The mac mini does have a card reader slot and yes my card is installed when I boot the installer. I have already occupied all the 4 usb ports of my mac mini thats why I need the sd card.
I get this message if I try to boot from sd card slot. I managed to install the embedded OS using usb card reader and then inserting the sd to card slot
@mastoul said:
I get this message if I try to boot from sd card slot. I managed to install the embedded OS using usb card reader and then inserting the sd to card slot
Are you using the correct image, if your Mac Mini has Nvidia graphics you need to use this https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT/releases/download/v1.5.2.514-310d4f7e/OpenPHT-Embedded-1.5.2.514-310d4f7e-Nvidia_Legacy.x86_64.img.gz
Regards
@mastoul
I’m not really familiar with mac minis, but it sounds to me as if that card reader may be dependent on some device driver that is activated only after the OSX boot, and thus not available for booting from. If that is the case, and all your USB slots are needed for other stuff, then I suggest you consider adding an external USB hub. That’s what I do when one of my systems runs out of USB slots.
Just be aware that not all equipment will work through a hub, partly due to power requirements and partly because some device drivers don’t take hubs into account. But most of them do, and simple stuff like USB keyboard and/or mice dongles have always worked fine through hubs for me.
Best regards: dlanor
@dlanor said:
I’m not really familiar with mac minis, but it sounds to me as if that card reader may be dependent on some device driver that is activated only after the OSX boot, and thus not available for booting from.
Sorry, incorrect assumption. All bootable storage devices are shown when holding the Option key when booting, this is how OSX provides multiboot, makes no difference whether they are internal or external hard drives, USB sticks or internal or external SD card reader. If the SD card he is using is formatted without a boot partition it will not show, however, once the installer runs from his USB stick it will show the SD card as an option to install to, provided it was inserted before the machine booted from the USB installer and provided it is not a dodgy SD card.
Regards
Thanks for your interest guys. I used the same image for a usb drive and works perfect. With the same usb image I installed 2 different sd cards with usb adapter because they are not recognized if inserted to sd slot directly. Then took them out of the usb adapter and put them to sd card slot. The same message on both of them. I know they are not dodgy because I use them for rpi images and they are working just fine. When I start the boot the sd card it shows available to boot from, but when I select it I get the above message. I get the same message also if I use the sd card as my installer. The only thing I didn’t try is to boot from the sd card while mounted to the usb adapter. I’ll try it and report back.
Well the same sd card that gives me the above error when used with mac mini card slot, boots fine if used with usb adapter. Is it hardware limitation or openPHT limitation? At apple help site it says that the sd card slot can be used to install OSX and boot from it. So I don’t think that it is hardware related the issue. Maybe openPHT miss something related to sd card slot booting
Both versions use OpenELEC (soon to be LibreELEC) and OpenPHT but Rasplex had progressed further than the last official PHT, in the next release both will share the same code base, as the majority of Rasplex code has now been backported into OpenPHT, but will still contain specific code relating to the hardware.
What is the difference between OpenELEC and LibreELEC and what advantages does LibreELEC have?
@Pukinator said:
What is the difference between OpenELEC and LibreELEC and what advantages does LibreELEC have?
Try Google, here’s a starting point About - LibreELEC
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@NedtheNerd said:
Rasplex will only run on RPi0, RPi1,RPi2 and RPi3 and is optimised for that hardware.OpenPHT Embedded will only run on x86 and x64, (PC/Mac) and is optimised for that hardware.
this was posted in March, so perhaps that was the case at the time, but currently there are more options. I just installed OpenPHT Embedded (pre-release) on a Odroid-c2 which is ARM64.
The Odroid was my Plex Media Server, and I was running RasPlex on a raspi3, but I invested in a QNAP and moved the server there. This freed up the Odroid and I thought I would give it a try as a Plex Client. Turns out, OpenPHT on the Odroid is running better than RasPlex did on my pi3. I realize it isn’t exactly a fair comparison since there are other factors, the biggest of course being the Plex server change, but CEC is more stable and overall the thing doesn’t crash as often.
Do any of these options support running under an existing OS install? What I want is a Pi3 connected to the TV that is running a proper desktop; then runs the Plex client on-demand…
@checktravis said:
@NedtheNerd said:
Rasplex will only run on RPi0, RPi1,RPi2 and RPi3 and is optimised for that hardware.OpenPHT Embedded will only run on x86 and x64, (PC/Mac) and is optimised for that hardware.
this was posted in March, so perhaps that was the case at the time, but currently there are more options. I just installed OpenPHT Embedded (pre-release) on a Odroid-c2 which is ARM64.
The Odroid was my Plex Media Server, and I was running RasPlex on a raspi3, but I invested in a QNAP and moved the server there. This freed up the Odroid and I thought I would give it a try as a Plex Client. Turns out, OpenPHT on the Odroid is running better than RasPlex did on my pi3. I realize it isn’t exactly a fair comparison since there are other factors, the biggest of course being the Plex server change, but CEC is more stable and overall the thing doesn’t crash as often.
I’ve had a different experience with my odroid. The GPU drivers are not as well supported as the rPi firmware and Linus versions used for OpenPHT. Don’t get me wrong, I think they’re great, but I’m definitely seeing what looks like some GPU memory issues minorly impacting playback. Odroids are great and support more media (and with more snap!) than the rPi. But I have smoother playback of h264 media more reliably with the rPi3.
@andrew.john.hutton@gmail.com said:
Do any of these options support running under an existing OS install? What I want is a Pi3 connected to the TV that is running a proper desktop; then runs the Plex client on-demand…
These are embedded clients. You’d have to setup a multi OS boot or swap SD cards.
