Posts by LastStarDust

  • Unable to scrape TV shows: "Unable to connect to remote server" error

    LibreELEC version: 8.0.2 Generic x86-64

    Kodi version: 17.3

    All addons at the latest version.

    Hello!

    Today I tried to add a TV show to the library but everytime I try to refresh the library an error pops up: "Unable to connect to remote server".

    I couldn't find on google a solution that would work for me (The only solution proposed was to update this or that but I already have everything at its latest stable version).

    Here is a log: 5PfxkyhT

    Thank you in advance

  • Help choosing an ISDB tv tuner

    Hello I am moving to Japan in March and I would like to bring with me my libreELEC HTPC. I would like to buy me a TV tuner to watch Japanese television.

    The standard there is ISDB-T. On the linuxtv website I narrowed three TV tuners down that could be good candidates but I don't know which one is the best in my case.

    Could you help me pick one please? Which is the best in terms of features/compatibility/support?

    Geniatech/MyGica SBTVD Stick S870

    TBS6814 ISDB-T Quad Tuner PCIe Card

    Geniatech/MyGica X8507 PCI-Express Hybrid Card

    My rig is:

    LibreELEC 8.0.2 Generic x86-64

    ASRock - FM2A88X-ITX+ Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard

    Thank you from Italy

  • System and Storage partitions on different drives

    Quote from trogggy

    I've no idea if it's (easily) possible to stop those being created. I've no idea why you'd want to, either, as they have zero impact on kodi unless you point to them. They're just empty folders - I don't use them, I don't see them in kodi, I don't see any benefit in removing them. Of course there's always the possibility that I'm missing something...?

    Edit: I do remove the ones I don't use from samba.conf, so the only time I see them is if I'm looking at the contents of 'storage'.

    You are right. In daily use, those folders are harmless and you don't see them. But every time you have to access the storage file system (to rename a file, to move a file, etc) there are many folders that clutter the view. If I can live with that? Sure I can, no big deal. But if there were a simple way to solve this issue, I would do that ... that is why I am asking.

    Quote from chewitt

    Delete the default 'sources' from Kodi configuration and just ignore the unused folders in /storage. It is not possible to prevent their re-creation on boot without making a custom image with changes, which is not worth the effort.

    Thank you very much for the information. I will try that.

    Quote from chewitt

    You cannot control kernel time sequencing of mounts so symlinking things to /storage may (or may not) work and even if they happen to work now things may break randomly in the future. Just refrain from OCD and ignore /storage/movies etc. they are harmless!

    Ok I will refrain from OCD. That seems a good piece of advice.

  • System and Storage partitions on different drives

    Ok. I understand. Thank you for the information. I will take a look at the samba.conf (I have always had problems setting up samba, so tampering with that file always brings me back bad memories: that is why I tend not to open it without a valid reason) ... anyway... is there a way to tell LibreELEC to keep in the storage partition only the system files and that I keep the media files elsewhere? Let's take the folder "Picture" as an example. If I remove it LibreELEC creates it over again.

  • System and Storage partitions on different drives

    Hello.

    First of all, I would like to thank all the developers for providing us (free of charge) with such a wonderful piece of software.

    I am marveled everyday more by the thousands of features of LibreELEC.

    There is only one thing that I couldn't manage to "custumize" by myself, yet.

    The fact is that I have installed LibreELEC along side Ubuntu 16.04 on a 32GB SSD.

    I have another 1TB HDD where I keep all the Music, Videos, etc. All the data.

    I have attached a screenshot of GPARTED to depict the configuration.

    During installation, LibreELEC created two partitions on the 32GB SSD, one of 512MB labelled "System" and another one of about 7GB labelled "Storage".

    I don't use (in any way that I am aware of) the "Storage" partition. It only takes space and is full of directory that I don't use and that keep showing up in Samba shares, the file manager in LibreELEC, library folder lists, etc...

    My questions are:

    • what happens if I remove that partition?
    • How can I tell LibreELEC that my storage partition is not that one but the one on the 1TB disk?
    • How can I customize my default folders (for Music, Pictures, Movies, etc) in LibreELEC?

    I am not a complete noob (I would know how to do it in Ubuntu for istance). But I don't want to tamper with LibreELEC and loose all my library so I though that maybe I should ask here first.

    Thank you

    Giorgio

  • [Build from source] Cannot build if there is a space in the build directory path

    Tried to build LibreELEC 8.0.2 on a Ubuntu 16.04 x64 machine (build machine and target machine are the same).

    If in the build folder path (at any level) there is a white space this error is generated:

    Code
    toolchain: no package.mk file found

    when giving the make image command. I am sorry but I cannot give you any other relevant info that is related to this strange behavior (at least that I can think of).

  • Get Wake-On-Lan to work

    Quote from mglae


    The build system is surprisingly pedantic in patch file naming in some cases. For the main kernel patch directory the mask is linux-*.patch

    Thank you for the hint. Infact I was already suspecting that and I renamed the patch file accordingly.
    [hr]
    Here the script that I used to compile (successfully) the system. Maybe it will be useful to someone.

    My rig:
    Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+
    Network chip: Qualcomm Atheros AR8171
    Dual boot: Ubuntu 16.04 - LibreELEC 8.0.0

  • Get Wake-On-Lan to work

    I went ahead and I am trying to patch the kernel with this patch: Enable ALX WoL for/since 4.9.
    Here what I have done:

    • I can compile and install the devel version (without my patch) successfully.


    • If I take (from the build folder) the files to be patched, copy them on the Desktop and apply the patch it applies correctly.


    • Then I copied the patch file in the packages/linux/patches folder


    • I gave once again the command
      Code
      PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 make image


      

    • It compiled correctly but still no WOL support as if the patch wasn't applied during compiling.

    Maybe I am putting the patch in the wrong folder or the patch is in the wrong format ... could you tell?
    Thanks
    [hr]
    Ok I got it to work. I only had to place the patch file in the project/Generic/patches/linux directory. Hope to save someone's hours of time with this hint.
    I know that this project is still young and the forum is not so much frequented, so I imagine this is the reason for the "silence" in this thread ...

  • Get Wake-On-Lan to work

    Hello!
    I am trying to get Wake-On-Lan to work on my setup:
    Dual boot of LibreELEC 7.0.3 and Ubuntu 16.04
    In Ubuntu I am using the standard kernel version 4.4.0 and to get Wake-On-Lan to work I had to recompile a patched version of the alx driver and load it with dkms as shown in this bugreport (comments #40 and #55). Now it is working as a charm (only in Ubuntu though).
    In LibreELEC it is not working out of the box as showed by this command output (there is no Supports Wake-on line)

    What I am asking is if I need to recompile the module also for LibreELEC (and in case which one and how?) or if there is some other way to get WOL to work.
    Thank you a lot in advance for any help!
    Giorgio from Italy