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

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    • xFleskX
      xFlesk @Rascas
      last edited by

      @Rascas said in [Testing] Kodi 17.0 stable/final available for RetroPie!:

      @xFlesk Some people don't like the new look, but you can install the old Confluence skin. Or downgrade and hold Kodi packages.
      When a change is big is difficult to please everybody I guess.

      i dont like downgrades, i like to have all my software up-to-date. i think im goin to follow your idea and install the confluence skin (simply did not know its possible ;) ) thank you

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      • AlexMurphyA
        AlexMurphy Banned @xFlesk
        last edited by AlexMurphy

        @xFlesk I would recommend a skin called Xonfluence which is based on Confluence but includes a lot of customisation options (If that's your thing). Worth checking it out as an update for Krypton was released.

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        • xFleskX
          xFlesk @AlexMurphy
          last edited by

          @AlexMurphy said in [Testing] Kodi 17.0 stable/final available for RetroPie!:

          @xFlesk I would recommend a skin called Xonfluence which is based on Confluence but includes a lot of customisation options (If that's your thing). Worth checking it out as an update for Krypton was released.

          thank you for a tip, for sure im goin to try this one

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          • AlexMurphyA
            AlexMurphy Banned @xFlesk
            last edited by

            @xFlesk Here's the link to the repo github https://github.com/Helly1206/skin.xonfluence

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            • FlyingTomahawkF
              FlyingTomahawk @AlexMurphy
              last edited by FlyingTomahawk

              @AlexMurphy said in [Testing] Kodi 17.0 stable/final available for RetroPie!:

              File path: /home/pi/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/peripheral.joystick/resources/buttonmaps/xml/linux

              Interesting, I am missing the folder structure after /home/pi/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/

              /peripheral.joystick/resources/buttonmaps/xml/linux is simply not there. I created that folder structure and added the iBuffalo USB_2-axis_8-button_gamepad_8b_2a.xml file in there but still no luck. I am now uninstalling everything and will start from scratch again. Maybe something went wrong during the update from Jarvis to Krypton?

              Oh and btw. I like the new interface. Kinda reminds me of bootstrap.

              UPDATE:

              Re-installed everything. Still no luck. This time it installed directly Kodi 17 Krypton, so no update was done.
              Still no controllers work except for the keyboard.

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              • AlexMurphyA
                AlexMurphy Banned @FlyingTomahawk
                last edited by

                @FlyingTomahawk That's very weird. Did you check the Kodi version after it installed that it was 17.0 compiled on Feb 3rd 2017?

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                • FlyingTomahawkF
                  FlyingTomahawk @AlexMurphy
                  last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                  @AlexMurphy

                  Yes it is Kodi 17 from February 3rd.
                  I uninstalled everything again and will take a break for now. I'll give it another go later with a fresh mind.

                  Thanks for the help and patience.

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                  • AlexMurphyA
                    AlexMurphy Banned @FlyingTomahawk
                    last edited by

                    @FlyingTomahawk Don't worry, I'm having my own problems with it. Kodi has crashed 3 times in the last 2 hours and wiped all my settings. Gonna do a totally fresh install. There were so many changes made to get to 17, a lot of code was totally re-written so I expected problems as I have been reading about them on other platforms. Good luck. It looks like I'm in for a long night!

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                    • RascasR
                      Rascas @FlyingTomahawk
                      last edited by

                      @FlyingTomahawk Did you confirm that the addon peripheral-joystick is enabled in "My addons" ?

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                      • FlyingTomahawkF
                        FlyingTomahawk @Rascas
                        last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                        @Rascas said in [Testing] Kodi 17.0 stable/final available for RetroPie!:

                        peripheral-joystick

                        Re-installed again and checked under My add-ons -> Game add-ons -> Controller profiles, I can see two controllers, the Default Controller and the SNES one.
                        Both say something about Team Kodi version 1.0.3
                        Still I am not able to navigate through Kodi with any gamepad or any controller that I have except for the keyboard.
                        Guess I'll have to stick a bit longer to Netflix then till I can figure out what is going on.

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                        • RascasR
                          Rascas @FlyingTomahawk
                          last edited by Rascas

                          @FlyingTomahawk said in [Testing] Kodi 17.0 stable/final available for RetroPie!:

                          @Rascas said in [Testing] Kodi 17.0 stable/final available for RetroPie!:

                          peripheral-joystick

                          Re-installed again and checked under My add-ons -> Game add-ons -> Controller profiles, I can see two controllers, the Default Controller and the SNES one.
                          Both say something about Team Kodi version 1.0.3
                          Still I am not able to navigate through Kodi with any gamepad or any controller that I have except for the keyboard.
                          Guess I'll have to stick a bit longer to Netflix then till I can figure out what is going on.

                          Controller profiles, are just button maps. What you have to make sure is that the addon peripheral-joystick in "Peripheral Libraries" is enabled.

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                          • FlyingTomahawkF
                            FlyingTomahawk @Rascas
                            last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                            @Rascas

                            Nope, that one is definitely missing. I just installed Kodi 17 on my PC and there I can see that tile icon. A icon that looks like a remote.
                            That one is not showing in my Kodi 17 on my RPi3.
                            Is there anyway to add that?

