[Testing] Kodi 17.0 stable/final available for RetroPie!

Rascas

@nwgalloway Is it connected via USB or bluetooth ? What is the output of this command:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

Confirm that the addon peripheral-joystick is enabled in the addons section. When you connect the joystick you should see a popup with its name.

herb_fargus

@Rascas AMAZING! just reinstalled the joystick peripheral thing just to be sure, took a little bit for it to register my xbox controller as connected and followed the above linked guide on configuring my contoller. works great ! now kodi is everything I ever wanted :)

PetroRie

@nwgalloway Same here, I did enable it when I connect the PS4 controller via USB it does get recognized but the buttons don't work.

EDIT: I reconfigured the xbox controller while using the PS4 controller and it works now!

PetroRie

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Rascas

@herb_fargus @PetroRie Nice that you have your gamepads working :D
For now, I have tested one Logitech Rumblepad USB, one PS3 via USB and one very old GreenAsia USB, all working fine. I think most gamepads should work OOTB now, at least the most common ones.
Since the gamepad support is now official in Kodi 17 for all platforms, for any problems it is better to report them in the oficial Kodi forum, or upstream at:
https://github.com/xbmc/peripheral.joystick

nwgalloway

@Rascas I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to all this. Learning on the fly. How do I install the periphery add on onto Kodi on my Retropie?

Rascas

@nwgalloway If you did run the terminal commands of the first post, you already have it installed. You can check if it installed and active in Kodi -> Add-ons -> My add-ons -> Peripheral libraries -> Joystick Support.
If it is was not enabled your joysticks wouldn't work ;)

Running the commands in the first post should be enough to have everything functional. After that you might have to follow this link to configure your joysticks buttons as you like:
http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Configure_controllers
PS: The images in the wiki are from an old version of the new Estuary skin, but it should be easy to understand what to do.
It is as simple as that ;)

nwgalloway

@Rascas I used the prompt from the initial post but when I go to add ons, then my add ons, there is no file for peripheral libraries. Do I need to reinstall or is there a way to add it with putty or SSH? Sorry like I said I'm learning a lot of DIY stuff on the fly lol

Rascas

@nwgalloway I don't know exactly what is your problem, probably you did not inserted the commands right. If you are using putty, you can copy/paste everything at once from the black box into putty. It should do everything, and when everything is done, you should have Joystick support in the addons. If you have Kodi open, restart it for changes to take effect. Try the first post procedure again, and if it shows any error post it here for us to see.

nwgalloway

@Rascas Finally got it! Thanks for all the help!

beankid

Anyone noticed a slight lag with video playback? I'm on a RPi2 and the video seems a bit slow. I've checked the CPU usage and it's all really low so it's not a being slowed down by other processes. Could be that it's still in Beta..... Still nice to test this out as I can finally use my gamepad for Kodi.

PetroRie

@beankid said in [Testing] Kodi 17 beta 7 available for RetroPie:

Anyone noticed a slight lag with video playback? I'm on a RPi2 and the video seems a bit slow. I've checked the CPU usage and it's all really low so it's not a being slowed down by other processes. Could be that it's still in Beta..... Still nice to test this out as I can finally use my gamepad for Kodi.

I noticed that the menus are quite laggy sometimes.

Rascas

@beankid Video playback is just fine, no slowdowns whatsoever, but remember the Pi only has HW aceleration of mpeg-2 and VC-1 if you buy the licences. And only low bitrate h265 works fine.

@PetroRie Navigating trough menus can be a bit slower than a normal computer, that's normal. Didn't notice any diference here to previous versions.

beankid

@Rascas Turns out a simple settling of the install made things work themselves out, along with a reboot and it's back to normal. Not sure what was happening at the time but it's now smooth again. Gonna update to V. 17 on all my RPi machines now. thumbs up

Rascas

Kodi updated to 17 Release Candidate 1
ARMv6 version available (for first gen Pi's, 1, 0, etc)
Added all binary addons (PVRs, audiodecoders/encoders, visualizations, etc)

PS: Check first post for new installation instructions.

apoteker

@Rascas Has anyone been able to sucessfully upgrade to RC1? I keep getting a 404 error "file not found".

Sevik

Works fine on my rpi3. Upgraded from (new) kodi 16 installation (RetroPie-Setup) to beta7 and then to RC1 as instructed.

Thank you Rascas!

@apoteker : Where do you get this error?

apoteker

@Sevik I copied and pasted the above via PuTTY and got the following:
Err http://pipplware.pplware.pt Packages
404 Not Found
Ign http://pipplware.pplware.pt Translation-en_GB
Ign http://pipplware.pplware.pt Translation-en
Fetched 73.8 kB in 19s (3,699 B/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://pipplware.pplware.pt/pipplware/dists/unstable/armv7binary/Packages 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Rascas

@apoteker You have atleast one typo, a forward slash is missing between armv7 and binary. Make sure your list file is exactly like in the first post.

apoteker

@Rascas This is what I am pasting:

sudo su
echo "deb http://pipplware.pplware.pt/pipplware/dists/unstable/main/binary /" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pipplware_unstable_armv7.list
echo "deb http://pipplware.pplware.pt/pipplware/dists/unstable/armv7/binary /" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pipplware_unstable_armv7.list
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
apt-get install kodi-peripheral-joystick kodi-inputstream-adaptive kodi-inputstream-rtmp
exit

It looks as if the forward slash is there. Does everything look correct here? Thanks for your help.