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Raspberry Pi 3, wifi goes to sleep?
To stop your wifi from go to sleep after idle for awhile, you need to disable its power management.
Edit file /etc/network/interfaces
Assume you Pi connect to network through wlan0. Add new line ...
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Raspberry Pi 3, wifi goes to sleep?
Editing /etc/network/interfaces no longer works in Raspbian, as TSGames commented in the most upvoted answer.
Instead, you can use /sbin/iw wlan0 get power_save to read the current power save state, ...
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How do I install/run kodi on raspbian?
Because you should have just asked for what you wanted:
apt-get install kodi
For future reference, apt has a search feature:
apt-cache search kodi
This will return a list of packages with "kodi" ...
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How do install Chromium on openELEC?
OpenELEC appears to be an intentionally confined, minimal operating system. I assume it is simple to use, partially because you cannot do much with it beyond Kodi.
Part of this is that it does not ...
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How do I get RCA video out of OpenELEC/LibreELEC?
For future reference.
OpenELEC config.txt file is in /flash
To modify it, you need to remount the /flash directory as rw, as it is read-only by default. The easiest way to do that is to have both ...
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Opening Terminal From Kodi (OpenELEC)
To the best of my knowledge there is no terminal access in OpenELEC. There is, per Ghanima's comment above, an Exit option and terminal access in vanilla Kodi on Raspbian, but not in OpenELEC.
The ...
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Real risk of not shutting down properly on openelec
Do I run any risk of doing any real, long-term damage to my Pi using it like this?
No. The risk is to the root filesystem, which may get left in an inconsistent (corrupted) state. If this happens, ...
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Openelec(Kodi) Amazon Instant video?
As far as I know it is not possible at the moment to run Amazon Prime on the Raspberry Pi.
Perhaps when the new Kernel 4.4 is released it might work eventually again. But at the moment no chance :(
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Kodi on Raspbian vs. Kodi on OpenELEC
The following thread on the RPi forums discusses some differences between OpenELEC+Kodi and Raspbian+Kodi.
According to that discussion, a key difference is the memory split in Raspbian. Essentially, ...
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Trying to force OpenELEC to keep HDMI on, but fs is readonly
I just installed OpenElec on a Pi 3, and it puts the partition that is normally mounted as /boot on other distributions as /flash.
OpenELEC:~ # df | grep p1
/dev/mmcblk0p1 524008 151736 ...
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Raspberry Pi 4 working as Apple TV
There is this: https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay
I tried doing screen mirroring from mac and iPhone, and played some videos from image gallery.
Don't know how suitable for streaming video apps (nflx, ...
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Struggling to setup Dynamode wifi USB on OpenElec
On openelec if you have an Ethernet cable plugged in it will use that. It is only designed as a single network connection system. To get wireless to work you have to unplug the Ethernet.
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Resize file system on OpenELEC
Openelec 5:
Check what process are blocking the partition /storage to be unmounted
lsof | grep "/storage" (will return the PID of the process)
Check if these processes are in the systemd tree and ...
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Resize file system on OpenELEC
In case anyone has this problem with newest version: syb0rg answer is great but
$ touch /var/lock/xbmc.disabled
$ killall -9 xbmc.bin
does not work anymore! Use:
$ systemctl stop kodi.service ...
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How do I turn on my Raspberry Pi after shutdown?
Connect your Pi's to a PoE switch and simply disable and then re-enable the port of the Pi you want to bring back up. I just VPN into my network and access the PoE switch on it's local IP and start ...
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SSH not working on OpenElec Frodo
The easiest way for me (I use the RaspberryPi headless, i.e. without monitor/television connected, was to:
turn the RaspberryPi off,
take the SDcard and put it into my card reader at my PC.
There I ...
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TV remote no longer working
There are three HDMI ports on this TV. The CEC is passed through port #1 only. Connecting the RPi to port #1 fixed the issue.
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CEC complaining without monitor
From Disable CEC:
http://elinux.org/RPiconfig
Add hdmi_ignore_cec=1 to /boot/config.txt
I thought CEC doesn't do anything anyway unless running something like
XBMC. But I have both a Pi ...
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Buffering issues with kodi (on openelec)
EDIT (12/2017)
Kodi v17 renamed and relocated tags in advancedsetting.xml
<cachemembuffersize> renamed to <memorysize>
<readbufferfactor> renamed to <readfactor>
AND they'...
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Add RasPlex to existing Raspbian install?
(Posting a self-answer with my results so far, since nobody has answered yet).
Firstly there's no simple way to turn a single-boot NOOBS into a dual boot. You had to have selected the dualboot when ...
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How do I get RCA video out of OpenELEC/LibreELEC?
An easier way: Take out the SD card from RPi, mount it on a PC (or any Operating System), do the editing, unmount the SD card and go back to RPi.
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Change openelec settings via ssh?
From Kodi's docs on the web interface:
Method 1 / guisettings.xml
Edit the guisettings.xml file in the userdata folder and look for the
following settings under <services>, and make sure ...
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Find IR codes for a LIRC remote
I got an universal remote and recorded it with irrecord. Here is the config:
# Please make this file available to others
# by sending it to <[email protected]>
#
# this config file was ...
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Pi camera Openelec
Yup.
From OpenELEC's main menu select the following:
System
Settings
Add-ons
Install from repository
OpenELEC Add-ons (official)
Add-on repository
OpenELEC Add-ons (unofficial)
This should install ...
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Cannot start openELEC on Raspberry Pi 3B+
Apparently, as of today, 8th January 2019, OpenELEC does not "support" the Raspberry Pi 3B+
LibreELEC on the other hand does. It's a very similar Kodi implementation to OpenELEC, but seems to be more ...
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LibreELEC startup with LAN excludes WLAN
Connecting two interfaces eth0 and wlan0 to the same router is possible. They will get different ip addresses from the same subnet they are connected to if you use a DHCP server on your network. But ...
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No /etc-Folder in .img-File
libreELEC uses a squashfs filesystem. This is a compressed read only filesystem. Because it is a sophisticated Linux method, I don't believe that you can manage it with MS Windows in any way. You ...
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Raspberry Pi Display issues on TV
I had the same issue before. The issue is the monitor. It is too old to support the Raspberry Pi 4's input. As far as I know, I don't think you can change the settings to fix this. Try using newer ...
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Raspberry Pi Display issues on TV
Just posting this comment if it helps anyone else, after doing more research;
So unlike a normal PC, the Pi doesn't have a BIOS/UEFI.
But the Pi does have a config.txt file that holds some of this ...
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