[mythtv-users] Cheap frontend for HD

[Gordon McCrae]

On 20/05/15 21:43, Peter Bennett (cats22) wrote:
> On 05/20/2015 03:42 PM, Gordon McCrae wrote:
>> Was this a while ago that you had to compile? Perhaps it was simply 
>> an issue with your chosen disto, we all get that sometimes. I use 
>> OpenSUSE 13.2 and the standard RPMs had everything I needed. 
>> Similarly, on Android it was just a case of downloading the .apk and 
>> installing that, no need to root anything.
>>
> This was a two or three months ago - my distro is "raspbian" which is 
> the raspberry Pi version of Debian, and the version of Kodi on there 
> simply did not work with the mythtv pvr plugin that was there. I 
> located other repositories that were recommended but there were 
> library issues such as this:
> ERROR: Unable to load /home/pi/.kodi/addons/pvr.mythtv/pvr.mythtv.so, 
> reason: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6: version 
> `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by 
> /home/pi/.kodi/addons/pvr.mythtv/pvr.mythtv.so)
> This seems to be a compatibility problem between the library version 
> installed in Linux and the version the application was compiled under.
> There are other distributions "OSMC" and "Openelec", which are 
> appliance load and go types of solutions, these work better but I 
> prefer to have control over the system and these are rather opaque in 
> how they are set up.
>
> Also there is a bug in Kodi with the remote I am using and Raspberry 
> pi - I made a source patch to get around that - I have logged a Kodi 
> bug and supplied the patch, but nobody seems to be taking any action 
> about fixing the upstream source.
>
> Peter
>
>
Ah, see this is where half of the "this doesn't work" quotes come from. 
I'm not getting at you, but you have chosen to stick to a specific 
distribution, for all the right reasons, and within that distribution 
you have specific issues, so it's not a problem with KODI as such, but 
with KODI on raspbian.

I had a similar issue recently when I bought a new Lenovo Z50-70 and 
installed OpenSUSE 13.2 only to discover that there was a known problem 
with the then current kernel version and the left mouse button on the 
touchpad.

The solution was to either put up with it (tapping the touchpad itself 
worked fine as a left click), install an external mouse, or install an 
"unstable" kernel RPM. I chose to simply go for the "tap the touchpad", 
as this is my normal left click action when using a touchpad, and a 
month or so later a newer kernel was pushed out which fixed the problem.

What I'm trying to say is that you can't really blame KODI for the 
issues, rather it's down to a combination of the KODI version, 
developers and the distro release folks. You're obviously in a  more 
restricted position than me, as I can always go and use any x86 based 
distro, but the same concept holds, I was just lucky that KODI worked 
fine for me, including the MythPVR plugin. Like you, I choose to use a 
distro I'm familiar and comfortable with rather than go and use 
something like MythBuntu which is reported to work "out of the box" 
because I like being able to configure the system just the way I like it.

Cheers
Gordon
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