(2016-07-10, 00:34)enchantedplague Wrote: I tried different cables with no change.
However, I tried hooking it directly up to my TV vs through my Denon AVR and the flickering stops.
Any ideas?

(2016-07-10, 00:42)Matt Devo Wrote: [quote='enchantedplague' pid='2372046' dateline='1468103681']

ok, so AVR-related. Assuming it's capable, ensure that the AVR firmware is up to date. After that, you might try capturing/loading the EDID at startup so that any AVR-related dropouts are ignored. See the instruction I wrote up on this OE wiki page under the 'Custom EDID' heading.

(2016-07-10, 01:01)enchantedplague Wrote: Thank you so much for your help! It was actually the HDMI cable from the AVR to the TV.
Strange how it only effected Kodi 16.1 and not 15.2.
Anyway its working great now.
Thanks!

(2016-07-13, 06:55)bes3 Wrote: thanks for the http://mrchromebox.tech/setup-kodi.sh script, worked great.

Quote:i screwed up a little bit though.

i wanted to save the stock google firmware before doing the firmware replacement so that i could have a standalone libreelec on the 16GB mSATA and then have a USB stick and boot with CTRL-U to get the original ChromeOS if I so desired.

Quote:but my mistake was I stuck a 2GB SD card in to backup the firmware to that I had not checked and it only 512MB free and was also formatted as MSDOS/FAT16 not sure if that part matters.

so when I ran the #6 "Install/Update Custom coreboto firmware", I got an error message that there was not enough disk space for the firmware backup and that writing the backup firmware had failed. Pretty sure the installer then said to press return to go to main menu, which I did, but it did not go back to the main menu, instead it just overwrote the original firmware with the new firmware.

Quote:So now I've got librelec kodi working great...

but is there some way I can make/get a USB bootable thumbstick that boots chromeOS?

Quote:Also, how would can i restore the original firmware? i think i read the the firmware unique with a MAC id? if so, is it possible to hexedit the binary to mod the MAC or am i out of luck? i'm just worried if something goes wrong now, I no longer have the reset button to get me out of trouble...

(2016-07-13, 07:18)Matt Devo Wrote:

Quote:but my mistake was I stuck a 2GB SD card in to backup the firmware to that I had not checked and it only 512MB free and was also formatted as MSDOS/FAT16 not sure if that part matters.

so when I ran the #6 "Install/Update Custom coreboto firmware", I got an error message that there was not enough disk space for the firmware backup and that writing the backup firmware had failed. Pretty sure the installer then said to press return to go to main menu, which I did, but it did not go back to the main menu, instead it just overwrote the original firmware with the new firmware.

that sounds like a bug in the script I need to fix - I'll look into it.

(2016-07-13, 07:36)bbsc Wrote: It more likely sounds like this SD card was previously used for Open/LibleElec installation and so was splitted to several partitions.
Just my guess.

(2016-07-14, 04:01)Scratinthehat Wrote: Is there a way to enable the mic output on the KODI Chromebox? I'm trying to get two Bluetooth headsets working with miccus mini-jack TX4. All I need is a regular stereo output but there is not one on my TV. I can always work up an adapter if that jack can’t be used. Right now there is no output there. By the way Matt that browser it the max! How can I get you some jack for all this work you do?

(2016-07-17, 19:09)bes3 Wrote: But now I think more about it I think I can see why you say it is tricker. The Ubuntu Live stick was designed by its creators for that purpose of USB booting in mind, but the ChromeOS live stick, well, it doesn't really exist now, does it? at least not provided by google. The saved firmware image expects itself to be running from the internal 16GB SSD, so it would have to be custom built i suppose. I some point I had read a thread on here that discussed doing this and i had but don't know where I saw it. I might take you up on your offer to PM you about it at some point, but for right now I'm just going to mull it over.

Thanks for your help

(2016-07-17, 19:24)Soli Wrote: I believe you can run chromixium from an USB stick.
So, a chromeos clone for non chromeboxes, on a real chromebox.

So install libreelec, but choose autoboot from usb in MrCBs script. Whenever you need to run chromeos, you just insert the chromixium usb stick and reboot.

(2016-07-17, 22:22)bes3 Wrote: OK, thanks Soli. Thank you Matt, I will probably contact via PM at some point about the xfering to usb stick...

I just realized where i got the idea of installing a live chromeos to USB... i had read post #17 here

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=194362&pid=1704884#pid1704884

and there was a reference there to an option in the script that i had thought was to make a bootable copy of chromeOS to USB. so my plan was to do that but i couldn't find that choice in the menus and i also couldn't figure where Yellow Dog was quoting you from so I'm guessing this was an old option that was removed for some reason?

(2016-07-17, 20:33)Matt Devo Wrote:

(2016-07-17, 19:09)bes3 Wrote: But now I think more about it I think I can see why you say it is tricker. The Ubuntu Live stick was designed by its creators for that purpose of USB booting in mind, but the ChromeOS live stick, well, it doesn't really exist now, does it? at least not provided by google. The saved firmware image expects itself to be running from the internal 16GB SSD, so it would have to be custom built i suppose. I some point I had read a thread on here that discussed doing this and i had but don't know where I saw it. I might take you up on your offer to PM you about it at some point, but for right now I'm just going to mull it over.

Thanks for your help

to boot/run ChromeOS from USB, you need to have a working install on the internal SSD, then use a specific set of commands to transfer it to a same-sized (or larger) USB stick.

(2016-07-17, 19:24)Soli Wrote: I believe you can run chromixium from an USB stick.
So, a chromeos clone for non chromeboxes, on a real chromebox.

So install libreelec, but choose autoboot from usb in MrCBs script. Whenever you need to run chromeos, you just insert the chromixium usb stick and reboot.

you mean ChromiumOS, which is the open-source basis for ChromeOS. Chomixium is a Ubuntu-based distro designed to look/feel like ChromeOS (hence the 'mix'; part), but aren't at all similar under the hood.