[Matt Devo]

Thanks, I'll test the process again tomorrow. I did try repeating the update procedure multiple times, but maybe the backup error caused something to go wrong.

hard to say, I just can't reproduce the issue here - I flashed one of my dev boxes a few times w/o issue

[robca]

I finally managed to set up my Chromebox with Openelec 6.95/Kodi 16, tvheadend and zap2xml EPG. I can see the EPG, and schedule recordings.

I naively expected to be able to put my box in suspend mode and have it automatically start before a scheduled recording. I was wrong

What's the "proper" way to ensure the Chromebox can wake up from suspend for a scheduled recording? I see that people have developed scripts for this (but they all seem to be 2-3 years old, and for much older versions of Openelec/Kodi). Or do I really have to leave my box on all the time to ensure scheduled recording are properly recorded?

Is there are "script magic" I can use?

Is the following a good starting point? https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Wakeup

[Matt Devo]

I finally managed to set up my Chromebox with Openelec 6.95/Kodi 16, tvheadend and zap2xml EPG. I can see the EPG, and schedule recordings.

I naively expected to be able to put my box in suspend mode and have it automatically start before a scheduled recording. I was wrong

What's the "proper" way to ensure the Chromebox can wake up from suspend for a scheduled recording? I see that people have developed scripts for this (but they all seem to be 2-3 years old, and for much older versions of Openelec/Kodi). Or do I really have to leave my box on all the time to ensure scheduled recording are properly recorded?

Is there are "script magic" I can use?

Is the following a good starting point? https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Wakeup

that tvheadend link doesn't look relevant for something like OE. Personally, I'd just leave the box running 24/7, it barely uses any power at idle anyway. Or run your backend on another box that can more easily resume for scheduled recordings

[calcio1]

Bumping my earlier post

Hello I posted my problem above without debug log

Now here is my debug log.

Many thanks for any help. And thanks Matt for a great product. Have been loving Kodi on Chromebox hassle free until this issue

http://xbmclogs.com/pruyjrtng


My Asus Chromebox has recently started behaving very oddly when playing videos

Purple lines flash across the screen

Green-tinged frames JUMP in and out

Sometimes it just goes black for a second or two.

All in all it's making it pretty unusable

Has anyone had similar problems? I can post a debug log later when I get home.

I have a feeling it's a hardware issue as it has worked fine for a year or more

[Matt Devo]

Bumping my earlier post

Hello I posted my problem above without debug log

Now here is my debug log.

Many thanks for any help. And thanks Matt for a great product. Have been loving Kodi on Chromebox hassle free until this issue

http://xbmclogs.com/pruyjrtng

"The page you are looking for does not exist."

[nickr]

I finally managed to set up my Chromebox with Openelec 6.95/Kodi 16, tvheadend and zap2xml EPG. I can see the EPG, and schedule recordings.

Sorry to go all off topic, but how do you get zap2xml working on openelec, which has no perl?

[robca]

I finally managed to set up my Chromebox with Openelec 6.95/Kodi 16, tvheadend and zap2xml EPG. I can see the EPG, and schedule recordings.

Sorry to go all off topic, but how do you get zap2xml working on openelec, which has no perl?

Thanks for asking here's how: http://openelec.tv/forum/71-pvr-live-tv/...xml#162489

Once I have everything working as I want, I plan to do a short writeup of the whole "how a newbie can setup a Chromebox with ATSC and free EPG". As you say, some of it might be, stricly speaking" a bit off topic, but I have to say that I find it maddening that there's no starting point for a newbie like me to get a fully working setup. Right now I'm pretty happy with where I am (box works well, EPG works, scheduled recording works... need to make sure I can set cron properly for activeperl/zap2xml)

[nickr]

Thanks I have referred the other enquirer to your post, good work

https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread-152-po...ml#pid1251

[Matt Devo]

script update 2016-04-26:

- replace OpenELEC 7.0 beta with LibreELEC 7.0 release (Kodi 16.1 release)
- fix a few minor script bugs

[liebezeit]

Anyone tried Ubuntu 16.04 on their Chromebox?

