Posts by chewitt

Debug log shows that you have the "default" audio device selected and this has no passthrough capabilities. You need to select either the S/PDIF (ALC283 Digital S/PDIF) or HDMI (PIO SC-2022 on HDMI) outputs as the passthrough audio device.

No support for this at the current time. Sorry.

Be adventurous and go try it..

lspci | paste
lsusb | paste
dmesg | paste

run those commands over SSH and paste the sprunge.us URL's generated. Then we can see what wireless chipset is on the motherboard and figure out what needs to be done to support it.

People need to go back and read post #8 again. No facts or technical data = No developer cares about the incomplete issue report.

autostart.sh is run at the very start of userland boot so you will need to background the task and use a "sleep 15" or similar value to ensure a) the network is up, b) Kodi has been started and reached home screen.

Current behaviour is the sum of changes by Kodi team and various add-on contributors. I'm not sure waiting will achieve anything as those upstream exist in a state of ignorance (and Music is the bastard child to all-important video). You're much better off poking around to see if you can get a better result.

We never released an official S905 image for LE 7.0 so there are no add-ons in the official LE repo. Your image is using a custom repo so you need to beg/nag whoever created that release to update their add-ons. You cannot install RPi/RPi2 add-ons to an S905 device as they are compiled for another CPU type and architecture (arm, not aarch64).

uninstall / reinstall the addon and it should work, no?

connmanctl
agent on
scan wifi
services
connect wifi_blah <= tab autocomplete works here
copy/paste password when prompted

that should work

NB: If you are using WPA2 security (which you should be, it's been the default for wireless kit for years now) the wireless network is considered to be cryptographically secure and you effectively gain nothing from the overly complex password.

From a discussion with one of the Kodi developers this is an issue with VDPAU and the lack of RAM on the GPU - it's basically about old (out of spec) hardware being used. If you are lucky the laptop has enough CPU power to software decode things with VDPAU disabled, but I doubt that's an option with higher bitrates and larger file sized content. It's time to ask Santa to upgrade the 2007-era laptop to a more modern HTPC device.

10-bit H.264 is rarely supported for HW decode so you need something like an Intel NUC with an i7 chip which should have enough grunt to CPU decode everything.

There are quite a few differences in the scrapers used/embedded between Kodi Isengard and Kodi Krypton - it's not about distro. I've seen the same but haven't been able to dedicate any time to figuring out what combination of stuff is needed to get better scraping.

Connman is designed to be a "tethered hotspot" same as you'd have on a mobile phone. It should work fine for the use-case you described, but it creates a new routed subnet and cannot work as a bridge to the Ethernet network. If you really want/need a bridge, go buy a WiFi bridge.

There are commits for Estuary in the past couple of days to rectify the missing "Play Disc" options. I didn't play with them but sounds like it will be resolved in next release.

Currently on the US east coast, which is freezing cold and 14-hour's plane ride from the warm and sunny destination I normally live in

add-on configuration stuff is in /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/ .. and moving config is simply about moving files around the right places