OSMC Raspberry PI

Harrison

Hey,

bei now my Raspberry Pi 3 with OSMC and Kodi worked well on a trusted old Samsung LED 2013 TV. However I've updatet to the lastest version - April 2018 - and it seemed that there is a difference for my eyes and that my eyes get strainend a bit with the new software.
I've checked out that there was a kernel update from "4.9" to "4.14". Is there anyone who is more familiar with such a linux system?

JTL

Hmm. If I knew more about the Raspberry Pi's video chipset and you were able to give me the "before" and "after" versions of OSMC I might be able to able you.

Harrison

JTL

Hey, is there an update log? I haven't found one.

I think that the old version was Jannuary 2018 and that the new is April 2018. However I'm not sure about the Jannuary version - maybe "the before" was also newer.

JTL

Harrison https://osmc.tv/blog/

Harrison

Hey, thanks for your link.

I've searched there even before I wrote this thread. Everything I found was "Kernel Update" and "Firmware Update", but nothing special which mentions graphics driver.

JTL

Harrison Either could affect the GPU.

If you had a known good version and a known bad version (trying each update at a time) that could help me narrow it down.

Harrison

Hey, do you know how I can view to an update log or something like that?

However, I'm pretty sure that jannuary 2018 version is very ok for my eyes and april 2018 not.

JTL

Harrison https://osmc.tv/blog/ is the closest I've found to an update log.

This might take trial and error, but if you can a version that works, and a version above that doesn't (let's say January 2018 worked and February 2018 doesn't, that will help narrow down the issue.)

Harrison

Thanks for your help. I'll try. I think downgrade is not possible, isn't it?

JTL

Harrison It's a Raspberry Pi. To "downgrade" is to reinstall the OS on the SD card or other bootable disk you are using.

I've never used OSMC before.

KM

Harrison https://osmc.tv/download/
Click on "images" and you can download images that date back to January 2017.

AGI

Harrison I am not familiar with that type of phone. Is the cause of your eyestrain an upgrade of the OS or of some apps? I am curios if it is similar to what happened to my Android phone last month.
I factory reset it. After that, I downloaded only two apps and did not update any stock app. I have used it little since. I feel it is not like before the issue, so I am a bit confused about what happened, but it is definitely smoother than after the upgrade. I am tempted to re-update everything and see if the strain comes back strong, but I am kinda tired of all these tests...
I found the contact of the developer of the app which I suspect of. It is...Google! But no reply. I shall probably say "But of course no reply".

JTL

AGI OSMC is software for the Raspberry Pi. Not a phone.

AGI

JTL Thanks!

Harrison

Hey, downgraded to the 1-1-12018 version.
It's definitely much better for the eyes. Of course backup of settings doesn't work, so I've to set up all over again.

Should I narrow it down further for you @JTL ?

JTL

Harrison If you can find one version that does work and another version just after that doesn't I'd say that's your best chance at trying to determine what changed.

Harrison

Hey,

I can give you some update here. Every version of OSMC higher than 1.1.2018 gives me eyestrain. Also I tried out Libre Elec with the latest Testbuild 9.0x gives me the same eyestrian as OSMC.

KM

Harrison Does the 2018-01 build still work for you, and newer builds are still worse? I was recently trying to set up a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ for video playback with LibreELEC. It has that little eye strain even in the Kodi menu. And OSMC took offline their old builds in the meantime. I guess I'm a little late to the party.

Edit: Ok so I guess I found a server that still has everything on it, I'm just not sure whether the last good version is OSMC_TGT_rbp2_20180103.img.gz or OSMC_TGT_rbp2_20180109.img.gz

http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/download/installers/diskimages