LibreELEC (Leia) v8.90.004 ALPHA

**LibreELEC** · September 1, 2018 at 7:41 AM Official Post

Quote from LibreELEC News

The LibreELEC 9.0 Alpha cycle has started! and releases for Amlogic and Slice hardware have been added additionally to the test cycle. We official support now Khadas VIM (AML S905X) and the LePotato (AML S905X) too. There are no plans to release LibreELEC 9.0 images for NXP/iMX6 hardware as support was removed from Kodi some months ago. Support will be reinstated in a future LibreELEC release and we will update you on progress with the next-generation Kodi video pipeline (which makes that possible) soon.

Alpha releases are important to the team because we cannot test every scenario and sometimes sidestep issues without realising. The project needs a body of regular testers to go find the problems we miss. Testing will be particularly important for LibreELEC 9.0 as Kodi v18 includes substantial internal changes to VideoPlayer and introduces new retro-gaming capabilities.

TEST NOTES

Our current focus is the OS core and we are more interested in hardware and driver bugs than Kodi problems. Please report the issues you find by starting a thread in the forums or use our bug tracker. Raspberry Pi users are reminded that dtoverlay=lirc-rpi has now been deprecated. Please read the infrared remotes wiki page before updating.

** CAUTION **

Alpha builds exist for hands-on testing not a hands-off experience. If you run Alpha builds you must be willing to report issues and engage the LibreELEC and Kodi developers in hunting bugs. If you have no idea what a debug log is or “wife acceptance factor” is critical, these builds are not for you. If you want to run Alpha builds please make a backup and store it somewhere off-box first. Your failure to make a backup is not our problem.

Updates since v8.90.003 ALPHA:

– added official Khadas VIM and LePotato support
– added images to the test cycle for for WeTek devices (Core, Play 1, Play 2, Hub), Odroid_C2 and for Slice 1 + 3
– updated to Kodi 18 Beta 1 (v2)
– updated Raspberry Pi to latest 4.14 Kernel and added back the HEVC optimisations that allows HEVC playback at the RPi
– a lot more updates and fixes, have a look at the full changelog

LibreELEC 9.0 Alpha 004 (Kodi 18 Beta 1)

To update an existing installation from within the Kodi GUI select manual update in the LibreELEC settings add-on and then check for updates; select the LibreELEC 9.0 channel and then the 8.90.004 release. To create new install media please use our simple USB/SD Creator App. The following .img.gz files can also be used to create install media or update the old fashioned way:

RPi 2/3 LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

RPi 0/1 LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

Generic LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

Odroid_C2 LibreELEC-Odroid_C2.arm-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

KVIM LibreELEC-KVIM.arm-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

LePotato LibreELEC-LePotato.arm-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

Slice LibreELEC-Slice.arm-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

Slice3 LibreELEC-Slice3.arm-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

WeTek_Core LibreELEC-WeTek_Core.arm-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

WeTek_Hub LibreELEC-WeTek_Hub.arm-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

WeTek_Play LibreELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

WeTek_Play_2 LibreELEC-WeTek_Play_2.arm-8.90.004.img.gz (info)

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Marciano · September 1, 2018 at 9:32 AM

What kernel for odroid C2 in 8.90.004 alpha?

CAM STEW · September 1, 2018 at 9:50 AM

I can't see the update on Odroid C2 through the GUI. I select LibreELEC-9.0 as the update channel and then select available versions but there is nothing there.

Also when I try to update 'the old fashioned way' it fails.

**CvH** · September 1, 2018 at 1:08 PM Official Post

Quote from CAM STEW

Also when I try to update 'the old fashioned way' it fails.

how does it fails ?

Quote from Marciano

What kernel for odroid C2 in 8.90.004 alpha?

still 3.14, as mainline has still some roadblocks that prevents an proper usage (for example interlaced content is still broken) - generally spoken too alpha-ish for an release yet

Quote from CAM STEW

I select LibreELEC-9.0 as the update channel and then select available versions but there is nothing there.

autoupdate etc is not yet activated

bubblegum57 · September 1, 2018 at 1:17 PM

I selected manual update, checked the Libre 9 channel, & found the update there.

Then updated. No problem

**Klojum** · September 1, 2018 at 1:34 PM Official Post

Updated my Wetek HUB manually via a wget direct download in the .update folder... Things seem okay with 004.

**Iridium** · September 1, 2018 at 1:44 PM Official Post

RPi 3B+ worked perfectly via the GUI.

HEVC (x265 - 10Bit) playback is a lot better ~ 20% on all 4 cores - though it did get a bit hot 73^o, using a 3" 5V fan dropped that to 45^o.

CAM STEW · September 1, 2018 at 2:29 PM

Quote from CvH

how does it fails ?

It gets stuck on the LibreELEC boot screen with the message 'Error in mount_storage: mount_common: could not mount LABEL=STORAGE

**CvH** · September 1, 2018 at 2:53 PM Official Post

Do you use an emmc as storage?

CAM STEW · September 1, 2018 at 3:00 PM

Nope, just an SD card.

**Iridium** · September 1, 2018 at 6:11 PM Official Post

Quote from CAM STEW

Nope, just an SD card.

As an interim, can you try a fresh install, instead of an upgrade, and see how you get on.

GodHunt3r · September 2, 2018 at 9:04 PM

Quote from CAM STEW

I can't see the update on Odroid C2 through the GUI. I select LibreELEC-9.0 as the update channel and then select available versions but there is nothing there.

Also when I try to update 'the old fashioned way' it fails.

Same Problem here, updated from latest build by putting the Image to Update folder cause the Libreelec program doesnt find an Update (ODroid C2)

**zvon** · September 2, 2018 at 10:21 PM

I was getting error in mount_storage on Odroid C2, when I did `mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 storage` it started up ok, I tried running e2label on the file system and there wasn't any label, so I ran `tune2fs -L STORAGE /dev/mmcblk0p2` and now it boots without a problem.

Jaaxx · September 2, 2018 at 10:44 PM

There is a change in Leia beta that affects timeshift in pvr addons. I notice that many of the pvr binarys have not been updated in over 2 weeks and I know pvr.mythtv in particular pushed code about a week ago to address.

When can we expect the binary addons to be updated?

**CvH** · September 3, 2018 at 10:43 AM Official Post

Quote from Jaaxx

When can we expect the binary addons to be updated?

as soon the changes are merged, with next Kodi B2 it should be updated too

erbas · September 3, 2018 at 3:12 PM

I would like to know more about the S905D

Will the mecool line work with the new mainline kernel?

Will we have any support here as before?

Thanks to the whole team.

Junoxe · September 3, 2018 at 10:05 PM

Thanks for support for Wetek Core.

phunkyfish · September 4, 2018 at 5:13 PM

Quote from Klojum

Updated my Wetek HUB manually via a wget direct download in the .update folder... Things seem okay with 004.

What wget command did you use?

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