Because everything very simple for those who are not required to do it. This is testing. You should expect breakage. You should not expect others to resolve such issues on your schedule. And as always, we would love to see any pull requests you’d like to submit. If any of that is unacceptable to you, go back to stable builds.
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It just seems to be the way you have a dig at anyone that comes across this issue telling them they must search this has been discussed a billion times before but don’t do yourself a favour and update 2 lines in a config file.
If it was that simple, I would have done this. The last thing we want to do is keep answering the same questions repeatedly.
- Edit the file, rebuild == probably about 15 hours build time for all platforms in total.
- Then if we produce builds with only this change, all users on this test repository would receive an update, despite the fact almost all have already resolved this issue themselves. They would also be confused as to what is new, and we’d get a lot of posts from people asking why they got an update but the version is the same.
- But editing just the file and keeping everything the same is not possible currently, as we’re targetting the Krypton branch as it progresses. So we’d have to wind back progress on Beta 7 just to make this change.
As such, it doesn’t make sense to just rebuild Kodi to incorporate this change.
Then there really shouldn’t be an excuse not to look up and find the solution a few posts above yours.
It’s Christmas, so some of us want to take a small break from things. Given your post history however, I think you really should stay on the stable builds, or relax your expectations of the release cycle.
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Such a simple change but such a complicated thing to achieve 
I want to watch fotos and listen to music.
After I started the music and the slideshow, the music stopps at the next image!
This is a thread for people with the technical knowledge to test the BETA version of the future Kodi 17.
If you want a stable version use the official version Kodi 16.
If your question was about Kodi 17, you need to post full debug logs like other beta testers, so that the development team can look into the problem.
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So I just got in a Vero 2, I’ve successfully installed Beta on my Raspberry Pi 1 and 3, but I have not been able to install it on the Vero 2. I’m wondering if I’m not able to do this because I don’t have an SD card in my Vero 2 or if there are other steps included, which are not in the first post? If you could help, I’d really appreciate it.
What happened when you tried to install it on the V2? An SD card is only needed for reinstallation.
This is what’s happening:
osmc@VERO2:~$ sudo -s
root@VERO2:/home/osmc# echo “deb http://apt.osmc.tv krypton main”
deb http://apt.osmc.tv krypton main
root@VERO2:/home/osmc# apt-get update
Hit http://apt.osmc.tv jessie InRelease
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main armhf Packages
Get:1 http://apt.osmc.tv jessie/main armhf Packages/DiffIndex [2023 B]
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib armhf Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free armhf Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Translation-en
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.debian.org jessie InRelease
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Ign http://apt.osmc.tv jessie/main Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie Release
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main armhf Packages/DiffIndex [6916 B]
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib armhf Packages [32 B]
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free armhf Packages/DiffIndex [736 B]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2704 B]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free Translation-en/DiffIndex [736 B]
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/main armhf Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/contrib armhf Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/non-free armhf Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en
Fetched 158 kB in 17s (8835 B/s)
Reading package lists… Done
root@VERO2:/home/osmc# apt-get -y dist-upgrade && reboot
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.
I’m wondering if it might have to do with something, when it restarts. When it restarts, it is not automatically connected to the WiFi. Does it still need to me connected to the SSH to finish installing?
You didn’t redirect the echo command to sources.list, so you aren’t actually modifying that file.
Check the command again
Gosh, I feel like an idiot! I’m using my phone to view the command, and it cuts off after the main". Of course, it worked properly, only HUMAN error. Thank you again Sam for your prompt help!
Hi, since update to Kodi 17 I can not connect to Kodi oficial repository to install subtitles addons. Any help?
Thank you.
It’s already discussed above.
Edit the file:
/usr/share/kodi/addons/repository.xbmc.org/addon.xml
Edit the “extention point” section to look like this…
<extension point="xbmc.addon.repository">
<info>http://download.osmc.tv/kodi/addons/krypton/addons.xml.gz</info>
<checksum>http://download.osmc.tv/kodi/addons/krypton/addons.xml.gz.md5</checksum>
<datadir zip="true">http://download.osmc.tv/kodi/addons/krypton</datadir>
</extension>
This is fixed in git, and will work with the next build, but for now you have to edit it manually
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Thank you, very. Since I’m a noobie I’m going to wait untill next build to solve this, because I simply don’t know how to do that.
My best and happy new year!
Any news about a new build with latest beta?
Do we see a new build before end of this year? 
Hi
I hope that everyone is enjoying their Christmas break.
I had a little bit of time to work on Kodi Beta 7. As you will see in some of my earlier posts I was a little reluctant to publish a new build so shortly, but it’s clear that the repository issue has tripped a few people up and the more testing we get on the whole the better.
We also have excellent work from @gezb on BTPlayer. You should now see playback progress on screen when playing back A2DP audio with a compatible application.
This build is reasonably mature, but there’s still a reasonable amount of work that needs to be done on the OSMC side to get us ready for Krypton. So if things don’t completely seem right with you, then don’t worry.
The OSMC skin has also been updated with @BobCrachett’s latest improvements. He would love your feedback here. We are lucky to have such an excellent and hard working skinner on board, so don’t forfeit the opportunity to let him know how to make things even better. We appreciate all feedback, even though we can’t always act on it.
So all in all, looking forward to feedback here.
For info on how to update, or if you’re installing for the first time, see my first post here.
Sam
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A massive thanks for all the hard work you and the others do
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