Posts by chewitt

There's no technical reason why it couldn't be added, but to avoid "the death of a thousand cuts" we tend to shy away from complex niche things that a tiny majority of people will ever use. That said, there will be a "feature requests" voting capability on the website soon where you can deposit the request and if it became a highly voted for feature, we'd reconsider.

NB: vpeter created a TrueCrypt addon for OE in the past which can probably be resurected for LE (or it still just works) or this is something that you or someone in the community could package into a similar add-on format. We welcome public add-on contributions, as long as people maintain them.

No plans.

It could be built in (we already build MySQL for the client which Kodi needs) but there are sub-zero plans to include it. The core OS is "client" focussed and the collective opinion is that DB's belong on a NAS box. That said, as long as you're not on a WeTek device with an ancient kernel you can load the docker add-on and then add a MySQL or MariaDB container.

escalade, PR please

/dev/mmcblk0p2 means SD card, so is this a Raspberry Pi?

If yes you're using an image for x86_64 hardware which contains KERNEL not kernel.img .. hence the (correct) missing file error. If yes the solution is to download the appropriate pi image not the Generic one.

LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-7.0.0.tar?mirrorlist <= first pick a different mirror source or use the master site

Also check the amount of free space on /storage (df -h) as if it's less than ~410MB you won't have enough space to download the Generic image (202MB) and then untar the contents to the udpate folder (means 202+202MB) for the update to be performed.

If you need to clear space; "systemctl stop kodi.service && rm -rf /storage/.kodi/temp/* && reboot"

Known problem partially or fully resolved by VideoPlayer: inputstream, check status of Create by FernetMenta · Pull Request #9739 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub which we didn't pull into master branch yet. The workaround is to embed inputstream.mpd and inputstream.smoothstream into the image.

At some point in the past you editted the RSS feed via Kodi GUI and this copied the embedded /usr/share/kodi/userdata/RssFeeds.xml that contained a reference to OE's RSS feed to the userdata location of /storage/.kodi/userdata/RssFeeds.xml. As we don't forcibly check/edit userdata files during the update process the reference to the OE feed persists. If you check the embedded file location when running LE you will that LE does not publish an equivalent feed; because we don't have a feed and in LE builds the default is RSS disabled. You can solve the problem by editing the file

I've replied to luizfelipefb; the official contact point for LE reddit things is reddit (at) libreelec.tv

LE numbering schemes were thoroughly debated before starting official builds. There are pros/cons to following Kodi numbering, OE numbering, or starting over at 1.0. In the end the "least worst" option was continuing OE numbering but adding the Kodi release name to reduce confusion. Hence you will see "LibreELEC 7.0 (Jarvis)" and "LibreELEC 8.0 (Krypton)" used in anything official.

An 64-bit RPi3 build will appear once the pi foundation release something. We're not expecting to see anything for a while yet.

Have a look at Brian Hornsby's well written OpenVPN configuration add-on, and the instructions from your VPN provider.

OpenVPN for Kodi

You can select any locally mounted filesystem as the location to back-up to. If you locally mount the remote NAS filesystem you can back-up to it, but if not you'll have to choose somewhere on /storage or a connected USB drive.

Krypton will bring the ability to run retroplayer games within the Kodi GUI. We're talking 90's and early 00's console games nothing hardcore. It simply adds another "centre of your living room" dimension to Kodi alongside Movies, TV and Music.

MrHaroldA. We value freedom, but it cuts both ways. You have the freedom to run whatever you like on your LE install. We have the freedom to set the rules of this forum and provide support based on the ethics and principles of the LE team. Just because we have "Libre" in our name does not mean we allow our forum to silently endorse add-ons like Superrepo that openly encourage the theft/piracy of copyrighted media.

The YouTube add-on in the Kodi repo has been broken for a while now - it's not an LE specific problem. The add-on maintainer quit, something broke, nobody really stepped-in to resume development or create an alternative yet.

RssFeeds.xml exists in the Kodi userdata directory so if you migrate from OE > LE the file is retained as-is. It wouldn't be right for us to start editing the file via scripts; should you go back to OE (hopefully not, but always the users' right to choose) we'd have removed the OE news feed. Probably not a big deal given the volume of news coming from OE, but, principles.

There is a low desire in the team for our repo to host and sustain add-ons that are basically used for piracy. In theory torrent add-ons can be used for legitimate purposes, but none of us ever met that user. As long as you're not using a WeTek box (which runs a too-old Linux kernel) you should have a look at the Docker addon and the posibilities it opens up.

If you explain which driver, we might be able to comment. If we rely on crystal balls, don't expect intelligent comments