Raspberry Pi Installation Help?

[Nachteule]

(2nd Dec, 2023 04:17 AM)gkusiak Wrote:  I just went to look for this week's update - it's not there yet.
But the file xbian-ffplay_6.1+.arm64 is in the button as the latest. what is that @Nachteule ? the current installer??

You should also read what it says below

[Nachteule]

(2nd Dec, 2023 04:17 AM)gkusiak Wrote:  I just went to look for this week's update - it's not there yet.
But the file xbian-ffplay_6.1+.arm64 is in the button as the latest. what is that @Nachteule ? the current installer??

The latest image of today has just been finished. The problem of the last two weeks should be solved. Unfortunately no initramfs was created. The image should be available tomorrow evening

[gkusiak]

ok thank you!

[raj]

(16th Nov, 2023 01:58 AM)raj Wrote:  

(16th Nov, 2023 01:12 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  Plug the card into another pi and install the package should actually work.
New images are always available on Friday evening

Will do. I will be away for 10 days from Friday so will be a couple of weeks until I can install new image if I need to. Thanks very much for your help.

I just tried the update on my 3A+, then booted the PiZero 2W and it now finds the wifi adapter. All working fine now. Thanks again for the help.

[Nachteule]

@raj, thanks for the confirmation

[Nailar]

Hijacking thread as I can’t post new one. Following the directions utilizing the XBian Installer, the boot of the Ri 4B comes to PINN v3.8.3. I select from the Media tab – Xbian_RPi3 (2022-02-18) for install. It comes back with “OS(es) installed with errors. See debug log for details.” I went into recovery shell and see no logs under /tmp/debug.

Hardware:
- Pi 4B
- Scandisk Ultra 64GB MicroSD
- LG 27GN950 Monitor

[Nachteule]

(22nd Jan, 2024 02:34 AM)Nailar Wrote:  Hijacking thread as I can’t post new one. Following the directions utilizing the XBian Installer, the boot of the Ri 4B comes to PINN v3.8.3. I select from the Media tab – Xbian_RPi3 (2022-02-18) for install. It comes back with “OS(es) installed with errors. See debug log for details.” I went into recovery shell and see no logs under /tmp/debug.

Hardware:
- Pi 4B
- Scandisk Ultra 64GB MicroSD
- LG 27GN950 Monitor

Why do you use the PINN release.
Normally the XBian_Latest_RPi4 is the one that should be used

[saeka77]

Hi everyone,

I tried installing XBian (images from XBian_2024.06.28_rpi.img to XBian_2024.08.23_rpi.img) on a Raspberry PI 1. Each time, the splash screen displays starting Kodi and then closes after a few minutes then redirects to login tty.

It seems kodi is not installed at all (I found start-stop-daemon: unable to stat /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin - No such file or directory in xbmc.log). I then tried to install it with apt-get install and it starts but it won't work after reboot (segmentation fault error).

So I was wondering, is XBian still supported for Raspberry PI 1 ?

Thank you

[saeka77]

(24th Aug, 2024 07:24 PM)saeka77 Wrote:  Hi everyone,

I tried installing XBian (images from XBian_2024.06.28_rpi.img to XBian_2024.08.23_rpi.img) on a Raspberry PI 1. Each time, the splash screen displays starting Kodi and then closes after a few minutes then redirects to login tty.

It seems kodi is not installed at all (I found start-stop-daemon: unable to stat /usr/local/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin - No such file or directory in xbmc.log). I then tried to install it with apt-get install and it starts but it won't work after reboot (segmentation fault error).

So I was wondering, is XBian still supported for Raspberry PI 1 ?

Thank you

Sorry to insist, no one knows about that ?
Maybe it is an old model that interests no one ?

[Nachteule]

Sorry, I wasn't sure if your first post was spam or not.

I have a Pi1 installation, which is a bit older but otherwise not configured, so you can call it a new installation with all available updates installed..
It runs perfectly, as far as you can tell with this lame hardware. In any case, it makes no sense to use Kodi on an RPi1 anymore.

Maybe if I find time I'll flash a new image again, but I don't want to promise anything

[Nachteule]

I have now installed the latest image and lo and behold, the package xbian-package-xbmc is really missing.
The reason for this is simple as well as stupid, there is simply no more space in the file used to create the image. Obviously the packages got bigger and bigger over time and at some point the space ran out.

I will correct this in the next few days

[saeka77]

(8th Sep, 2024 02:32 AM)Nachteule Wrote:  Sorry, I wasn't sure if your first post was spam or not.

I have a Pi1 installation, which is a bit older but otherwise not configured, so you can call it a new installation with all available updates installed..
It runs perfectly, as far as you can tell with this lame hardware. In any case, it makes no sense to use Kodi on an RPi1 anymore.

Maybe if I find time I'll flash a new image again, but I don't want to promise anything

Thank you ;-) I understand it is an old model, I still use it with an old version of libreelec until now but I am stuck with Kodi 18. I'm watching movies on 720p, it works pretty well but I have some issues with some movies freezing when I move forward/backward sometimes (it seems related to CEC) so I was hoping to get a new version that may fix that.

[Nachteule]

I suspect that if it is a fundamental problem with the RPi1, the problem will not have been solved by a newer Kodi version, as the Pi-specific parts have not been further developed.
The OMX player no longer works for me either, only MMAL.
In any case, a new image is available since yesterday. You can try it. Good luck

[kappa]

Ciao

first of all, thank you for Xbian - is great! I have it running on an old raspberry3 since 3 years and it works better than any other kodi distros I've tried.

now, I'm trying to create a new kodi box for a xmas gift. The issue is, I'm not able to have xbian running. I have a working 2nd hand raspberry 4 and tried with 2 different SD card - samsung and lenovo - it does not spin up. I put the flashed SD card into the raspberry, it start the resizing, a few lines on the monitor, after that no additional input. The SD cards are brand new, 2TB size. When I tried with a 32GB SD card, same xbian image, same install procedure (imager)... it works. With both the old 3B and the new 4B. So it looks like is not a problem with the image, neither with the hardware.

Maybe some issue with a 2TB size SD card? Should I made some specific partitioning - but how, using imager? or something else?

thanks in advance,

ciao

k.

here the specs:

Software
XBian version: XBian_Latest_arm64_rpi5.img.gz

Hardware
Device type and model: Raspberry Pi 4B and 3B
SD card size and make/type: 2TB lenovo; 2TB samsung EVO (microSD)
Network: ethernet
Connected devices: monitor (HDMI)

Problem description:
The resizing starts but does not finish. Unable to get XBian running.

[Nachteule]

@kappa
I can only speculate as to what the problem might be:

Firstly, the Raspberry Pi 4 has a fundamental problem with such large SD cards.
Or secondly, the resizer in the initramfs code does not cope with such large cards.

Since I don't have such large cards and certainly won't have them in the foreseeable future, I unfortunately can't reproduce this.

However, I also think it is exaggerated to use such a large capacity, an additional external usb disk would make much more sense in my opinion .

Oh yes, third possibility: You have 2TB fake micro sd cards. I could currently only find one manufacturer that already supplies 2TB micro sd cards and that is Sandisk.
On ebay I found such a fake, 2TB Samsung Evo for € 10.99, which is of course a fake