Posts by slacker666

Quote from escalade

New generic build uploaded!

- 5.8.0-rc5 (also updated firmware so newer nvidia cards might be useable now)

- Added Spotify Connect functionality, run this command to enable: # systemctl enable --now librespot

- Added Snapcast multi-room audio, to make your pc a client: # systemctl enable --now [email protected] (replace 1.2.3.4 with your Snapcast server, can be 127.0.0.1 if pc is the server) to make your pc a server: # systemctl enable --now snapserver (librespot will automatically pipe it's audio into the local Snapcast server if it's running)

- Added Shairport Sync, to enable: systemctl enable --now shairport

- Added gmrender (resurrect) DLNA, to enable: systemctl enable --now gmediarender

- Some under the hood changes to Pipewire/GStreamer/Pulseaudio to make them all fully functional

- Updated Retroarch packages, libretro cores, Mesa 20.2-git, RPCS3

- Added ResidualVM emulator

I also identified some issues with the Pulseaudio modules switch-on-port-available, that could cause issues when connected to an AVR or Soundbar. Hopefully that'll fix the remaining audio issues, there isn't any bugs with the NUC AFAIK.

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Just tested this build and I confirm that EmulationStation can now be launched from within Kodi again. But, there's no audio in Emulationstation/Retroarch (but works in Kodi). Also, since the switch to Pulseaudio, there's no option to use Audio passthrough in Kodi so can't use my AVR properly.

Edit: noticed that when the screensaver starts (noticed in ES), it cannot be removed by using the gamepad, a keyboard is needed to get rid off it.

escalade i see you have updated the Skylake versions, will you update your generic soon as well? At the moment the current generic version is pretty full of bugs, as mentioned above.

Tried to boot / install one of your Skylake builds on my Pentium G4600 CPU based system (ASUS H270i motherboard), but once it got to the "please wait 5 seconds for the installer to run" boot menu, it just froze and I had to do a hard reset. Same USB key was able to install LibreELEC and your RetroELEC versions so doubt it's a USB issue.

Edit: however, the HDMI bug seems to be "gone", ie it's not present on my G4600 setup, so could be a NUC thing (as mentioned on libreelec's frontpage, there seems to be an issue with audio and NUCs).

Quote from escalade

20200604 images:

• updated and fixed up cava
• fixed up ncurses so there's proper color in terminal programs
• added mupen64plus-next-libretro PR's that upgrades it to 2.1.0 and adds parallel-rdp
• added ecwolf-libretro and boom3-libretro
• tried to make a better moonlight icon (it's logo really sucks, anyone with artistic talent can make a better one?)

Unfortunately, I'm experiencing some bugs with this build (generic), Steam downloads but cannot open afterwards. Cannot launch Emulationstation from within Kodi. Scraped games in Emulationstation are removed and have to redo scraping process after reboot/shutdown from desktop mode.
Audio is working when PC's started (HDMI), but if i switch HDMI source on my TV and then going back to RetroELEC NUC the audio isn't working until next reboot.

Quote from escalade

Performance seemed fine, I had no trouble running CS:GO on my NUC8i5. Didnt run any benchmarks though, and had to uninstall Steam as I needed the space, will test more later. Or you could just try it yourself, the entire Flathub library is now available on RetroELEC

Yeah I will, just dont want to install over my main HTPC with everything working. But I will try on my test setup soon

escalade OMG, did you just get Steam to run on your RetroElec build?! Amazing work!

How's performance? Does it use Proton and can you run Steam's Big Picture Mode from it?

Quote from Nobby123

Hi Escalade I’ve installed retroelec but i have no sound I’ve switched between options in audio output but still no sound is there a fix for this please many thanks the option for ALSA HD nvidia hdmi doesn’t seem to be included in this version as in stock libreelec many thanks once again

Check escalade 's post here where he explains on pulseaudio vs alsa. In that very post you'll also notice a workaround for adding ALSA to Kodi.

escalade

If possible can you have a look at my logs as stated in post 3113? Would be nice to fix without having to re-install.

