Posts by chewitt

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.

No idea. Make sure all the fancy compression options are disabled in WinRAR and just use zip as a container format.

Sure it's possible. There is nothing to stop any of our users contributing an oscam update (or new package) to the add-on repo, and we welcome community engagement in the maintenance of niche-use add-ons.

Most laptop DVD drives use custom connectors between the drive and main board so it's probably not worth trying to recycle parts as the special cable will cost more than a new USB external "laptop" DVD drive on Amazon ($15). Kodi needs the drive to be connected before you start the box (it doesn't support hot-plugging after start) but otherwise it should just work.

The DB being "full" is not an error that I recall seeing before and it makes no real sense as there is no size limit on the DB itself. Check for free space on the SD card. Kodi caches thumbnails and if there have been other issues log files and cruft can accumulate in /storage/.kodi/temp (it can all be deleted to free space) - and if it's a smaller 4-8GB card it's not impossible to run out of space.

You might need to call binaries using explicit paths, e.g. 'tee' is /usr/bin/tee and 'nc' is /usr/bin/nc