Posts by chewitt

  • Add KI Plus to supported devices

    If you're familiar with the LE build-system you can look at @kszaq's port for the S805 and the work done by wrxtasy for the C2, and the official project for the WeTek Core. If you're not familiar with the LE build-system that's the first thing to figure out. There is no FAQ or guide to follow for adding new devices, but there is a lot of "prior art" in the build-system and everything is in GitHub. The challenge with most Amlogic devices is u-boot. Every device seems to require different u-boot voodoo.

  • Issue with Live HD feeds

    If you pop the codec info on the screen (o on a keyboard) bottom-right on the display that appears you'll see the % value for the video cache. If that's at 80-90-100% the stream is healthy. If it's frequently droppping to 0% it's a bandwidth issue. If you have 80Mb fibre the issue is likely to be somewhere upstream from you, but it doesn't matter where. I see this kind of thing frequently.. but I also expect it as most streams arrive though a VPN tunnel to avoid geoblocking.

  • Help with NUC Installation

    If you downgrade (update) from LE back to OE it's best to do a hard reset and then restore the OE backup you created before upgrading, but otherwise that's correct; at the current time things are still quite interchangeable. The main point is to take a backup. This ensures you can either restore stuff directly into a clean install of OE or unpack the backup and selectively restore bits to OE or LE again in the future. If something goes wrong (and sometimes it just does .. computers) your lack of backup is not our problem :)

  • Help with NUC Installation

    There's no need to extract anything to a USB drive. Take a backup. Move the backup off-box for safe keeping. Update directly from OE to LE using the normal OE/LE manual update method (drop the tar file in the update-files samba share). Give it a week or two and then throw the backup when you're happy there's no need to go back to OE.

  • Cubox-I2

    There are no official plans for an rTorrent addon, but you should be able to install Docker and find a docker container for rTorrent.

    Not many people are using LE on imx6 kit, but there are some.

  • Domoticz Addon

    There is no (known) addon, but that kind of home automation stuff is exactly why LibreELEC has supports docker. I couldn't point you to a specific container, but there's probably one out there somewhere.

  • OpenVPN Server

    Docker is likely to be the route we take for MySQL, but there are some chicken vs. egg logic challenges to figure out first since you want MySQL to start before Kodi but in the current design docker is a Kodi addon that starts with/after Kodi. It's being discussed, albeit not at a high priority.

  • OpenVPN Server

    To avoid "the death of a thousand cuts" we have a long-standing history of avoiding server features in the distro. Sure it would only be a few extra KB to add support for OpenVPN server, but then we'd have to go along with adding NFS server, and a heap of other stuff too "because you added that server thing for those folks, why not my request!?" ..and before you know it we're trying to match general purpose distro's like Ubuntu, which has never been an objective.

    Our concession to appease the "I want my LE to do everything" user is docker support. This allows us to support one thing only (docker) but that one thing allows users to independently raid the docker candy store for containers that provide whatever app they want to run.

    So if you desperately want an OpenVPN server go find a docker container with OpenVPN server. If you hold breath wanting or waiting for it to be added to our core OS you're in for a long wait.