I bought a vero 4k about 1-2 years ago and never got around to using it until now. I connected it up and started the system. I went through the setup, allowed it to upgrade and tried to start using it. I was having difficulty getting much of anything to work. The system was reporting the following:
osmc@Projector:~$ grep VERSION_ID /etc/os-release
VERSION_ID=“2020.06-1”
osmc@Projector:~$ grep Kodi .kodi/temp/kodi.log | head -3
2020-06-13 11:22:00.589 T:4069695488 NOTICE: Starting Kodi (18.7). Platform: Linux ARM (Thumb) 32-bit
2020-06-13 11:22:00.589 T:4069695488 NOTICE: Using Release Kodi x32 build (version for Vero)
2020-06-13 11:22:00.589 T:4069695488 NOTICE: Kodi compiled 2020-06-03 by GCC 6.3.0 for Linux ARM (Thumb) 32-bit version 4.9.110 (264558)
osmc@Projector:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease [94.3 kB]
… removed a bunch of links due to the 5 link limit on new users …
Fetched 94.3 kB in 2s (40.6 kB/s)
Reading package lists… Done
osmc@Projector:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Calculating upgrade… Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
osmc@Projector:~$ ls -lA
total 40
-rw------- 1 osmc osmc 411 Jun 13 12:16 .bash_history
-rw-r–r-- 1 osmc osmc 220 May 15 2017 .bash_logout
-rw-r–r-- 1 osmc osmc 3526 May 15 2017 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 3 osmc video 4096 Jun 12 14:49 .hts
drwxr-xr-x 7 osmc osmc 4096 Sep 8 2018 .kodi
drwxr-xr-x 2 osmc osmc 4096 Sep 8 2018 Movies
drwxr-xr-x 2 osmc osmc 4096 Sep 8 2018 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 osmc osmc 4096 Sep 8 2018 Pictures
-rw-r–r-- 1 osmc osmc 675 May 15 2017 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 2 osmc osmc 4096 Sep 8 2018 TV Shows
In case I may have made a mistake in the setup and accidentally did a sudo apt upgrade instead of dist-upgrade, I created an sd card and booted from it using the latest down load and went through the setup and update again and got the following (pretty much the same)
osmc@osmc-projector:~$ grep VERSION_ID /etc/os-release
VERSION_ID=“2020.06-1”
osmc@osmc-projector:~$ grep Kodi .kodi/temp/kodi.log | head -3
2020-06-13 16:00:43.517 T:4064174080 NOTICE: Starting Kodi (18.7). Platform: Linux ARM (Thumb) 32-bit
2020-06-13 16:00:43.517 T:4064174080 NOTICE: Using Release Kodi x32 build (version for Vero)
2020-06-13 16:00:43.517 T:4064174080 NOTICE: Kodi compiled 2020-06-10 by GCC 6.3.0 for Linux ARM (Thumb) 32-bit version 4.9.110 (264558)
osmc@osmc-projector:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease
… removed a bunch of links due to the 5 link limit on new users …
Fetched 93.6 kB in 2s (38.4 kB/s)
Reading package lists… Done
osmc@osmc-projector:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Calculating upgrade… Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 osmc osmc 4096 Jun 13 15:30 Backups
-rw-r–r-- 1 osmc osmc 220 May 15 2017 .bash_logout
-rw-r–r-- 1 osmc osmc 3526 May 15 2017 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 7 osmc osmc 4096 Jun 7 12:02 .kodi
drwxr-xr-x 2 osmc osmc 4096 Jun 7 12:05 Movies
drwxr-xr-x 2 osmc osmc 4096 Jun 7 12:05 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 osmc osmc 4096 Jun 7 12:05 Pictures
-rw-r–r-- 1 osmc osmc 675 May 15 2017 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 2 osmc osmc 4096 Jun 7 12:05 TV Shows
There is no osmc-backup in the home folder, or in My OSMC. Most of the addons that I tried wound up generating errors that said I should look in the logs for more information. I can’t find the logs. I went into settings and enabled some more logging but that didn’t help.
some questions:
1 - how do I get osmc-backup installed?
2 - where are the logs stored so I can investigate where the problems are with the addons?
3 - is there a “new user” intro or how-to that tells me how I can get the system set up properly so that I can try to watch some of my movies and connect to netflix and amazon prime?
- I am a new vero osmc user with 40 years experience managing microcomputers, minicomputers and mainframes and 14 hours of frustration trying to get my vero working.
thanks,
Ole Jensen