OSMC RC3 Install (from raspmbc)

[rnc]

@DBMandrake

@rnc

1. The ‘Set content type’ on USB folders sometimes isn’t appearing - I’m not sure why.

Not sure what you mean by that - you set content type when you add a source to the library, you can’t set content type on just a folder in the file viewer. (Videos)

I’ll have to have a bit more of an investigation on this. So you’re saying in order to set a content type, I can’t go in through “Videos/Files” but need to go through add video source ? confused

@DBMandrake

@rnc

2. It might be useful after initial installation to force a manual update to avoid this?

RC3 is still a release candidate so things are still in flux a bit - the updated Skin will be part of the final release.

I understand. Thinking on how Fedora does it, it installs and immediately does an update check - perhaps that might be worth considering?

@DBMandrake

@rnc

3. Is SSH enabled? It might be useful during installation to have an ‘advanced’ section where I can upload my SSH key?

Yes, ssh is enabled by default, username and password is osmc.

Great, thanks - knowing the username/password is sufficient to set it up.

@DBMandrake

Not sure whether you’re suggesting that uploading keys should be in the installer that creates the SD card image, or in the walkthrough that runs after installation ?

In any case it’s a bit of niche/power user feature to use ssh keys (given the target audience of OSMC as a mediacenter OS) so it seems unlikely to be added as part of the install process.

For a power user who wants to use ssh keys its a simple (for a power user) matter of logging in with password authentication the first time to paste in your key, or use something like scp to upload your keys and then optionally disable password based authentication.

@rnc

4. Is there a way of configuring the movies panel to show all movies without the genre (etc) meta info? i.e. so just a set of images/titles?

Don’t know the answer to that one sorry, as I don’t use the OSMC skin myself except briefly during testing.

I’ve managed to get it to display the icons by changing the type.

My eSynic remote (Amazon.co.uk) worked out of the box which is great … although annoyingly in the latest update the mouse pointer has disappeared
( x-ref: remote thread OSMC Remote Support - #51 by papatzas )