I am a customiser at heart, and enjoy customising all my technology(You should see my laptop ;))!
Is it possible to change the boot screen of my raspberry Pi OSMC to a custom image? I would keep an OSMC logo watermark, if you are worried about debranding…
There is currently no supported way of doing this and also nothing on the roadmap.
Is there a splash file?
Yes but i don’t know where it is.
It’s not very well hidden - it’s just a png called /usr/splash.png 
It should ideally be 1920x1080 pixels as the program we use to display it does not do anti-aliased scaling so it will be a little jaggy if it has to be scaled.
Also I think we went back to booting with a 16 bit frame buffer on the Pi so an image with a lot of gradients may show some banding.
There is also /usr/splash_sad.png which is displayed if Kodi crashes.
Of course these files will get overwritten if the splash-osmc package gets updated as they are not intended to be customised.
I knew they would be overwritten in an update… Still, if it was easy enough I could replace the image each update!
Thanks for telling me where to find them.
When I try to copy my image, the Pi says ‘problem copying files’. I am using the inbuilt file manager. Is there another method for this? 
have you tried with an sftp connection and root account?
You won’t be able to copy it with the kodi file manager - the file is owned by root.
Best bet would be to copy the file to /home/osmc first and then from ssh:
sudo cp splash.png /usr/Worked perfectly! 
I tried a similar thing, but, now i dont see a splash screen. Instead, just scrolls a lot of lines of code, like it did prior to splash screen. Not sure what i’m missing. Is there a limit on the file size?
Are you sure it was a png ?
Yes, it’s a png file, “splash.png”, opening on my desktop, 347kb and 1816*1022 pixels.
And if you resize it to 1920x1080 ?
Nopes, still did not work.
No idea then sorry - the splash screen is not designed to be user customisable.
What I do know is that the program that displays the splash image is very simple and basic so you might have to experiment with the encoding of the file or re-encode it using a different program.
Sure, thanks. And, congrats on the lastest stable release.
Just tried this, created 1920x1080 png image and it works 
So I’m probably going to build a theme at some point.
My image was on a faded black background so I was able to see that there was a thick black border around the image, the original by contrast has a very thin border.
My colour depth defaulted to 24bit… and didn’t crash it.
Incidently when Kodi fully boots it overscans too wide and I have to use the samsung tv remote and select ‘just scan’ annoying as most of the time the TV forgets the setting.
I tried the zoom function but that doesn’t look right and the video calibration thing is just too scary.
It’s not Kodi that overscans - it’s your TV. Just scan disables overscan on the TV.
I also have a Samsung TV and don’t have any problem with saving the picture size setting - on most Samsungs you have an option to save picture settings “only for this input” or similar - I use this to set Just Scan on my HDMI input for Kodi separate to other inputs.
Sometimes text scrolls over my splash screen, however it doesn’t effect it. I just go with it! 