset process is triggered by /storage/.cache/reset_oe being present in the filesystem. There is no logging on that process so you're not missing anything useful from the logs being nuked as part of the reset.

The only scenario that I can come up with for this happening is that you've hit "hard reset" and then said "no" when it prompts to reboot (assuming it does prompt, it probably does) and then you've taken a backup of the system. This would lead to reset_oe being present in the backup.

Adding them into the core distro by default is not going to happen because our average OS image size is ~130MB and the complete Noto font collection is ~970MB according to the Google download page

It's a valid request though. I'll ask the team to think about another method to make system-fonts user-installable.

add "dtoverlay=pi3-disable-wifi" to config.txt

If you are using the onboard wireless, it's not brilliant. The easy solution is to use an external USB dongle.