Posts by orclex

Great!
In case anyone needs to know, this is the remote control:

chewitt

I also tried to map the other buttons to Action IDs.

The keystroke for the buttons INPUT and TTX are KEY_RECORD and KEY_FIND.

I added
<lircmap> 
 <remote device="devinput"> 
   <language>KEY_RECORD</language> 
   <subtitle>KEY_FIND</subtitle> 
 </remote> 
</lircmap> 

to .kodi/userdata/Lircmap.xml

and

     <language>AudioNextLanguage</subtitle> 
     <subtitle>NextSubtitle</subtitle>

to .kodi/userdata/keymaps/remote.xml

Kodi.log for button INPUT:

2025-12-27 17:20:31.791 T:3410    debug <general>: Keyboard: scancode: 0xc2, 
sym: 0x00 (), unicode: 0x00, modifier: 0x0 
2025-12-27 17:20:31.791 T:3410    debug <general>: GetActionCode: Trying Hard
y keycode for 0xf200 
2025-12-27 17:20:31.791 T:3410     info <general>: Skipped 3 duplicate messag
es.. 
2025-12-27 17:20:31.791 T:3410    debug <general>: HandleKey: 0 (0xf200, obc-
61697) pressed, window 12901, action is  
2025-12-27 17:20:31.891 T:3410    debug <general>: Keyboard: scancode: 0xc2, 
sym: 0x00 (), unicode: 0x00, modifier: 0x0

and for button TTX:

2025-12-27 17:21:30.353 T:3415    debug <general>: CLibInputKeyboard::Process
Key - using delay: 400ms repeat: 80ms 
2025-12-27 17:21:30.354 T:3509    debug <general>: Thread Timer start, auto d
elete: false 
2025-12-27 17:21:30.358 T:3410    debug <general>: Keyboard: scancode: 0x88, 
sym: 0x00 (), unicode: 0x00, modifier: 0x0 
2025-12-27 17:21:30.358 T:3410    debug <general>: GetActionCode: Trying Hard
y keycode for 0xf200 
2025-12-27 17:21:30.358 T:3410     info <general>: Skipped 3 duplicate messag
es.. 
2025-12-27 17:21:30.358 T:3410    debug <general>: HandleKey: 0 (0xf200, obc-
61697) pressed, window 12901, action is  
2025-12-27 17:21:30.493 T:3509    debug <general>: Thread Timer 1401754872603
52 terminating 
2025-12-27 17:21:30.508 T:3410    debug <general>: Keyboard: scancode: 0x88, 
sym: 0x00 (), unicode: 0x00, modifier: 0x0

The keyboard scancode is different for the buttons, but Kodi maps them to the same key 0xf200, obc-61697.

This is the same with other buttons on the remote. ChatGPT sais, this is a limitation in Kodi. Is this correct, or is there a way I can get running different actions for the buttons?

Thanks for the great explanation!

I have another Xiaomi Remote and could get the OK button to work with

# Xiaomi RC Consumer Control 
evdev:input:b0005v2717p32B9e4A53* 
KEYBOARD_KEY_c0041=enter

chewitt could you add this too?

Thanks

Hi,

I'm running LE 10.0.2 and have some old roms (nes, snes) I want to emulate under LibreELEC. I installed emulator addons like bnes and nestopia and I can run the file manager, open a .nes rom and it is running!

Now, how can I make this beautiful? I found a scraper for roms called skyscraper which scrapes images, text and a video for each rom. But how can LE use these files? skyscraper generates a gamelist.xml file and the default frontend is emulationstation. Is there an addon emulationstation available I need to install or how do you integrate your scraped roms into LibreELEC/Kodi?

Thanks!

Goo

Quote from awiouy

You could try to do the following in the console.

1. Create a dummy directory:

mkdir -p /storage/downloads/dummy

2. Run a dummy syncthing service:

STNODEFAULTFOLDER="y" syncthing -home=/storage/downloads/dummy -gui-address"0.0.0.0:23456"

3. Browse to http://libreelec.local:23456 and update syncthing to the latest version.

4. Stop the dummy syncthing with ctrl-c.

5. Restart syncthing:

systemctl restart service.syncthing

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Good idea! I got syncthing working with a clean configuration and could upgrade.

The only thing is I couldn't find the service unit file to restart syncthing. How is it started?

But after reboot syncthing does start again!

However, is the addon not upgraded anymore?

Thank you very much awiouy!

Hi,

Syncthing is not running anymore on LibreELEC 9.2.2. I've installed latest "Syncthing for Kodi addon 9.2.0.109" that seems to use syncthing 1.4.2. but current syncthing binary version is 1.9.0. Can you provide an update for Kodi please?

$ journalctl -u service.system.syncthing


Sep 15 20:52:36 kronos systemd[1]: Starting Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization...
Sep 15 20:52:36 kronos systemd[1]: Started Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization.
Sep 15 20:52:36 kronos sh[1854]: [start] INFO: syncthing v1.4.2 "Fermium Flea" (go1.12.6 linux-amd64) unknown@unknown 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Sep 15 20:52:36 kronos sh[1854]: [start] WARNING: Failed to initialize config: config file version (31) is newer than supported version (30). If this is expected, use -allow-newer-config to override.
Sep 15 20:52:36 kronos systemd[1]: service.system.syncthing.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 15 20:52:36 kronos systemd[1]: service.system.syncthing.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 15 20:52:36 kronos systemd[1]: service.system.syncthing.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
Sep 15 20:52:36 kronos systemd[1]: service.system.syncthing.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Sep 15 20:52:36 kronos systemd[1]: Stopped Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization.

This repeats 5 times until it fails...

Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos systemd[1]: Starting Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization...
Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos systemd[1]: Started Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization.
Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos sh[1958]: [start] INFO: syncthing v1.4.2 "Fermium Flea" (go1.12.6 linux-amd64) unknown@unknown 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos sh[1958]: [start] WARNING: Failed to initialize config: config file version (31) is newer than supported version (30). If this is expected, use -allow-newer-config to override.
Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos systemd[1]: service.system.syncthing.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos systemd[1]: service.system.syncthing.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos systemd[1]: service.system.syncthing.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos systemd[1]: service.system.syncthing.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos systemd[1]: Stopped Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization.
Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos systemd[1]: service.system.syncthing.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos systemd[1]: service.system.syncthing.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 15 20:52:37 kronos systemd[1]: Failed to start Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization.

Thanks!

Reproducable: after updating the addon from LE repository it is not working anymore. The rebuild addon of vpater has to be installed again.

No process with squeezelite is running.

On the terminal I listed the available outputs

# squeezelite -l
Output devices:
null                           - Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=PCH               - HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog - Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=PCH            - HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog - Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0           - HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog - Front speakers
surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0      - HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog - 2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0      - HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog - 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0      - HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog - 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0      - HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog - 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0      - HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog - 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0      - HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Analog - 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0          - HDA Intel PCH, ALC892 Digital - IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0            - HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0 - HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=1            - HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 1 - HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=2            - HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 2 - HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=3            - HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 3 - HDMI Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=4            - HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 4 - HDMI Audio Output

and I could start a squeezeboxserver with

squeezeboxlite -o default:CARD=PCH

So I want to change the audio device in the addon from auto to default:CARD=PCH

but I get an error, see log file.2019-12-16 18:59:53.950 T:140152416491264 WARNING: Previous line repeats 83 times.

2019-12-16 18:59:53.950 T:140152416491264   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.OSError'>
Error Contents: [Errno 13] Permission denied
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.audio.squeezebox/plugin.py", line 16, in <module>
PluginContent()
File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.audio.squeezebox/resources/lib/plugin_content.py", line 43, in __init__
self.select_output()
File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.audio.squeezebox/resources/lib/plugin_content.py", line 735, in select_output
devices += get_audiodevices()
File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.audio.squeezebox/resources/lib/utils.py", line 111, in get_audiodevices
sl_exec = subprocess.Popen(args, startupinfo=startupinfo, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 394, in __init__
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1047, in _execute_child
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
-->End of Python script error report<--
2019-12-16 18:59:54.491 T:140151398508288 WARNING: plugin.audio.squeezebox --> Exception in lmsserver ! --> Server is offline or connection error...

Looks like the default addon permissions are not correct...

What permissions should be set?

ScummVM does not start on LibreELEC 9.2. The addon has to be rebuild - then it is working.

See Retroplayer - ScummVm

Thanks, that is working!

BTW:

After starting ScummVM a second time per boot the mouse is captured in a smaller virtual screen. I cannot click on any buttons. After a reboot of LibreELEC it works again until next start of ScummVM.

Quote from vpeter

Interesting: it is just a issues ticket system.

Anyway, on Generic x86_64 system addon only needs to be rebuild. And then it runs fine.

Access to the ticket system is still denied.

Unfortunately on LibreELEC 9.2 this bug still exists.

I'm running the generic x86_64 build. How can I rebuild this latest LibreELEC addon?

Thank you very much!

Ok, I'll check the debug log. Do you have any string I could search for relating to updating LE?

Hi,

since LibreELEC 9.0.0 the automatic update is broken for me (x86_64). LibreELEC 9.0.1 was not installed automatically for me although it is set to auto in settings. After some days I updated manually to LE 9.0.1 by downloading the image and placing it to .update. Now LE 9.0.2 is out for a while and I still get no automatic updates. When I set updates to manual I can chose the available releases and there is 9.0.2 available. It looks like the automatic updater does not run?!

Is there any service responsible for update checks I could examine? I did not find a proper systemd or cron job that could do this...

Thanks!

Best

I found the appropriate settings file:

userdata/addon_data/service.libreelec.settings/oe_settings.xml

The channel element was empty. After changing it to

<Channel>LibreELEC-9.0</Channel>

it seems to be ok again. Waiting for the next update....

I've waited some days after the release of 9.0.1 while I was on 9.0.0 but I didn't get the update automatically. That's why I updated manually with the image and .updates.

Currently I'm running the official image LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.0.1 on Intel hardware.

On the previous releases LibreELEC 8.X I could see the appropriate update channel when I've changed it to manual updates. Now this list is empty for me.

It would be great to have an "check for updates now" in the update-settings...

Hi,

I have installed LibreELEC 9.0 x64 and I did't get updates automatically for 9.0.1. I set updates to manual and checked the update channel. It is completely empty! So I installed the update by copying the LE 9.0.1 image to .updates. That worked. But I still have an empty update channel on manual updates and I think that's why I also get no updates on automatic updates.

What's wrong?

Thanks!

Thanks, mounting via fuse is working but I also needed the option allow_other to get access...

Quote from orclex

Can I list VMware shared folders to see if it exports my share to the VM?

OK, vmware-hgfsclient does this and shows me "data", but I still cannot mount...

Perfect! Didn't know that there is an ova image. This is working for me....

...except shared data:

I enabled "Folder Sharing" in VM settings, added my host path /mnt/data and its name data.

SSH to the LE VM, I tried

# mkdir /media/data
# mount -t vmhgfs .host:/mnt/data /media/data/
Error: cannot canonicalize mount point: No such file or directory
mount: mounting .host:/mnt/data on /media/data/ failed: No such file or directory

Any ideas?

Can I list VMware shared folders to see if it exports my share to the VM?

Thanks!