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Raspberry Pi Micro Media-Hub
Components
- Raspberry Pi 3
- Powered USB hub
- USB hard disk 1 Tb
- USB audio adapter
- Joystick controller
- LCD display 16×2 charaters
Kodi
We started with a Raspbian 2017-11-29 lite, based on Debian Stretch. To have a minimal Kodi installation and support for the joystick, just install the following packages:
- kodi
- kodi-bin
- kodi-peripheral-joystick
Kodi will not start automatically at boot, just execute kodi from the command line.
NOTICE: Raspbian includes Kodi version 17.6 whereas Debian Stretch has Kodi 17.1, so beware of what packages you are installing and respect the right dependencies.
: How to start Kodi at boot. How to run Kodi as unpriviliged user.
USB 3.0 VIA Labs Hub Problems
The first attempt was an Amazon Basics USB 3.0 4 ports hub. Unfortunately it is based on the VIA Labs chips, which seems to have a bug, so it is uncompatibile with the Raspberry Pi.
The device is listed on the USB bus:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 2109:2811 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
but when you connect even a simple mouse, you get plenty of errors, and the device does not work:
usb 1-1.4.1: new low-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg usb 1-1.4.1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-1.4.1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-1.4.1: new low-speed USB device number 7 using dwc_otg usb 1-1.4.1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-1.4.1: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 1-1.4.1: new low-speed USB device number 8 using dwc_otg usb 1-1.4.1: device not accepting address 8, error -71 usb 1-1.4.1: new low-speed USB device number 9 using dwc_otg usb 1-1.4.1: device not accepting address 9, error -71 usb 1-1.4-port1: unable to enumerate USB device
I tried several workarounds: leaving the hub unpowered, attaching an USB 3.0 external hard disk, adding the option dwc_otg.speed=1 into /boot/cmdline.txt. None of that gave a minimal benefit. I returned the hub back to Amazon.
Here are some web references: