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florca

Working very nicely with a lightly-loaded, non-overclocked Pi4B OMV-5(beta) Server - Idle temps dropped by at least 5°C

Thanks!

florca

@bensimmo - I think you may find that if you update via rpi-update to a later kernel (4.19?) and download and add the driver files to /lib/firmware as per: #download the needed fws cd /lib/firmware sudo wget http://linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/dvb-usb-dib0700-1.20.fw sudo wget http://palosaari.fi/...

florca

Reminds me of the story my Dad used to tell about how Marconi (in their later incarnations) designed TVs - Start off with a really good TV and then take out components one by one until it stops working. Replace the last component. Job done...

florca

Would I be able to also mount the drive as a SAMBA share or access it some other way over the network? Would I be able to log in to the Pi via FTP and copy the file to another remote machine that way? Yes to both - if the plan is to leave the drive permanently attached to a Pi USB port then you can...

florca

Built from your original (HW mpeg) fork and works fine (thanks..) on an original B+ with the codec licence - if you're making updates then maybe worth adding to the README that it needs gpu_mem equal or greater than 128MB to function. If this isn't set then it segfaults without much in the way of ex...

florca

Also worth thinking about how you want to use the drive before starting saving recordings, and format / partition accordingly! If only used with the Pi then a "native" Linux format (ext4) is better, but if you want to swap it onto Windows or Mac systems then consider exFAT (and install exfat-fuse / ...

florca

I've been playing with one of these attached to an original PiB+ (I think the oldest device it will work with?). Bought one out of interest to see how it stacks up against an XBox One TV tuner attached to my CM3-modded Slice running the latest LibreElec, which works well as a general purpose, family...

florca

This:

https://github.com/ramses0/xscreensaver-pi-hdmi

in conjunction with xscreensaver will work...

florca

Probably a (very...) long shot, but given that Broadcom seem to be one of the main drivers I wonder whether GPU / h/w support for this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32140732 http://advanced-television.com/2015/04/01/v-nova-rewrites-compression-paradigms/ might be possible on the Pi? Reading ...

florca

florca: thank you, chromium 41 runs even better than firefox ;) Running even better for me with the User Data and Cache directories moved to a (fast) USB flash drive - also saves wear on the MicroSD... add --user-data-dir="target" --disk-cache-dir="target" to your /etc/chromium-browser/default Chro...

florca

Also try adding:

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framebuffer_depth=32 
framebuffer_ignore_alpha=1

to your /boot/config.txt to enable 32-bit rather than 16-bit colour depth, and perhaps try different Antialiasing / Hinting settings for Fonts under Desktop Preferences?

florca

The default Firefox browser installed from this image seems fairly unstable, but upgrading to the version here: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/200859811/firefox_36.0.4%2Bbuild1-0ubuntu0.14.10.1_armhf.deb and installing via dpkg -i provides a much more robust experience. Not sure there's any significa...

florca

Contents of my LXDE ~/.config/autostart/.desktop (create one if it doesn't exist) is:

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=xscreensaver-pi-hdmi 1

Brgds

Phil

florca

Yes, there's a simple solution here which you could adapt. https://github.com/ramses0/xscreensaver-pi-hdmi After this was written there's a new "vcgencmd display_power 1 | 0" command to turn HDMI power on | off, which I've edited the script to run instead of the current approach. I use it as origina...

florca

Very impressed by this - seems stable, runs noticeably faster than the current Raspbian as a desktop and latest Chromium works well. Couple of suggestions / pointers for others, based on the adjustments I've made: 1) The vcgencmd command is missing - copying the binary from the latest Raspbian seems...

florca

Ran rpi-update tonight which updated to latest firmware, commit 9e69b79f484fe005d7eca698962f3ee27fa00aaf after which the RPi2 boot failed (hung) at the "setting ondemand governer" (or similar?) console message. Retried several times - always failed, sometimes with (HDMI) screen corruption. Holding d...

florca

gkreidl wrote:Good hint! You can test this in epiphany also.

Loads perfectly in epiphany with FS disabled - both the Turkish video page and the Squeezebox forums link I posted in the other thread.

Certainly looks like the problem is somewhere in this area....?

Brgds

Phil

florca

Can you provide a few examples, please? I'm preparing another bug report for the RPi epiphany developers. If you navigate to here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?53229-Announce-BBCiPlayer-Plugin-(UK-only)/page283 and then select one of the earlier page numbers in the top right (say 28...

florca

If you enable "Webkit - Experimental Features" in kweb3 it fails in exactly the same way - may be related to fast scrolling feature?

Brgds

Phil

florca

See also this thread: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=100895 I think some of the epiphany problems on RPi2 may relate to "fast scroll" - both ephiany and kweb3 will appear to loop on certain page sequences if the "Webkit - Experimental features" are enabled on kweb3, but kweb3...

florca

CaptInsano wrote:Could you have a look at the screengrab attached of my Advanced Settings > File Types to see if I have followed your instructions correctly?!

Looks perfect (and identical to mine...)
Phil

florca

Anyone have any luck getting .m4a tracks to play successfully? I have both faad and lame installed as per instructions I read somewhere, but Squeezebox still just skips any m4a audio tracks. Any ideas? EDIT: I just figured out that I can play .m4a tracks if I change my squeezelite player bitrate se...

florca

PS to get analog working I have to unplug USB and reboot, Same the other way round, to get USB Soundcard working I ahve to plug it in and reboot, but I guess thats normal? Or does it have to do with the asound.conf? Yes, this is governed by what's defined in /etc/asound.conf and which devices are v...

florca

BTW, I'm not running headless and still have my HDMI cable attached, but I thought the software was smart enough to force the sound out through the USB port. Jack Also... Having re-read this, try shutting down, disconnecting the HDMI cable from the Pi and restarting. I've had had similar silences f...

florca

Boomer wrote:
Anything I can do?

Jack

Jack - You could try reading the post above??

Phil

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