Posts by chewitt

Go into LE settings and set a "wait for network delay" of 5-10 seconds. Many low-power arm devices have slow(er) loading network drivers and because the OS boots fast Kodi can be started before the network has finished initialising, so Kodi cannot connect to the SQL database. Adding a delay allows the network to come up first, and then things work.

Go into LE settings and enable "disable password auth" in the SSH section.

DaVu: This would be a great topic for another HOWTO video

All you need to do is change the PKG_URL value and githash for PKG_VERSION in the add-on package.mk to pull from your own clone of the Tvheadend repo. If you are intending to fiddle with things long-term you should always be working in your own clone of a repo as this gives you control over the changes you fetch/merge into your local branches. If you blindly trust whatever we (or Tvheadend) people do upstream with a direct clone of our repo and "git pull" we'll eventually do something that wrecks your local changes

which is also more secure than using a password

You need to create a "patches" subfolder in the package folder, then add "diff -Naur" patches to that folder in <package_name>-<package_version>-001-name-of-change.patch format. The numbering decides the order that patches are applied. The default package sources will be unpacked and your patch-set of changes will be applied before the package is built. Have a look at other packages; there is no manual for the LE build-system but it is full of prior art

Enable "Advanced" or "Expert" mode in Kodi settings, then you have the option for passthrough. In basic mode this is hidden.

LMGTFY

That's how the Kodi team programmed the Home screen in Confluence. You can change the mapping of the button in the screen to something other than INFO to change the action, but if the mapping remains on INFO the skin will always do the same thing.

That error normally means Xorg fails to start because there is no GPU driver that supports the chip in the box. We don't have any SkullCanyon devices to test locally but there have been public reviews of LE running on that hardware so we assume it works. Have you tried the v7.90.002 build?

/dev/sda2 is a partition on the drive so /dev/sda would be the node for the drive, but you don't show us the failure response of the command so that's just a guess at the problem.

LibreELEC targets HTPC kit which typically uses a remote control not a trackpad, so we are probably (and deliberately) missing the drivers for it. If you tell us the Linux kernel driver module required to make it work we'll consider adding it in a future update. Otherwise LE is working as intended.

Please don't post the same thread twice, ask for it to be moved if necessary, and be patient for replies.

If you are building from master branch we didn't pull any of the recent Kodi Amlogic changes into our branch yet, and I wouldn't expect things to work right without them. Not sure when those changes will get added. We may wait until the official Kodi Alpha 2 appears on/around 1st July before getting everything ready for our LE v7.90.003 release.

It's a long-standing bug in Kodi affecting multiple Linux distro's. If you reboot with the disk inserted the Play menu should be visible.

On the subject of names, it's probably not a good idea to use your email address as your username. PM one of the staff if you'd like it changed.

The meaning of Libré in LibreELEC is personal to the founding team and represents "free of his crap" or "we are free again" and has nothing to do with other interpretations. You are welcome to continue debating the issue (with yourself) but there are no plans to change the name. It's just a name.

I was present when the name was chosen (as the least-worst of several options). I think you are over-thinking things