(2016-01-23, 23:42)aaronb Wrote:

(2016-01-23, 22:37)giant25 Wrote: I don't have a good answer to solve the problems with your receivers, but I use a Flirc with my Harmony 650 and Chromebox OE setup flawlessly. I highly recommend it, way easier to set up. Good luck.

It was very hit or miss for me. There were times when it worked fine, and I liked the flexibility and ease of setup, but lately it had become basically unusable. Hitting keys would result in an endless loop of repeating that key, so things like scrolling through a list of movies would just start cycling through endlessly until I rebooted the box. I tried pretty much every possible combination of settings for interkey delay, repeat, etc in both the Harmony software and the Flirc software, and none of them worked, I'd still get random key explosions

(2016-01-24, 00:35)mingliu Wrote: No such luck. Not sure if its a file permissioning problem. I can download and run the ez script but having problems with the coreboot file. Is there another goo.gl link I should try?

(2016-01-23, 23:15)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-01-23, 22:37)giant25 Wrote: I don't have a good answer to solve the problems with your receivers, but I use a Flirc with my Harmony 650 and Chromebox OE setup flawlessly. I highly recommend it, way easier to set up. Good luck.

I feel like I'm alone in detesting the Flirc, since others seem to swear by it, but I could never get it working reliably (and dislike being limited to a keyboard emulator) whereas the MCE receivers have worked nearly perfectly OOTB for me.

(2016-01-23, 23:42)aaronb Wrote:

(2016-01-23, 22:37)giant25 Wrote: I don't have a good answer to solve the problems with your receivers, but I use a Flirc with my Harmony 650 and Chromebox OE setup flawlessly. I highly recommend it, way easier to set up. Good luck.

It was very hit or miss for me. There were times when it worked fine, and I liked the flexibility and ease of setup, but lately it had become basically unusable. Hitting keys would result in an endless loop of repeating that key, so things like scrolling through a list of movies would just start cycling through endlessly until I rebooted the box. I tried pretty much every possible combination of settings for interkey delay, repeat, etc in both the Harmony software and the Flirc software, and none of them worked, I'd still get random key explosions

(2016-01-23, 11:14)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-01-23, 07:38)mpowers Wrote: Hi Matt, thanks for putting this out there, I've used it flawlessly for the last few years but have now run into a problem I can't seem to troubleshoot.

For some reason I seem to be stuck in a boot loop and can't get past the loading screen. The cursor shows up, the logo flashes and then this repeats incessantly. I haven't tried much because I don't know where to start. I've seen some other people post that this was a known bug in a build circa 2014, but it's the first time it happened to me.

I'm running openelec standalone on an Asus chromebox, I don't know the specific build as I can't get in to check.

My first thought is I should try a clean install, but I don't know how to wipe the old version or if I can just stick the USB boot in and it will overwrite and start from scratch.

Thanks in advance!

IIRC, the problem is a corrupted addon/addon data that causes Kodi to to crash and continually reload. Since it's just Kodi that's crashing/restarting and not OpenELEC, you can still access things via SMB or SSH to try and figure out which addon it is and remove it. Or, you can just blow everything away and start fresh, which is as simple as booting updated OpenELEC install media and choosing the quick install option (which partitions/formats the selected drive).

(2016-01-24, 04:21)mpowers Wrote: OK don't know what SMB/SSH are so going to have to leave that one alone.... But, another stupid question but what do you mean by as simple as booting updated OpenELEC install media? I should basically imagine I have a clean box and reinstall over it? The thing also turns on so fast that I can't get into any boot menu unfortunately either, just flashes right to Kodi and goes into the boot loop.

(2016-01-29, 10:57)rich110 Wrote: This may seem like a stupid question, but where is the best place to post troubleshooting questions for these OpenElec builds?

(2016-01-29, 11:46)rich110 Wrote: Thanks Matt. I might give the v17 versions a shot when I'm feeling brave. How is the addon support for them?

(2016-01-29, 13:17)jrochet Wrote: I'm currently on like month 7 or 8 of flawless victory with single boot OpenElec on my Chromebox, stumbled a little with finding my favorite remote which is finally the Harmony 350+Flirc and only one custom keymap button (power = suspend). Everything is wonderful!, except I'm considering changing over to Ubuntu so that I can start to use autodl-irssi. Just wondering if anyone has any negative feedback on the Ubuntu front for Chromebox that might persuade me to not bother. Anything based on Flirc and my Harmony specifically with Chromebox and Ubuntu that stands out would be great to hear. Or any other shortcomings in general when comparing Ubuntu on Chromebox to OpenElec on Chromebox.

Thanks in advance!

(2016-01-29, 16:59)michi_jl Wrote: Hey Matt,

maybe you should add the ubuntu path to the troubleshooting sleep.d scripts.
In ubuntu you need to use

Code:

/lib/systemd/system-sleep/

instead of

Code:

/storage/.config/sleep.d

Maybe would help some people

(2016-01-30, 03:38)jrochet Wrote: Do you have the same disclaimer for Kodibuntu as with Ubuntu (regarding the autodl-irssi)? I know it's not the place but I can't seem to find anything for OpenElec around this other than a dev on OpenElec's forums stating autodl-irssi won't work. I'll continue researching though.