Vero 4K+ restarts when using Embuary skin

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

I have the same issue on two 4K+ units.
OSMC 2020.06-1
Emby for Kodi 4.1.20

Using above setup the playback works fine with the OSMC skin using both Add-On and Native mode.
When installing Embuary skin Kodi restarts randomly, 4K playback causes almost immediate crashes.
Reverting to OSMC skin has no effect, the behaviour persists and I have to re-install OSMC.
Have anyone else experienced this?

2

Seems odd. Can we see some logs?

3

Here’s a log for when it crashes after a 4K movie is started
http://paste.osmc.io/eyunezilav.vhdl

4

Can you upload full logs?

Can you disable Skin Helper Simplecache?

5

Here Kodi restarted while idle
http://paste.osmc.io/uvoguwiwon.xml

Here Kodi restarted just after playback was started
http://paste.osmc.io/opitosuluz.vhdl

Server address and filename changed in the files, but no lines removed.
Skin helper service add-on packages are disabled and Embuary’s in use (can’t disable them)

6

Any suggestions to the above?

7

The logs have expired.

I’d suggest that you see if the Embuary skin works with a default Kodi configuration.

Enter the following commands with an SSH connection.

systemctl stop mediacenter
mv ~/.kodi ~/kodi.bak
systemctl start mediacenter

Configure just the Embuary skin – don’t change anything else – and see what happens. If it crashes, then we know that the skin is the problem. If it works, you can either reconfigure from scratch or methodicaly copy over parts of your old configuration. Remember to shut down Kodi before you copy things over.

If needed, you can restore the original configuration:

systemctl stop mediacenter
mv ~/.kodi ~/kodi.bk2
mv ~/kodi.bak ~/.kodi
systemctl start mediacenter

If your original setup was restored as expected and you want get rid of the unneeded clean install you can delete that with the following command.

rm -r ~/kodi.bk2

8

It works when using the default skin, not with Embuary.
I can’t remove EmbyForKodi since it ruins my entire setup. Not sure if Embuary is still maintained, it works fine on my N2+ so I will use that box instead.

9

Are you saying that Embuary crashes on a default Kodi configuration?

10

No, I haven’t tested it.
I use EmbyForKodi to connect to my Emby server that contains all media. Using E4K with the default OSMC skin all is working fine, when changing to Embuary skin it becomes unstable and 4K playback is no more.