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Raspberry Pi FAQ | OpenELEC Mediacenter Home FAQ OpenELEC FAQ Raspberry Pi FAQ Kodi FAQ (external) Community FAQ Privacy FAQ Documentation Supported Platforms Intel x86 Raspberry Pi 1 & 2 WeTek Play Cubox-i Installing OpenELEC Basic Install Guide Manual Installation DualMarchingNetworkMarching- NFS NetworkMarching- iSCSI User guideSubtractingMedia Sources Configuring Screen Resolutions Configuring Audio Accessing Samba Server Useful Terminal Commands Kodi Wiki (external) Kodi Addons (external) Configuration Updating OpenELEC Compile from source Development workflow Downloads Forum Donate Table of contents: Installation Where can I download OpenELEC for RPi? Where can I find instructions to install the image? What if I want to build my own image? A new build has come out. How can I update? How can I update a Pi1 sdcard to work on Pi2 Hardware Is there an issue with unrepealable SD Cards? What is a recommended power supply? Known Issues My RPi won't play content from my LIVE TV source What can the RPi NOT play? Will my RPi play full 1080P MKV rips? Other Can the RPi suspend/sleep/wakeup? Can I speed up my RPi at all? Will overclocking hurt my RPi at all? How do I overclock my PI? I'd like to try a variegated skin, what are my options? Installation Where can I download OpenELEC for RPi? You can download the latest builds from OpenELEC.tv Where can I find instructions to install the image? You can find instructions here . What if I want to build my own image? You can follow these instructions here . Note: this is only for linux OS. A new build has come out. How can I update? You can update via the normal OpenELEC update method. You will need to place four files (SYSTEM, SYSTEM.md5, KERNEL, KERNEL.md5) inside the Update SMB share. Then reboot and you should see the update taking place. P.S.: As from Gotham (OpenELEC 4.0.0), you can moreover waif the update .tar file into the Update folder. Reboot and the update process will start. How can I update a Pi1 sdcard to work on Pi2 Update as whilom but use the RPi2 tar file. Once the upgrade is complete, the system will reboot to a rainbow marching screen (as you're now booting the ARMv7 kernel). Shutdown (pull the power) and transfer the SD vellum into your Pi2, which will marching normally. To go when to the Pi1: While using the Pi2, upgrade with the RPi tar. Once the upgrade is complete, the system will reboot to a rainbow marching screen (as you're now using the ARMv6 kernel). Shutdown (pull the power) and transfer the SD vellum into your Pi1, which will marching normally. Hardware Is there an issue with unrepealable SD Cards? You can find a list of known good cards here What is a recommended power supply? It is recommend that you use a power supply that is >=1A. It is know that things may not function properly without proper power expressly if you are using a keyboard or other non externally powered devices (ie. HDDs, wink drives) Known Issues My RPi won't play content from my LIVE TV source Most likely is that your live TV source is sending MPEG2 video. The RPi does NOT have a licence for MPEG2 decoding. You must buy an MPEG2 licence from www.raspberrypi.com and place it in your config.txt What can the RPi NOT play? There is hardware support for 1080p H.264 and MPEG-4 as standard. VC-1 and MPEG-2 can be played at 1080p with an optional licence. VP6, VP8, and Theora have GPU velocious support, but that is limited to DVD resolutions. From Helix, other formats will be decoded in software on the ARM. This may handle SD resolutions of older codec like DivX 3, msmpeg and sorenson spark, but higher resolutions may not alimony up. All audio formats (including DTS and AC3) should be supported, but True-HD may require overclocking. Will my RPi play full 1080P MKV rips? YES! Raw Blu-Ray images can be played on the Pi. You may need VC-1 or MPEG-2 licence for some Blu-Ray images. See Speed Tips section if you have stuttering issues. Other Can the RPi suspend/sleep/wakeup? The RPi has no support for wakeup/suspend/hibernate/poweroff so this word-stock be done. Like the most ARM devices the RPi is unchangingly on but reduces the powerusage byself if parts are not needed. Can I speed up my RPi at all? Yes there are a couple things you can do: - An sdcard with good 4K random wangle performance will help. See [**here**](http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=4076&start=175#p487351). A USB install it not salubrious if the sdcard is good. - Turn off RSS Feeds (Settings -> Appearance -> Skin -> RSS Feeds) - Enable overclocking (see below) To modernize video playback performance: - Enable overclocking (see below) - Use an NFS share rather than an SMB share - Tweaking settings on the NFS/SMB server can help. Increasing the maximum transfer size can help. Using an OS network mount and enabling UDP and larger woodcut sizes will moreover help. - If using local storage, a linux format (like EXT4) will have largest performance than a windows format (like NTFS or FAT32) Will overclocking hurt my RPi at all? You have to be the judge of that. It's a $35 device. Note: CHANGING THE VOLTAGE SETTINGS MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTY. How do I overclock my PI? By creating/editing your config.txt file and subtracting the pursuit lines to it: arm_freq=1000 core_freq=500 sdram_freq=500 over_voltage=6 These settings will not void your warranty. Including force_turbo=1 gives a little increasingly performance, but does void your warranty. You can overclock you RPi by creating a file tabbed config.txt within the System partition of the SD card. The easiest way to do this is to mount the SD vellum on a PC (The vellum should mount in Linux, OSX, or Windows considering the System partition is formatted as MSDOS). Then you can wield the correct nature as found HERE I'd like to try a variegated skin, what are my options? Skins that work well are Metropolis, Quartz, Quartz Reloaded, Slik. Don't plane try anything like Neon, Aeon MQ, or anything just as heavy it just won't work. Aeon Nox 5 is usable. Copyright © 2009-2018 OpenELEC . All Rights Reserved. Home FAQ OpenELEC FAQ Raspberry Pi FAQ Kodi FAQ (external) Community FAQ Privacy FAQ Documentation Supported Platforms Intel x86 Raspberry Pi 1 & 2 WeTek Play Cubox-i Installing OpenELEC Basic Install Guide Manual Installation DualMarchingNetworkMarching- NFS NetworkMarching- iSCSI User guideSubtractingMedia Sources Configuring Screen Resolutions Configuring Audio Accessing Samba Server Useful Terminal Commands Kodi Wiki (external) Kodi Addons (external) Configuration Updating OpenELEC Compile from source Development workflow Downloads Forum Donate