Posts by niabi

Quote from DarzLir

This is the es_log

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lvl1:     Error - folder with path "/storage/roms/n64" is not a directory!
lvl1:     System "n64" has no games! Ignoring it.

can you type this in SSH

ls -Rla /storage/roms | paste

and post the link

Quote from SSC_Jarod

Ah ok, then my manually copying your new files from 1.8.4 works. Thanks for this important info. So i can do updates without putting in .update folder, if the "flash" space is too low.

Yes that could work, but I still think a better alternative is to just backup the whole /storage partition to a USB stick or something and then restore it on a new install since you might run into other problems.

Quote from DarzLir

literally this is the top of the autostart.sh

This is the reason why setting the mount as services is a better solution.

Anyways, try putting just the mount line at the very bottom, before "#hacky way to get samba on boot"

Quote from SumavisionQ5

My fault. I did not update the system correctly. Now it's OK, thanks a lot.

Can you post the steps you used to update? someone else has the same problem and it would be nice to know what you did.

Quote from SSC_Jarod

hi,

i was on your last think 1.8.2. I made a test yesterday. Cloned my sd card and wrote your img on another empty card. After that i take the whole files on "Flash" from the new sd card and copied all files (system, kernel, img)to the "Flash" on my old sd card. And it worked. The old sd card bootet normaly and in kodi it says 1.8.4. I am right that the UPDATES are only in files KERNEL and SYSTEM?!?! And these are the only NEW files? Cause if i updated the right way and put the update file in .updates, on the screen always comes the message that he is copying KERNEL AND SYSTEM.

Greetings,

J

Yes the update only Kernel and System, storage is basically all created at runtime/user created stuff

Quote from DarzLir

Buffffff I got it Finally!!!!

The truth is that I have renamed several folders to be clearer, so the unit where I have all the roms is called "Ngo" and the "roms" folder is that of the roms. So trying, trying and trying again, I used this in autostart.sh file that works:

Bash

#!/bin/sh
 (sleep 5;
  mount -t cifs -o username="Normandy Server",password=***,rw //192.168.1.10/Ngo/roms /storage/roms/;
 )&

what is the problem now? Seems that ES doesn't recognize that in /storage/roms/ , there are roms

Danfozzy85 Do I need to do anything more? editing es_systems.cfg?

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On your screen it says nroms, are your roms in /storage/roms or /storage/nroms/roms ?

Quote from SSC_Jarod

Hello niabi,

this seems to work BUT I ran into another problem, that the "flash" partition is to small for update. The installer says that there is no place, to end the update. If I look I see that Flash ist 100% full. Is there a chance to resize it OR can I only manual install the system and kernel file via copy?

Greetz,

J.

I am not sure if this can be done

what version where you running before? 8.3?

Another option is to do a backup of Kodi and then restore it when you re install? you can also copy the whole /storage directory and restore it.

Quote from ts-911

Hi Niabi

would it be possible to compile a version for the low ram boxes (1GB) ?

I still have some left and would like to use them.

Thx

This version should work, did you tried it?

Quote from SumavisionQ5

niabi, you've forgotten to update the version number of ES to 1.8.4 as it still keeps as 1.8.2.

And in ES video preview can not be playing anymore for me since I've updated to 1.7. In 1.6.5 the video preview play well.

Opps yeah I forgot to update the version number, but it doesn't affect anything really.

1.6.5 was a long time ago, videos don't play for you since 1.7? How are your videos encoded? All my romsets have videos and they play fine.

Quote from eduarescobar

Please compile the version with Pegasus frontend, i will tary it... Thanks in advanced

PE version uploaded

Can anyone with a S905x (or w) do a simple test for me?

Run MK2 on Advmame and let me know if they get a decent frame rate? I am getting reports that Advmame runs MK2 "poorly" on S905X which I find strange since it ran very good with my old S905.

Can anyone else please confirm ?

