Wetek OpenELEC: Unable to update LibreELEC 8.0.2 to 8.2.2

rafael.linux.user · January 16, 2018 at 12:52 AM

I'm using LibreELEC (official) Version: 8.0.2 and want to update to 8.2.2 version, but I have no success in this. This is what I did:

I downloaded "LibreELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-8.2.2.img.gz" on /storage/.update and reboot Wetek Play. After system is uncompressing, finally it shows "SYSTEM or KERNEL is missed!" and the updated is not done .

I tried all ways this ways:

Downloading directly the "img.gz" file with wget to the update folder in LibreELEC
Downloading in another PC and copying it to the update folder using "scp" command
Downloading the "img.gz" to the mSD card
Downloading "LibreELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-8.2.0.tar" to the mSD card (in this case, nothing happens)

I have not option "LibreELEC" under "System" (I don't know why) despite I search for it in two skins, so I can't try that option.

Please, any suggestion I don't wanna lose my config doing a clean installation .

Thank you

**chewitt** · January 16, 2018 at 6:49 AM Official Post

Check for free space on the internal storage. You will need approx 2.5x the size of the 8.2.2 image free (about 327MB) for update to succeed. If you are low on space it's possible to download the .tar update file and uncompress on another machine, copy to USB, then copy kernel.img and SYSTEM over from the USB to the /storage/.update folder. This negates some steps in the update process. You can also free space by running "systemctl stop kodi" and then "rm -rf /storage/.kodi/temp" then "systemctl start kodi" .. anything in the temp folder can be binned safely. Another location to prune is the cache of installed add-on packages in /storage/.kodi/addons/packages/

rafael.linux.user · January 16, 2018 at 9:10 PM

It doesn't seems I'm running out of space. I guess 428.3M should be enough, isn't it?

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LibreELEC:~ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                426.3M         0    426.3M   0% /dev
/dev/ubi0_0             200.5M    126.2M     69.6M  64% /flash
/dev/data                 2.9G    781.1M      2.2G  26% /storage
/dev/loop0              126.0M    126.0M         0 100% /
tmpfs                   428.3M         0    428.3M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   428.3M      7.5M    420.7M   2% /run
tmpfs                   428.3M         0    428.3M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                   428.3M     36.0K    428.2M   0% /var
tmpfs                   428.3M         0    428.3M   0% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1           59.0G     23.1G     35.9G  39% /var/media/MSD_64_C10

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However, I must do a correction: My system is Wetek OpenELEC, but I installed without any problem LibreELEC 8.0.2, so I think that's not the problem

**chewitt** · January 17, 2018 at 5:44 AM Official Post

The OE version has a minor board revision and the non-OE version ships with Android installed. Apart from that WeTek "OpenELEC" and WeTek Play (1) are exactly the same. The LibreELEC settings add-on should be visible under Add-ons > Program Add-ons on all skins. The shortcut to it in Kodi settings only exists in Estuary.

Download the .tar image to storage, then validate the md5 checksum against Mirror List to make sure the image isn't at fault. If it still fails, maybe the internal storage has some issues?

rafael.linux.user · January 18, 2018 at 2:01 AM

As you told me, I downloaded the ".tar" file, checked the sha256 checksum, move the file to "/storage" and rebooted, but nothing happened

Then, I imagined that maybe you want me to the file to "/storage/.update", so I did it and reboot again .... and after a while, when I login again in my Wetek, it show me: "LibreELEC (official): 8.2.2 (WeTek_Play.arm)" so, it worked!!!!

I was afraid about I would have to configure all updating from a ".tar" file, but I was wrong.

You save my day!!!

THANK YOU

And one more thing: You hit it again telling me where to find the LibreELEC menu ... perfect!!!!!!!! Now I can activate Bluetooth again.

Thank you very much

ありがとうございます