Once this was done OpenELEC booted perfectly into XBMC Gotham.Īfter another reboot to extend the number of USB ports so I could have storage, bluetooth keyboard and WiFi. I realised, after reading through the instructions again, that I’d forgotten to set my USB partition as primary.
Download openelec for raspberry pi how to#
In this tutorial I’ll try to save you some time and explain how to manually upgrade Openelec (will focus on Raspberry Pi but should work with other devices. I had to format it as EXT4 using the MiniTool Partition Wizard software – again, very easy. OpenElec will not auto update between major releases in order to avoid breaks (possible with some specific hardware configurations). Meanwhile my CAS Conference USB was backing up to the HDD so I could reuse it as storage. It was surprisingly easy (although edit isn’t an option in Windows 7’s CMD line) to get the SD card as required.
I visited the OpenELEC website and followed the instructions on how to download and then (). My digital camera died (ok, I crushed the lens mechanism accidentally) so I had a spare 4GB SD card. Last night, after watching the following video, I decided to try and set up OpenELEC on its own SD card, using a USB drive as storage. I tried OpenElec last year when I spotted it as one of the options in the Raspberry Pi NOOBS install.