Migration from Vero 4K to Vero V

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I just received my Vero V.
I was hoping to find a migration guide in the HowTo section or somewhere else, but I can’t find one.
What would be the best way to migrate the entire installation over the new device? I’d like to find evertyhing as it was: settings, database, users, etc.
Is that possible?
thanks!

2

Hi

You could do a backup via My OSMC and restore it on the new device.
Make sure both are running the same version of OSMC however

Sam

3

thanks!
so if I had a problem with backups, it means it will carry over the new device? (if I even succeed in producing the backup)

4

When did you last try a backup?
There have been a number of improvements to the backup system

5

it’s scheduled automatically, but I always get the error.
do you think I should fix this before migrating? otherwise it would carry the problem onto the Vero V?

6

Let’s see some fresh logs so we can see why backups aren’t working.

7

I just installed the latest update (2024.08-1).
I was able to successfully backup since March, at least manually. I’ll see tomorrow if the automated backup at night has worked
I’m attaching a log, can you let me know if I’m good to go for the migration?
https://paste.osmc.tv/iborehawuf

8

Looks OK.

9

connected the Vero V, when I try to restore the backup I just saved, I get a “Failure to reading the file” message .
I actually did 2 backups before disconnecting the Vero 4K.
tried both, same result.
How can I fix this?

10

It’s hard to tell the error without a log.
You could alternatively copy the entire .kodi directory over from the Vero 4K + to the Vero V.

11

Did you upgrade the Vero V also to latest version before trying to restore? How are you giving access to the file? Suggest to share log files.

12

Yes, both devices were updated to the last version.

I now used an USB key instead of the NFS mount.
After the first reboot, the movies played scaled in a quarter corner of the TV area.
But after another reboot, so far so good, it looks like everything was restored properly now.
I will see at the next automatic backup schedule if that is solved as well.
Thanks for helping!

13

The scaling issue is a known issue if restoring from a 4K, but exiting or rebooting Kodi will fix it (we added a fix for this).

14

a simple reboot fixed it.

On a side note, is it possible to disable the blue led?
and to hide the awful amlogic boot logo? :slight_smile:

15

One option, and one I’ve used quite a few times is as follows.

  1. On both machines open the “My OSMC” add-on and in the app store install SMB server. On the new machine you will also need SSH enabled if you disabled that option during the initial setup.
  2. Discover the IP address of both machines by looking in Settings>system info and make a note of them.
  3. From a PC ssh into the new box and run the command systemctl stop mediacenter
    (If your on Windows 10/11 open the start menu and type “cmd” and hit enter. At the terminal type in ssh osmc@192.168.254.10 but using the proper IP address. The default password is “osmc”)
  4. From that PC open a Windows Explorer window (win+e) and in the address bar type in \\192.168.0.10 but using the IP address from the new Vero. Navigate into the osmc folder. Rename the “.kodi” folder to “kodi.old”. If you don’t see that folder enable showing hidden files in Explorer. In Windows 11 you just go to at the top of Explorer view>show>hidden items.
  5. Open a second Windows Explorer window for the box your going to copy the files from using the same methods.
  6. Copy the “.kodi” folder from the old machine to the new one. Expect this to be slow.
  7. Go back to that ssh window you opened for the new machine and type in systemctl start mediacenter

NOTE: You can get away with this as your moving files across to the same platform (Vero to Vero) but if one was doing this moving between a Vero and not-Vero then they would need to go one step further and delete .kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml (ie most of Kodi’s settings) or else Kodi will crash on startup and you will probably get stuck in a blue screen loop.

16

The answer at present to both is not at the moment.

17

thanks, will bookmark this method!

I also read the other thread for the blue led now. will try that

18

It can be controlled via the command line (on/off) via /sys/class/leds/standby/brightness.

I will update the boot logo in the near future.

Sam

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