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

FlyingTomahawk

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".

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.

backstander

@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.

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.

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

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

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.

SutterKane

Hello.

When the stable version will be released someday:

Will KODI update itself at startup to Version 17 (when activated in the Systenms settings) ?

SK

Rascas

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

Hello.

When the stable version will be released someday:

Will KODI update itself at startup to Version 17 (when activated in the Systenms settings) ?

SK

Stable version is already available for sometime now .
No, you will have to update it via RetroPie-Setup -> Opt Packages

mattm

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

this is awesome tyvm

working well on my pi 2b

yeah, i spoke a bit soon, I'm not sure what is the cause but my install keeps crashing. sometimes it will recover, sometimes the pi will freeze up indefinitely. I wonder if there's a more stable rpi kodi bluetooth enabled version out yet.

Rascas

@mattm Please give provide the information requested here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

RetroPie doesn't have PulseAudio installed and configured, so you have to do it for bluetooth audi to work. And for example, pulseaudio is not compatible with ES and emulators (that maybe the cause of the freezes), sou you have to disable it for your user, so it only loads when Kodi is started.
If you have done this, does the bluetooth speaker/headphone device appear in Kodi audio settings ?

kodikwiz

Anyone who is looking for clearing the KODI cache could refer to the following article:
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