Pi: openelec to librelec works from any openelec version?

1st Official Post

    My brother is still running an older version of openelec (need to check exactly which). Does the Librelec version work from any openelec build or is there a minimum version required?

    • Official Post

    Database files should migrate up okay. Add-ons are normally the source of problems. Take a back-up and move it off box, then do a clean install of LE 8.0.2 then selectively copy back the databases, thumbnail files and sources.xml and any customised remote xml files. Then add current versions of any add-ons. It looks like it takes longer but in reality it's quicker to do it that way than "just upgrade" and having to find/fix broken things.

    Clean install also avoids small boot partition size issues which might be a problem if it's a really old OE install. If it's an XBMC > KODI migration you also need to be aware that XBMC stored userdata in /storage/.xbmc and KODI expects things to be in /storage/.kodi