[Testing] Kodi 18.0 Leia beta versions now available for RetroPie!

Rascas

Kodi 18 RC 4 available for update

Changelog:
https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-leia-rc4-new-hope

felipebrauna

@Rascas said in [Testing] Kodi 18.0 Leia beta versions now available for RetroPie!:

Kodi 18 RC 4 available for update
Changelog:
https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v18-leia-rc4-new-hope

Thanks Rascas!

CapNinja

After reading several guides and reading all advices on this topic, I'm still struggling to add the Netflix and Amazon repos.
Please, how can I do this?

Rascas

@roadtrip111 said in [Testing] Kodi 18.0 Leia beta versions now available for RetroPie!:

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to add my experience and how I got Netflix to run properly on my raspberry pi (so far). I'll just describe what I did, maybe it will help someone:

My system:
Raspberry PI 3 B+
retropie 4.4
Kodie 18.0-RC1

I access my pi through terminal via ssh to enter the commands.

"sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade" (Optional, mine was up to date)

Update the firmware of my pi "sudo rpi-update"

"sudo reboot" (to activate new firmware)

"sudo apt-get install python{,3}-pip"

"pip install --user pycryptodomex"

"sudo reboot" (don't know if this was neccessary..)

download zip netflix addon from https://github.com/asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix

put zip on sd card of raspberry pi

install netflix addon from zip within kodi

configure netflix-addon -> input stream addon settings -> Max. resolution secure decoder -> 720p

run a movie in netflix, now it will ask to install libwidevine, confirm.

"sudo apt-get install libnss3"

Right now it works like a charm for me :D.

The only thing not working is the "interactive part". I wanted to see the interactive black mirror movie "Bandersnatch" through the netflix plugin, but when I start the movie, it tells me it is not supported to show interactive elements on this device. I don't know if this is related to the netflix plugin, to kodi, or to my tv...Anyone has an idea how to solve this?

Anyway, thanks for your posts everyone, it helped me to succeed with netflix running on raspberry pi!

This.

CapNinja

@Rascas
Thanks, my mistake was in the step 4.
But... After installing both, only the Amazon VOD works with me.
I don't know how to check logs (the only one who I can see is the "Kodi open" or something like that), so I can provide any accurate info.
Again, thanks for all this awesome work.

Rascas

@CapNinja said in [Testing] Kodi 18.0 Leia beta versions now available for RetroPie!:

@Rascas
Thanks, my mistake was in the step 4.
But... After installing both, only the Amazon VOD works with me.
I don't know how to check logs (the only one who I can see is the "Kodi open" or something like that), so I can provide any accurate info.
Again, thanks for all this awesome work.

To get the log files:
https://kodi.wiki/view/Log_file

sks316

Kodi 18 released at the end of January. How long do you think it'll be before the setup script is updated?

FMDSF

@sks316 Maybe this is a new topic as this one is discussing about Beta Versions? But on the other hand...who cares for V18 Betas when V18 is official? :P

But, yes I have the same question to this community. Is there anyone who can answer this?

P.S.: Retropie is great!

mitu

I think that the Leia release has found its way into the stable update channel, so it should be enough to install Kodi (if you don't have it installed) or just update your OS packages and you'll get the new release.
Like the beta, the new release is only available for Raspbian Strech, so if you're running on an older RetroPie (or Raspbian) release, you'll not see the update.

Rascas

Yes, Kodi 18 Leia stable/final is now on stable repo.
To update you just need to go to RetroPie Setup and update the package from binary.
I recommend that you remove this unstable repo, you can do it by running:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pipplware_unstable.list

FMDSF

@Rascas
@mitu

Thx for your answers!
I already removed unstable Versions 2 days ago. Since then I tried to update from binary, every day! But didn't work.

Until tonight... all I have done is trying again since you wrote "it should update from binary". Et voila...stable Version V18 is on my Pie and feels even faster than all unstable Versions I tried out, before! :)

Patience is all we needed.

Rascas

@FMDSF I only uploaded the stable version a couple of hours ago, that is why you couldn't update to Kodi 18 stable/final.
Speed/performance wise, it should be the same as the latest RC from the unstable repo, only a few minor commits where made since. But it is faster/snapier than Kodi 17.

sks316

@Rascas Thank you!
You may want to have someone update the GitHub wiki page to reflect this change.

ledow

Cheer guys... updating to latest stable stops the tvHeadend HTSP client addon working and there's no update available.

:-(

Rascas

@ledow does kodi-pvr-hts got updated ? The latest version is also available. Which version do you have installed?

ledow

There was no update for that package available.

I compiled and installed it myself using the instructions here:

https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.hts

mitu

@ledow The package is available from the same repository as Kodi, at version 4.4.12

Rascas

@ledow Remove what you compiled and install the package in the repo:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi-pvr-hts

PS: If you updated Kodi via RetroPie-Setup -> packages -> Kodi -> Update from binary, it is possible that it only updates the Kodi binary itself and its dependencies, but not the binary addons. But if you go to Configuration / Tools - > raspbiantools -> Upgrade Raspbian packages, everything will get updated.

ashleywilliams

Hi guys. I am using Retropie and Kodi for more than a year now. Today I updated everything and received Kodi 18 Leia. Now I got the problem that half of my videos aren't playable anymore. When I start them it got just directly back to the library. I tried to remove Kodi and reinstall it, remove all Kodi settings, to set gpu memory and searched the web for hours - nothing helped. Under Krypton I had no such issues. Anyone else with this problem? Any ideas what to try?
Any idea how to downgrade back to Krypton? Thanks a lot!

Rascas

@ashleywilliams Do you have your library videos remotely ? If so, what protocol are you using? NFS, Samba, etc ?
It is better that you reproduce de problem and post here your Kodi debug log after:
https://kodi.wiki/view/Log_file