Posts by chewitt

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Wtf?! Those two repositories have normal legal addons,
I am not talking about warez stuff or something like that.
I would understand that.

I guess all the studio's and TV networks give all their content away $FREE to anyone with a "fully loaded" Kodi box just because they are nice lovely people .. goodness of their own hearts etc. ~ or perhaps there is another explanation behind all the pirate streaming crapware in those repo's. Yes there are few legitimate things, but they are few, and you can always install the zip for a legitmate add-on without adding the entire banned repo and all its security risks to your LE install.

It's a long-standing position in our and Kodi forums, and there are no exceptions granted.

WeTek have been seeing an increase in support work caused by users who don't install the NAND image correctly, or who install 3rd party images for similar spec Amlogic devices that are not appropriate. It is not impossible though quite hard to truly brick a device, but it is relatively simple to create something that an average user can't resolve themselves; requiring extensive handholding or even RMA.

Facts are: WeTek supports LE when installed to a micro-SD card using the dual-boot capability in their firmware and they do not officially support the NAND install. As this is becoming a greater issue we are currently discussing with them how to message and address this with users.

Basically.. no idea. Once 7.95.1 beta is available I'm interested in results using that build because a) there are numerous network package bumps present that could potentially change things, and b) we stopped developing on 7.0 some time ago.

One thing in common between LE and OSMC is the connman network manager. Google DNS should not be required.

The best I can suggest is running "touch /storage/.config/debug.connman && reboot" then "journalctl --no-pager -b -0 -f" to tail the system journal and look for issues being reported. Connman debug logging is VERY verbose, but also human readable. Delete the debug.connman file and reboot to revert the logging state.

The shield is not even remotely on our to-do list.

Change "Settings Level" from Basic > Advanced > Expert in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

DVB-T broadcasts in the UK contain a whole bunch of radio channels. If they are marked in the back-end as Radio the Kodi GUI can show them under the Radio tab. The ability to get EPG from OTA signals also varies around the world. No idea about ATSC.

and it only runs on LE 8.0 preview builds .. not on v7.0.2/3

The WebGrabPlus add-on (there is a thread for it in the forum here) was originally created to solve EPG for someone using ATSC, which is the forgotten end of the DVB world, it's nothing specific or unique to WeTek. Having never personally seen a WP1 I can't authoritatively state; but I'm pretty confident there is no FM tuner in those boxes so not sure how you'd get that to work (USB device maybe). I certainly never heard anyone asking questions about FM on them before.

You'll see sync issues over time on pretty much anything at the moment. Should be resolved soon enough .. then there's only a memleak to solve (that's been there for months - and we can't find it) and things will be in good shape.

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Xorg (in Generic build) allows multiple keyboards, but RPi (no Xorg) allows only one.

LE v7.0.3 and the v7.95.1 beta (when it ships) both fit in an older 256MB boot partition without resizing. In the longer term it's not a bad thing to increase the size as the retroplayer bits in Kodi v18 will add bulk, but it's not an essential step just yet.

In past experiments on the original 100BaseT equipped AppleTV (which is why LE/OE have support for nearly all the chips involved; I tried them) moving to a USB gigabit adaptor lifted speeds from ~11MB/sec to a whopping ~14MB/sec. Why so little? .. because running networking over the USB stack requires a lot more computational overhead than using Ethernet, and this taxes the CPU and negates many of the theoretical gains (even at USB 2.0 speeds). I would be very surprised if anyone reports a significant user-experience improvement using one.

TL;DR .. cheap boxes with 100BaseT are cheap boxes with 100BaseT .. caveat emptor

Use the backup function in the LE settings add-on and then move the .tar (not .zip) file off the box. Go install another machine and then use the restore function to .. restore the backup. It is technically possible to custom build and pre-bake things into LE images, but if you have to ask how it's not worth your/my time attempting to explain the process and backup/restore is considerably easier.

JustBoom

please try the RPi1/0 (not RPi2/3) image here and report back, thanks.

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There are a number of sync/timing issues for Amlogic/Krypton that are "work in progress" at the moment. Thanks for the detailed report.

A8 box has a CPU with ~20x the compute power, plus Ethernet. Pi is a small miracle for what it is, but ultimately it has a low-spec ARM chip and and a wireless connection. Your results are entirely as expected.