Posts by Klojum

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Something must have gone sideways during the upgrade.

Can you start with providing the kodi.log file for more details?

Power up the RPi with the USB drive connected, and do the following commands via a SSH session:

blkid | paste
mount | paste
dmesg | paste

And copy/paste each of the URLs here so we can have a look.

No need for 'help' in your forum thread title. It's not really helpful. We try to help everyone with LibreELEC-related issues.

As far as your LibreELEC device goes:

Any power provided by something other than the Raspberry Pi is welcome. A large 3.5" HDD can draw a lot of electricity, mainly at powering up.

LibreELEC has a "Submit Log" option in the System section in the its Settings Add-on, where you can have the log uploaded, and for which you will get a URL. This web address you need to paste here.

Try a different USB cable, maybe it has a micro fracture. Or possibly the Buffalo's controller is a bit allergic to Linux.

Using VNC on a RPi to watch TV? You like watching slide shows..?

I've been using Linux for some 8 years now. The whole software installing/updating procedures of Windows became way too annoying to me. Installing and updating a new Windows 10 installation already takes at least half a day. The subsequent endless blue "Please do not turn off your computer" screens have become too much for me.

Only since Win10's software store is it able to auto-update installed software. Linux can do such things for many years now. Windows may have its external tricks, but with Linux itself you can install a boatload of applications from a single (long) command line in all one go. Building up one's own scripts for that will create new installations in record time. A new Linux file server can be ready in under 10 minutes once you know how.

I also have a RPi3B+, but I have it boot from an external USB attached SSD. It also does the SQL database for Kodi.

My media collection is on a separate Linux server. Having a 3.5" HDD without active cooling on a RPi gives me goose bumps

But I'm glad it all seems to work for you.

Sorry, but our crystal ball is not functional during the weekends. Details of the used Kodi device are welcome.

You're probably the first one to come here with such an expansion board. So it probably will have some teething problems with LibreELEC. Normally a simple external USB housing will also do, as the RPi 3B+ can boot directly from USB.

Just for my understanding, do you still use an SD card to boot the Raspberry Pi, or does the HDD do all the work? It's best to keep your OS and media collection separately.

It's possible that LibreELEC does not initially see the HDD because of a lacking partition table on the HDD. Formatting the drive in Windows should 'wake up' the drive in Linux. If the HDD is to be attached permanently to the RPi, I would suggest using a bootable USB stick running Gparted on your PC, and create one or more EXT4 Linux partitions for movies, tvshows and/or music depending on your media collection.

I've also not yet seen that many partitions on a Raspberry Pi device. I guess we can thank NOOBS for that. It is best though to make a choice of your definite weapon for using Kodi. NOOBS can have it effects on LibreELEC, and updating isn't a smooth experience with NOOBS in the background.

LibreELEC (as do the others you mentioned) has its own installation disk images which can be easily written to an SD card. Whether or not the expension board is supported is likely up to the Linux kernel used by LibreELEC. If you still want to testrun the other Kodi solutions, a separate SD card is recommended.

Quote from JanneK

And I would like to have it so that also Windows machine can see the disk when connected via usb cable.

LibreELEC automounts all connected drives at boot time, having it shared via the Samba network may take a few more steps. But first things first, installing the HDD.

Anything is possible. The changeover from SMBv1 to SMBv2 and up hasn't that gone well for a number of Android/Linux users. And if it's Samba only that is causing the freezing, I don't know. I prefer NFS myself.

Bitten versuchen Sie Ihre Fragen vortan in English zu stellen. Dies hier ist ein "English-only" Forum.

Google Translate kann sehr hilfsbereit dabei sein.

You can also use the advancedsettings.xml file for enabling debugging, by setting the <loglevel> tag to 1. Then reboot LibreELEC.

You probably need to stop Kodi, make your edits, and restart Kodi.

systemctl stop kodi

-- edit stuff and save it

systemctl stop kodi

Quote from briscaF1

This may be but a function that used to work now doesn't and it should be fixed irrespective of the workaround.

Really...? You want Kodi to fix a problem that your TV is creating in the first place? You shouldn't even need a workaround.

IMO your TV is currently not displaying your PC's video signal correctly because of an ancient souvenir called overscan which is applied by default, and right now it sounds like you are too lazy to fix your TV's wrong settings. "Just scan" on LG TVs works perfect for PC video signals. Using Kodi's calibration for that is totally ludicrous. You are now adjusting Kodi's output because your TV has the wrong display settings active. It's like going left 3 times when can also take a single right turn instead.

Sorry, but this is not a Kodi problem. It's your TV applying the wrong settings for processing an incoming 1:1 pixel perfect video signal. Only the fact that certain Kodi parameters not saved is lilkely a bug, but the display problem itself shouldn't even be there.

Your first log requires a password. You can also use Kodi's paste website without such hassle. Texts.logs will be removed after 60 days.

Wow... 10 whole log line entries.

We prefer to receive the complete log puzzle, via a pastebin website near you.

What can I say? If there truely was a problem with our RPi 3 download, we would have been notified by now by many more people.