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

alrdtakn1

@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.

mediamogul

@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.

Rascas

@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.

herb_fargus

@alrdtakn1 it also could be an underlying kernel issue as there are plenty of posts about phantom joystick movements on ES as well

djsly

Hello, is there a way to install the rc3 with the provided instructions / repo ?

Rascas

@djsly Maybe on Monday.

Peter

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?

Rascas

@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.

Peter

@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.

dwilder812

I've managed to upgrade to krypton rc-1. how do i get from rc-1 to rc-3? Thank you for your time.

Rascas

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.

Rascas

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.

robertybob

How close is this to getting a stable release that can be included in RetroPie?

Rascas

@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.

eVenom

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.

BuZz

@eVenom Did you configure the controller in it ? Link is in the first post

http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Configure_controllers

Rascas

You have to give more information for us to help you.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Like, what is your controller model ? What Kodi version you were using before updating to Kodi 17 ? Etc... Kodi logs are always of great help for us to detecting problems.

eVenom

Sorry I should have been more specific

I have a Xbox one controller connected using USB. The controller worked fine in Retropie

Now that I updated Kodi retropie sees the controller but the buttons don't work in retropie let alone in kodi

This is a fresh install of Retropie and the kodi that was installed is the one that comes with it. I believe 16.1

Rascas

@BuZz Kodi 17 final/stable is pretty close, this week or next one. When released, is it ok to upload the packages to bintray, so it can be updated trough RetroPie-Setup ?
Everything looks good for me, i am already using it in all my machines.

eVenom

I Deleted the controller configuration by using "rm /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_input.cfg"

Then I uninstalled the controller drivers in the Retropie setup and reinstalled them, after a reboot, the controller worked fine. Thanks, I hope this will help someone