Well, I went for the clean install using official tool to create the SD. I connected the RPi (with official Power source) to the TV (Sony Bravía). No joy. No image. No nothing. Then I used a FullHD computer monitor and the same, no image. Changed config.txt to force HDMI group and cmdline.txt with "video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080@60D" and rebooted again. I got the boot image from Libreelec and then the screen changed to what you can see.

I am starting to think the problem may be or the RPi or the cable. Any ideas?

Long time user of LibreElec (installed since the fork), first in a RPi1, then RPi2. As I noticed the increasing slowing in the system with the latest releases, I kept my system in 11.0.2, but the time has arrived. Just got a new RPi5 2Gb and prepared the SD with a fresh installation. I was almost mentalised to perform a full configure and library refresh but amb I am afraid of the time it will get.

Can I restore a backup from the RPi2 (LE 11.0.2) in the RPi5 (Le 12.0.1)? Or should I upgrade the RPi2 before, make a backup and then use it in RPi5? I don't know why but I am reluctant to upgrade the RPi2 furthermore.

Thanks in advance

I have a bunch of questions but I'll just bug y'all for the most important thing.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3b. Installed LibreElec with an 8GB SD card. I tossed movies and shows onto a 2TB hard drive (it's set to FAT32 in case I need to transfer files to a modded PS3).

It's starting to fail, though. I watch a movie and now it freezes at 20 or so minutes. I try to open files and it stops completely until I physically unplug the hard drive. I feel like I'm going to break it like this.

When trying to open the file manager during these freezes, it acts like there are no folders. Once I unplug the hard drive it acts like those folders were there and and NOW it can't open them because I unplugged it.

I don't even know if the Safely Remove option works because when it isn't frozen, I click it and nothing changes.

Also, "shutting off" LibreElec does nothing, really. The lights are still on. The fan I installed still runs. The hard drive still runs. It kinda forces me to have to physically unplug it again and I'm back to feeling like I'm going to break the hard drive.

Am I doing something wrong? I get this isn't going to be plug and play so easily but why can't I get it there? This seems like a lot going wrong that shouldn't have to. Especially because it was working just fine a few hours ago.

What can I do to just make this work?

Also, I don't know what logs are or how to access them. And I tried figuring out how to edit the config on Notepad++ but then noticed I don't know where to start.

I just upgraded from a very old version of libreelec, but now my requests rpc requests dont work anymore. I just get a not implemented error. The requests are like this. What is the correct method to be using?

const showNotification = {
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "method": "GUI.ShowNotification",
            "params": {
                "title": "AutoPi",
                "message": `Playing: ${request.play}`,
                "displaytime": 15000
            },
            "id": 1
        };


const open = {
            "jsonrpc": "2.0",
            "id": 1,
            "method": "Player.Open",
            "params": {
                "item": {
                    "file": `plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?path=/root/video&action=play_video&videoid=${request.play}`
                }
            }
        };

I've done a brand new clean install from the RPi libreELEC 12 image on raspberry pi. My network has DHCP(with a DNS setting), however on bootup the libreELEC system never has DNS. IP connectivity is fine, but there is no DNS resolution. resolv.conf is empty. If I add a nameserver to my resolv.conf then everything works. But on reboot it's gone again and there's no DNS again.

Any suggestions how to fix this?

Intel Celeron N4000, Intel UHD 600 GPU based mini pc stick

LE 12.0.1 official Generic x86/64

HDMI sound does not work on some displays. My Gigabyte monitor, sound no problem. Sky Glass TV (Amlogic chipset) no sound at all.

I’ve tried every different audio setting combination and I cannot get sound working on my TV. Google doesn’t seem to offer anything useful.

Am I missing something stupid?

I have a Raspberry Pi4 with Librelec and Kodi 21 directly connected to my TV.

The fan shim (for speed control) used to be working like a charm but it doesn't since LibreElec 11:

https://github.com/jane-t/rpi-fanshim

Do you guys have any idea how can I have a fan to work in the latest LibreElec release?

Given I would like to have PoE to power it, would Raspberry Pi with a PoE hat or the Minisforum s100 (Intel N100 + Intel UHD) be a better choice?
The main concern is hardware support by libreELEC such as the Intel UFS storage controller and HDMI CEC etc.

I've bought X96Q Pro+ box and the audio passthrough only puts out PCM 2.0. So LibreElec and the like are my only salvation as the manufacturer is very unlikely to fix his firmware at that level..

Thanks!

Hello,

I am looking for a computer to replace my Amlogic S905X box that runs LibreELEC.

I think I'll go with a (simpler) TinyPC x86-64.

I've found some Lenovo ThinkCentre such as the "M715q Tiny" that runs on "AMD Pro A6-8570E R5" CPU.

It has a "Radeon R5" graphics card.

