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Unpausing when switching source through CEC

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:33:36 +0000

I'm not sure if this is a CEC issue or Raspbmc....

Using a normal TV remote (on a Sony 40w4000), if I pause whatever I'm watching through Raspbmc then change source on the remote (back to TV) it will cause whatever was playing to continue playing in the background. I don't think this used to be the case but it has been like this since the April release (maybe before).

Does anyone else experience this behaviour?

Issue with addons installation

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:57:51 +0000

Hi,

First of all thank you to Sam and the support team for CB2- it's great. Everything is running smoothly with the exception of one thing- I cannot get addons and skins to install from the xbmc.org repo. When I click on the install button it goes back to the list of addons then shows "downloading 0%". About 10 secs later that disappears and nothing else happens. I've extracted the relevant info from my debug log for Aeon Nox:

http://pastebin.com/TJc9pKvh

and Metropolis

http://pastebin.com/H6ta15Q8

With Artwork Donwloader it actually shows the downloading status up to 100% and seems to install it but clicking on the addon after install does nothing. Log extract below:

http://pastebin.com/ewfKkbHw

Any help appreciated. I'm running 12.2 Frodo on Atv1 with CHD15.

Cheers

Shared db

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:13:38 +0000

I have been looking at setting up shared database so that I can sync the library/watched status etc. on my 2 PIs.

All my media is shared off a NAS which has SMB, NFS and UPnP. Everything that I have read says I need to run a MySQL instance on the network and point the PIs at it via the advancedsettings.xml. Unfortunately my NAS doesn't support running MySQL.

Sooooo....my stoopid question is....can I not just move the Database folder from the PI to the NFS share and point the PI to use just the data files from there? I understand the issues of corruption with multiple writes and locked files n stuff, but if I am only using 1 PI at a time would this work?

Where on the Raspbmc/PI would I specify the path to the data files on the NFS share?

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing...don't shoot \O/

Thanks

SCCDUCK

Raspmc and Panasonic L42ET60E playback is not fluid

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:20:10 +0000

Hello, i have just connect my raspbmc to my new Panasonic L42ET60E, first of this new tv, i have connected my raspbmc to my hd monitor of 23" and always go fine, now instead in this new tv, i notice that the image is not fluid but sometime snap, and i notice also that sometime for 1 second i see black screen and then return the image, what is the problem? how can i solve it? my other question if the raspbmc can't support my new tv, there is a possibility of damage the tv or not?

thanks in advance!!

EDIT: i already have this config:
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
config_hdmi_boost=4

and is the same...the playback it's no more fluid...maybe this new tv is too much for the raspberry pi and raspbmc?

Apple Silver Remote A1294 Behaviour

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:31:56 +0000

I've finally succeeded in getting my A1294 to work. However, I'm a bit suprised by the Play/Pause button's behaviour.

It seems to work exactly like KEY_RIGHT...

It doesn't play or pause, but instead seeks forward during playback.

Is this the normal behaviour or have I screwed up the recording? BTW I've tried declaring the key as both KEY_PLAY and KEY_PLAYPAUSE

Cant set static IP through Raspbmc Settings App

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:39:11 +0000

hi folks, a bit stumped here. Running 12.2 stable build.

I've installed hostapd to run a wifi hotspot and have the pi running as a media centre in my car. I want to power up the pi and have it fire up the hotspot so i can control raspbmc via my phone. At the moment, i am using /etc/rc.local to manually set the interface after system load, which is a total hack.

Hostpad works fine when i ssh to the pi and manually set the IP on wlan0. But given that i dont want to do that, i'd like the pi to have a static Ip set from startup so its reachable and udhcpd works

i've tried to setup /etc/network/interfaces and thats not being applied

after reading the forums, i see that its "recommended" to set the IP via the settings addon, but it doesnt seem to apply the config... at all

Here is my USB wifi dongle:
pi@raspbmc:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter

What is very odd, is that the mac address of the wifi dongle in the settings addon shows as 00:00:00:00:00:00, which i'm guessing means that xbmc has no idea i have a dongle connected? (and same for the wired connection for that matter)

- ideas why this addon app doesnt set the wireless IP?
- given i'm running hostapd, i dont need the rest of the settings like SSID etc, so what file can i edit so that raspbmc doesnt set that?

thanks folks!

Airplay from netflix

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:17:23 +0000

This is more of an ios and netflix question but I imagine people her will know this. Is it possible to send both video and audio from netflix on a ios device to an airplay capable device such as raspbmc? I can't get my ios devices to send more than the audio. There is no airplay icon in netflix but double clicking the home button and swiping right brings up the volume slider and the airplay icon. But this will only send audio. In other apps there will be an airplay icon inside the app which sends both video and audio. I have an ipad 1.gen and an ipod touch 4.gen, and a raspbmc and a cb2 atv. All combinations will only do audio from netflix thru airplay. Am I doing something wrong or can't it be done?

CB2 frodo crashes and restarts everytime i open tv shows file (SMB) or update TV show

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:47:18 +0000

HI guys,

Need help sorry im a noob and do not have much experience with ubuntu.

what im experiencing is crashes of frodo when i try to access the file folder for my tv shows on my home server (SMB) or when i update TV Show folder.

I have created CB2 onto usb and added TV Shows source pointing to SMB://homeserver/videos/tv shows

when the initial scan happens it goes through the shows but then crashes on my wife and kids and can not update any shows after that.

If i try to go through to files and tv shows folder it crashes straight away (restarts frodo)

Im not sure how to get any logs or what logs to get.

regards

Hitz

Video stutters since CB2

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:35:01 +0000

This only happens occasionally but playback isn't smooth since going to CB2.

