upnp with kodi

[fsamson91]

I have installed this gentoo img on my rpi, and it 's a great linux server in 64 bits. I never used gentoo, I 'm using ubuntu on my server. So I want to use kodi on my rpi with gentoo and kodi seems to be configured without upnp protocole. How can I had this protocol ?

Thanks

[sakaki-]

Hi @fsamson91,

to use UPnP with Kodi, you'll need to recompile it with the relevant USE flag set (here, upnp, which is off by default).

To do so, issue (as root, or use sudo):

pi64 ~ # echo "media-tv/kodi upnp" >> /etc/portage/package.use/kodi

You can read more setting per-package USE flags in Gentoo etc. in my notes here.

Once that's done, for efficiency edit the file /etc/portage/make.conf and uncomment the MAKEOPTS and EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS lines (to enable optimal build parallelism). Save, then re-emerge kodi, to build it with your new custom USE flag set:

pi64 ~ # emerge -av media-tv/kodi

This may take a while - it's a largish package ><

If you do build it and it works OK, please let me know, and I'll consider adding upnp to the (additional-to-default) profile USE flags for this package on the binhost.

hth, sakaki

[fsamson91]

Hi, sakaki

I tried your commands and after few hours, I run kodi but the upnp is not available I try again the emerge to have the output, and here are the message :

[ebuild U ] media-tv/kodi-18.4::gentoo [18.0::gentoo] USE="X alsa bluetooth css dbus lcms opengl pulseaudio samba (system-ffmpeg) udev udisks upnp upower xslt -airplay -bluray -caps -cec (-dvd) -gbm -gles -libressl -libusb (-lirc) -mariadb -mysql -nfs (-raspberry-pi) -systemd -test -vaapi (-vdpau) -wayland -webserver -zeroconf (-debug%)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 0 KiB

!!! The following binary packages have been ignored due to non matching USE:

=media-tv/kodi-18.4 -upnp

NOTE: The --binpkg-respect-use=n option will prevent emerge from ignoring these binary packages if possible. Using --binpkg-respect-use=y will silence this warning.

So I don't know wich package is not matching..

Franck

[sakaki-]

Hi @fsamson91,

so, the above output shows that you are currently on version 18.0 of Kodi ([18.0::gentoo]), and that the emerge wants to Upgrade to 18.4 by building locally ([ebuild U ] media-tv/kodi-18.4::gentoo), and this local build is happening because it can't use the precompiled version on the binhost, since the USE flags don't match:

!!! The following binary packages have been ignored due to non matching USE:

    =media-tv/kodi-18.4 -upnp

(which is to be expected, since you have added the upnp USE flag locally).

However, this also implies that your previous emerge did not complete successfully (since otherwise you'd already be at 18.4, and the second emerge would have signalled a Reinstall (not Upgrade).

Take a look at the end of /var/log/emerge.log to see what happened to the previous emerge attempt. As I say, building kodi locally from source (without e.g. distcc acceleration), may take many hours to complete. You can monitor ongoing builds by using the showem command in another terminal window, which may be helpful.

hth, sakaki

[fsamson91]

Hi Sakaki,

I tried again with a reinstall from scratch and the emerge command and after many many hours gentoo said that the kernel sources are need because the it multicast is need for kodi. I will try to install kernel sources later...

Franck

[sakaki-]

Hi Franck,

so, I have just added the upnp flag on the custom profile and rebuilt kodi on the binhost. So, to get it (from binary package), just run:

pi64 ~ # emaint sync --repo genpi64
pi64 ~ # emerge -v1u media-tv/kodi

It should hopefully install from binary now.

If you have any issues, just run genup to fully update your system; this should be left running overnight, as it will take a while, but hopefully, you won't need to use it.

Pls let me know if that works for you.

PS you can safely delete your /etc/portage/package.use/kodi file, as the profile now sets this flag.

Best, sakaki

[sakaki-]

30 Oct 2020: sadly, due legal obligations arising from a recent change in my 'real world' job, I must announce I am standing down as maintainer of this project with immediate effect. For the meantime, I will leave the repo up (for historical interest, and since the images may be of use still in certain applications); however, there will be no further updates to the underlying binhost etc., nor will I be accepting / actioning further pull requests or bug reports from this point. Email requests for support will also have to be politely declined, so, please treat this as an effective EOL notice.

For further details, please see my post here.

Many thanks for your interest in this project!

With sincere apologies, sakaki ><