What do you think of AMD Pro A6 and/or Radeon R5? Would it be able to play/decode HEVC/x265 1080p videos? 4K?

I know this is a long shot:

I have a nvidia shield remote that works ✨flawlessly✨ in libreelec (on a standard PC, not a nvidia shield device).

When I use it with Debian however, some of the remote buttons aren't mapped to anything, whether using Kodi or not. The remote doesn't have xinput mappings like a normal input device, so I can't figure out how to map it myself. Web searches have been fruitless. But it does work flawlessly in libreelec, so obviously its possible.

I'm hoping at least for some clues that can help me figure out how to get the remote working on Debian. Any insights are appreciated.

Hi, I'm trying to connect my IPVanish account with libreelec 12.0.1 on rpi4 on the OpenVPN Manager (https://github.com/Zomboided/service.vpn.manager). I followed the tutorial from IPVanish as well (https://support.ipvanish.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002080053-Setting-Up-OpenVPN-on-LibreELEC-Kodi) but I always get an error. I tried multiple servers but can not get a connection. I don't know what to do. Anyone can help me?

Raspberry Pi 4 8GB LibreElec 12.0.1

When I click on any video (Jellyfin and/or YouTube plugin), I have a 50/50 chance that either the video will play normally, or will attempt to play (with the audio running for about 5 seconds) but then freeze the entire system until I manually reboot it.

I tried to get logs but the logs stop as soon as it freezes, and therefore no logs are produced.

For anyone that's been around long enough you would know or at least I would hope agree that the OG favorite side menu was beautiful with the confluence skin.

But the crap that this exists as now, is garbage (seen)... the side slide out w opaque bg was GOAT.

Now in my old nuke and set up file, I'm reminded to set a default look and feel for favorites. But that seems to have gone the way of the dodo... or moved.

So what gives, bec this is a deal breaker for me if they removed it. No granted this is a fresh install so I currently have no favorite set, but that's not how I want to look at them when I do.

This is my first time setting up kodi, I'm using a pi 3 it's been like 10 minutes... I'm not exactly sure what partition resizing is but is it supposed to take this long? Can I make it faster somehow?

Clean install / nuke using the libreelec creator I still had.

So w a fresh install, as clean as it gets, I went to install my theme of choice from kodi rep. Didn't see the get more that's usually there, so when I tried to install from repo. Won't connect to kodi, but it seems to connect ok to lib.

I'm half tempted to just nuke again and go back to 11.0.6.

I thought things were supposed to get better with upgrades, not significantly worse.

I set up a Kodi box on a Raspberry Pi 4 for playing movies when I don't have a WiFi network/good Internet connection available - It's working great, but I would also like to set up a way to stream my phone screen to the TV if possible so that if there is a movie that I don't have access to, I can still stream it through Netflix or Amazon Prime or what have you. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?

Tl;Dr - I'm looking for a way to stream my phone screen to my RasPi Kodi box without an external WiFi network

Grabbed an HK1 to replace my Beelink GT1 when it died, running CoreElec, and absolutely hate it.

Decided to switch back to a PC, and the N100 was recommended because it should run Kodi just fine plus has decoder chips for x265 and the newer AV1...

I have a NAS and all my media is in folders with artwork, subs, nfo files etc... Kodi set to scan local info only...not sure if it copies it to the local drive or if it reads from the NAS?

Never my previous systems for games, probably never will.

That all in mind... how much ram is recommended. 8gb or 16g? I think DDR4 is the only option.

Drive, M.2... 256gb should be more than enough right? Maybe 128gb? Most come with none or 500gb... I'm building a new home PC and can use the 500gb as a dump drive and get a cheap 128gb for the n100 was my thinking.

Any suggestions... specs, brands, things to look for or avoid... looking around $200-250CAD. I like the Beelink because of how good my old GT1 was before the HDMI went.

Hello. For a few years, I've had LibreELEC running on a Raspberry Pi. The MicroSD was recently corrupted, so I started from scratch. As I've had a few issues re-establishing my setup (i.e., my Hauppauge tuner now doesn't find anything...), I set about learning more, generally.

In short, my (ignorant) question is whether I can merely run TVHeadend on the Raspberry Pi OS, more or less, no need for LibreELEC. If that's right, what do I lose by not using the LibreELEC OS (and Kodi, I presume)?

I just record Jeopardy! for my wife so that she can watch it, on our TV, when she likes. I don't otherwise really watch TV, being more of a movies guy, so I'm not streaming OTA TV to different devices and locations, etc. Thank you for any guidance or clarification.

Separately, I am now putting my OS, whatever it will be, on a USB drive. I understand that reduces or avoids OS corruption scenarios (e.g., from power loss).

Hi all, sorry for the probably very basic question but I can't find a straight answer.

