Posts by chewitt

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

Start from a clean LE installation. You can always connect/mount the old OE drive to copy-back information if needed; assuming it's not the drive that failed.

Use the backup function in the OE settings addon .. it creates a tar file in /storage/backup which can be copied off-box.

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.

There is no LE build for this hardware. There are no plans to have a build for this hardware.

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.

in the Library view navigate to the left side of the screen and check/un-check "hide watched" in the menu that appears

Plans = Yes, but Activity = Low, it's not making it very far up my priority list

How did you edit config.txt?

Have you tried our 7.0.1 build? .. it should be broadly equivalent to the current OE beta's.

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.

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.

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.

All we do is link to the main Kodi repo. We don't have our own 'Kodi' repo, and the LibreELEC repo deliberately contains no skins. So, debug log.

The OpenVPN binary in LibreELEC is compiled with --disable-server so you can only use LibreELEC as a connecting client.

LibreELEC.tv/package.mk at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

If you want PPTP use OpenELEC. This thread is now locked to prevent further pointless debate on this dead topic.

In post #2 and post #7 you have been told that LibreELEC does not support it.

What is not clear? Was ist nicht klar?

LibreELEC is not OpenELEC. PPTP is not supported / PPTP wird nicht unterstützt. We told you this in post #2 on 28/4.