Wow, I think you should consider asking your money back!
Seriously though, you could have at least provided a logfile as is clearly described on the wiki before posting such a rude post. Thoradia is not an official addon. Even if it was, the devs are sharing their work with you for free. Google manners 
You bought it specifically for LE, when it's not even a supported board? Good logic there 
Now if only there was someone who added support and had an image ready for download, needing testing...... (in a very sarcastic voice)
Why don’t you give it a spin? It’s not like the emulators will be in your way. I probably won’t maintain images with Kodi in them in the future, but this is a complete LibreELEC build renamed and with some additions. Among other things I added a2dp bluetooth streaming out of the box, play music from any phone or laptop directly to your xu4.
Not sure why the xu4 has «failed» community wise, I think maybe it was ahead of it’s time but with immature driver support. Things are better today but now there are other strong sbc ‘s as well. I’m very happy with it though, it works great. It’s mostly mainlined as well, and soon we will have panfrost.
Pick whatever is the latest. It will start up in Kodi just like regular LibreELEC. If you want to strip out emulators then you have no choice but to compile yourself from my tree. The XU3/4 is not supported by LibreELEC.
More info on my build: RetroELEC Emulationstation/RetroArch image for XU4 - ODROID
You could always create a unit that unmounts the shares before suspend (use WantedBy=sleep.target).
I find udevil helpful for easy mounting of shares btw. "udevil --mount smb://server/share" creates a properly named directory under /media and mounts it for you.
Does passthrough even work with PA at all? From my testing i think PA performs better when remixing menu/videos in ES, perhaps the optimal solution is using PA then pasuspender for emus. PA has gotten quite good over the years, perhaps it can be tuned further to get perfect sound and performance in every case.
As for autodetection, I think there won’t be one solution that suits everyone. I think the manual steps for special setups isn’t too bad and can be done by noobs with proper docs.
Did you find the script useful? Let me know if u have ideas to improve it. I have some changes i will commit later. Also im interested in a cleaned up wifi script, waiting for u to get that right
The package won't be installed to the image automatically, easiest way is to add it to the "oem" package dependencies and then set OEM_SUPPORT=yes in the distributions/LibreELEC/options file.
I don't manually create anything, it will create a sink for the connected output.
I’ll let you figure it out, you have no need for this useless stuff right? 😉
It picks whatever Pulseaudio picks. My NUC has two cards with several devices, PA correctly detects 0,7 and it’s what my script generates config for.
Kodi does it's own enumeration and skips whatever you have in asound.conf AFAIK. Pulse uses ALSA for detection and output.
On the RPi you don't even need an asound.conf, dmixing should already be enabled. To avoid ES/omxplayer locking the card, I had to use these settings:
<string name="AudioCard" value="sysdefault" />
<string name="AudioDevice" value="PCM" />
<string name="OMXAudioDev" value="alsa" />Any application that tries to set a specific PCM device will break dmixing by locking the card. Applications should be set to default/sysdefault or not set at all. ES was picky about this, but the above combination works both with PA stopped or by having it running and use pasuspender:
# SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa pasuspender -- emulationstation
In most cases you should be able to just set ALSA_CARD=0 or specify the card like this in /storage/.config/asound.conf:
defaults.pcm.!card 0
defaults.ctl.!card 0
defaults.pcm.!device 1
defaults.ctl.!device 1
Environment variable takes preference.
Think I found the cause of your volume troubles:
LibreELEC.tv/soundconfig at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub
It's being run by /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-alsa-restore.rules.
Focus on whatever you like, I completely agree on not fixing what isn't broken
Proper mixing is enabled by default on analog outputs and it's a oneliner if it isn't. Do whatever you like personally and in your builds, this is besides the point which is that you are spreading misinformation. You certainly haven't tested dmix when you keep insisting what I'm saying isn't possible. Again with the pissing contest, I could not care less what works in my build I'm not claiming it does. The laziness is you giving false statements on subjects you clearly have no clue about. Not saying you should rework anything to do ALSA, just don't tell that "single user" that it's not possible. It's a public forum, more than the single user are reading it.
I'm not talking about your build, I'm talking about ALSA which you now again are calling useless (remove ALSA then if you think it's useless). Your attempt at a pissing contest is just weird, just accept that you were wrong and move on. I'm using Pulseaudio as well, but like to test all options. Pulseaudio needs to be modified from the default setup to work with ALSA and users aren't able to do that either unless you do it for them. FYI kodifreeze.sh was written at a time when I was lazy too. Congrats on finding a typo in my tree there are probably plenty more