I have a X86 thin client and I'm wondering what OS to put on to make a streaming box, and if I have the possibility to also run pihole in it it'd be awesome. I'm reading about many TV OSes but I can't find a straight answer for my very basic needs. (and I don't want to be locked into the Android ecosystem)

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Thanks

I had a nice Beelink GT1 Ultra with CoreElec for 5yrs, then it died. Still have another in the living room that works great though.

So, grabbed an HK1 s905x4... Specs were fine, $85CAD, about what the Beelink cost so why not.

Flakey annoying junk... Freezes with shut down and restarts, playback is great after you skip forward and back again, else screen is jittery. Heat was hitting 83'c, had to buy another case off AliExpress with a fan... Now max is 43'c, but fan is noisy.

Looking at maybe a cheap N100? Few people have mentioned it as being a good system for Kodi and playing video (no gaming, video only).

So, is the n100 a good way to go? Does it run LibreElec?

One thing I also wondered was turning it on and off. Android box, both Beelink and HK1 have iR, so remote can be programmed to power it up, once on the Bluetooth turns on and my remote works for Kodi (MX3 Pro remote).

Not looking for gaming or anything, just HDMI, turn it on and auto boots to Kodi, and remote can turn it on, or TV turns on and triggers the PC to turn on as well automatically.

This HK1 is just not cutting it compared to the much older Beelink. Almost debating buying a used Beelink for $20, even though the CoreElec for it is 3 versions behind. 😅

I have a cheap laptop with Celeron n4100 and 4gb ram running windows 11 and latest KODI, it outputs MVC 3D without any issues (for some reason my i5 12500 based laptop doesnt output 3D)

Since my laptop is very weak for Windows 11, i often get choppy playback especially after some updates get automatically installed

I tried installing LE Generic Legacy v12 and while it shows HW 3D, it only outputs in 2D, can anyone tell me what version for LE should i install to get 3D MVC Working ?

PS. I only need 3D MVC Playback as for other videos i have Fire TV stick + plex server

Hi!

So I have a spare HP EliteDesk 705 G3 (AMD A10-8770E ) and wanted to check out librelec on it to see if I could replace my android tv box. It's connected to a Thomson smart TV via a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter.

When i try to install I get to the first text menu, but regardless if I try to install or run the screan just goes blank and signal is lost. From googling I've tried running it manually from the bios menu, different USB ports and changing boot settings but get the same result regardless. Also tried both the generic and generic legacy installers. I can install debian just fine on the same hardware so it seems to be the librelec installer that is unhappy about something...

Anyone have any ideas?

Wondering which is the smarter way to go here. I can get either device (including case etc) for a similar price brand new.

I would primarily be using it to play video files off a USB hard drive, most of which would be 720p or 1080p H.265. Bonus points if I can transfer files onto that drive via a network share rather than needing to unplug it and plug it into a different PC.

Hi,

I have installed a fresh Kodi/LibreELEC installation and my USB speaker (a Jabra) is detected on the menu but no audio output when I watch the TV (with the Free addon).

I have tried everything I find on Internet without any result.

Sorry for my bad english, i'm french

Thanks you by advance

Greetings,

After running Kodi since the xbmc days on an OG xbox, and ultimately moving to an AppleTV running MrMc, which unfortunately has not had any updates for years, I've finally moved to LibreELEC on a RPi4. One problem though, I really, really, really miss my AppleTV remote.

I've been searching for a while on whether it could work with the RPi4 and LibreELEC and came across this site, which shows that it can work on Linux and that it does in fact send it's commands over bluetooth, not just the audio - https://github.com/Yanndroid/SiriRemote-Linux

I'm sure there is someone out there, much, much smarter than I and could someone get this working with the LibreELEC builds. I'm happy to be a guinea pig and/or be guided on what I need to do if needed.

Cheers,

Jason.

Has anyone figured out a way to install tailscale on to a raspberry pi running libre? I'm going on vacation and I want to be able to access my library from on the road

Is it possible to use RetroArch with LibreELEC (RPi 3)?

Has anyone tried it? I'm using a raspberry pi 5 with a USB DVB-T2 tuner and it's working great for libreelec plus the tvheadend add-on.

My TV tuner is a hauppuage wintv dualHD which I purchased for about 20 quid. It's been fantastic for the years and years I've had it.

But I discovered they're about £80-90 to buy now, which is prohibitively expensive.

So I've been looking into alternatives, and the pi TV hat seems like it'll do the job.

I've read, however, that some people are having problems with the TV hat on the raspberry pi 5.

Can anyone report whether it works? I notice on the pi hut retailer it doesn't list the pi 5 as being supported, but I assume that's because they haven't updated their website.

I've struggled to find information on compatibility with the pi 5 online, so of anyone can give a first hand account it'd be really useful.

I’m using a Rpi 4 and had to manually install LE 12 but seems i player and YouTube aren’t working because input stream adaptive isn’t compatible with LE12.

Any suggestions how to resolve this please? :o)