I’m just now uploading the 14.0 stable release. Here’s a photo of my build machine:
Merry xmas!
I’ve updated the Kodi packages to 14.0 stable in my testing repository. I haven’t yet updated the PVR packages. Please let me know if you encounter any issues.
Hey kulve
Update went smoothly. PVR packages I guess won’t work will you update them. In the log api is incompatible at present
08:02:03 T:2722448416 ERROR: PVR - Add-on ‘MythTV cmyth PVR Client’ is using an incompatible GUI API version. XBMC minimum GUI API version = ‘5.3.0’, add-on GUI API version ‘5.0.1’
08:02:03 T:2722448416 WARNING: UpdateAndInitialiseClients - failed to create add-on MythTV cmyth PVR Client, status = 6
08:02:03 T:2722448416 WARNING: UpdateAndInitialiseClients - failed to load the dll for add-on MythTV cmyth PVR Client, disabling ita
I did update them (hopefully with the right version).
If you run:
dpkg -l | grep pvr-mythtv
Do you see “kodi-pvr-mythtv” or “xbmc-pvr-mythtv”? Kodi is the new name and you should have that installed.
You are correct. I hadn’t quite upgraded properly… All sorted now. PVR options seems to be working.
Thanks again
Yea Kulve they were there but my tvheadend was throwing an error as the xbmc gui version was different.
Actually I just realised that Raydiator’s error was the same. I just built them separately as zips and installed them from there. On a side note:
Since ive been using this a lot during the christmas break ive noticed a few niggling issues.
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While watching films lets say I need to rewind for whatever reason randomly this films progress bar becomes 0. Sometimes when ff or rewind this causes the video stream to die. Not done any real testing on this.
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Audio randomly stops working. No breaking up no loud beeps just sudden silence. I have to stop the video stream and restart. This is mildly annoying when combined with the 0 progress bar issue because then it doesnt remember where I was in the video.
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Total xbmc lockups. I have to SSH and reboot it. These normally happen when I’m not looking i.e. overnight or I go out the room. I leave this thing on 24/7 pretty much. I noticed that a cron reboot job for 4 am (or whatever) helps reduce these dramatically.
Are you using pulseaudio? I think that’s the default.
What exactly locks up? Since you can log in, the board itself is still running and so is the network. Do you have something on the screen or is it black? Is the X.Org running?
I used to have issues with pulseaudio but latest release I haven’t had any problems (Still running Grinch 19.3)
I also have lockups. Haven’t managed to pin it down to any process. It is significantly less since upgrading to 14.0 (maybe pointing to kodi) but nothing in logs. In fact first time it locked up since updating was last night. When mine falls over I can’t ssh or ping and requires a button press to get going (screen still has last thing displayed).
Mine also runs 24/7 running mythbackend and kodi
It is using pulse which is quite annoying as I followed the guide that starts Xbmc without it. I will try to get this killed on startup.
Xbmc locks up in the menu. Input does nothing. Unable to start video etc… its like the gui has crashed. The system is still running ofc as I restart it using ssh. I start xbmc in standalone using its own xsession so next time this happens I’ll try to remember to ssh kill xbmc to see if X is still running.
You check if the X is running by:
ps aux|grep X
You can also connect an USB mouse to see if the cursor is still moving.
/var/log/Xorg.0.log might have some info as well as “dmesg” output.
ps aux|grep X
root 863 7.9 1.2 67868 23884 tty7 Ss+ Jan10 74:11 /usr/bin/X -core :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
ubuntu 26112 0.0 0.0 3784 660 pts/1 S+ 09:59 0:00 grep --color=auto X
My keyboard is an air mouse so its definitely hung.
Looking at dmesg it looks as if the hdmi state has switched on / off and the NIC has gone up/down. I haven’t applied the 1gb fix and i haven’t restricted to 100 mbits so its possible this may be causing some issues. I don’t see how SSH would still work but i will eliminate those.
The only errors i see in Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 13.354] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 13.923] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate NVIDIA Error Handler
[ 14.028] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate NVIDIA Damage Manager
I don’t think they are related either.
Mike
I pushed Kodi 14.2 to the testing repository without testing it at all. If you are testing it, please let me know how it works, if it works!
Hi,
Any plan to upgrade to version 15.0?
Thanks!
I started the effort but bumped into some build issues. But now that you asked, I’ll continue it. Give me a few days.
Thank you Kulve, very kind.
I’ve pushed the 15.0 to my testing repo but I can’t test it on an actual device still for a few days. If you dare, try it out and report back :)
Yesterday evening I tried with some movies and everything worked fine (along with many bug fixes from 14).
Today I will try PVR, music and sharing from youtube. I’ll let you know.
I’m having problems updating the kodi-pvr-addon package but I’ll let you know when it’s updated.
Some audio stuttering and freezes were introduced with 15.0 . I’ve seen a pull request that should fix these problems in 15.1.
15.1 is not yet released but I pushed the 15.1rc1 to my testing repository.
I’ll try to update the PVR packages after the final 15.1 is out. Any specific PVR package to prioritise?