When you decide to tinker with the default setup of your box, you automatically increase the potential of having to babysit your setup (whether you want to or not). The potential further increases if the user isn’t too sure what they’re doing. The frustration of newly created setups not working as the user expected, is very common but, thankfully, there are plenty of folks in forums like this to bounce ideas off and get you back to a working setup when you get stuck.
Whilst what I have pointed out may not seem like much direct help to you, it is essential to remember once we start tinkering with the default setup. After all, the devs are here to help everyone get the best out of the many devices that exist but, nothing is completely compatible with everything else and it’s only by individuals persevering with tech trial and error that knowledge is increased.
The devs here, that devote their time to providing free alternative software along with free help to those that are having difficulties, don’t particularly want to have to babysit the many users either.
Yes, depending on the usage and brand of the SD card
Try them and find out, maybe more than one will work (they’re alternative suggestions that try to cover all devices)
The Kore app is nothing to do with CoreELEC (XBMC Foundation have their own forum)
It just seems overly strange and too highly coincidental that after accessing Kodi on CoreElec with Kore mobile app which failed to work except to scan my movie library, my IR remote would break and at the exact very same time the SD card (with CoreElec OS and Kodi) would become so corrupted it would no longer boot.
If SD cards are no more stable than that, I don’t think I’m going to like having this setup. I don’t want to be tinkering with installation, flashing etc. My Macs ssds don’t corrupt just because I install/uninstall a software app here and there, so I don’t understand how this could happpen when I wasn’t doing anything to CoreElec and neither to Kodi. I already had my system up and running for weeks.
The SD card on my CoreElec N2 is the one Odroid ships for CoreElec with CoreElec preinstalled. So if it’s a cheap, unstable card, then why is it being used???
After all, Kore is the “official” remote for Kodi.
The only “tinkering” I did was switch from auto updates to nightly builds.
I had to do that because after 9.2.2 update, I was unable to boot.
CoreElec tried to boot, then spewed out along left side of screen a bunch of this and that, call trace, null, etc., and then got stuck in a loop booting and rebooting to the same spew.
Now that same issue is being replicated yet again after flashing sd card back to 9.2.2.
The only fix was to disconnect my 2 external 4gb Seagate Backup Plus hdds from the 2 bottom USB ports.
Then I could boot fine, and could also boot fine when connecting drives to 2 top USB ports but not 2 bottom ones.
But that became a problem because Odroid wifi dongle keeps malfunctionin and only fix is to unplug it and move to diff usb port.
Someone in CoreElec forum said to switch to nightly builds so I did, and after numerous auto updates of those, I ran into the issue in this thread.
Now I’m going to have to switch to nightly builds again and risk this mess all over again which has cost me well over 12 hours of troubleshooting today.
This is way, way too problematic to be useful.
I’ve learned to live with the marginally functional nature of high tech, but this is really getting to be ridiculous.
I bought this system from Ameridroid because it was supposed to be plug and play, waited 3 mos for a remote, had no wifi dongle because product page fails to mention that internet connection is necessary and if ethernet not availble then must have wifi dongle.
For 3 mos I sat on floor in front of HDTV with keyboard and mouse attached.
Odroid wifi dongle continually drops wifi connection, causing major problems with download and weather.
Through trial and error waste of my time I find fix for one issue only to have another surface. This may be fun for those who get their thrills troubleshooting, but all I wanted was a media player that can play VOB files, capable of flashing firmware to keep it from bricking like the UEBO player I had with less sophisticated, ugly interface, but which worked marvelously for 6 years until it bricked and flashing RealTek chipset could no longer bring it back to life. I’m spending way more time having to “tinker” with this box than I get to watch movies, tv shows or listen to music, which was supposed to be the whole point of having it in the first place.
I still need help getting music back. My Macs no longer recognize N2 like they previously did. I tried SMB but it failed. I want to see the Kodi files on N2 like I could before so I can add playlist xml files. Before I was even able to trash folders for skins that had no access to Settings so I could get back to default skin and Settings access.
I will also probably need help with completing a backup so if/when this happens again hopefully it won’t be nearly as painful, assuming of course that restore of backup works, which may be asking too much.
SD cards are low grade storage and it surprises me not one bit that yours corrupted of it own accord. I have had similar experiences.
You have the better option of using emmc on the N2
So you can keep the Odroid WiFi Dongle you purchased a secret and we can ignore your issues with your secret purchase.
You can see i asked the other member WHAT VERSION DONGLE HE PURCHASED
I need way of accessing file on N2.
Before system fail and reflash, I was able to connect via ethernet to my mac, and N2 showed in finder where I was able to located kodi files, particularly playlists folder for music.
This is crucial to music functionality for me because I already have xml playlists created in iTunes and with appropriate revision to drive path which I was able to readlily load in Kodi.
Having to recreate music playlists Kodi’s cumberson way compared to iTunes is a deal breaker for me. I just as soon not use Kodi for music if that’s the only alternative.
Formerly N2 mounted as a single drive, but now no longer shows in Mac finder. I was finally able to SMB to N2, but now each folder mounts as a single driver, and only Configfiles folder/drive has any folders/file, but there is no Kodi folder or files there.
Also, in Settings > CoreElec there is no option for backup.
At one time I saw option to backup CoreElec and Kodi, but now I cannot find it again. Where is it located?
I had to change back to default skin from pkscout’s estuary mod skin in order to get CoreElec settings link to appear, but there is still no item for backup like I saw before.
This is just maddening that the software and hardware behaves 1 way at one time and another at another time. I really nearing my rope’s end.
OK I found backup in System tab of CoreElec settings, but there’s no way to choose a path to an external drive, it only copies to internal Backups folder.
I can smb to N2 folder/drive Backup, and there is a .tar file there but when I click it opens to empty folder name “storage”, so I don’t see how restoring from that is going to succeed.
I don’t know if it will help, but the box from the link provided came originally with CoreELEC Build 18.3 compiled 2019-08-12 - CoreELEC (official): nightly_20190811 (9.1). I don’t have the git number.
I checked the older versions but am unable to find a 9.1.x build. Maybe one of the devs can help locating the build the box came with?
Just copy and paste it somewhere on your Mac
You can copy it back to the backup folder of the N2
after you do a clean install or whatever you’re trying to do.
What are you opening it for.
please explain what has to be done with this module.
does it take the place of an sd card?
or does it have to be installed (soldered?) to board?
will my Anker card reader not work with module?
so then do I have to buy another eMMC reader (converter) VERIFIED MicroSD adapter?
i am not thrilled about sinking another $40 or more into this experiment!
