I’ve had CoreELEC and Kodi installed on my little MiniM8S II (Amlogic S905X) box for ages, and for the past 5+ years it has just sat under the telly and played movies and TV shows sourced from my NAS. I’ve not really been back into settings or changed anything since I set it up.
However I’ve noticed that even though auto-updates are enabled, the device is still running a very old version of CoreELEC (9.2.8) and Kodi 18.9, which is now causing issues with things like artwork and movie database scraping due to python dependencies no longer being up to date.
Is there a simple plug-and-play update file solution, or do I need to start digging back into the all the programming and setup files that I used years ago and have now completely forgotten how to do?
Andre
The s905x is supported up to CE-NG 21.3.
You can put the generic update tar file in the update folder and reboot to update. But it’s highly recommended that you perform a fresh install between major CE versions, especially in your case being a couple versions behind.
Thanks. I’d already considered creating a fresh install on a new bootable Micro SD Card (thus keeping the old card setup intact if I found I needed to roll back). That way I can decide which (if any) addons I still need with the latest Kodi. I’ve just downloaded “CoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-21.3-Omega-Generic.img.gz” for the S905X 2GB, which I think should be the right version. And then use DTB “gxl_p212_2g”.
I have backup copies of my main Kodi config files (advancedsettings.xml, sources.xml, passwords.xml, etc) so it should be easy relink it to my NAS, and I know the database should get rebuilt into a new SQL database anyway (still retaining the old one on my server, so again rollback should not be a problem). Are poster images/etc kept in the database, or cached on the device / old SD Card?
IR remote control config would be my biggest concern, as I had to program the old setup to respond to the codeset that my remote uses, and I can’t for the life of me remember how I did it and where the setup files needed to go! 
Andre
Well that was easy, flashed a spare SD Card, plugged it into the MiniM8S, and test booted from it. New Kodi loaded and remote works (maybe the remote config info is stored in the device memory rather than the OS SD card?). Anyway, now I can access it and do the necessary setup stuff and copy the config files over. Easier than I expected so far!
Andre
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