a thoughtful use of digital
If you cannot connect your PC with an android device via usb cable, check first if your mobile device has mtp (media transfert protocol) set, and not charging or other USB possibilities.
In Likebook, for example, you have to set as in the following image:
Of course, you should have also installed all the needed MTP libraries.
An useful open source android app to check how (by what apps or data) your device space is used, is Disky.
This “fast storage analyzer creates a pie chart of storage usage and lists folders by size”, very “intuitive and ad-free”.
I.g. yesterday, using this app I noticed that surprisingly an app (LinkToSport) was using 23 Gb. Definitely too much 🙂.
Very painful to make it working. But something is being to become possible.
If Kodi, in you new OpenAtv installation (after restoring settings from another release) starts only from an external device (the device you used to restore settings and flash the new image) you can try to modify the kodi script in /usr/bin.
In this way:
you can reach your decoder from your PC via terminal, with something like
:~$ ssh root@sf8008.local if you have more than a partition on your decoder, you have to change your keys every time (each partition has its own keys), so you have to begin with:
:~$ ssh-keygen -R sf8008.local
# Host sf8008.local found: line 1
/home/[your-username]/.ssh/known_hosts updated.
Original contents retained as /home/[your-username]/.ssh/known_hosts.old
:~$ ssh root@sf8008.local
kf.notifications: Failed to play sound with canberra: File or data not found
Warning: Permanently added 'sf8008.local' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
root@sf8008:~#
and then you can donano /usr/bin/kodi
find something like
[ -d /media/mmc ] && export HOME="/media/mmc"
[ -d /media/hdd ] && export HOME="/media/hdd"
and replace it with
ountpoint -q /media/hdd && export HOME="/media/hdd"
mountpoint -q /media/mmc && export HOME="/media/mmc"
in my case, it did the trick.
To avoid a wrong zoom and a wrong position of the resized screen (with a black space on left and part of Kodi screen invisible, impossible to set/fix), avoid to start Kodi standalone (in Openatv – >plungis browser -> Kodi).
However there were still big problems:
Today I managed to resolve the first two ones:
Problems in OpenATV 7.6 can see found in their forum.
The best android open source Firewall (+ adblocker / vpn ) I found so far is Rethink. It can have some problems (i.g., recently, with Whatsapp or Fastnews, blocking them from the Net), but you can solve them quite easily.
Not so good I tried apps such as Athena, or De1984, or InviZible Pro: all very difficult to set properly. Indeed they block either too much or to little (your apps from the Net).
Rethink, on the contrary, can let you set exactly what should be blocked and what allowed.
It is possible, at least with some smartphone (and some, new) adroid releases to have a smartphone connected to a wi-fi network and to use it for usb tethering (of course not for wi-fi hotspot).
This could sound a bit strange, but it can be useful, i,g., if your laptop has not a wi-fi reception as powerful as your smartphone: so, you can use your smartphone to receive the wi-fi signal and to share it with the laptop.
If you are not able to connect your PC to your mobile device, using Syncthing in both of them, you should check your firewall, both on PC and on mobile.
And, of course you have to set, in firewalls, permissions to communicate each other.
Is a small android dialer app from Hong Kong. Its best value is to add groups to to Phone, so that you can choose from a group a contact.
But the problem is that groups are incredibly displayed not in alphabetical order (maybe a problem from the Chinese culture?). And so groups tab result perfectly useless.
Moreover deleting a call from log call is very, very complicated (if you press a call then start immediately a call to that number). No way to select more than one call (to delete it from the screen of calls). In Fossify Phone you can select and delete several calls.
Another problem is the impossibility to block unknown numbers (what is present in Fossify Phone).
Another problem is that you cannot find the website of the app, and a forum where speak of your problems with this app.
To sum up: a potentially good app, with many improvements to do.
You can use Shortcut Maker: as said here, “to change individual app icons on your phone for first-party and third-party apps just the same. It’s a popular alternative method that lets you tweak the app icons on your home screen.”
After months, today I managed to get Kodi work in my OpenATV 7.4. In this way
Now I have Kodi working in OpenaTV 7.4
Warning: with this release (7.4) it occurs that Kodi freezes.
In that case, reboot and put the usb with saved settings.
With a Linux decoder such as Octagon (with Openatv e Kodi) you can see your TV on your smartphone. Provided that you have Kodi both on decoder and on smartphone.
