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Hi.

I downloaded an XBMC for RPI (http://sources.openelec.tv/tmp/image/Ope...82.tar.bz2), however it appears i need a linux box to actually create the SD card...

Ive read on the internet how to do this from Windows, but this only covers openELEC and not an XBMC build with openELEC

My goal is to install openELEC and a RPI install of XBMC, how can i do this using Windows to create the SD card?

Also where are the RPI builds of XBMC (or is the link above correct)?

Hi
try this http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
for xbmc you can try this http://www.raspbmc.com/download/ there is a link on this page with info on installing via windows

Thanks for the links, i would prefer to stick with openELEC, its abit quicker ive read

Hi

So i found this http://openelec.tv/installation/install-1-windows however this will only install openELEC, where would i get a RPI install of XBMC from (and how would i install it on he now running RPI? (with the now install openELEC system)

(2012-11-06, 06:28)SFX Group Wrote: [ -> ]Hi

So i found this http://openelec.tv/installation/install-1-windows however this will only install openELEC, where would i get a RPI install of XBMC from (and how would i install it on he now running RPI? (with the now install openELEC system)

This should get you started.

http://squirrelhosting.co.uk/hosting-blo...o.php?id=9

Thanks, this was something i read very late last night, looks good.....

How do i update XBMC once its installed? I understand openELEC will do that itself?

(2012-11-06, 14:42)SFX Group Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks, this was something i read very late last night, looks good.....

How do i update XBMC once its installed? I understand openELEC will do that itself?

I don't believe openelec auto updates (yet) itself, raspbmc does (i believe). But otherwise it's pretty easy to update, see the link that xbs08 posted.

(2012-11-06, 20:34)RavenNL Wrote: [ -> ]I don't believe openelec auto updates (yet) itself,

http://openelec.tv/installation/updating

The above says it does (manual and automatic)

Ive read a number of reviews of raspbmc, although it sounds nice, i need a faster boot then 90-100 seconds, i also dont need the complete system as raspbmc has, openELEC will do fine, boot is about 70 seconds or less and thats complete boot with no other loading.

I havent seen that option in the raspberry pi version at all. It's probably built in the normal version of Openelec and probably meant to update final releases while the RPI builds are based on nightlies.

Only method I know is by placing those files into the update folder and reboot the RPI and it updates itself (takes a few mins tops).

I tried Raspbmc as well and for me it behaved very sluggish compared to the openelec build. Only thing I did noticed is that my Microsoft multimedia keyboard wireless works without any problems but it doesn't work in the openelec version. Not a big point for me but could be usefull sometimes.

(2012-11-07, 10:05)RavenNL Wrote: [ -> ]I havent seen that option in the raspberry pi version at all. It's probably built in the normal version of Openelec and probably meant to update final releases while the RPI builds are based on nightlies.

Only method I know is by placing those files into the update folder and reboot the RPI and it updates itself (takes a few mins tops).

actually we dont automatically update from devel versions, even if its possible and fully implemented, to not break working builds. this will be activated within releases (betas, RC's, finals) very soon with OpenELEC-3.0 (which will be the first "stable" release with RPi support)

do we have an ETA for v3?

(2012-11-12, 03:53)SFX Group Wrote: [ -> ]do we have an ETA for v3?

hehe... we dont have ETAs :-) but if you test/use our development builds from sources.openelec.tv/tmp/image/ you use already the builds which will be released later as OpenELEC-3.0