It doesn't matter if I'm streaming from the net or watching something downloaded and stored to the internal drive.

Fortunately most things play great but it's annoying when it happens. I'm wondering if I haven't got the settings configured correctly since installing the latest CB?

[Solved] Cache to disk with Cachemembuffer advancedsettings.xml

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:14:10 +0000

i added advancedsettings.xml to /home/atv/.xbmc/userdata. I then added

0

Hoping to cache to disk since frodo supports this feature. Not working as i had hoped has anyone else tried this and manged to get it working... or any clue as to where i could start would be appreciated.

Rpi freeze if I try to use CEC remote to early

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:50:10 +0000

If I press buttons to navigate Pi on my LG TV remote with CEC sooner than 9 seconds after blue background come on screen at boot, than Pi freeze. It seems that the time it is safe to operate the Pi is the same as when warning comes up about shunting down properly. I connected the Pi to different TV (Philips) and there was no problems. I was mashing buttons like crazy, but it didn't freeze.
Log is from when I pressed buttons 8 second after blue background came up. I also got green screen one time and a solid blue screen at another time.

xbmc.log (Size: 71.51 KB / Downloads: 3)

Change settings for config!!

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:10:20 +0000

I've been following the threads talking about overrides to the Video/audio settings, as I have a requirement to display output on a Mikomi TV (no tech spec available).
Initially I used Composite Video and analog audio - but the display was far too fuzzy. I next tried to use the TV VGA input - which worked (using a Neewer HDMI to VGA module) as long as I booted with the TV off. Any reboot or startup with the TV on gave an 'OUT OF RANGE' box displayed.
I then tried modifying the config.txt to achieve the 1024x768 which worked - and that worked fine for boot/reboot with the TV on.

Having read that this is deprecated, and settings should be added via the RaspBMC settings module, I did that (and removed the config.txt changes). This resulted in 'OUT OF RANGE' on booting with the TV on, once more!

While Boot Error Bad File Descriptor

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:05:09 +0000

Hey,
my Paspbmc was working fine until this morning, when I tried to boot it up I got the Error message:
"Error while reading from descriptor: Bad file descriptor
Error while reading from descriptor: Bad file descriptor
Error while reading from descriptor: Bad file descriptor
..ev pre-start process (41) terminated with status 1
..clock main process (42) terminated with status 1
Cleanup main process (43) terminated with status 1
..syslog main process (40) terminated with status 1
..syslog main process ended, respawning"

The .. are there because my screen calibration is a bit of and i cant see the letters there, for a few I could gues what was suppose to be there.

Does anyone have an idea how I could fix that error?

p.s.: I had my Raspbmc runing with the Ultra overclocking settings.

USB Keyboard/Mouse does not work

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:43:30 +0000

Hi,

i have recently upgraded my raspbmc from early april version to the latest version.
Since then i have noticed that my USB Keyboard/Mouse, which worked great before the upgrade, stopped working. That means, the input from them is not recognized by XBMC.

They do still work on another PC, however, and are listed on the raspbmc shell with the lsusb command.

It is a Logitech K400.

Problems streaming FROM RaspBMC

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:46:18 +0000

Hi Guys,

i have quite a problem, because my RaspBMC setup is working flawless! But i have a desktop computer running Windows 8, and im now trying to stream videos from the pi's hardrive. Im using XBMC as a client on my win8 computer, and i han connect the library aswell, but when starting a video, no matter what type it is, it will be laggy and buffer evert 5 seconds. Does anyone have a solutions to help this out?

pi--hdmi-->amp--dvi-->monitor = no audio!

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:27:42 +0000

I have my pi hooked up to a yamaha av-amp via hdmi, then out from the amp via hdmi->dvi cable to my monitor (@1400x900), result = no audio! If I hook up to a hdmi tv instead then audio works fine!

I have googled and tried adding hdmi_force_hotplug=1;hdmi_mode=2 to the config but still no audio.

I've spent hours on this and am all out of ideas, can anyone help?

Reasolution changes on boot up

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:11:58 +0000

hi
i set the resolution to 1080i or 720p as TV is HD ready only and all is fine. but every time i restart it defaults to 1084x768!
can i set 1080i or 720p in a config file to avoid this and if so how?

thanks

Help playing rtmp stream

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:44:20 +0000

Hello,

I am trying to play the stream of a free channel on the web called Skytg24.
I installed Livestream addon and added the correct xml, but when I start the stream I only see a black screen... The stream seems to start but no video and no audio.

Hope somebody can help...

Here the link:

Sky TG24
rtmp://cp49989.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live/streamRM1@2564 playpath=streamRM1@2564 app=live pageUrl=http://tg24.sky.it/tg24/diretta.html swfurl=http://videoplatform.sky.it/player/videoplayer_live.swf tcurl=rtmp://cp49989.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live/streamRM1@2564 live=true timeout=40
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/SKY_TG24.png

Default credential for the USB drive

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:37:25 +0000

Hi,
i want to access the usb drive connected to the raspberry from another windows computer in the network. From the network resources on windows i can see a RASPBMC machine, but if i try to access it request username and password. I've already tried with pi & raspberry but this dosen't work. Have you any hint on how i can access to the usb drive?

wake up pi from sleeping

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:53:20 +0000

Have my 512 pi with it's own power supply. No usb devices hooked up to it. HDMI direct to TV. Everything works great with CEC. After whatever the specified time is....raspbmc dims and goes to sleep. Which is fine and all. However when I shut my TV down for the night and try to turn it on the next day....CEC connects no problem......however most of the time I cannot wake the pi up? Stays dim. Any ideas?

(samsung TV).