Myself and a friend have invested the last few weeks trying to get a DeskPi Pro device running and supporting VNC.
I’ve been a long-term LibreELEC (LE) user but always also been aware of and interested in OSMC as an alternative.
Alas LE seemingly abandoned any attempts to help people continue using VNC with their Raspberry Pi VNC addon, seemingly based on a fork of a fork of Hanzel Peter’s original dispmanx_vnc, by Anton Voyl (@awiole), when the GBM / V4L2 changes to Kodi kicked in; the new Pi4 GPU apparent deprecation (?) of the under-documented / unofficial DispmanX API. Apologies if this context is already referenced in this thread. I’ve not read all of the thread as it’s longer than travelling by boat across an ocean, LOL.
Only recently did we get into the KMS vs FKMS ‘fun and games’.
A few days ago we concluded that having to mess around with compiling a bespoke build of LE, to find a version that operated well in otg_mode=1 that would then support the DeskPi Pro’s front USB ports, influence the power button behaviour and heatsink fan might be necessary, but would be beyond our health-issues-restricted capacity … and cost us VNC support.
It’s extremely exciting to learn that not only are others interested in VNC support for boot-to-Kodi on RPi distributions, but have seemingly managed to get it working again, beyond the RPi4 / Kodi GBM / V4l2 ‘sea change’.
Cannot wait to get back into setting OSMC up after this news!
Massive round of applause and three cheers of appreciation for everyone who has contributed to this fantastic development!