[Matt Devo]

does anyone else use an HP chromebox with both HDMI and displayport output? before Jarvis dual ouput via this method worked perfectly for me. It no longer works now though running OpenElec on the chromebox. I don't think there is a stable version of OpeneElec for Jarvis out yet on their page I've been running nightlies and even Krypton nightlies.

basically now, you can see the boot up process on the 2nd display but after that it is just a blank screen.

I'm not sure if that's an OE (eg, Intel video driver) issue or Kodi issue, but I think it's the latter. The Kodi version included in my OE7 pre-beta builds is v16.0 final, and likely identical to what will be the OE7 release, unless they wait for the first point release (16.1, as they did with OE6)

Matt,

Thanks very much for your dedication, I have used your standalone coreboot code to setup a Plex standalone server. It has been working rock solid for well for over a year.

I just picked up a new ChromeBox relatively cheap on eBay: Dell ChromeBox 3010 (Haswell i7-4600U) [Tricky]

I noticed the following in your custom coreboot firmware warning.

- Dell ChromeBox 3010 (Haswell Celeron 2955U/i3-4030U) [Tricky]

The i7-4600U processor is not listed (for Dell anyway). I was wondering if there was anyway you can add support for this specific ChromeBox? Or is it already added, just not on the list?

Thanks in advance for your time.

All Haswell boxes are supported, the Dell Core i7 likely wasn't released when I added it to the list and wasn't added due to oversight. Flash away with confidence, I'll update the docs soon. Also sending you a PM.

[knives of ice]

matt,

is there anything that a debug log would even show for this issue? not sure how i can go about trying to get it fixed.

thanks

[Matt Devo]

matt,

is there anything that a debug log would even show for this issue? not sure how i can go about trying to get it fixed.

thanks

if you're getting the same issue on the Krypton pre-beta builds, I'd post in those threads to get the attention of fritsch/Millhouse (with a debug log of course). If a fix can be identified, I can easily backport it to Jarvis

[robca]

Is it worth spending ~$20 more for a 4Gb version versus a 2Gb version for my scenario? (2955U processor)

I'm new to Kodi, and I plan to use a Chromebox as a starting point. I'd like to use it as a PVR with Openelec, tvheadend, and a SiliconDust ATSC tuner, plus a USB drive to store recordings. Ideally recording one show while watching another. I will use 1080P, via HDMI, and the SiliconDust tuner and Chromebox will be connected thru ethernet

I might also want to watch a streaming video (say, Netflix) while the PVR is recording an OTA show

Would 4Gb make any difference? The cost differential is small, but worth doing only if there's a return

As a side question: will a Chromebox have enough power to do it? I have seen even RPi2 configurations doing similar workloads, so I hope that a Chromebox would have enough horsepower...

[Matt Devo]

Is it worth spending ~$20 more for a 4Gb version versus a 2Gb version for my scenario? (2955U processor)

I'm new to Kodi, and I plan to use a Chromebox as a starting point. I'd like to use it as a PVR with Openelec, tvheadend, and a SiliconDust ATSC tuner, plus a USB drive to store recordings. Ideally recording one show while watching another. I will use 1080P, via HDMI, and the SiliconDust tuner and Chromebox will be connected thru ethernet

I might also want to watch a streaming video (say, Netflix) while the PVR is recording an OTA show

Would 4Gb make any difference? The cost differential is small, but worth doing only if there's a return

As a side question: will a Chromebox have enough power to do it? I have seen even RPi2 configurations doing similar workloads, so I hope that a Chromebox would have enough horsepower...

no issues with power to do what you want. I'd go with 4GB (2x2GB) not for the extra RAM, but for the additional memory bandwidth available when running in dual channel mode

[robca]

Is it worth spending ~$20 more for a 4Gb version versus a 2Gb version for my scenario? (2955U processor)

I'm new to Kodi, and I plan to use a Chromebox as a starting point. I'd like to use it as a PVR with Openelec, tvheadend, and a SiliconDust ATSC tuner, plus a USB drive to store recordings. Ideally recording one show while watching another. I will use 1080P, via HDMI, and the SiliconDust tuner and Chromebox will be connected thru ethernet

I might also want to watch a streaming video (say, Netflix) while the PVR is recording an OTA show

Would 4Gb make any difference? The cost differential is small, but worth doing only if there's a return

As a side question: will a Chromebox have enough power to do it? I have seen even RPi2 configurations doing similar workloads, so I hope that a Chromebox would have enough horsepower...

no issues with power to do what you want. I'd go with 4GB (2x2GB) not for the extra RAM, but for the additional memory bandwidth available when running in dual channel mode

My first post, and I receive an answer from "Mr Chromebox" himself... Paint me impressed

Thanks for the prompt answer, off to ordering everything I need...

