Migrating OpenElec (Gotham) from RPI B to B+
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I'm thinking of getting my brother a B+ to replace his B as it will allow me to discard the USB Hub and make a nicer case for it. I'm planning to stick a HifiBerry DAC on it as well https://www.hifiberry.com/dacplus/

Will I just be able to take his current SD card and copy it to a microSD and run the B+ from that without any problems. He's currently using a USB remote dongle. I'll probably add a USB dual DVB-T tuner as well at some point, which I know will require some additional drivers, etc. Obviously I'll have to buy the codecs again for the new board.

He needs to stick with Gotham for now at least as he uses xTV-SAF which is probably the only skin suitable for his composite CRT TV and the author doesn't seem to be developing it for Helix at the moment.
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#2
EASY: If you have a Windows Computer, this may require a same sized microSDHC card. Give it a try.
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-clone-your-...1261113524

HARD: http://sysmatt.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/b...-your.html

otherwise....

Depending on how customised OpenElec is on his RPi B, you can go into OpenElec Settings and create a .tar backup of Gotham.

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/OpenEL...tion_Addon

Enable SAMBA in OpenElec settings, and copy the .tar file from the Backup folder to an external PC.

The safest route then is to put the OpenElec Gotham 13.2 diskimage on to the RPi B+ microSDHC card link here:
http://releases.openelec.tv/OpenELEC-RPi...2.1.img.gz

Run that on the RPi, enable SAMBA in OpenElec settings again then Restore Backup from the .tar backup file.

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Then if you want to upgrade to Kodi download ...
http://releases.openelec.tv/OpenELEC-RPi.arm-5.0.0.tar

and put that file via SAMBA into the Update folder on your RPi B+.
Finally reboot and Kodi will then migrate your Gotham userdata.

Smile

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#3
Thanks for your posting, and the links.
I looked at the HARD one, especially, since I know linux, and have played with it.
I note that, of the two devices I possess which can read SDHC cards, only one seemed to cooperate with raspbmc (latest version) to allow reading the card. Probably down to the drivers, but I haven't yet investigated.
Derek
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#4
Many thanks wrxtasy. As he lives far from me and I want to get the B+ up and running and send it to him whilst he continues to use the B in the meantime, I was thinking of backing up his existing files to PC and then zipping them up and e-mailing them to me, to be extracted to the microSD but if I only need to extract a fresh image to the microSD and then copy across a backup of the OE settings, then that will be easier

I think I was more concerned that there might be issues with his existing hardware, namely the IR receiver and using composite video (I know I need to find a special lead for that as it's sharing the 3.5mm jack with the audio now, so if anyone has a link to a lead that will work, that'd be great) but I guess if something works with the B there's no reason why it shouldn't with the B+.
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#5
All USB dongles will continue to work after you backup the RPI B Openelec data and config settings and transfer all its data across to the B+ using the .tar backup / restore method.

The only thing you may want to copy separately is the config.txt file if you have any custom Overclock settings etc. in there. That file will not be backed up by the .tar

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