2010-01-29, 00:15
Hi all,
For about three weeks now, I'm trying to get a stable XBMC Live installation, but no success. Currently I have a few problems and I can't find the roots of these problems. So I hereby ask for help, as I'm starting to loose hope. I've read about every thread I could find on the subjects but I'm still unable to solve my problems.
My Hardware:
- XBMC Live 9.11 Camelot (Installed to disk on a EXT4 formatted drive. My NAS uses EXT4 so I thought it best to format the HTPC to EXT4 as well.)
- Asrock ION 330-BD
- Philips OVU4120 USB IR-Receiver
- Logitech Harmony 555
- QNAP TS-419P NAS
Problems I'm having:
1) Unstable NFS Shares
My NFS shares are unstable, or atleast XBMC often crashes when for example I update my libraries.
This results in: XBMC losing access to my NAS share.
Temporary solution: To resolve this I have to reboot my QNAP NAS and then reboot my HTPC. Rebooting the HTPC alone is not enough.
I have to reboot my NAS almost every time I use my HTPC and sometimes even twice a day.
This is how I mount the share on my HTPC:
1. mkdir /home/xbmc/nas-l
2. sudo nano /etc/hosts -> 192.168.1.5 nas-l
3. sudo apt-get install portmap nfs-common
4. sudo nano /etc/fstab and add the following line: nas-l:/media /home/xbmc/nas-l nfs
This way I have a folder in my HomeFolder called nas-l which shows the content of share nas-l:/media. On my NAS I have given full NFS access to IP 192.168.1.7 which is a static IP assigned to my HTPC by my router. The NAS and HTPC are both connected to a 3COM Gigabit Switch and the switch in turn is connected to my router ofcourse.
What can possibly make this so unstable. I personally think it is my HTPC as my normal PC connects to my NAS using samba and is still able to access all files when the HTPC can't. Also all functions on the NAS still work normally, I do however see, in the control panel of my NAS, that my HTPC stays logged in on NFS even when it is shut down or in standby.
This is my biggest issue so far as it makes the HTPC pretty much unusable. Hope I can resolve this with some help from you guys.
2) Unstable XBMC
XBMC is unstable as it often hangs. Not only with the NAS share but also when changing settings in skin etc. It just freezes and I can't do anything with the interface anymore. I'm however still able to SSH the machine and reboot it, but after the reboot, problem one comes along and a reboot of my NAS and HTPC is needed.
3) Harmony Mapping Problem:
I have set my Harmony 555 up as a Microsoft MCE remote. But three buttons do not work.
Buttons that don't work: Subtitles, Audio and Menu.
I found that in lirc.xml under mceusb there is no entry for Subtitle or Audio, so I add those two in my lirc.xml.
lirc.xml (/home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/keymap)
<subtitle>Subtitle</subtitle>
<language>Audio</language>
remote.xml (/usr/share/xbmc/keymap)
<FullscreenVideo>
<remote>
.....
<subtitle>ShowSubtitles</subtitle>
<language>AudioNextLanguage</language>
</remote>
</FullscreenVideo>
I then placed my edited lirc.xml in /home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata. But no luck... In remote.xml there where already entries for ShowSubtitle and AudioLanguage, so I expected this to work. But no luck...
Then there is the Menu button that should pop-up the OSD on FullScreenVideo playback. The button for menu is called DVDMenu in the Harmony software and saw that it was called Menu in the lirc.xml. As all other buttons already where named exactly the same in harmony software as in the lirc.xml by default, I thought that renaming it to DVDMenu might fix it, but no luck.
How can I map these three buttons? Atleast menu should work as I can then manually select subtitle and audio, but I prefer all buttons to work. The other buttons on my remote work out of the box and with no issues.
Any and all help on solving these three problems is greatly appreciated. These two problems are the only thing standing in my way of using XBMC the way it should be able to work.
Greetings,
Domini0n
For about three weeks now, I'm trying to get a stable XBMC Live installation, but no success. Currently I have a few problems and I can't find the roots of these problems. So I hereby ask for help, as I'm starting to loose hope. I've read about every thread I could find on the subjects but I'm still unable to solve my problems.
My Hardware:
- XBMC Live 9.11 Camelot (Installed to disk on a EXT4 formatted drive. My NAS uses EXT4 so I thought it best to format the HTPC to EXT4 as well.)
- Asrock ION 330-BD
- Philips OVU4120 USB IR-Receiver
- Logitech Harmony 555
- QNAP TS-419P NAS
Problems I'm having:
1) Unstable NFS Shares
My NFS shares are unstable, or atleast XBMC often crashes when for example I update my libraries.
This results in: XBMC losing access to my NAS share.
Temporary solution: To resolve this I have to reboot my QNAP NAS and then reboot my HTPC. Rebooting the HTPC alone is not enough.
I have to reboot my NAS almost every time I use my HTPC and sometimes even twice a day.
This is how I mount the share on my HTPC:
1. mkdir /home/xbmc/nas-l
2. sudo nano /etc/hosts -> 192.168.1.5 nas-l
3. sudo apt-get install portmap nfs-common
4. sudo nano /etc/fstab and add the following line: nas-l:/media /home/xbmc/nas-l nfs
This way I have a folder in my HomeFolder called nas-l which shows the content of share nas-l:/media. On my NAS I have given full NFS access to IP 192.168.1.7 which is a static IP assigned to my HTPC by my router. The NAS and HTPC are both connected to a 3COM Gigabit Switch and the switch in turn is connected to my router ofcourse.
What can possibly make this so unstable. I personally think it is my HTPC as my normal PC connects to my NAS using samba and is still able to access all files when the HTPC can't. Also all functions on the NAS still work normally, I do however see, in the control panel of my NAS, that my HTPC stays logged in on NFS even when it is shut down or in standby.
This is my biggest issue so far as it makes the HTPC pretty much unusable. Hope I can resolve this with some help from you guys.
2) Unstable XBMC
XBMC is unstable as it often hangs. Not only with the NAS share but also when changing settings in skin etc. It just freezes and I can't do anything with the interface anymore. I'm however still able to SSH the machine and reboot it, but after the reboot, problem one comes along and a reboot of my NAS and HTPC is needed.
3) Harmony Mapping Problem:
I have set my Harmony 555 up as a Microsoft MCE remote. But three buttons do not work.
Buttons that don't work: Subtitles, Audio and Menu.
I found that in lirc.xml under mceusb there is no entry for Subtitle or Audio, so I add those two in my lirc.xml.
lirc.xml (/home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/keymap)
<subtitle>Subtitle</subtitle>
<language>Audio</language>
remote.xml (/usr/share/xbmc/keymap)
<FullscreenVideo>
<remote>
.....
<subtitle>ShowSubtitles</subtitle>
<language>AudioNextLanguage</language>
</remote>
</FullscreenVideo>
I then placed my edited lirc.xml in /home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata. But no luck... In remote.xml there where already entries for ShowSubtitle and AudioLanguage, so I expected this to work. But no luck...
Then there is the Menu button that should pop-up the OSD on FullScreenVideo playback. The button for menu is called DVDMenu in the Harmony software and saw that it was called Menu in the lirc.xml. As all other buttons already where named exactly the same in harmony software as in the lirc.xml by default, I thought that renaming it to DVDMenu might fix it, but no luck.
How can I map these three buttons? Atleast menu should work as I can then manually select subtitle and audio, but I prefer all buttons to work. The other buttons on my remote work out of the box and with no issues.
Any and all help on solving these three problems is greatly appreciated. These two problems are the only thing standing in my way of using XBMC the way it should be able to work.
Greetings,
Domini0n