Apologies Sam, the URL is http://paste.osmc.io/ukojecivoc
Ignore me i was talking complete rubbish - itās been a long day 
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I am trying to get it to workā¦ not worried about WiFi or BT yetā¦ I can get it to installā¦ but then my screen goes black and I cannot figure it outā¦ Rasbian runs fineā¦ so its not a hardware or cable issueā¦
I have a wifi dongle I can use with my pi zero W so I stared with a fresh image of the Febuary release of OSMC, added the entry to sources.list as the last line, apt-get update&&apt-get dist-upgrade&&reboot without the external wifi dongle.
Still can not see the built in WIFI after all that. I have uploaded logs to http://paste.osmc.io/jaqesaqogu. Note that I put the wifi dongle back in to upload the logs.
Have usb-eth dongle at work, hooked it up and are running the update right now through putty, previously i have loaded a fresh install of the latest install 2017.02-2 on my fresh out the box ZeroW.
after the update i shut down, unplugged the usb-eth dongle, plugged it back in and booted it into my monitor and wifi doesnt show up in the program setting only wired and mysql are showing in the gui.
i tried to use connmanctl to enable wifi but i get Error wifi: Method "SetProperty" with signature "sv" on interface "net.connman.technology" doesnt exist
log is here - http://paste.osmc.io/ejokehevij
This is the kind of edge case build that may benefit from a test image almost. One that you can just flash to the build and test if it works given the lack of connectivity options for people?
Might help more.
Either that or weāll have to try a v install via qemu or something?
You wonāt be able to emulate the device, so QEMU isnāt really going to help.
We canāt produce a test image trivially (because we would have to push to release first as packages are grabbed from release) and it makes no sense to do so until it works, because most people are only interested in it working rather than troubleshooting why it doesnāt work.
Iāll have it working soon, itās just a case of being quite busy with the Vero 4K launch and us learning of the Zero W on launch day.
Iāll let you know when I have something to test
You can emulate the image though right? Thought you may be able to manipulate it so you could install what wish then burn that to the SD.
Either way appreciate youāre busy so donāt worry - iāll pick up a USB to RJ45 tomorrow and see what i can see. Donāt stress Itāll all be good
Cheers for your help Sam.
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You can just mount it loopback and dpkg -i any packages needed, but what I have currently doesnāt seem to be working so itās of no use testing
Stay tuned
WiFi is now working in staging.
BT works, but requires the service to be restarted (race condition). I suspect weāll fix this tomorrow.
Cheers
Sam
WiFi and Bluetooth should now be working, with thanks to @DBMandrake for improving the way we configure Bluetooth significantly so that it works reliably.
You can either update using the staging instructions above, or you can grab two packages:
and run sudo dpkg -i *.deb and reboot. Iād appreciate some feedback.
Thanks for your patience.
Cheers
Sam
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Dear Sam,
Much thanks for your quick followup !
I just successfully updated my OSCM using staging instructions you first mentionnedā¦ Right now I still canāt see the Wireless option display in MyOSMCā¦
I uploaded my logs in http://paste.osmc.io/ahiyagadus (thereās a space between last slash and personal code?).
Donāt have anything else to explain, please consider I am a complete noob for OSMCā¦ So anything I would need to add there, please let me know
Thank you.
Thanks, Iāve found the last issue. There was no SDIO WiFi support in the Pi0/1 kernel as prior to 28th Feb, there were no devices that could utilise this.
Iāve added support in the following commit:
Iāll let you know when I have a new, updated kernel for testing.
Thanks for your patience
Sam
Iāve updated my original post to include the two files now
Sam
Hi Sam,
I just tried it on my Pi Zero W, and after the update it will not boot.
It was a fresh install last night with an update and distilled-upgrade done last night. and the two files added this morning.
I will try again with a fresh install later today in case something had changed overnight.
Kevin
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Hi Sam,
I tried to options:
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From my āup-to-dateā state I simply dpkg -i the updated kernel pacakge, then reboot. As a result I had an unresponsive OSMC, that coiuld not boot at all (same as kh777 mentioned)
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From a fresh install (build 2017.02.2 for RPi Zero), then add the devel rep within the sources list, then perform both an apt-get update and dist-upgrade, then reboot. As a result I have a responsive OSMC, but still, without the Wireless option available in MyOSMC.
In this case, I uploaded the logs in http://paste.osmc.io/buwetovusu
Hope this helps, Thank you.
Hi,
I got an error while trying to update. The error occurred updating rpb1-device-osmc_1.1.17_armhf.deb. The logs are here http://paste.osmc.io/yebiqanicu. Ive previously updated the 2017.02.2 build to try the wifi and Bluetooth on the pi zero w. Hope this helps.
What did you see?
Ideally Iād like to get this resolved by tomorrow so it can be put in to Marchās update, otherwise weāll have to wait until at least April for working WiFi on the Zero.
Unfortunately, itās proving hard for me to resolve this issue without a Pi Zero W at hand. If anyone can port forward SSH with an Ethernet adapter and PM me details, this would be helpful.
Cheers
Sam
Dear Sam,
I actually saw nothingā¦ Aka, black screen.
I can forward SSH port to my RPi if youād like to, but in this case Iād like to limit the access to your public IP, I normally never open on such a port. Please tell me if this could work for you in PM.
Thank you.
Can you try another dist-upgrade on jessie-devel and confirm if itās working as expected now?
It might take an hour or so for the update to reach your local mirror.
Cheers
Sam