Why? If you already have LibreELEC with big disk connected to it, maybe even RAID1 (mirror) which is really good for storing backups in safer way, then it could be a good idea to make LibreELEC works as cheap alternative to Apple Time Capsule. Prerequisites Install entware-ng (optware-like with opkg package manager) on your LibreELEC … Continue reading LibreELEC as Time Machine backup network device
Why? LibreELEC will not support RAID, either hardware or software configurations, as it is considered out of scope for this project. Consider a NAS. But LibreELEC is Linux-based and it is open, so we could bring RAID support and customize it for our needs. Requirements Here are my requirements for RAID and my configuration: RAID … Continue reading LibreELEC RAID support
Why? Some services have an option to send notifications by email, so we need to install a simple sendmail emulator which could forward messages to relay mail host. For example, sendmail could be used to notify you about failed drive in RAID array via google mail. Prerequisites Created google mail account. Installed entware-ng with opkg. … Continue reading LibreELEC sendmail
Why? LibreELEC is perfect linux distro for running Kodi almost everywhere. LibreELEC has a powerful add-on system and it also has docker container support so technically you could run everything you need inside docker container. But sometimes it is not enough. All (or almost all) Linux distros have their own package manager with set of … Continue reading LibreELEC entware installation (opkg / optware)