It would be good if you could capture logs of that with the new build I have pushed. Your logs haven’t shown any dropouts so far and I’ve got no feedback based on the build produced a few hours earlier.
I would focus on resolving the other issue first.
Did you copy your Kodi userdata over or is this fresh?
This reads a bit like apples and oranges — I’m not sure how this will be relevant, unless you aren’t playing any 4K content on the Vero (obviously you can’t on the Pi) are using the same cables and have the same video mode output (pixel clock and VIC) , same adjust refresh rate setting, same Kodi settings, same HDMI cables connected to the same ports on the AVR and TV.
I assume it’s still the case that if your AVR is removed, the problem goes away.
it’s as apples-to-apples as I can get it. I remove the Vero, connect the Pi to the same HDMI cable and hence input on the AVR, all Kodi settings accessible via the GUI are the same. Will follow with a log from the test build on a Vero.
If you can cover the other points too, that will be good.
Failing that – you remark that it works on January build. We could upgrade January piece by piece to March and see what happens
Here is a log from a V4K+ on 4.9 kernel running the test download. I went through the same stop/start sequence as per a few posts before, this time the blank screen event happened sooner in the sequence (it tends to be a bit random)
Avengers start/stop - ok
Live TV start/stop - ok
DS9 start - ok
DS9 stop - blank screen, changing the AVR to another source and then back to the vero recovers the display.
The Movie posters are not related to your other issues and if you actually check the entries in the logs that look like this…
GetImageHash - unable to stat url http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/bEIjH6GroeWaBkn6o7MVpMNbuyw.jpg
You will find they are all dead links. Something happened to a bunch of artwork at themoviedb a while back (I don’t know when or what) and there seems to be a lot of art that either went MIA or had its url changed. The Kodi db stores urls from this site when it scrapes the show then it caches the prefered images locally (which is what your RPi is currently using) and if you ever lose that local copy it grabs a new one from the url in the db. If the url goes 404 on a poster or fanart Kodi has no method for automatically updating its artwork url list (would be a nice feature though). TV shows are a bit different as episodes are displaying thumbnails normally and if they are not present from the online source Kodi default options allow for them to be automatically generated from your actual files.
What I would recommend would be change content on your movie source/s and set them to none and then click OK. It will ask if you want to remove these files from your library. If you want preserve your watched status you need to say NO. Context menu back over this same source, select set content, and then setup your scraper as it was before and hit OK again. This time it will ask if you want to scan or refresh or something and say yes. This should update all your movies, including their artwork url’s, but preserve watched status. This is assuming your not using NFO files. If you are then they need to be updated with working paths or deleted prior to refreshing your library.
the cat command still gives nothing. I have previously adjusted the GUI refresh rate in case that would help with the blank screen problems, and it never has.
I just installed January OSMC on a Vero that had previously been running 4.9. There are no blank screen issues at all, it’s solid. I assumed the command posted above would give something useful, is it not valid on 3.14?
osmc@osmc:~$ cat /sys/class/amhdmitx/amhdmitx0/vesa_cap
cat: /sys/class/amhdmitx/amhdmitx0/vesa_cap: No such file or directory
osmc@osmc:~$