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                            • RascasR
                              Rascas @FlyingTomahawk
                              last edited by

                              @FlyingTomahawk said in [Testing] Kodi 17.0 stable/final available for RetroPie!:

                              @Rascas

                              Nope, that one is definitely missing. I just installed Kodi 17 on my PC and there I can see that tile icon. A icon that looks like a remote.
                              That one is not showing in my Kodi 17 on my RPi3.
                              Is there anyway to add that?

                              How did you install Kodi 17 ? If you install it via RetroPie-Setup, it is installed automatically. If you have enabled the unstable repo in the first post, kodi-peripheral-joystick (it is a binary apt/debian package) is also installed but it is recommended to remove the unstable repo now, instructions on the first post.

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                              • FlyingTomahawkF
                                FlyingTomahawk @Rascas
                                last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                @Rascas

                                Never installed the unstable repo.
                                Few weeks ago I was asked to create the Kodi standalone for my theme, that is when I downloaded Kodi Jarvis for the first time.
                                Yesterday I thought I'll check out this Kodi stuff and start to navigate through Jarvis with my wireless 360 controller but it was very jumpy and was skipping lines and all.
                                That is when I did an update through the "manage optional packages" page to get Kodi 17 Krypton.
                                Since then no controller works in Kodi 17.
                                I uninstalled and re-installed multiple times by now with the same result.
                                Always installing through the RetroPie menu "manage optional packages".

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                                • RascasR
                                  Rascas @FlyingTomahawk
                                  last edited by Rascas

                                  @FlyingTomahawk said in [Testing] Kodi 17.0 stable/final available for RetroPie!:

                                  @Rascas

                                  Never installed the unstable repo.
                                  Few weeks ago I was asked to create the Kodi standalone for my theme, that is when I downloaded Kodi Jarvis for the first time.
                                  Yesterday I thought I'll check out this Kodi stuff and start to navigate through Jarvis with my wireless 360 controller but it was very jumpy and was skipping lines and all.
                                  That is when I did an update through the "manage optional packages" page to get Kodi 17 Krypton.
                                  Since then no controller works in Kodi 17.
                                  I uninstalled and re-installed multiple times by now with the same result.
                                  Always installing through the RetroPie menu "manage optional packages".

                                  That is definately not normal. Do you have additional repositories configured ?
                                  Install Kodi again, via RetroPie-Setup -> Opt packages and in the end, post your log located at /dev/shm/runcommand.log, on pastebin or similar, and post the link here.

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                                  • B
                                    backstander @FlyingTomahawk
                                    last edited by

                                    @FlyingTomahawk
                                    You might make sure that after you uninstalled Kodi and before you re-install Kodi again that you completely delete the /home/pi/.kodi/ directory.

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                                    • FlyingTomahawkF
                                      FlyingTomahawk
                                      last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                      @Rascas

                                      I will check the logs tonight and see if anything is recorded.

                                      @backstander

                                      That I didn't do. I will certainly on my next try. Thanks for pointing that out.

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                                      • FlyingTomahawkF
                                        FlyingTomahawk
                                        last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                        ...and here we go again.
                                        First uninstalled Kodi 17
                                        Then deleted all Kodi folders I could find except the one in /home/kodi/ that one says always permission denied. Empty Kodi folder, permission 755
                                        This time I removed all stand-alone settings so that Kodi will be inside Ports.
                                        Installed new again Kodi 17 from the RetroPie menu.
                                        Still the same situation. No Funny though this time all the settings that I had set, like for example on exit don't turn off TV or the controllers like SNES was still installed. That should not be right? Is there a way to purge all Kodi connected files and folders including the one that says permission denied?

                                        @administrators
                                        Apologies about the rule thing.

                                        @Rascas
                                        No error recorded in the logs.
                                        Btw. if the admins/mods don't do it first could you please edit your post (#119) and remove the last sentence in my quote. Thx

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                                        • RascasR
                                          Rascas
                                          last edited by Rascas

                                          /home/kodi/ is from old installations, it isn't used anymore.
                                          Like I said before, the fact that your joysticks don't work, is mostly likely because you don't have kodi-peripheral-joystick installed. And you said that you couldn't find it in "My addons" but you have it on PC, so... And without it enabled, joysticks won't work, that is for sure.
                                          You can force install it in terminal, but it shouldn't be necessary, because it is installed via RetroPie-Setup, why it wasn't in your case, I don't know, only logs will tell:

                                          sudo apt-get install -y kodi-peripheral-joystick
                                          
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                                          • FlyingTomahawkF
                                            FlyingTomahawk @Rascas
                                            last edited by FlyingTomahawk

                                            @Rascas

                                            Heureka! That little sudo code did it.
                                            Yeah, we all knew it was that peripheral thing but it was and is still not clear what exactly happened. Maybe something went wrong when I updated Jarvis to Krypton. As you say without logs it is hard to tell and looking at the logs there is nothing. But now that it works who really cares anymore, I don't. :) Glad this is over now.

                                            I didn't need to do any settings at all it worked just like that. Now I can navigate through the menu with ease.

                                            And thanks again for editing your previous post.

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