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I now have my RP3+ and I used Etcher
to install the RP Stretcher from
2017-11-29. However when I turn on
the RP3+, I just get the multicolor
screen and the board has a blinking
Green LED in some pattern.<br class="">
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Did I miss a step? I just downloaded
the .zip file for Stretcher, Flashed
the microSD with Etcher, and plugged
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<div class="">That sounds like a kernel
problem. I know that the 3B+ needs
a newer kernel. I don't think that
was reflected in Raspbian until at
least the RPi 3B+ release date of
3/14/18.</div>
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<div class="">There may be a way for you to
only upgrade the kernel by chrooting
into that distribution from another
Raspberry Pi, perhaps by installing
current Raspbian on another card and
mounting the target 11/29/17
Raspbian card with a USB reader.</div>
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<div class="">It's a pain but I bet that will
work. I've done similar things with
other single board computers. The
end will be 11/29/17 with an
upgraded kernel. Which version to
pick is another story. Perhaps the
latest one, perhaps not. You could
try the oldest kernel made after
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.deb file and upgrade it manually
with dpkg -i. I'm not very familiar
with Debian-based distributions.
Perhaps there is a limited upgrade
apt command that will do it.<br class="">
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<div class="">Good luck. If you get stuck I
can do it in parallel here. I have
spare microSD cards and a RPi3B+.<br class="">
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So I downloaded the latest Raspbian for RP3+
(2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch.zip) and used
Etcher to flash it to a 32GB microSD and this
one booted fine. I'm going to try and get
MythTV Lite running on it like I didn't know any
better and see what happens.<br class="">
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Well this is interesting. Mythtv light works okay on
the Raspbian 2018-06-27 and I did a full update.
Then I install Mythtv Light. I didn’t try much
performance tuning yet, but it seems to work fine. I’m
using HDMI video to a A/V receiver and the receiver
sends the audio to 5.1 speakers and video to my UHD
TV. Setting audio to OpenMAX:hdmi and Video Playback
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<div class="">I can see some performance issues, but I still have
to play with tuning.</div>
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<div class="">I did get my Harmony Smart Hub remote paired to the
bluetooth on the RP3+. No issues there.</div>
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<div class="">I’ve bought a MPEG2 license but I don’t have the
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<div class="">More later after I’ve had time to tune.</div>
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<div class="">Good. Chroot is a pain. But doable.</div>
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<div class="">It looks like the firmware in the older image is the
culprit and not the kernel as I thought:</div>
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<div class="">All I know is, there was a Raspbian image that was
released before 3/14/18. I tried it on my 3+ and it
didn't work, blinked like you said. 2 days later, the fix
was out. It was a hot topic on the forums at the time. I
just had to do a full upgrade with an older Rpi 2 and then
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<div class="">If you have problems, and it sounds like you don't have
any glaring ones, my offer still stands. I can try going
through in the next day or so and give you the steps. It
won't take me long.<br class="">
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I did a little more playing late last night. On a fully updated
2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch.zip on my new Canakit RP3+ using a <span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large">Samsung 32GB EVO Plus Class
10 Micro SDHC I added the repo for Mythtv light for stretch
version 29. Then I basically followed the wiki guide:<br class="">
</span><font size="+1" class=""><tt class=""><span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large">1. </span></tt><tt class=""><span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large">Configure <code class="">gpu_mem=256</code>
using <code class="">sudo raspi-config</code></span></tt><tt class=""><br class="">
</tt><tt class=""><span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large"><code class="">2. I
bought and configured a MPEG2 license.<br class="">
3. I selected OpenMAX Normal and OpenMAX:hdmi<br class="">
4. I do the </code></span></tt></font><br class="">
<pre class="">echo "performance" |sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
at reboot.
What is the best way to automate the echo "performance" command on each boot?
The only strange thing I see is with playing back recorded mpeg2 TV shows. The video seems to occasionally speed up and slow down like when a person is walking across the screen. It's like then the sport replay guy is messing with the speed of replaying a touchdown run.
The audio does not sound different and there is no pitch change. It's also is correct lip sync.
I also installed Kodi 17.6. I works very well with no playback audio or video issues. But I hate the user interface of Kodi 17, so I'm hoping to tweak Mythtv Frontend to fix the last few things.
So the latest Raspbian works on the latest RP3+ with Mythtv frontend.
Jim A
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