OSMC first impressions on Pi 3

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Great! VNC is now working for me. Now I can actually tinker away with OSMC while family are watching TV.

Sandbird’s how-to for installing the VNC service worked almost in one go, except for missing sudo in the instructions for starting the service. I’v suggested Sanbird update and add that.

So anyone wishing to install VNC on OSMC:

  1. use Sandbird’s how-to for installing the server part on the Pi
  2. Windows users use RealVNC VNC Viewer 5.2.3 (r8648) for client (later versions do/may NOT work in this scenario)
  3. do NOT expect to watch movies with VNC :wink:
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Always good to see a newcomer find solutions to their problems.

Let us know how you get on.

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What else does dtoverlay=sdhost do, other than disabling the internal wifi? It sounds like it might do a lot more. Should I prefer the blacklist option?

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SDHost is already the default overlay.

By adding this overlay directly, you are overriding default parameters and disabling the SDIO hookup.

Either way will work perfectly fine.

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So it only affects the wifi, and nothing else that I might miss along the road?

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Indeed. You’ll be fine if you make this change. If you make the change via config.txt, we will be able to see in the future that you have done so (blacklist is trickier to see).

Sam

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Hi

I can confirm that the newest Real VNC Viewer (VNC-Viewer-6.0.0-Windows-64bit.exe) also works with Sanbird’s guide.