Yes, i read in the past announcements the activities the OSMC team is working on and i thought for Pi5 the Bookworm was necessary as requirement, so i hoped we received OSMC for Pi5 shortly (as the team said in the September 2023 announcement); Kodi 21 Beta 2 was released in the last mounth (the stable version isn’t released yet as i know) and from your words i understood the new OSMC version with ARM64 would have been a future step after Pi5 support.
When i said “four months ago” i refered to the announcement of 23 semptember 2023 where the OSMC team implied that the Pi5 support was almost simple and ready. My consideration was born here, the annoucement said “shortly”, in my opinion “shorty” isn’t four months.
I bought three (or four) Raspberry Pi5 some days after its presentation and i received them in the middle of November 2023 with power supplyes, cables, fans, cases,… but i can’t use them without the OS (OSMC)… at the moment i am using an old Raspberry Pi3, my comment was to highlight to pay more attention at the dates for future released if there aren’t the right basis to reach the goal…
You might consider installing LibreELEC on them even if it is just till OSMC has support for this hardware as well. You should be able to transfer all your Kodi userdata between the two other than possibly guisettings.xml (I have no clue if this file currently poses an issue but it might).
Support will come and a few months is not a long term in the scheme of things. But posts like this don’t speed up development at all, don’t result in new information and don’t particularly incentivise me to provide announcements in the future.
In future it may be better to just offer no time frame at all or no break down of what needs to be done to support a device.
It’s flattering that people want to run OSMC on their Pi 5 and they will be able to do so soon.
Consider i am using OSMC on Raspberry since 2018 on three devices and i made a donation every year , i love OSMC, i just wanted to explain my point of view about the annoucement and a suggestion for the future! Thanks you for your work and all the OSMC team
After almost 8 years of continuous use, I can say without uncertainty that there’s no need for “flattering”: OSMC is by far the best OS for Kodi on RPI, at least for music libraries. I’ve got a collection of more than 10.000 liquid albums and no other OS is so good for getting album and artist infos.
I bought an RPI5 at the end of september and it arrived at the beginning of november. I’m forced to use Libreelec now, and, even though the “new” Kodi scrapers are the same (Generic Album and Generic Artist), with LE at the end of the creation of the music library I miss quite a good number of images of artists and albums. This doesn’t happen with OSMC, with which I usually end with about 99,99% complete. I add that I’ve got EVERYTHING tagged with MusicBrainz.
I don’t know why this happens, but it seems to be a “normal” difference, because it happened the same thing a few years ago, when I had to switch temporarily to LE for the first time and I noticed the same behaviour.
While waiting, I’m not switching back to my old RPI3 now because the RPI5 is sooooo much better for 4K and Full HD movies.
So, thanks again for your effort and, yes, I think it’s real that there’s quite a good amount of RPI5 users that are waiting for OSMC… just because is more effective as a media center OS.
Hi all, are there any updates about OSMC for Raspberry PI5?
I saw the team are working on Kodi 21 and in the past you said the PI5 support will be arrive with (or immediately afterwards) Kodi 21 on OSMC…
Are there any chances?
Christian
Hi there, the first point release seems to be available for more many weeks already - any news maybe on the OSMC release? Really eager for it this time
, i love OSMC, i just wanted to explain my point of view about the annoucement and a suggestion for the future! Thanks you for your work and all the OSMC team 
