RasPlex 0.5.1 released - issues and feedback

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Also, I'm not seeing On Deck or Recently Added for Movies and TV Shows on the home screen. I'm assuming this is some weird configuration setting I'm missing, so any pointers would be appreciated. :)

I'm seeing this too, seems to be a bug in the latest PHT version but only crops up on Linux. I see it every time I reboot my pi2 with 0.5.1, never on any of the older versions (whether running on the pi2 with berryboot or the last year with my pi1) - the only fix for now is to switch skins, but it comes back after every reboot.

EDIT: I see KnightOrc has a potential solution for this, will try it later!

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Try set Settings -> Network -> Advanced Network Settings -> Wait for network before starting XBMC, this seems to fix that issue for me.

Can confirm. That fixed the issue. 

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Try set Settings -> Network -> Advanced Network Settings -> Wait for network before starting XBMC, this seems to fix that issue for me.

this seems to be the universal fix for PHT on Linux/openELEC devices. it sorts my NUCs out :D

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The remotecontrol (IR and App) does not work on Pi1 since the update.

(the hdmi-cec works fine)

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Just wondering if using an external USB power supply will increase speed in menus etc? I'm powering the Pi directly to an usb port on the TV now, should an external bring more power?

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Just wondering if using an external USB power supply will increase speed in menus etc? I'm powering the Pi directly to an usb port on the TV now, should an external bring more power?

I don't think giving it more power will make it faster. If it was underpowered then it would show you the rainbow screen (I think thats what its called, never seen it before). If you wanted to overclock then you would probably a better power supply.

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The remotecontrol (IR and App) does not work on Pi1 since the update.

(the hdmi-cec works fine)

IR using LIRC is working fine, make sure you haven't removed the 'dtoverlay=lirc-rpi' from config.txt or the folder 'overlays' from the /flash directory.

As raspberrypi.org have changed the way modules are now loaded in recent firmwares please also see http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/device-tree.md

Regards

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Not sure if this is a bug with PHT or one of the supporting libraries or the new Pi2 hardware.

My Denon 2308CI AVR allows me to tell an input to auto-select the audio source. My use case for this is a TOSLink from my TV for the built in apps which cannot run on RasPlex (YouTube, etc.) and HDMI for RasPlex. Prior to the Pi2 and 0.5.1 if I stopped all playback on RasPlex and launched the Netflix app on my TV, my AVR would auto-select the audio source which was providing the audio. So I didn't have to change inputs/audio source, just make sure only one audio source was producing sound at once. Very, very simple.

After the upgrade, this no longer works. I have to manually tell the AVR to use the TOSLink ("Digital") or HDMI as the audio source by hand. At a high level my guess is that RasPlex has started sending silence over HDMI instead of nothing. On 0.5.0 this behavior can be duplicated by starting something with audio (movie, music) and hitting pause instead of stop. Pause = sending silence, Stop = not sending any audio.

I plan on running through some trial and error to narrow it down to 0.5.1 or hardware difference with Pi vs Pi2. Any tracing or logs I should enable to help capture relevant info?

I understand this isn't a common use case and I'm probably taking advantage of some unexpected behavior - but it's an undocumented functionality change that I noticed.

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IR using LIRC is working fine, make sure you haven't removed the 'dtoverlay=lirc-rpi' from config.txt or the folder 'overlays' from the /flash directory.
 
As raspberrypi.org have changed the way modules are now loaded in recent firmwares please also see http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/device-tree.md
 
Regards

Thanks for your response.
Before the update everything works fine.
I used the update function in the rasplex menu. When Lirc is removed it will be a bug.
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Rasplex on Pi2 is a great leap forward. Best media center available. 

I have a little concern with an Edimax AC wireless dongle (EW-78IIUTC). It shows networks, but fails to connect with "Network error".

My Edimax n wireless dongle works great though.

Thanks fro great work.

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I get kernel crashes with this version of Rasplex. System keeps going but there is a short drop in wfi connection.

[    5.013668] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    5.013862] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 153 at net/wireless/reg.c:511 regulatory_init+0x70/0x130 [cfg80211]()
[    5.035153] db.txt is empty, you should update it...
[    5.035169] Modules linked in: cfg80211(+) lirc_rpi(C+) lirc_dev rc_core
[    5.035217] CPU: 0 PID: 153 Comm: systemd-udevd Tainted: G         C     3.18.6 #1
[    5.035229] Backtrace: 
[    5.035288] [<800110c4>] (dump_backtrace) from [<80011260>] (show_stack+0x18/0x1c)
[    5.035301]  r6:000001ff r5:00000009 r4:92929d70 r3:00000000
[    5.035344] [<80011248>] (show_stack) from [<804e7f28>] (dump_stack+0x20/0x28)
[    5.035390] [<804e7f08>] (dump_stack) from [<8001bf9c>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x6c/0x8c)
[    5.035417] [<8001bf30>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<8001c060>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x38/0x40)
[    5.035428]  r8:7f046000 r7:92b80880 r6:92b1fae0 r5:7f03c0b0 r4:7f03bf6c
[    5.035690] [<8001c02c>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<7f046154>] (regulatory_init+0x70/0x130 [cfg80211])
[    5.043687]  r3:00000000 r2:7f03af2c
[    5.044070] [<7f0460e4>] (regulatory_init [cfg80211]) from [<7f046060>] (cfg80211_init+0x60/0xe4 [cfg80211])
[    5.050454]  r4:00000000
[    5.050714] [<7f046000>] (cfg80211_init [cfg80211]) from [<800086a0>] (do_one_initcall+0x88/0x1d0)
[    5.051971]  r5:807b8968 r4:807b8968
[    5.052027] [<80008618>] (do_one_initcall) from [<80068344>] (load_module+0x15b4/0x1c88)
[    5.052040]  r10:80065cc4 r9:7f03bf74 r8:00000001 r7:92b80880 r6:00000001 r5:7f03bf80
[    5.052068]  r4:92929f48
[    5.052089] [<80066d90>] (load_module) from [<80068b78>] (SyS_finit_module+0x6c/0x78)
[    5.052099]  r10:00000000 r9:92928000 r8:8000ea44 r7:0000017b r6:76ed27b4 r5:00000006
[    5.052129]  r4:00000000
[    5.052159] [<80068b0c>] (SyS_finit_module) from [<8000e8a0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)
[    5.052171]  r6:76d5e4c0 r5:7e910134 r4:00020000
[    5.052191] ---[ end trace 892b42c96d49d50a ]---

