LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0 BETA1

**LibreELEC** · March 13, 2021 at 10:47 AM Official Post

Quote from LibreELEC News

LibreELEC 10.0 BETA 1 is released! bringing Kodi (Matrix) v19.0 to LibreELEC users. As discussed in the recent Upcoming Changes blog post it, the 10.0 release is a disruptive and limited hardware release. If you have not read the blog post – please do – because we are not releasing images for all hardware. In summary: this is a stable release for Generic (x86_64 PCs). Stable-Beta for Allwinner and Rockchip. Stable “Alpha” for Raspberry Pi 4 as the code is still very new. RPi 2/3 are still in development targetting an LE10.2 release. RPi 0/1 are discontinued. All others hardware is still in development and not in a state for formal releases.
** DO NOT UPGRADE! **
Yes, we mean that. The team are super keen for you to run the latest LibreELEC release but we recommend you clean install not upgrade an existing installation – unless you are upgrading from a recent nightly image, i.e. you are already using Kodi 19.
The two simple (but complex) reasons for this advice are:
a) Python3 changes in Kodi v19 mean 99.99% of add-ons stop working. Most official Kodi add-ons now have Matrix compatible versions in the Kodi repo, but the transtion to them is not always smooth. Incompatible Python2 add-ons are disabled automatically on upgrade and users need to find/update add-ons to Python3 versions before re-enabling them. Banned/piracy add-ons are heavily impacted by the Python3 change, and while we don’t care about them breaking, we do care about the abuse that’s often hurled at staff when we refuse sympathy or support to that subset of users.
b) Kernel changes for RPi4 users combined with no release for RPi2/3 users and discontinued support for RPi0/1 users means signifant changes in the user experience (Raspberry Pi users are a combined 80% of our active installed base). We are pretty confident RPi4 users will like the update since it brings HBR audio and initial HDR video support, but it’s still a big change. Generic (where there is a lower level of change) and Allwinner/Rockchip (which already run on modern kernels) are less impacted.
SPARE CARDS AND BACKUPS
Using a spare SD card or USB stick to clean install onto makes “rolling back” in the event of problems simple. If you will reuse the same boot media, make a backup first and move it off-box so you can clean install an earlier release then restore from the backup. Kodi does not support in-place downgrades and it ever worked for you in the past it was luck not design (and Python3 guarantees problems this time). Your failure to make a backup is not our problem!
So unless you are already running an image with Kodi 19 inside, a clean install is preferred. We apologise for the inconvenience but we expect a much higher than normal support effort with in-place upgrades so it’s sensible advice.
CHANGES
You can read the official Team Kodi release announcement for Matrix/v19.0 here and (again) the recent Upcoming Changes blog post for more info on Kodi changes and the transition to GBM/V4L2. You probably (and hopefully) won’t notice, but every package that goes into the LibreELEC OS has been updated to a latest or recent release. It’s been two years since Kodi 18 was released so the changeset is too large to list. GitHub has the full history.
SUPPORT
Project staff are available in the forums to answer questions and provide advice. Please remember this is a beta. We are expecting some minor bugs/issues to be found and there will probably be a BETA2 release before we reach 10.0. If you have a problem, technical issues are best accompanied by system and Kodi debug logs – help us to help you.
Enjoy! 🙂
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Source: LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0 BETA1 – LibreELEC

LeCaNo · March 15, 2021 at 9:44 PM

Unfortunately no update file (.tar) available yet

jdww · March 15, 2021 at 10:00 PM

Why there are no Orange Pi PC (H3 SoC) on the list? I'm running nightlies on it for months without any issue.

**jernej** · March 15, 2021 at 10:49 PM Official Post

jdww don't double post, I replied in second thread

**Klojum** · March 15, 2021 at 10:52 PM Official Post

Quote from LeCaNo

Unfortunately no update file (.tar) available yet

You can also update with the .img.gz file (as already replied in another thread. Don't doublepost.)

elliottmc · March 16, 2021 at 7:29 AM

Working great so far on a RPi4. The TVHeadEnd 4.3 alpha also looks good. Nice work everyone!

nsnhd · March 16, 2021 at 10:27 AM

Great, but I could not find Chrome. Is it because that's a beta or Chrome is permanently removed from LE ?

**CvH** · March 16, 2021 at 10:48 AM Official Post

Quote from nsnhd

but I could not find Chrome

its not there yet because the buildserver complains at buildtime, I try to manually workaround this evening

maxi · March 16, 2021 at 1:26 PM

Great work, thanks to all team...

GDPR-7 · March 16, 2021 at 6:27 PM

there seems to be too much *rums in the linked page:

LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0 BETA1 – LibreELEC

last paragraph, the link to forums leads to what ?

**CvH** · March 16, 2021 at 7:11 PM Official Post

Quote from jdww

Why there are no Orange Pi PC (H3 SoC) on the list?

fixed

**blueribb** · March 16, 2021 at 11:15 PM

I upgraded from 9.2.6 and updated YouTube, InputStream, SACD ISO, Multi Weather and Pandoki. I deleted the old apps and it only took about 20 minutes total. Nice work guys.

(2) Intel i5 NUCs

GDPR-7 · March 20, 2021 at 2:43 AM

Houston,

all smooth here (in Hollywood, err , ... on moon )

switched from nightly to beta (generic)

THX !

jbinkley60 · March 21, 2021 at 11:04 PM

I rebuilt my Raspberry Pi 4 with a new SD chip. Everything working fine except autoexec.py doesn't seem to be working. It is the same one which was on my 9.2.6 build.

import xbmc

xbmc.executebuiltin("ActivateWindow(10025,plugin://plugin.video.mezzmo/?contentdirectory=http://192.168.0.34:53168/ContentDirecto…tID=taz1l0z1l13)")

The window isn't opening on restart.

Jeff

**Klojum** · March 21, 2021 at 11:36 PM Official Post

Quote from jbinkley60

Everything working fine except autoexec.py doesn't seem to be working.

This is the news and announcement forum section... If you need assistance, please open a new forum thread in the appropriate section.

ApexDE · March 25, 2021 at 2:23 PM

I was curious to try LE10 out. It has loads of new options for RPi4 Users in my opinion. Much newer kernel, new rendering. Really BIG changes.

I had high hopes that the „subtitle stutter“ vanishes with LE10, sadly the subtitle stutter is still there (hdmidirtyregions zero doesn‘t help)

Another reason i wanted to try out LE10 was to get rid of micro stutter when using audiopassthrough over hdmi (with DTS and E-AC3). I have to check this out further with LE10. It seems to be better at least.

IPTV with TV-Headend Server on LE10 is sluggish (continuity errors) and the Server takes aaaages to start, but hey, it‘s Alpha

I wasn‘t able to take over my homebridge docker container and had to set it up as new, no big deal .

The RPi4 CPU gets hotter with LE10, seems it has more work to do with LE10 than 9.2

After all: good work for the first beta, i am excited to test the out the coming betas

Hopefully the subtitle stutter on RPi4 gets fixed somehow in the future. It‘s the most annoying thing on RPi4 platform besides the micro stutter with audiopassthrough. I never had this subtitle stutter on my x86/nvidia LE9 system...

Thanks LE Team!

Divemaskstrap · March 25, 2021 at 7:43 PM

Does this version has Chorus and remote managing services over https?

**Klojum** · March 25, 2021 at 8:31 PM Official Post

Quote from ApexDE

The RPi4 CPU gets hotter with LE10, seems it has more work to do with LE10 than 9.2

The RPi4b needs a decent cooling solution, period. Yes, it can get hotheaded, even with 9.2, so a proper metallic case or an active cooling solution is recommended.