LibreELEC (Leia) v8.90.008 ALPHA

**LibreELEC** · November 28, 2018 at 3:08 PM Official Post

Quote from LibreELEC News

The LibreELEC 9.0 Alpha cycle has continued 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. Since the 8.90.005 release we support a wide range of Rockchip devices. 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, we wrote an dedicated article about the future of LibreELEC.

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.

** ROCKCHIP **

We added several Rockchip devices at this release. Please consider it as alpha quality and not yet as perfect. All kind of flavors of HDR, 4k and audio are supported already. These images are rather new and it is likely that you hit an problem sooner or later. Please report them at our issue tracker or at the dedicated Rockchip forum that they could get fixed. Within the LE9 release cycle we are likely not able to finish the Rockchip devices to reach an perfect stable state – they stay in alpha status as long it is needed.

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 v8.90.007 ALPHA:

– updated to Kodi 18 RC1
– Kernel updated to 4.19.4 for Generic, RPi and Slice
– a lot more updates and fixes, have a look at the full changelog

LibreELEC 9.0 Alpha 008 (Kodi 18 RC 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 8.90.008 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-8.90.008.img.gz (info)

RPi 0/1 LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.90.008.img.gz (info)

Generic LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.90.008.img.gz (info)

Odroid_C2 LibreELEC-Odroid_C2.arm-8.90.008.img.gz (info)

KVIM LibreELEC-KVIM.arm-8.90.008.img.gz (info)

LePotato LibreELEC-LePotato.arm-8.90.008.img.gz (info)

WeTek_Core LibreELEC-WeTek_Core.arm-8.90.008.img.gz (info)

WeTek_Hub LibreELEC-WeTek_Hub.arm-8.90.008.img.gz (info)

WeTek_Play LibreELEC-WeTek_Play.arm-8.90.008.img.gz (info)

WeTek_Play_2 LibreELEC-WeTek_Play_2.arm-8.90.008.img.gz (info)

Rockchip

due a major bug no release for 008

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Source: LibreELEC (Leia) v8.90.008 ALPHA – LibreELEC

Linkinsoldier · November 28, 2018 at 5:12 PM

This keeps crashing on my Wetek Play 2. One time "in Standby" (doing basically nothing) and 5 times when I try to resume an inputstream from Amazon (VOD), Downgrade to 007 fixed it.

Do you need anything else?

**CvH** · November 28, 2018 at 5:48 PM Official Post

Quote from Linkinsoldier

Downgrade to 007 fixed it

O_o

crashing as in freezes the box or kodi crashs ?

Linkinsoldier · November 28, 2018 at 6:17 PM

kodi crashs. It hangs itself (one time startet the video, the other times the loading screen freezes) and then kodi reboots (but not libreelec - only kodi splash screen)

I send you the kodi crash logs on kodinerds via pm

Zatserkovnyy · November 28, 2018 at 6:36 PM

Hi. Tabs "Amlogic s905x/w..." will not be in the USB/SD Creator? Why was the Amlogic s905-devices removed from the releases .008?

powerarmour · November 28, 2018 at 6:51 PM

.008 is not stable on my WeTek Play 2 either (.007 is stable, but has DTS passthrough issues), all good on my other RPi 3B+ box however.

**Soapy Smith** · November 29, 2018 at 3:25 PM

I have a Wetek Play 2 and 008 works better.

I was having a lot of issues with the previous couple of beta releases with losing the video signal - usually when idle for a few seconds or minutes. The fix was to switch my TV to a different input and then back - that would get the video signal back. I use the optical cable for audio, so I could still hear the sound during this process.

But I used 008 for a few hours last night and it only happened once which is much better than it used to be.

EDIT - I used it again for 4 hours last night and it worked flawlessly.

I have the Play 2 connected straight into my bargain brand TV, I use the Optical cable connected to my Receiver for the audio.

Note: the pass through audio works now as well, Thanks

Linkinsoldier · November 30, 2018 at 3:47 PM

i just reinstalled version 008 with the new inputstream and everything is working again on my wetek play 2! Maybe this was connected?