Hi!
I just purchased a Raspberry Pi 5 hoping to put OSMC on it. When I try to install it, I’m getting an error Kernel or device-tree not found or is not compatible and wondering if Raspberry Pi 5 is actually supported by OSMC currently. I came across another forum that implied no, but I wanted to check in here.
Thanks!
Hi, RPi5 is not currently supported, as it is stated for example here: Download - OSMC
oh bummer, I should have read that before purchasing…
Do you know if it’s on the roadmap to add support for it anytime soon?
It’s still in progress 
Stay tuned
Thanks for the update, Sam! Do you have any idea when it might be ready? If it’s a while, I might repurpose my Raspberry Pi 5 and find other solutions for OSMC.
I don’t have a firm ETA presently
Someone might want to look into modifying the wiki then, it literally says:
OSMC runs on all models of Raspberry Pi.
And on the download page, the models for Pi are listed in the smallest font possible.
I can see this being an accident if you guys didn’t know about the problem, but considering it’s been known about for at least 6 months then not updating the documentation to make it clear is just sloppy.
I have amended this, thanks.
I will adjust it when we have Pi 5 up and booting.
Is Raspberry Pi 5 support actually in the works, or has this been abandoned? I think a media center built around any previous (Pi) version is not a viable option today.
Still in the works.
Pi 4 will give you better playback options than Pi 5 unless you rely on software decoded formats like Hi10 or 1080p AV1 which is quite rare.
I’m using osmc on a Pi 400 and the system load while playing media is roughly in the middle between 3% and 10% system load (using a LED-Display). It depends on the codec of course.
The Skin is a little bit more responsive with:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=369573
sudo python -m compileall -o 1 /usr/lib/python3*
As far as i know the Pi 5 has no decoding hardware for the common media codecs.
Pi 5 has an HEVC decoding block still but other codecs are software decoded. Presumably a decision was made that CPU performance was good enough to play most of the other formats via software.
My understanding is that the Pi5’s are far better at software decoding non-HEVC than the Pi4 is at hardware decoding HEVC at 4k. If a Pi4 can do HEVC 4k without frame drops, then I’d consider that hardware.
I am putting together a device for 4K UHD BluRay playback. I have in the past ripped my UHD titles to a DLNA server, but I have too many now for this to be viable and for the titles I care enough about to get on UHD, I don’t want to re-encode. I won’t put original discs in a regular BluRay player, though - my originals see a drive once, and then stay safely in their cases. So my plan is to create decrypted copies on BDXL media.
I figure a Pi with an external Pioneer BDXL drive is a good fit for this. If a Pi4 will handle this task, I’ll consider one.
Off topic for this thread now, but I am also considering a much larger hard drive and the use of BD-ISOs. Will OSMC play BluRay off ISO files (without a lot of clickology)?
Yes but BD-J menu support can be hit and miss
But still what’s the status of Pi5 support? To my understanding there is no playback differences between Pi4 & Pi5 with non-HEVC, but the overall performance on Pi5 is another level. Especially with NVMe SSD.
The next immediate step is to update Debian.