[Testing] Kodi 17.0 stable/final available for RetroPie!
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@PetroRie said in [Testing] Kodi 17 Release Candidate 1 available for RetroPie!:
Correct me if I'm wrong. If a server has a low speed, wouldn't that cause a buffer problem? Like it loads the movie very slow and you'll hit that point where it stopped loading?
If the server has not the speed to stream one video properly, it will always be a problem. You can always do pause, and wait a little for the cache to fill, and then play. In my case I just find another one better.
@PetroRie said in [Testing] Kodi 17 Release Candidate 1 available for RetroPie!:
I said already before even on the older versions people had these problems. How would you fix them? What do you recommend? I'm really curious now. Because if the 0 for cache would cause problems on the long term it's just a temporary "fix??" until other problems occur.
If a server is slow, it will always be slow independant of the memorysize. When this happens I just choose another source.
If you have a good SD card and lots of free space, there shouldn't be a problem in setting the buffer in the SD Card (memorysize=0) besides the increased wear level.
The problem is that many people doesn't have this, and I believe that many new SD cards, specially new UHS ones cause problems, not at first, but when you start to write big quantities of data.
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@PetroRie of course kodi is an official part of retropie. As much as anything else is anyway. We don't preinstall lots of packages by default to keep the image size down. It's designed to be modular so people can install or remove what they want.
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I am running 4.1 image of retropie on a pi 3, kodi 17 release. I just got my joystick (dragon rise usb) and controller(snes USB ganepad) to be recognized in kodi. The controllers work perfectly fine in all my emulators, however, every now and again while in kodi I'll watch the volume go from 100 all the way down to 0. I then have to reboot the entire system, hook up a keyboard and raise the volume with the keyboard. Anybody ever encounter this? It's strange because I don't have any analog sticks setup on this pi build at all. Thanks for any input.
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@alrdtakn1 Strange. Does it happen even if you aren't touching the joystick/controller ? And yes, it is generally the analog stick which change the volume, so it seems a bug. Open an issue in either the oficial Kodi forum or here:
https://github.com/xbmc/peripheral.joystick/issues
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@Rascas thanks for the heads up. I'll look into posting there and report my findings. To answer your question, yest it does happen when the controller and joystick a sitting on the table, nothing touching them at all. This happened on another build I did, same specs but had an Xbox 360 wired controller configured for it reinstalled the joystick tool for kodi and everything is working great so far. However for this build with the issue I never plugged in the 360 controller and it is a fresh build from scratch.
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@Rascas said in [Testing] Kodi 17 Release Candidate 1 available for RetroPie!:
And yes, it is generally the analog stick which change the volume, so it seems a bug.
As a possible alternative theory, I've notice that a few of my controllers' analog sticks exhibit bursts of random activity due to uncalibrated deadzones. I assume this type of occurrence would also play havoc with Kodi if the sticks were mapped to volume control.
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@mediamogul said in [Testing] Kodi 17 Release Candidate 1 available for RetroPie!:
@Rascas said in [Testing] Kodi 17 Release Candidate 1 available for RetroPie!:
And yes, it is generally the analog stick which change the volume, so it seems a bug.
As a possible alternative theory, I've notice that a few of my controllers' analog sticks exhibit bursts of random activity due to uncalibrated deadzones. I assume this type of occurrence would also play havoc with Kodi if the sticks were mapped to volume control.
Ah yes, that could be it, although @alrdtakn1 doesn't have any controller with analog sticks. If you go to System -> System Settings -> Input -> Peripherals, your joysticks will appear and have an option to set the deadzones. Try experimenting with different values.
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@alrdtakn1 it also could be an underlying kernel issue as there are plenty of posts about phantom joystick movements on ES as well
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Hello, is there a way to install the rc3 with the provided instructions / repo ?
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@djsly Maybe on Monday.
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Hi, thank you for the updated build, I've tried upgrading my Kodi 17 alpha1 originally installed from the same repository on Raspbian Jessie but after the upgrade I was unable to launch Kodi. So I've downgraded back to alpha1 which luckily works fine. So is it possible or are there any extra steps to upgrade from alpha1 to RC and should this build work on Raspbian?
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@Peter Upgrading from the Alphas to the latest, should work, at least it worked for me. It can be some addon that you have installed. I recommend that you reset your settings, or check your log.
Installing the repo on Raspbian works, but I am not sure if you still have to add some groups to the user who is running Kodi and some udev rules to allow Kodi to do some things like mounting disks and reboot/shutdown. -
@Rascas OK Great. I'll probably try it again with RC3 if there will be a build available or just wait for the final build. Thank you.
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I've managed to upgrade to krypton rc-1. how do i get from rc-1 to rc-3? Thank you for your time.
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You have to wait until it is compiled and uploaded to the repo. When a new version is uploaded the information will be updated. Rc4 is the lattest test version by the way.
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Kodi updated to 17 Release Candidate 4:
System fixes:
- Disable TV Standby on exit in TVs with CEC by default
- Readded "ES resolution fix on exit"
Just update the system, or follow the instructions on first post again.
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How close is this to getting a stable release that can be included in RetroPie?
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@robertybob When Kodi 17 stable/final gets released, that doesn't depend on me or RetroPie. It should take only a couple of days though, and then it will be available to install/update directly via the RetroPie-Setup option.
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I just updated Kodi with using the method here but now my controller gets detected but the buttons don't work. It worked fine in retropie just before the update.
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@eVenom Did you configure the controller in it ? Link is in the first post
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