Posts by chewitt

The on-screen context help clearly states "Set to ON if you have copied private SSH keys to your HTPC and would like to improve security by disabling SSH username and password authentication" so I think we have the bases covered. It would be inappropriate to change the label text as you suggest because disabling password-auth does not disable the SSH service (that's the line immediately above).

I'm not sure why people are getting offended. Advice has been given politely and the advice is correct.

I'll summarise the options for passwords/auth: If the "disable password auth" setting for SSH is enabled via LE settings or by adding extra config to the sshd.conf file (which is what LE settings does) the SSH daemon is still running and you can still SSH to the box and will receive a password prompt but the default root/libreelec credentials will not be accepted. To use key authentication instead of passwords you need to copy your public key to the box before disabling password auth so that private/public key auth can work (same as any other Linux distro). If you simply want to secure the box so that password login can't be used you can turn SSH off in LE settings and nobody can login. If you need access for something turn SSH back on again.

Anything else is not possible .. so choose and calm down.

So, you want us to help you clean up a box so you can install a bunch of new piracy add-ons. Good luck.

what hardware is this on?

This is a known issue in amcodec (which is why it's not seen on pi) and probably won't be fixed until the next major wave of VideoPlayer changes land in Kodi Leia (v18). You can use skip steps rather than rewind to move back in a video and things are okay.

Put script in same folder as the files you want to release and run the script an it creates the JSON file that is queried for by the settings addon. Set the base URL for where you host the JSON file as the custom channel.

Potentially yes, but if everything booted on second attempt it's unlikely.

run "dmesg | paste" and share the URL generated.. let's see how slow the network drivers are to load..

If you run "systemctl stop kodi.service" then delete the skin files and "systemctl start kodi.service" it should default back to confluence. If not, pastebin a full log so we can see what's really going on.

Slice/Slice3 builds are 99.99% the same as RPi/RPi2 so you can follow the normal LE release notes and GitHub for changes. The sole differences in these builds are the handful of patches for the Slice audio overlays and LED driver. Unless something breaks I intend to spend as little time as possible on them because (being a pi in disguise) Slice is VERY reliable and requires almost zero effort/maintenance

Fixed, from 35,000 ft somewhere over Russia. I love wifi on long-haul flights

echo "options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=EU" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/wifi.conf

something like that should work to make channels 12/13 work. It defaults to the world regdom which doesn't allow them.

"journalctl -b 0 --no-pager | paste" and share the sprunge.us URL here

The language add-on may be in the filesystem, but after first-boot is it enabled?

If "adjust display to match refresh rate" is enabled you will need to Calibrate 60Hz, 50Hz, 23.98Hz (23.976) etc. by manually switching Kodi to that resolution and Calibrating. It is not an intuitive process so most people Calibrate the default GUI frame rate (60Hz) and then wonder why their DVD at 23.976Hz doesn't reflect their changes.

It's not a debug log or a complete log. Clean install or something with OE junk still present?

Yes, it's possible to run a torrent client in the background and to run another add-on in the foreground. Issues arise when it's a low-power device and the torrent client stealing a 40GB sized BR rip overwhelms the CPU while also trying to run a badly written pirate streaming add-on. If that doesn't run we're delighted. That's not what our distro or Kodi is about.

And there is sub-zero interest in making LE run on Realtek SoC's designed for Android. They can use Kodi on Android.

There is a systemd service file template in /storage/.config/system.d/ that can be used to configure VPN connections. You can also Google search for Brian Hornsby's OpenVPN add-on, or Zomboided's VPN add-on. You probably won't find a specific howto/guide for windwhatever service, but it will be using an OpenVPN conf file and certs like any other OpenVPN provider so the process of setting things up will be much the same.