Posts by frankvw

  • Various migration questions

    Hi, all,

    I'm currently running OpenELEC 6 which is getting very long in the tooth (Kodi 15) and I see that OE7 which was released two months ago still only has Kodi 16 on board an there's no sign of a new release being planned soon. Since Kodi 17 handles HEVC on my RPi3 better than Kodi 16 (and Kodi 15 can't play it at all without a 50% frame drop) LibreELEC is beginning to look better and better by the minute!!

    However, I've spent weeks and months on customizing my current OE installation to the point where I like it. From installing a ton of add-ons which make life at the command prompt more bearable to the Xonfluence skin and a bunch of visualizations that I really like.

    I've stuck an out-of-the-box LE8 install into my Raspberry Pi 3 and played with it a little, and it works well, but I really don't like the default skin (no offense, just personal taste!) and I don't see a lot of add-ons being available right off the bad. Maybe I didn't look properly or the new user interface just confuses me, but I'm not confident at this point that everything I used to have available at my fingertips with OE is also going to be there or me when I switch to LE. Also, I don't really have the time at this point in my life to spend hours on customizing an out-of-the-box LE installation to the point where I like it.

    So. Questions at this point:

    1. If I migrate from OE to LE by upgrading my existing OE6 with the latest LE upgrade (as per the wiki instructions) will all my customizations (Xonfluence skin, visualizations, add-ons etc.) still be there and working?

    2. Does LE use the same repo's as OE does?

    3. Do the add-ons I've installed on OE also work on LE?

    4. Is there a way to take a backup ZIP file made with the Backup add-on and restore that onto an out-of-the-box LE installation to recover all my customizations? (This from the standpoint that with major version upgrades a fresh installation is usually recommended over an upgrade.)

    All suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    Tnx!

    // FvW

  • Forum search option

    Hi all,

    Maybe it's just me and my caffeine deficiency, but I can't find an option to search the forums and find out if my question has already been answered. So offhand, either there is no search option or it's not easy to find it. Search options in forums like these are invaluable to minimize the number of duplicate posts and questions on the same subject.

    Just my 5 cents... :)

    // FvW