Vero 4k+ go back to v18 testing

Help and Support Vero 4K / Vero 4K +
1

i made the mistake of updating to 19, since i have two rpi3’s and vc-1 files which don’t play well now. i plan to go back to v18 but since i use shared Mysql database, i will have to do that on not only the rpi3’s but also on the vero 4k+.
i liked the test build of v18 that worked well with 3d on the 4k+.
once i reinstall v18 on the 4k+, is the test build still an available update if i have the appropriate sources?
thank you.

2

i found the following site for previous versions of osmc that coincide with test build dates:
http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/apt/pool/main/v/?C=M;O=A

Any help here as far as getting the November 19 build to work? Here’s what I tried:

  1. wget “http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/apt/pool/main/v/vero364-source-4.9.113-26-osmc/vero364-image-4.9.113-26-osmc_26_arm64.deb” -O mediacenter.deb
  2. wget “http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/apt/pool/main/v/vero364-source-4.9.113-26-osmc/vero364-headers-4.9.113-26-osmc_26_arm64.deb” -O mediacenterheader.deb
  3. wget “http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/apt/pool/main/v/vero364-source-4.9.113-26-osmc/vero364-source-4.9.113-26-osmc_26_all.deb” -O mediacentersource.deb
  4. sudo dpkg -i mediacenterheader.deb
  5. sudo dpkg -i mediacenter.deb
  6. sudo dpkg -i mediacentersource.deb

I’m sure there are programmers out there laughing at this, but i figured it was worth a try. I got the unhappy face.

Any help?

3

If you update the kernel you will also have userland components that need updating.
It won’t be trivial to run a v18 test build.

4

is there a way to run the vero 4k+ on v19 so that i get the 3d, while also using the last v18 stable build on the other devices (rpi3) that don’t require 3d? the server is on a pi3, and i’m using mysql. so as i see it, the main issue is different mysql versions.
can i have v18 on the pi3 and have the most recent version of mysql database that will match with v19? i do know more about database programming than other forms of programming so i’d be up for the challenge.
thank you.

5

Could you run everything on v18 and use the Pi for 3D?

6

thanks for the thought. that would be an option but i also use the vero 4k for atmos. the main reason i bought the vero 4k over other options was b/c of 3d AND atmos. a great combo.

7

still plugging away at this. thanks to sam’s suggestions, i got rid of the unhappy face by doing this:

sudo apt-get install vero3-userland-dev-osmc

after this, i was also able to play movies but only if i turned off HW acceleration. I saw a post here that dealt with an issue similar in which the poster had to update his bootloader to a secure bootloader. When i tried that, i got the error indicating that my /boot drive is not mounted. that was with bootloader 1.0.6.

i’ve tried fixing this by trying to mount it (including in fstab by un-commenting the line), but so far ran into a roadblock. i then used a more recent bootloader (1.7.0-1) that didn’t give any error messages using dpkg -i, but when checking the logs the root drive was still not mounted. and this didn’t fix the issue with HW acceleration.

i realize this is completely unsupported at this time, but if anyone wants to help i’m open for suggestions. otherwise i’ll see what i can do with my limited knowledge and try to post back here with any updates in case someone else is thinking of trying this to.

8

There is no /boot on an external partition on Vero 4K/4K+