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

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

ashleywilliams

@Rascas Sure, here it is: https://paste.kodi.tv/kovubagiki
Thank you in anticipation!

All videos are the same NAS using smb. What I did in the log above is: Restart Kodi, open a video that is working ("Mad Mission 5 (HK-Fassung).mkv"), closing the video, opening a video that isn't working ("Space Invaders [Arrow Video 4K-Remastered].mkv").

I am using the "Raspberry Pi 3 Modell B+, 1 GB". To re-encode the files is no option, on Krypton EVERY video was working. Downgrading could be a last option - but I don't know how to.

ledow

@mitu @Rascas - did that.

Got Kodi on there by doing a "apt-get update" / RetroPie Setup upgrade, and had that plugin loaded months ago - it updated kodi, and a bunch of plugins but not that one.

Tried an update via "apt-get upgrade", and it didn't even suggest it (despite having the old v17 plugin in the plugins folder).
Did an explicit apt-get install as stated above, it didn't find the package in the default repos.

Kodi 18 worked fine, but no HTSP plugin (Kodi warned on startup about not having any TV sources, and blocked out the HTSP package as "not compatible with this version", and refused to do anything when I tried manual updates of the plugin directly from inside Kodi). After about an hour of messing about trying to roll that update back (including checking the apt history, reinstalling the previous version of all the relevant packages, etc.) I'd already in a side-window compiled the plugin, and copied it across.

Reinstalled Kodi 18 at that point, it picked up the self-compiled plugin, I've been watching recording and doing everything I would normally do on it, no problem at all. But someone might want to check what happens if you have Kodi 17 from packages with the HTSP plugin and then upgrade via RetroPie-Setup because all it did was leave you with an unusable v17 plugin and no way to get to the v18 plugin.

Not a big deal for me now (I'm a Slackware guy of old, and a C developer, so compiling something from even just a bunch of Makefiles and patches is nothing scary), but not sure how many other people are running Kodi v18 on a RetroPie via tvHeadend that might just break under the same circumstances (but given that tvHeadend is used in the instructions for getting the official DVB-T hat to work, someone might wanna check it).

Thanks for the help, but it was more of a heads-up for those less well-versed in how to fix such issues.

Rascas

@ledow I have upgraded a bunch of Pis already from Kodi 17.6 to 18, and all of them updated all the PVRs correctly (I had them all installed in 17.6), so I cannot reproduce your problem. I also tested the latest kodi-pvr-hts 4.4.12 and it is working fine.
Don't forget that to update the PVRs (and all binary addons that are not installed in RetroPie) you have to do a sudo apt-get update and a sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. Or update Raspbian packages via RetroPie-Setup.

ashleywilliams

Can anybody help me how to re-install Krypton? Re-install always brings the newest version. Thanks!

Rascas

@ashleywilliams Your problem looks like a network error. Does it play if you copy one of the videos to the sdcard?

ashleywilliams

@Rascas Will try that! Thanks!
but have to mention, that all videos are on the same NAS and that some of them work and some don't. And it's always the same that work/don't work! And with Krypton everything worked fine.

Rascas

@ashleywilliams Try that and if it still doesn't work, try with a clean Kodi settings. For that, close Kodi, move the dir /home/pi/.kodi to somewhere else, start Kodi and try again.