The db.txt message led me to this page: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/regulatory/crda
 

"If you do not want to install CRDA on a host, you can simply enable the CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB on your kernel."

"If using CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB without updating net/wireless/db.txt you'll end up with the static world regulatory domain, so if using CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB you should be sure to update net/wireless/db.txt otherwise you may end up spending a lot of time debugging an issue that does not exist."

So I'm guessing the kernel on Rasplex v.0.5.1 was built with CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB enabled, but no db.txt installed?

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I still get stuttering on some of my 1:1 blu-ray rips. The Pi2 is overclocked to 1000/500/500/2 and I added the gpu_mem_1024=384 line.

Anyone else get the same?

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Try set Settings -> Network -> Advanced Network Settings -> Wait for network before starting XBMC, this seems to fix that issue for me.

Confirmed, this fixes it for me too. And I'd already set this on my old RPis, so I knew there was a setting somewhere I was missing. :) Thanks!

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Thanks for your response.
Before the update everything works fine.
I used the update function in the rasplex menu. When Lirc is removed it will be a bug.


You still need to check that your config.txt has the dtoverlay=lirc-rpi is there, if not IR will not work. I have checked remote control on the iOS app and it still works OK (howver limited it is).

Regards
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I still get stuttering on some of my 1:1 blu-ray rips. The Pi2 is overclocked to 1000/500/500/2 and I added the gpu_mem_1024=384 line.
 
Anyone else get the same?


See this post https://forums.plex.tv/topic/142603-lets-talk-about-1080p-and-network-buffering/?p=852113

Regards
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You still need to check that your config.txt has the dtoverlay=lirc-rpi is there, if not IR will not work. I have checked remote control on the iOS app and it still works OK (howver limited it is).
Regards


Thanks very much. I will have a look at the config.txt file.
What i don't understand is how the config file can be changed after running a normal update.
The navigation function on the ios app i still not working on my 2 pi's after the update
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Long time lurker. 

Firstly, thanks to all who have put all of this together. So awesome :)

Got my Pi2, then installed the 0.5.1 Pi2 release. Everything works sweet, except the generic infared USB / remote combo doesn't work. Works fine on the Pi1 with 0.5.0 installed.

Anything I am missing? 

I saw someone above mentioned to check the flirc overlay option is set in config.txt, which I have done. However I was not sure if the flirc was related to my infared usb dongle or not. 

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Hi,

its a little bit off-topic.

Is it possible to convert the Rasplex .img to a Berryboot compatible squashfs img?

I'm running latest Ubuntu on a Parallels Machine on MacBook Pro

The problem is, the mapped drive (loop0p2) shown as empty. Looks like this.

koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~$ sudo kpartx -av '/media/psf/Home/Downloads/rasplex-RPi2-RP-0.5.1.img' 
add map loop0p1 (252:0): 0 512000 linear /dev/loop0 2048
add map loop0p2 (252:1): 0 1333248 linear /dev/loop0 514048
koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/loop0p2 /mnt
koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~$ sudo sed -i 's/^\/dev\/mmcblk/#\0/g' /mnt/etc/fstab
sed: could  /mnt/etc/fstab not read: File or directory not found
koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~$

koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:/$ cd mnt
koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:/mnt$ dir
lost+found
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Hi,

its a little bit off-topic.

Is it possible to convert the Rasplex .img to a Berryboot compatible squashfs img?

I'm running latest Ubuntu on a Parallels Machine on MacBook Pro

The problem is, the mapped drive (loop0p2) shown as empty. Looks like this.

koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~$ sudo kpartx -av '/media/psf/Home/Downloads/rasplex-RPi2-RP-0.5.1.img' 
add map loop0p1 (252:0): 0 512000 linear /dev/loop0 2048
add map loop0p2 (252:1): 0 1333248 linear /dev/loop0 514048
koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/loop0p2 /mnt
koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~$ sudo sed -i 's/^\/dev\/mmcblk/#\0/g' /mnt/etc/fstab
sed: could  /mnt/etc/fstab not read: File or directory not found
koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:~$

koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:/$ cd mnt
koloss@koloss-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:/mnt$ dir
lost+found

I can't find it now but earlier in the week I followed dlanor's instructions to download a typical rasplex TAR release, navigate to the TARGET folder and extract the SYSTEM file. Add the .img extension to it and you can now use this in Berryboot. Worked for me!

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Dear all,


I ran 0.4.1 (B model) for a couple of months now without any issues (well, except for the not working AirPlay, which would be a very nice feature to have ;)).


Yesterday I made a clean install of 0.5.1 and since then I can’t resume any video from where I stopped it–the half-filled circle doesn’t show up anymore. Related to that, every time I finish an episode of a TV show, the On Deck screen leaves it marked “unwatched” rather than “watched”. I have to set it to “watched” manually.


It’s really annoying (especially the resuming issue) especially since nobody else seems to have this problem?


Cheers,

SnakeP