Hi there. I was wondering if it is possible to install the old RaspbMC. I have tried various internet archives and old versions of NOOBS etc etc and nothing is working.
I get that our new fancy schmancy system is shiny shiny, but for me it just isn’t working. It is lagging on playback on a raspberry pi 1b+ in all the places where RaspbMC did just fine. Tried and tested the same clips and videos and the new system is just very laggy.
I would very much like to revert but this path seems completely blocked.
While I unfortunately can not answer your original question I am still suprized about your issue of finding OSMC laggy compared to Raspbmc as I haven’t seen such issue when I moved. What formats (decoding) are the videos? Have you checked that you have the codec licence keys correctly in config.txt, many people had issuses adding them and unknowingly where running without them.
But as mentioned this is not an answer to your question, so if your only interest is to get back to Raspbmc please ignore my post.
If you upload a debug log however, I am sure we will be able to find your issue and help. Using an old version of software means you will likely run in to problems in the future. We’d like to help you sooner, rather than later. With that said, I understand if you’d like to just use what worked before.
I have previously had the Pi with a wifi usb-thingy and to try to produce logs and outputs to give you guys an indication as to where the problem lies, I threw OSMC back onto the SD-card via NOOBS. It gave me no option for wifi so I plugged in a network cable and all of a sudden everything just works again.
The weird thing is that I had wifi while running RaspbMC also and there were no issues with it. Maybe the problem lies with OSMC and the wifi-thingy?
Has anything in the wifi changed since RaspbMC (like linux kernel or network manager version or such… I don’t know the linux structure by heart unfortunately)? If so it could explain a thing or two (some bug in a wifi-driver outside your control perhaps).
That is really complicating things, as the NOOBS version usually lags behind the OSMC as downloaded, installed and updated.
Your other query - the linux kernel and lots of other things have changed between RaspBMC and OSMC.
As regards WiFi, you would do best to ascertain what device and/or chipset it has, and then it would be possible to know what has changed in respect of the drivers.
As always, logs would greatly assist.
Derek
So when you have the network cable plugged in and also the wifi stick inserted could you access OSMC by SSH and then do a grab-logs -A and give us the URL so that we can review your logs. If your Wifi stick is supported you should have in MyOSMC → Network an option called wireless