I’m running OSMC on a Raspberry Pi model 2 using the confluence skin. I have customised the skin (specifically the VideoFullScreen.xml file). However every time I update OSMC the file gets re-written to the default values.
How can I get my customised file to persist through updates?
Backup your modified xml files and overwrite after each update.
Or would suggest modding a different skin than confluence so it wont get reset after each osmc update.
Titan and aeon mq 6 are great skins to try out.
Chattr +i path to file
Have you tested this ? This will most likely cause the mediacenter package to fail to update as dpkg should verify files are correctly replaced.
To avoid any update problems I added a cronjob to replace the default file with my custom file.
sudo crontab -e
Add to last line:
00 01 * * * sudo cp /usr/share/kodi/addons/skin.confluence/720p/VideoFullScreen.xml.custom /usr/share/kodi/addons/skin.confluence/720p/VideoFullScreen.xml
Copy skin.confluence in to ~/.kodi/addons
User version should override system version and we will never overwrite it.
This will break the apt-get dist-upgrade process.