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Raspberry Pi Technical Issues

danielsan123

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Hi! I have several RPI model B. Using Sportsdevil and other streaming addons are very slow. Does anyone using ITTV with model B? How´s it working?
 

miiisa

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EPG is to big for RPI3.

The same for my RPI.

So I got another EPG for just the channels i watch
How did you get that epg? I just need epg for 2 countries, no need for me for all 5000 channels.
I fixed EPG problem on my own raspberry by splicing together 2 country EPG like you wanted to Kladde. I just wrote a simple bash script that does its job on autostart.
 

lumar

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Does anybody else has issues when changing channels ?
Most of the times when I switch channels, the current channel image just freezes and the new channel doesnt load.. just stops the transmission and goes back to the KODI / OSMC menu.. and then I have to press the channel again and then it loads normally.

I'm using a new RaspberryPi3 with a fresh installation of OSMC and Arctic:Zephyr theme.

Do I need to tweak some settings to have it run smoothly with none of these issues ?

Thanks in advance.
 

Sundh

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try disabling amcodec from System - Video (expert setting level) - Acceleration - Allow hardware acceleration (amcodec) - OFF
 

lumar

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Sorry for the late reply and thx for the answer.

I can't seem to find that Video option you said.. even though I have already expert settings level activated of course.

When I go to Settings > System menu I only have 7 sub-options available (Display, Audio, Input, Internet Access, Power Saving, Addons, Logging) and none of these options have settings regarding video acceleration..

The only settings I found regardin hardware acceleration are located under Player > Videos, and then in the "Processing" section there is:
"Allow hardware acceleration - OMXPlayer" and "Allow hardware acceleration - MMAL" which I have both deactivated.. but still I have random image freezes and stops while switching channels, like every 4 or 5 times I switch..

I already searched all the menus and submenus for those settings you referred.. but couldn't find it.

I'm running Kodi 17.5 on OSMC 2017.10-1 (kernel: Linux 4.9.29-10-osmc)
GPU: VideoCore IV HW
OpenGL vendor: Broadcom
OpenGL version: OpenGL ES 2.0
PVR backend: IPTV Simple PVR Add-on

Any help ? is there another IPTV backend that is better or more stable to use ? or do I need to change something in MyOSMC addon for overclocking or adding MPG2 or WVC1 license ?

thx in advance.
 

jasse

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EPG is to big for RPI3.

The same for my RPI.

So I got another EPG for just the channels i watch
How did you get that epg? I just need epg for 2 countries, no need for me for all 5000 channels.
I fixed EPG problem on my own raspberry by splicing together 2 country EPG like you wanted to Kladde. I just wrote a simple bash script that does its job on autostart.


Awesome, care to share the script? Thnx
 

Eirik Olsen

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How did you get that epg? I just need epg for 2 countries, no need for me for all 5000 channels.
I fixed EPG problem on my own raspberry by splicing together 2 country EPG like you wanted to Kladde. I just wrote a simple bash script that does its job on autostart.


Awesome, care to share the script? Thnx
Yes, of course. I will share it later tonight when I get home from work.
 

FreddyK

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You could also try change in Live TV settings for how many days you want EPG.
If you have problems you could EPG for 1 day.
 

miiisa

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Yes. You could try that. It did not work for me however. I think the EPG for every country simply was too big for the RPI. But do try!
 

miiisa

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Apr 16, 2017
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Have you had the chance to share the script? Would love to get my hands on it.

I have a python script that does the job, but it has to be run on a pc because of high resource usage
Sorry thought you fixed your problem by setting a limit on days to load on the EPG.

I just wrote this now so you can basically see what I did. It's simple but it does the trick for me.

Download whatever guide(s) you want and then concatenate them together.

Just change as you need

#!/bin/bash
(

sleep 5
cd /storage/downloads/
# Remove old guide
rm <epg1>.xml

#get guide(s)
wget http://estiptv******* WARNING FRAUD **DON'T BUY** PLEASE REPORT TO ADMIN *******/epg/<epg1>.xml.gz
wget http://estiptv******* WARNING FRAUD **DON'T BUY** PLEASE REPORT TO ADMIN *******/epg/<epg2>.xml.gz

#extract
gzip -df <epg1>.xml.gz <epg2>.xml.gz

#removes some lines so you can concatenate together
sed -i '$ d' <epg1>_guide.xml
sed -i '1,2d' <epg2>_guide.xml

#concat
cat <epg2>_guide.xml >> <epg1>_guide.xml

#remove
rm <epg2>.xml
)
 

Kladde

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Hi.

I have raspberry pi 2 and 3.
Epg works on pi 3 but not on pi 2. Everything is the same setup on both. Why is it so? Anyone?
 

miiisa

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Apr 16, 2017
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Hi.

I have raspberry pi 2 and 3.
Epg works on pi 3 but not on pi 2. Everything is the same setup on both. Why is it so? Anyone?
Well the RPI 3 is quite a bit faster than the RPI 2. That might be it. I have switched all my RPI 2 to 3.

I have also bought the MPEG-2 license so i can use Hardware decoding.
 

jassie

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Hi.

I have raspberry pi 2 and 3.
Epg works on pi 3 but not on pi 2. Everything is the same setup on both. Why is it so? Anyone?
Well the RPI 3 is quite a bit faster than the RPI 2. That might be it. I have switched all my RPI 2 to 3.

I have also bought the MPEG-2 license so i can use Hardware decoding.
How do you experience any difference with the MPEG-2 license? Wondering if it will improve the experience
My tv often (after several hours of use+switching channels) starts buffering. Most likely it's the RPI3, or my internet (RPI is cabled but sometimes congestion in the whole area..)
 

Kladde

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Hi.

I have raspberry pi 2 and 3.
Epg works on pi 3 but not on pi 2. Everything is the same setup on both. Why is it so? Anyone?
Well the RPI 3 is quite a bit faster than the RPI 2. That might be it. I have switched all my RPI 2 to 3.

I have also bought the MPEG-2 license so i can use Hardware decoding.
It worked some weeks ago why now it doesn't work? Maybe I should try another epg service. Now I am using siptv