Need Kodi 17.6 ipk for OBH 4.3 VU Duo2

[funkmeister]

Hope someone can help! I just flashed my VU+ Duo2 from OBH 4.1 to 4.3 but Kodi 18 downloaded from the feed doesn't run. I since found out that apparently the VU+ Duo2 can't run Kodi 18.

Kodi 17.6 was working on OBH 4.1 before I updated, so I'm hoping that it might also work in 4.3 if I can find the ipk.

 

[Mick12334]

I have a VU+ Duo 2, running the latest Kodi, 18.9, it can run that version, of KODI, but when trying to run a stream, it breaks up, and then stops, forcing you to re-boot. I usually get past that by downloading the stream, to my hard drive, but a lot of streams aren't allowing this option, giving the no stream available message, or a download of 0 Mb.

You will need to run Black Hole, to get Kodi 17.6, try it using the multi boot option.

 

[AlexWilMac]

Just you flashed, why didn't you choose the new OBH 4.4 instead of the 4.3? Maybe also the Kodi component is newer in 4.4. (I don't know 'cause I don't like Kodi).

 

[funkmeister]

I actually flashed OBH 4.4 first, but the catchup tv plugin I use crashed when I tried to run it. The plugin works perfectly in OBH 4.3. Also, restoring backups in 4.4 caused crashes and it seems to be fine in 4.3. I didn't even try Kodi in 4.4!

Last night I also flashed OBH 4.2 to see if that might work better, but again the catchup plugin crashed, so I stopped there and didn't try to install Kodi.

I might just end up restoring my 4.1 backup, but I would like to try Kodi 17.6 with 4.3 if I can get a suitable ipk.

 

[funkmeister]

I have a VU+ Duo 2, running the latest Kodi, 18.9, it can run that version, of KODI, but when trying to run a stream, it breaks up, and then stops, forcing you to re-boot. I usually get past that by downloading the stream, to my hard drive, but a lot of streams aren't allowing this option, giving the no stream available message, or a download of 0 Mb.

That sounds awful! I believe the issue is the chipset in the older VU+ boxes is not compatible with hardware acceleration in Kodi 18.

 

[Mick12334]

I doubt that is the problem, as I did get a stream, to play normally, but it was about 3 AM, when I couldn't sleep, and that had Kodi 18.8 version, now on Kodi 18.9.

I think it might be a buffering issue, or too many people using Kodi, as it's far preferable to ordinary television.

 

[funkmeister]

That's interesting! What version of OBH are you running? Did you install Kodi from the feed?

I installed Kodi 18 from the OBH 4.3 feed, but when I tried to run Kodi, it didn't start up and just returned to the plugin menu. I didn't get any further than that.

 

[Mick12334]

Open Black Hole 4.4, but prior to that I was testing the earlier version.
After testing Open Black Hole 4.4, I did notice that when I tried to return to an earlier version KODI would no longer work it installed, but when I went to run the plugin, it just failed to open, even after I deleted all the KODI folders, from my hard drive, I still couldn't get it to work, so returned to 4.4, and it was working again.

I didn't have time to test running the earlier version from multiboot, on Black Hole.