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    downgrade krypton to jarvis

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    • cellyC
      celly
      last edited by celly

      I wasn't a fan of the new look aswell. However, you can always just download the Confluence skin and it looks and feels like Jarvis again.

      Currently Playing: Tetris (Gameboy)

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      • AlexMurphyA
        AlexMurphy Banned @celly
        last edited by

        @celly It's not the look. A lot of code was changed between 16 and 17. It genuinely runs slower in the menus now.

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        • cellyC
          celly @AlexMurphy
          last edited by

          @AlexMurphy I haven't experienced any change, honestly. Seems to run the same for me. Just that 17 menu was total poop.

          Currently Playing: Tetris (Gameboy)

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          • AlexMurphyA
            AlexMurphy Banned @celly
            last edited by AlexMurphy

            @celly It may well be that Estuary skin.

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            • cellyC
              celly @AlexMurphy
              last edited by

              @AlexMurphy yeah, thats the name of it.

              Currently Playing: Tetris (Gameboy)

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              • AlexMurphyA
                AlexMurphy Banned @celly
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                @celly Thanks for confirming what I already knew.

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                • RascasR
                  Rascas
                  last edited by

                  Estuary skin is a little heavier, nothing new, so not so smoother, speccially in RPi 0/1/2, but like someone said you can still install the old Confluence skin. But besides that, there isn't much changes, I think, unless the increased increment of features that is natural in new versions of software, and that gennerally tends to make the software heavier.
                  I don't know exactly where you feel it slower the most, but there is already some fixes in place to make Kodi better. We will upload soon a new version, that should improve somethings.

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                  • FruitybitF
                    Fruitybit
                    last edited by

                    It took me a few goes to come round to it, layout is ok, it's quicker to find my files under videos now, plus it shows skimmed movies as well as ordinary files which is really handy. I hated that movies wouldn't show all files and videos couldn't show details, so a big thumbs up from me:)

                    Not that I need it soon, I cannot seem to find any wifi connection settings. I'm guessing it may be via the retropie menu rather than in kodi itself. Has anyone tried?

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                    • mediamogulM
                      mediamogul Global Moderator @Fruitybit
                      last edited by mediamogul

                      @Fruitybit said in downgrade krypton to jarvis:

                      I'm guessing it may be via the retropie menu rather than in kodi itself.

                      That's right. RPi Kodi distributions such as OSMC have tailored addons included that can configure WiFi, but there really wouldn't be any need here after configuring RetroPie for Wifi as usual.

                      RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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                      • pjftP
                        pjft
                        last edited by pjft

                        Hi.

                        I actually did that myself because for some reason (maybe perception rather than reality) one of the addons I used ended up having a more unreliable behavior on Krypton rather than Jarvis, when playing side by side (I had two SD cards to test).

                        If I recall correctly, you should run:

                        sudo apt-get install kodi-bin=2:16.1-4~jessie
                        sudo apt-get install kodi=2:16.1-5~jessie
                        

                        to perform the downgrade, and then you'll want to do

                        sudo apt-mark hold kodi-bin
                        sudo apt-mark hold kodi
                        

                        to make sure they don't get auto-updated when you update all packages.

                        Let me know if that doesn't fully work, as it was a few months ago, but this should do the trick.

                        Best.

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                          Omnideath
                          last edited by

                          @AlexMurphy Hit the nail on the head. Krypton is just awful for me. It runs extremely slow and sometimes just boots me out of a stream. That same stream will often fail to play and end up having to find a different one. Even with the Confluence skin it runs like poo.

                          I pulled out my old SD card running Jarvis and the same streams ran better and with quicker responses (and it's a much slower SD card than the build with Krypton).

                          My GPU split I believe was above 256; should i do more?

                          @pjft I will run this and update you on what happens. Thanks!

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                            Omnideath
                            last edited by

                            @pjft That worked flawlessly. Thank you for your help!!

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                              emelo Banned
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                              Hey this is the topic ive been searching for but the down fall is i dunno where yo put that sudo code you wrote @pjft im new to retropie heck raspberry pi in general could you guide me in to where i put this code kodi 17 is just an embarrassment kinda like Windows 10 or windows vista lol

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                              • AlexMurphyA
                                AlexMurphy Banned @emelo
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                                @emelo From the main ES / RetroPie menu press F4 to get to the command line. Enter the commands in there. Enter the first and wait for the command prompt to come up again then enter the second. Answer Y if the system asks you to proceed. DON'T hold the packages until you have checked it worked for you. I tried it out just to see but it didn't work fully. It said it was 16.1 but lots of menu options were missing, addons wouldn't work, I couldn't change skins to even attempt to fix it. I guess I went so down the 17 path that most of my addons and dependencies have updated to support that and couldn't be downgraded without a fresh install or a lot of work. I just updated to 17 again and we are going to have to get along!

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                                  emelo Banned @AlexMurphy
                                  last edited by BuZz

                                  @AlexMurphy hey thanks. I ended up googling sudo code and it showed a program called putty to in ran that and kodi is back to 16.1 runs smooth and [removed] is running so much faster... Why would the people at kodi mess around with a great version and destroy it with kodi 17

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                                    emelo Banned
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                                    How come the sudo code no longer works it says E: Version could not be found... did they removing it from the servers?

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                                    • BuZzB
                                      BuZz administrators @emelo
                                      last edited by

                                      @emelo https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules - we are not interested in hearing about your addons

                                      To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                        emelo Banned @BuZz
                                        last edited by emelo

                                        @BuZz Me asking why the link for the 16.1 version of kodi is not against forum rules cause Im not asking about ADDONS im asking why the link to revert back to 16.1 from 17 is no longer active. has nothing to do with [redacted] or other addons but has everything to do with the functionality of KODI

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                                        • BuZzB
                                          BuZz administrators @emelo
                                          last edited by

                                          @emelo Good idea - argue about it.

                                          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                            josete2k
                                            last edited by

                                            You should run the addon fresh install (on anther like this) in order to make the kodi folders free.

                                            I got an error when I did, so I had to:

                                            run fresh install addon in krypton
                                            downgrade to jarvis
                                            i got a missin config error
                                            upgrade to kripton again form retropie setup
                                            downgrade to jarvis again

                                            Now you should have a fresh jarvis ready to go.

                                            Oh, and you can unhold the packages with the "unhold" command.

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