by admin | Feb 24, 2015 | Administration, Software
Scenario You want to copy data from a USB stick which seems partly corrupted, e.g. during the copying process Windows suddenly hangs. Solution If Windows chkdsk does not help, try HDD Raw Copy Tool. Unlike Win32DiskImager, this tool skips bad sectors and CRC...
by admin | Feb 23, 2015 | Entertainment, Linux
Problem Unfortunately, OpenELEC seems to offer no way for the user to modify the volume steps which Kodi makes to increment or decrement volume. Even if the IR receiver or remote is not able to repeat keys, the results are that the user has to press the same Volume Up...
by admin | Feb 23, 2015 | Entertainment, Linux
[:en]Scenario You are running multiple OpenELEC systems with mixed hardware (PCs like Zotac Zbox, ARM devices like Raspberry Pi) and different HDMI displays (TV or PC monitors). You maybe run a server where you use advancedsettings.xml to substitute paths to, like for...
by admin | Feb 21, 2015 | Administration
[:en]Scenario If you copy your personal image of an OpenELEC Raspberry Pi installation e.g. to another SD card which is larger, you might want to use the whole available space for your /storage partition. But this is not done automatically. Solution There are some...
by admin | Feb 19, 2015 | HTML, JavaScript
This error might appear if you have developed a website in your local testing environment which uses JS utilities like Bootstrap, JQuery, Prototype or Scriptaculous, after you have published it e.g. to your local company intranet. Cause JQuery and similar utils...
by ds | Feb 4, 2015 | Virtualization
Scenario You have created an image of an SD card containing a Linux operating system. Afterwards you want to access and extract files of the image, but do not have a spare physical storage available or you are working on a virtual machine. Unfortunately, it is not an...
by ds | Jan 14, 2015 | Home Automation
Was auf den ersten Blick vielleicht unsinnig erscheinen mag, lässt sich heute – in Kombination mit Bussystemen wie KNX – oft sinnvoll einsetzen. Beispiel: Jalousien nur dann öffnen, wenn niemand mehr im Bett liegt. Grundfunktion: Bett nicht belegt ->...
by ds | Jan 14, 2015 | Entertainment
Problem For some sporadic models of Raspberry Pi there seems to be a problem with time sync. No matter which time server (local or Internet) is set in IPv4 or OE general settings, it does not synchronize the time. Additionally, there is no way in the GUI to set time...
by ds | Jan 14, 2015 | Virtualization
Problem WDS / PXE booting needs a unique GUID for every client workstation, e.g. if the PC has to be approved and given a name in the WDS console by the administrator. Sometimes it may happen that not every GUID is unique. But duplicate GUIDs can lead to painful...
by ds | Nov 29, 2014 | Mobile phones
Scenario You want to configure a VPN connection to your firewall. It does not work on Android 4.0.4, but the same settings work in 4.1.x and above. Used in this example: VPN method L2TP IPsec PSK, Samsung GT-P7501, Dell Sonicwall tz 210 Problem According to some...