[x86-64] LibreELEC on GMKtek G3 Plus

Matrix (LE10) uses python2, while Nexus (LE11), Omega (LE12), and Piers (LE13) use python3. Our distro packaging ensures the OS update is trivial, but the python change typically causes add-on crashes, so our official advice is to not do any kind of in-situ upgrade from a python2 version to python3 version.

In practice, and if you know your way around the LE and Kodi filesystem, you can drop an LE12 update file in /storage/.update, then stop Kodi, rename /storage/.kodi to /storage/.kodi-old, and reboot to update. This results in a clean LE12 environment, and it's then simple to stop Kodi, copy back essential bits from /storage/.kodi-old/userdata to /storage/.kodi/userdata, and restart Kodi. You can copy addon settings from the previous install, but you need to reinstall all add-ons from repos to get python3 compatible versions.

I am in this club. I also bought a GMKtek G3+ N150.

After reading this thread, I installed latest software without a problem but when I tried to reach server, LibreELEC is asking for "user" and "password".

Sharing of my folders on the server are set to "everybody". I don't use any login, and all my other RPi and NUCs don't ask for user and password after I set SMB client to minimum protocol version and maximum protocol version = SMBv1 and set Use Legacy security to ON.

Fact is that all my other versions of LE are older; from 9.2.6 to 11.0.6. Is there a bug in latest version of LE? (2025-01-25)

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/26238 might be involved. Team Kodi decided to not backport the fix to Omega because of the last-minute timing of the latest Omega release (it had already been built) and because if a little inconvenience inspires more people to workaround the issue by creating secure shares instead of insecure ones, that's a good thing.

acamas125 i updated 2 days ago to kernel 6.12.15. The release post is here #66