[Milky1]

Hi - apologies in advance if this has already been answered but I am running a dual boot set up - ChromeOS & Openelec. (Asus Chromebox M004U) It's running perfectly, 95% of the time I use Openelec but in system settings I always see Disk Usage 100%...is this normal? It is not affecting performance but maybe it will at some stage? Any solutions?
Thanks in advance

[wongnog]

I'm having some trouble creating the openelec install media on usb. I have a standalone setup, so to use the ez script I boot my system up with an Ubuntu build via usb. But when I select to create the install media, it keeps saying that no usb media was detected. I've tried 3 different USB sticks in both of the front two ports, but nothing seems to be working. I've reformatted each stick trying both ntfs and fat32. Any suggestions?

[Matt Devo]

Hi - apologies in advance if this has already been answered but I am running a dual boot set up - ChromeOS & Openelec. (Asus Chromebox M004U) It's running perfectly, 95% of the time I use Openelec but in system settings I always see Disk Usage 100%...is this normal? It is not affecting performance but maybe it will at some stage? Any solutions?
Thanks in advance

I'd have to guess it's misreporting based on the other non-OE partitions on the disk, but it's also possible you're out of space. How much room did you allocate to OE when you originally set it up?

I'm having some trouble creating the openelec install media on usb. I have a standalone setup, so to use the ez script I boot my system up with an Ubuntu build via usb. But when I select to create the install media, it keeps saying that no usb media was detected. I've tried 3 different USB sticks in both of the front two ports, but nothing seems to be working. I've reformatted each stick trying both ntfs and fat32. Any suggestions?

you're running the EZ setup script from Ubuntu on a Chromebox, or another PC? I'm guessing ubuntu is enumerating the USB devices differently than the script is expecting. You don't really need to use the EZ setup script to create the install media, just download the disk image version, extract it, and write the .img file to the usb drive using dd. There's probably a tool to do it in the ubuntu software center if you're command-line averse.

[Milky1]

8GB + 8GB - as I said all is working fine so maybe just misreporting as you say.

[wongnog]

you're running the EZ setup script from Ubuntu on a Chromebox, or another PC? I'm guessing ubuntu is enumerating the USB devices differently than the script is expecting. You don't really need to use the EZ setup script to create the install media, just download the disk image version, extract it, and write the .img file to the usb drive using dd. There's probably a tool to do it in the ubuntu software center if you're command-line averse.

I was running the EZ setup script from Ubuntu on the Chromebox, because I didn't know of any other way to run the script from a standalone config. Didn't realize there were .img files on the wiki, so I'm burning that now onto USB from my PC and will give that a try.

[UPDATE] I tried burning the .img file to USB on my PC using Win32DiskImager, but the Chromebox does not recognize it as bootable on startup. I tried burning both the file in the wiki and from http://openelec.tv/get-openelec. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, because I've burned bootable Ubuntu builds before onto USB. Any ideas?

[wongnog]

Matt, is an update file available to downgrade from OE 7.0 beta (unofficial - 6.94.2 / Kodi 16.0 final) to kodi-16.0-Jarvis_beta4? This is the last version that other users having slow thumbnail generation problems have said works for them:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=261354

[Matt Devo]

[UPDATE] I tried burning the .img file to USB on my PC using Win32DiskImager, but the Chromebox does not recognize it as bootable on startup. I tried burning both the file in the wiki and from http://openelec.tv/get-openelec. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, because I've burned bootable Ubuntu builds before onto USB. Any ideas?

not sure why they aren't being recognized. have you tried using the rear USB ports? (assuming you were using the front before) I've heard anecdotally that they tend to work better, though I haven't seen that myself

Matt, is an update file available to downgrade from OE 7.0 beta (unofficial - 6.94.2 / Kodi 16.0 final) to kodi-16.0-Jarvis_beta4? This is the last version that other users having slow thumbnail generation problems have said works for them:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=261354

no, I never compiled a build with beta4, but if there's a regression I'm sure it will be fixed in 16.1

[wongnog]

not sure why they aren't being recognized. have you tried using the rear USB ports? (assuming you were using the front before) I've heard anecdotally that they tend to work better, though I haven't seen that myself

Yeah I tried all 4 ports, and I don't know what's going on. Has anyone else created bootable USB sticks with OE on them via Windows?

[Matt Devo]

Yeah I tried all 4 ports, and I don't know what's going on. Has anyone else created bootable USB sticks with OE on them via Windows?

Use Win32DiskImager, as per the OE wiki instructions.