Posts by garrison

Thank you, this was a good plan, and everything now works.

Thank you for the reply. Is there a simple way of identifying which add-ons have binary components? (or do I need to do this from memory and hope that I have identified them all before saving a backup?) I would have hoped that I could simply uninstall and then reinstall any addons I have missed, after migrating to the new architecture. In any case, your suggestion already gives me something to work with, and I greatly appreciate it.

Hello. What special considerations need to be made when backing up LibreELEC on one architecture (e.g., an old x86_64 netbook) and restoring it on another (e.g., a new Raspberry Pi 4)? I've tried two methods: replacing the .kodi folder manually, and using the LibreELEC backup/restore functionality. However, a few things seem broken, regardless of method. For instance, the rsync binary does not work in the network-tools addon. Also, I cannot get inputstream.adaptive to work. Using the LibreELEC backup/restore functionality, I am able to uninstall it, but I cannot install it again. Looking at the log suggests it is not even trying to install it for the correct architecture (instead it is using the old one, x86_64).

2020-06-14 10:55:08.472 T:2345644912   ERROR: Requested path https://addons.libreelec.tv/9.2.0/Generic/x86_64/inputstream.adaptive/inputstream.adaptive-2.4.5.1.zip not found in known repository directories

EDIT: I tried again from a fresh sdcard image, then restoring a LibreELEC backup on the new machine. The binary add-ons are broken as before, and once I uninstall them I am not able to install them again. Platform-independent add-ons install just fine.