Raspberry Pi

OpenELEC continue with test builds of the next version of OpenELEC. Build 3.1.6 is a test release and contains improvements for Raspberry Pi users, the bootup time for the Pi should be much faster in this release (under 20 seconds). Also in the update is network caching, GUI optimisations and OBEX support (Bluetooth file transfer).

Don’t forget this is still a test build and if you want to give it a try go to openelec.tv for the download link.

The OpenELEC 3.1 release series are test releases (beta) for OpenELEC-3.2.
OpenELEC-3.2 will be the next stable release, which is a feature release and the successor of OpenELEC-3.0.

This release has some bugfixes and speed improvements. Besides the usual bugfixes and package updates we also added some more backports from XBMC Gotham for RaspberryPi (again many thanks to ‘Popcornmix for the help and support here).

We found two issues which has slowed down our boot time drastically in the last few years and fixed this. RaspberryPi Users and users with slow systems should especially notice a speedup on boot (up to 15-20sec on RPi!).

We also included patches for

Speedup fanart and thumbnails loading

Network caching

GUI optimizations (on RPi showing the Systeminfo output should have much lower CPU usage now)

Avahi/Zeroconf bugfixes and improvements

Samba bugfixes and improvements

As a little bonus we added OBEX support in our builds (which can be enabled in our settings addon under “services” which provides filetransfer via bluetooth from any smartphone/bluetooth device to your OpenELEC box.

You should only upgrade from OpenELEC-3.0 to OpenELEC 3.1.6 for testing purposes.

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