I just tried to log on locally according to the " Logging in locally" section here: OSMC wiki - Accessing the command line. However, whatever combinations of username and password I try I cannot log in. I tried:
User: osmc
Password: osmc
User: root
Password: osmc
User: osmc
Password: [the one I defined for terminal connections]
User: root
Password: [the one I defined for terminal connections]
What am I doing wrong? Is console login maybe disabled on the Vero V by default?
No it’s not disabled. There is no root user since osmc is a sudoer.
If you’ve forgotten the password you set, there is a way to recover but I can’t remember it. I think @joakim_s is an expert.
Download this Zip, copy it to a USB. Move the USB to your OSMC device, Settings → Addon browser → install from ZIP. My “password reset addon” is found by then navigating: Root filesystem → Media → [your_pendrive]\main.zip
Now it should install properly, it should show and Icon in main menu Programs
Problem solved: I am on a German QUERTZ keyboard, means when I typed my password the wrong characters were entered.
I had to install the packages keyboard-configuration and console-setup, in order to configure my keyboard. Now everything works as it should.
Glad you fixed it. But I thought you could configure an attached kb from Kodi now without adding packages.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales should let you configure your keyboard layout without needing extra dependencies.
We configure locales on the first login via SSH using hints from the client, but obviously this isn’t possible with a local login.
Seems to be the case. Within OSMC I had all the German locales specified (on first logon and in the System settings) so within the UI everything worked fine. Only inside the local console they were still missing.