DarzLir I don't think that is the problem, you need to mount it on LE to be able to do it, if you are able to mount it on Kodi it means there is a way to do it by command line. The ROM search script does not care where the roms are stored as long as the path is /storage/roms

Just thinking out loud you could probably try this:

Mount your share on Kodi
login by SSH and search to where your share is mounted (/mnt or /var/media are a good start or by using "find" and searching for a file you know is there)

change the path of the symbolic link in autostart.sh using nano from:

ln -sf $PATHTOROMS /storage/roms

to

ln -sf /path/of/your/mount /storage/roms

save and restart your box

Quote from eduarescobar

Please compile the version with Pegasus frontend, i will tary it... Thanks in advanced

Will try to have it in a few hours ( it takes a while to compile)

Quote from dapharsyde

This is a pretty terrible hack, but the only way I could get sound to work with Kodi suspended in the background was by telling it to use another audio device just before suspending it:

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curl -v -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Settings.SetSettingValue", "params":{"setting":"audiooutput.audiodevice","value":"ALSA:hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0"},"id":1}' http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc

pgrep kodi.bin | xargs kill -SIGSTOP

This allows RetroArch to use the audio device.

After resuming Kodi, I run a similar command, except this time I set the audio device back to the correct one.

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pgrep kodi.bin | xargs kill -SIGCONT

curl -v -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Settings.SetSettingValue", "params":{"setting":"audiooutput.audiodevice","value":"ALSA:hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1"},"id":1}' http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc

Maybe you could set Retroarch to use alsathread? It fixed most of the audio problems with me

Quote from KEgg

I'm wanting to update Retroarch to 1.7.1(Pi version updated), but it looks like Lakka development has gone silent for the moment.

If you only want Retroarch, you can use the source directly from GitHub - libretro/RetroArch: Cross-platform, sophisticated frontend for the libretro API. Licensed GPLv3. I compile it with a few patches, but in general it doesn't need any mayor changes, you will need to add PKG_TOOLCHAIN if you are using adamg's souce

Here is my example package

Sx05RE/packages/sx05re/retroarch-sx05re at Sx05RE_8.2 · shantigilbert/Sx05RE · GitHub

The reason I made mine to fully quit Kodi was that I noticed a bit of performance issue when Kodi was in the background, specially in input lag, but not sure if it was just for my box.

I also created a patch to re-enable content that was left out of Lakka (like the core download) so you can use those cores instead of compiling your own, but I will be honest, I haven't used it on a clean LE build, so not sure if it works 100%.

Quote from DarzLir

how and where I can add to autostart.sh?, like I said I am so bad with the commands and linux

Once you find what works for you (mounting a share or whatever) you can either use ssh to edit the file

nano  /storage/.config/autostart.sh 

you can also use samba to access and edit the file.

And add this at the bottom.

(
   your_command_or_script &

)&

A new version has been uploaded to github.

http://github.com/shantigilbert/…ases/tag/v1.8.4

This will probably be the last release of Sx05RE for the S905 as my unit burned out by a stupid mistake a made, so unless I can get my hands on another one for pretty cheap (very unlikely) I will not be purchasing a new unit, they are too expensive for me. And if I do buy one it would probably be a S912 or something else as the S905 is getting outdated.

I will not really stop moving around in the code (its to addictive) but the changes,if any, will be untested by me.

There are a few minor fixes and a few new features on this release, most notably is the avility to access every needed folder from the samba shares (roms, config and FE config)

All the emulators and cores are up to date and fixed to work on the S905 as good as I can make them.

A version with Pegasus-FE will be made available if there is demand for it.

Enjoy!

I have some bad news (well for me at least) while I was moving around my box I plugged a wrong power cord (12v instead of the 5v needed) and I fried my S905 so now I am out of a board to do any kind of tinkering around. I am going to release 1.8.4 later today, but that will be the last one for a while until I can get a new S905 board, if I get a new board, as in my country they are not cheap.