@gorrie06 full log here : https://pastebin.com/ZeVUAU31

@Rascas Yeah this is really in the case where ES is a secondary use of the machine and it's primarily a Kodi box. The default for "start Kodi first" is as listed above, an autostart.sh which runs Kodi, then when Kodi is quit, runs ES. If just having that loop in Mitu's answer had been the default behavior for the "Start Kodi First" option in retropie-setup, that would have worked fine for me and I'd have had no complaints. That's exactly how I expected it to work. However, since I'd already written my script, I did add in the option of injecting commands into the loop. So I have a home-screen icon in Kodi to exit to a Desktop. It adds that command to the loop then does a graceful exit of Kodi. I agree that in the case where ES is the primary use of the Pi, as on my arcade cabinet, it's best to just launch Kodi from within ES for the rare times I want to use it. I do think that Mitu's answer might be a sensible default in this use case: while : do kodi-standalone emulationstation done Thanks again

@jbsapp Unfortunately, no. I stopped searching for a solution after awhile, since it doesn't bother me that much. Actually, I came to appreciate that the beautiful Comic Book Theme is shown from time to time this way. A friend of mine who is an electrician suggested to short-circuit the port in question by sticking a piece of wire in both sockets. I never got around to do this unbelievably complicated operation, though. 😇

probably a question to better ask at the KODI forums. https://forum.kodi.tv/

I would definitely like to see this option come to EmulationStation, since I have several items I would want to move out of ports into their own separate items on the carousel.

Aha! So it works, thank you very much for your guidance, Rascas! So, for future Googlers who may be having this same issue (Missing the PVR's in Kodi on Retropie), here's the full solution: Install Retropie, then install Kodi via the "Optional Packages" in the configuration menu. When you're in Retropie, press F4 on your keyboard to open a Terminal window. Enter the following commands one at a time (to install the "IPTV Simple PVR"): apt-cache search kodi-pvr sudo apt-get install kodi-pvr-iptvsimple Once complete, type "exit" (without the quotation marks) to get back into Retropie. Scroll to Ports then choose Kodi. In Kodi, DO NOT go to PVR's. If you do you will see it is blank and will get angry and think what you did in fact did not work. Instead, go to "Add-Ons" then "My Add-Ons" and view "All" and you will see the IPTV simple client. Go to it and then Enable it as most likely it will be Disabled to begin with. Voila! If you know how to use IPTV then go ahead and set it up. Take Care!

@Rascas the issue is max_framebuffers=2 on retropie. It should be max_framebuffers=1 when using a single display. This resolved my issue. Tried all different cables, monitor inputs, monitor outputs, rebuilding libcec. only solution was max_framebuffers=1. Thread here shows it should be set to match your displays. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=245789 I'll accept maybe it's an oddity with my display, but since making that change i've been unable to reproduce it. Think the corruption was perhaps bad luck... but I've seen a few reports of recent kernel/raspbian updates causing this.

Downloaded, installed and good to go! Thank you very much!

@saccublenda unplug your tv from the power for ten min' then plug it back in. U need to have your Anynet +hdmi on your tv on ofcurse :)

@RunsOnRum No, but you can create your autostart script to start Kodi first, then start EmulationStation - 2 lines instead of one.

@killerpoke So, does it work ? I don't have Disney+ so I cannot test it, I just updated the addon.

@mitu Need to get my pi4 next week so i will ;))

@DarkGlobe said in kodi - Retropie 4.6 - Raspberry Pi 4B: Could this issue be fixed by making customisations to the /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg directly rather than creating a copy or would that put the customisations at risk of being overwritten & lost? The system file (in /etc) is maintained by the RetroPie-Setup script, so it might get changed by an update, so it shouldn't be used for custom systems.

The BIOS started the games. Thanks @mitu!

@paulmorabi That's it.

@xwons screen tearing in the menus will only be fixed with the KMS driver, so only on Kodi 19 when it gets released.

@IceChes1 It's the other way around. Ethernet is not slow. All my devices are hardwired from the router this way with 200+Mbps. Raspberry Pi Wifi is however slow. The 3B+ is slightly better performing in my experience on the wifi though. Glad you are now sorted.