Posts by chewitt

Both Rasplex (OpenPHT) and the official Plex distro for pi are now based on LE, we've been working together .. but LE assumes that there is only one mediacentre application running full-screen. In theory you could combine both apps into one image, but even if you did they would run discretely and you'd need to figure out the window management. You don't just add LiveTV to Plex or transcoding to Kodi - serious coding work is required.

NB: The rule for these things; if you need to ask how it's done you won't succeed. If you have the skills to succeed, our buildsystem already made sense to you and you're compiling something. It's a very arrogant statement (sorry) but experience also shows it's true.

Atom Baytrail and CherryTrail HDMI audio support by chewitt · Pull Request #417 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Go test a current Milhouse build. The sooner we get some confirmations that all is good, the sooner we merge support.

echo "0bda 8179" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/8188eu/new_id

do that. Working?

You can change the layout in LibreELEC settings, but Pi does not use Xorg so the number of keyboard options available is limited. AFAIK the CZ layout is not available.

The Piracy Box Sellers and Youtube Promoters Are Killing Kodi | Kodi | Open Source Home Theater Software
Warning - Be aware what additional add-ons you install | Kodi | Open Source Home Theater Software

the problems with Android boxes and "free streaming" repos are not exclusive to Android. Users who demand greater value for their unlicensed $25 clone box are being offered OE (and as that project stagnates, soon LE) installs as an alternative to Android with the lure of free software updates and pre-loaded addons. Minix are not one of the pirate box vendors, but many far-east manufacturers are ripping off their (and similar) box designs to gain Linux compatibility. This means any progress achieved on current generation Amlogic chips like S812/S905 benefits both the community of users (which is great) and the pirate box makers (which is not). We inherited support for WeTek Amlogic hardware from OE but are happy to continue there because WeTek are a major technical contributor to Kodi (a significant level of Amlogic development for Kodi originates from their developers). We are adding Odroid C2 support as this is a bare-board which appeals to a different demographic. I am acutely aware that our position with those vendors doesn't result in a rational argument against working with other devices, but as we simply don't understand who everyone in the Amlogic scene is (as most historic Amlogic development on OE has taken place outside our view) it's a rats nest of technical, political and social issues influenced by piracy. As a result we prefer to move VERY slowly .. so right now (this week, and our position is a moving target) there are no official plans for these devices.

I'm aware of the links. There are no offiical plans at this time. The Amlogic scene is a rats nest of hardware and media piracy issues so although we would like to support more hardware it's really not clear what role LE can (or should) play in advancing things.

I normally copy simple x86_64 binary things over from an Ubuntu VM .. which generally works unless something is kernel specific or has a bunch of lib dependencies that aren't accounted for. If you really do need to compile things you're best off using the build-system and creating packages for them.

Backup! .. then drop tar to update, and drop tar to revert back to MH builds.

once I finish building 7.0 addons in the next ~24 hours it will simply appear in the repo

Old IT saying: "if it works, don't fix it." .. The default configuration settings are the recommended optimised configuration. For pi hardware they are the result of many thousands of hours testing

An alternative is to create Movie Sets for the different versions. It's not what you're really asking but probably the closest you'll get in current Kodi.

there's no size limits that we've ever been aware of .. what happens if you unpack and convert to .tar on another box and then try to unpack .tar?

There are no plans for a "new hardware" forum thread that people can subscribe to, but we can create (and multiple people have asked for) a "releases" forum thread. New software releases that support new hardware are likely to contain some kind of announcement.

in LE 7.0.1 or 7.90.001 ?

I can confirm the same on my Xtreamer box. This is a bug that needs to be fixed - thanks for flagging it.

echo "r8169" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

that will blacklist r8169 so r8168 can be used (if that's the issue) but the Kernel drivers improved and I didn't see that problem for a while.

/storage/backup is the correct path .. the help text will get corrected once I figure out how to bulk modify the strings.po files

MPD should be backported to 7.0 (it already exists in the 8.0 repo) in the next couple of days