[Aenima99x]

script update 2016-04-26:

- replace OpenELEC 7.0 beta with LibreELEC 7.0 release (Kodi 16.1 release)
- fix a few minor script bugs

For an existing install is there an "upgrade" path to switch from OpenELEC to LibreELEC or should we do a clean install?

[Matt Devo]

For an existing install is there an "upgrade" path to switch from OpenELEC to LibreELEC or should we do a clean install?

Just do a manual update (drop .tar file in update folder, reboot)

Anyone tried Ubuntu 16.04 on their Chromebox?

Not recommended at this time due to repo issues - see the threads on the Linux/live support forum

[robca]

I have set up a system with an HDHomeRun tuner, a Chromebox as the main Kodi box in my media room, and a RPi3 as a secondary Kodi box in my kitchen (both running OpenElec 17 beta). The HDHomeRun tuner, Chromebox and RPi3 are all connected with a Gigabit switch, on an otherwise mostly unused home network.The Chromebox has a small 32G USB3 stick I use to store recorded programs (yes, too small for real use, but I'm still testing, and 32G is enough to record a few programs). The Chromebox is acting as the tvheadend server, and the RPi3 is using the tvheadend client (so are a couple of Windows PC I'm testing with)

I can watch TV just fine both from the Chromebox and RPi3, including HD programs. I can watch TV from any of my Windows PCs running Kodi for Windows, too. When I record an HD program, I can watch it without problems from the Chromebox. But if I try to watch it remotely (RPi3 or a Windows PC), the video is choppy and the audio starts choppy, then disappear. I can watch SD programs without problems

What am I doing wrong? Clearly the network is fast enough to watch a stream directly from the HDHomeRun. But once that same stream is recorded, it looks as if the network (or the Chromebox) is too slow to handle the stream... how can I start troubleshooting the problem?

[noggin]

I have set up a system with an HDHomeRun tuner, a Chromebox as the main Kodi box in my media room, and a RPi3 as a secondary Kodi box in my kitchen (both running OpenElec 17 beta). The HDHomeRun tuner, Chromebox and RPi3 are all connected with a Gigabit switch, on an otherwise mostly unused home network.The Chromebox has a small 32G USB3 stick I use to store recorded programs (yes, too small for real use, but I'm still testing, and 32G is enough to record a few programs). The Chromebox is acting as the tvheadend server, and the RPi3 is using the tvheadend client (so are a couple of Windows PC I'm testing with)

I can watch TV just fine both from the Chromebox and RPi3, including HD programs. I can watch TV from any of my Windows PCs running Kodi for Windows, too. When I record an HD program, I can watch it without problems from the Chromebox. But if I try to watch it remotely (RPi3 or a Windows PC), the video is choppy and the audio starts choppy, then disappear. I can watch SD programs without problems

What am I doing wrong? Clearly the network is fast enough to watch a stream directly from the HDHomeRun. But once that same stream is recorded, it looks as if the network (or the Chromebox) is too slow to handle the stream... how can I start troubleshooting the problem?

Are you in the US?

Have you bought the £2.40 MPEG2 codec licence and installed it correctly on your Pi 3? The Pi 2 and Pi 3 can software decode SD MPEG2 (The Pi 1 and Zero can't) but you really need the licence for 1080i or 720p HD stuff, particularly HD 1080i as deinterlacing and software decode is too much for even a Pi 3.

[wongnog]

script update 2016-04-26:

- replace OpenELEC 7.0 beta with LibreELEC 7.0 release (Kodi 16.1 release)
- fix a few minor script bugs

Wow that sounds like a big deal! Is there a large difference between OpenELEC and LibreELEC? Why the switch, only because OpenELEC is still in beta?