Upgrade XBMC to OpenELEC
After working for over 2 years, essentially problem free, it was finally time to upgrade. I looked at just upgrading XBMC to Kodi , but found a much easier path of installing OpenELEC . Before doing so, I tested the installation on a spare machine. It worked really well. The things that concerned me, and required further investigation were: how to manage machine using SSH? can I use cron to perform maintenance tasks? will remote work will wireless connection work I must congratulate the OpenELEC team on such an easy installation and configuration. It was simple and painless. Preparation Backup media on XBMC host: music, videos onto external USB drive Prepare installation media. Here I used OpenELEC Stable - Generic x86_64 Version:4.2.1 (tar version) and the installation script to write to a USB flash stick: link Installation I just followed instructions on from this link. For setup, I connected a keyboard to make data entry easier. I also selected ...