Scan to library too slow

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Hello, I recently purchased a Nokia 8010 with the hope I can get a stable and good performing multimedia hub on my tv. Previously I used kodi on a fire tv and access my hdd via smb network drive but that didn’t cut it and I wanted to use my ntfs hdd directly on my android tv.

Sadly the native android tv with Kodi is completely unstable, it random soft reboots and shutdowns non of the settings available seemed to fix it so I decided to give coreelec a try and it seems to run stable!

I do have one big issue with coreelec though which is the incredibme scan my library, there has to be something I can do to make it comparable to the regular android kodi installation which worked fast.

Is it because of the usb stick I’m using for coreelec? Is there any way to improve it? I know theres a way to use the internal storage for data but I also read that it could brick the device but I’m not too familiar with the procedure and I don’t wanna brick my device because something was unclear or I did something wrong.

Thanks for the help!

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This is the guide to running a hybrid mode with CE storage run from the eMMC.

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I’ve read about it but tbh I don’t know if I should do it, i need a better beginner friendly guide, there are several things unclear to me.

Edit:
I gave it a go but couldn’t properly do the last two steps and it didn’t work, I’m using terminus on android and don’t know how to save the changes.

coreelec=‘quiet toram disk=FOLDER=/dev/data’

and what is instructed later:

add this line in /storage/.config/autostart.sh
to unmount storage partition from USB stick
mountpoint -q /media/STORAGE && umount /media/STORAGE

The instructions are not easy to decipher for someone who doesn’t do this often, can anybody help? Everything else I was able to enable.

Edit 2:
I tried my best to get it working and it’s now working perfectly fine, just needed to get the hang of it and this fixed my issues, it’s now scanning even faster than the android kodi app!

The scan speed is really impressive, maybe a ssd usb device imho is necessary to to make it properly and I also added the full remote keymap with the other guide.

Edit 3:
So far so good, I still have three things on my agenda to fix/adjust:

  1. The remote workaround to get all the buttons to work properly didn’t apply/work. I try it again later.

  2. One of my videos have some sort of visual issue, I couldn’t find another file that reproduces this and it does not happen with mx player or on my phobe.
    I’ve found a thread with a similiar issue (changing the bit depth/other settings didn’t fix it) on the same device, I will upload a sample later to figure out why it’s glitched on this.
    White artifacts with S905X4 video decoder - #7 by paul69
    And I’m not sure why exactly but using DolbyVisiob plugin on the usb stick and enabling SDR to HDR black screened coreelec, renaming the file, changing the settings and ree enabling dolby fixed the issue.

  3. When I use the shutdown option it somehow turns on again after a while, I think coreelec triggers hdmi cec on my lg tv but don’t know why. Suspend seems to work out