Posts by Klojum

  • LE with SQL on same Box

    There is an option to do MySQL on a LE client. See LibreELEC .

    I'm not yet sure where your media collection is stored. if it is also on the same headless Kodi device, then you will need to start using pathsubstitution on all other Kodi devices. Kodi stores the full path of the video/music track, so that won't work out of the box with other Kodi clients. Once all your Kodi clients are set up for use of your headless Kodi box, any of them can add new items to your video and/or music library, because of the shared database. Each Kodi client will download fanart and thumbs and such instantly once its local thumb cache is checked.

    Personally I wouldn't run MySQL off an SD card. It's too flakey as a safe storage solution. There is no TRIM support, and wear & tear will sooner or later corrupt your data.

  • Weekly kodi backup

    I personally only make one full backup, once everything has been installed and set up correctly. After that, only the content of the databases change, which are mostly handled on the MySQL server. I see no reason for a weekly backup, unless you really want to fiddle with settings and things on a daily basis.

  • Librelec is mounting HDD in media/ and var/media folder

    It's not that we don't believe you but certain logging is always helpful. If you have access to SSH, give the URLs of the following commands:

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    blkid | pastebinit
mount | pastebinit
dmesg | pastebinit
pastebinit ~/.kodi/temp/kodi.log

    Also, /var should not be taken into consideration for a video source at all. /var is part of the readonly system partition. LibreELEC only uses /storage and subsequent subfolders as user space.

  • Manual install & boot (grub2 - refind)

    LE works in the same way as OE for those boot situations.

    I have a couple of x64 Intel machines using a dual boot with Ubuntu and LibreELEC. Installing LibreELEC as a 2nd system is quite simple. Create the 2 extra partitions (both EXT4 in my case), copy the LE system files (including both md5 files) onto the 1st system partition.

    Edit the 40_custom file in Ubuntu's /etc/grub.d/ folder and add the LibreELEC menu item with the correct device references, do the update-grub command and reboot, and Bob's your uncle.

  • serial PROBLEM!!

    Why not ask Western Digital, as well as your motherboard manufacturer, to make their products more Linux-compliant? The majority of computer hardware manufacturers is blinded by a Windows-only approach. Realteak can tell you all about that stance.

  • Migrate from OE

    Quote from themowgs


    but I am seriously not in the mood to reconfigure every single setting in all of the add ons

    There is a saying that goes: "If it ain't broken, don't fix it."

    Testing with a second setup, while you keep your original setup, is the best way of finding out whether your setup is capable of migrating over to LibreELEC. It's a process that does ask some time and effort from your side. While making backups is always good practice, make a full copy of your current setup and put it on a USB stick (or 2nd SD card), and find out if LibreELEC works for you. A simple migration update is done by placing the LibreELEC tar ball in the OE update folder and reboot. You'll find out soon enough if things are still working or not.

    Yet, if you still cannot be bothered, well...

  • Slow network on PI2

    The better question perhaps is, why do you need autostart.sh for mounting shared storage in the first place?
    Mounting sources via Kodi's GUI is fairly basic and works pretty good.

    The 'Wait for network' option is always a good choice when using MySQL databases.

  • RPi2 usb hdd not working.

    USB 2.0 ports have a 0.5 amps output by design, so depending on your external drive, this could be an issue. If you see an occasional coloured square in the top right corner of your screen, then you know the RPi is having power problems. External power is very much preferred though.

    As far as the attached drive goes, connect it to your RPi and reboot. Get us the outcome from the following commands via SSH:

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    blkid | pastebinit
mount | pastebinit

  • serial PROBLEM!!

    @Boremc
    Just something to think about:
    If you have a problem with reading your HDD, please say so in your topic title.
    Don't put in a useless text, especially when 'serial' has nothing to do with it.
    Adding exclamation marks also does not help. We'll try to help everyone here.