Quote from pletopia

bedroom:~ # nano /storage/.config/kodi.conf

nano: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What am I missing?

I get the same error when trying to execute the "nano" cmd on my HTPC with the latest version (RetroELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2-devel-20200420000513.img.gz), I suggest you revert back to RetroELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2-devel-20200409214701.img.gz where it worked fine.

Quote from escalade

You can get it to behave like vanilla LibreELEC if you like, by setting the environment variable KODI_AE_SINK=ALSA+PULSE in /storage/.config/kodi.conf.

This made Kodi find my HDMI as PulseAudio (along with default Pulseaudio device) and audio works in Kodi now using Pulseaudio.

But I probably fiddled around too much in Retroarch / ES trying to get audio, what's the default audio output settings there?

Also, after starting ES, Kodi defaults back to ALSA: Default (Intel PCH ALC283 Analog) and there's no Pulseaudio for HDMI any more until I reboot, then I can choose Pulseaudio HDMI again (doesn't seem to be there in Kodi.log but is there in Kodi.old.log). Any ideas on how I can fix that? Thank you in advance!

Also, if I try to run Retroarch from Kodi menu, it starts RA for about a sec then crashes back to Kodi, see last attached logfile for further info

No audio for me neither in Kodi with a Intel Celeron J3455 NUC. Only pulseaudio with no HDMI option.

Quote from l3g0r

Sorry.. but you didn´t say nothing new for me.

I ask you how i can select hdmi output. What file or option I have to change.. in kodi i can`t select hdmi output..

In kodi output device I have only two options:

Default,Default output device(pulseaudio)

Built-in audio analog stero, headphones(pulseaudio)

No HDMI option

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I have this issue as well with an Intel NUC and a Celeron J3455 CPU, no HDMI option, only Pulseaudio as described above. Running your Generic image from 20200312

escalade, any ideas?

Here's my

pactl list sinks | pastebinit

: ttp://http://ix.io/2fbj

Quote from escalade

slacker666

It's certainly possible, but I don't do much Steam gaming so not a high priority.

Ah, pity. Really like to see that feature though, so keep it in mind will you?

escalade would it be possible to get a container or similar for Steamlink? Thinking it would be awesome to use my MS Surface laptop with your build and be able to stream Steam games to it as well.

Mine looks very similar, so no idea why it won't work

DEFAULT linux
PROMPT 0

LABEL linux
 KERNEL /KERNEL
 APPEND boot=LABEL=System disk=LABEL=Storage  quiet tty frontend=kodi

I did an update from 17.6 but that's about it (this being another box, not the main one).

Quote from mtk1

I assume, you mean /flash/syslinux.cfg ? I had to add frontend=kodi to the kernel cmdline. There was not 'frontend=' tag present.

The system now boots straight into Kodi.

I see it there, thank you. But I totally forgot how to make it writable edit: ok, found out. Adding that line "frontend=kodi" still makes it boot to sway for me though.

Regarding your HDMI issue, I have that with my TV and Kodi (although using 17.6 there), if I do not start the TV first, Kodi will use 1080p resolution, which looks like a mess. If I start my TV first and then Kodi box, Kodi will use 2160p resolution (which is correct for my TV). Don't want to update that box because of partially broken subtitle handling in 18.x so can't confirm with newer versions.

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Change frontend=sway to frontend=kodi in /boot/syslinux.cfg.

Hm /boot dir does not exist?

Quote from escalade

New generic version uploaded.

• Boots directly to Sway
• Added Spotify
• New boot splash
• Added A2DP codecs (like apt-x)

How do I make it boot to Kodi instead of desktop? My HTPC does not have a mouse connected, only Xbox gamepad + remote. Running RetroELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2-devel-20200301215948-251e0c5

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slacker666

I have no idea, so go with generic.

That's what I thought, but during a brief testing period my experience was that it was laggy in Kodi menus (1080p, Ryzen 3600, 8GB RAM with an Nvidia GTX 960 2GB VRAM)