I had to configure my XBOX 360 Controller from within Kodi, but it worked easily and all of my buttons/levers work.

Also, configuration is interactive and intuitive.

Do we have HW accelerated playback with this build? I think that was the thing putting me off the other builds.

Thanks for your work

Originally posted by MrSqu1nty:

Do we have HW accelerated playback with this build? I think that was the thing putting me off the other builds.

Thanks for your work

Yes it is H264 accelerated for video. There are still a couple playback issues (crash on stopping occasionally) but overall fairly usable.

No need to thank me. I'm just running the build script every once in a while. The SDK developers deserve all the credit. :)

Some buttons on the controller don't work when I try to map them. ABXY works fine but the dpad doesn't. Left analog stick works except for down for some reason?! Does anyone have the same problem?

I just got the steam link, installed your kodi version fine. The Xbox 360 controller is also working fine.

However I can not add an external Disk (The same that works with my kodi on raspberry pi) and kodi allways crashes after about 1 minute open :(

Is there somewhere I can see the logs?

Originally posted by hauke:

Some buttons on the controller don't work when I try to map them. ABXY works fine but the dpad doesn't. Left analog stick works except for down for some reason?! Does anyone have the same problem?

I noted DPad not working already. Analog down DID work for me on initial setup but I did run into the same as you where it just refused to work.

Originally posted by skzo:

I just got the steam link, installed your kodi version fine. The Xbox 360 controller is also working fine.

However I can not add an external Disk (The same that works with my kodi on raspberry pi) and kodi allways crashes after about 1 minute open :(

Is there somewhere I can see the logs?

You have to mount an external disk manually. Kodi doesn't handle that on the Link. Freezing is to be expected. Sometimes it happens after stopping a video, others just randomly. I've just been building on script updates so I'm not sure if anybody is working on these issues.

Originally posted by skzo:

I just got the steam link, installed your kodi version fine. The Xbox 360 controller is also working fine.

However I can not add an external Disk (The same that works with my kodi on raspberry pi) and kodi allways crashes after about 1 minute open :(

Is there somewhere I can see the logs?

Are you sure you are running beta on the steamlink itself? That was my mistake 2 days ago.

No news about the PVR IPTV Simple Client addon, and why it's not available here?

Well, kodi itself seems to boot up but freezes quite often when trying to install addons and have to unplug and plug the power back in to get the steam link working again. Controller support initially worked fine (including triggers?) but is hit-or-miss. Hopefully this improves.

Much the same here. Installation is nice and easy. First playback of a movie (both SMB mount and iPlayer) is OK. Subsequent playback is highly likely to be either corrupt, or to lock the Steam Link entirely requiring full power-down.

Steam controller buttons are OK but the analog stick is a bit random. On one try only down worked. On the next try up/left/right worked, down failed. Next time, up/down/right worked, left failed. It feels as though the first axis to move is ignored forever more.

XBox controller is fine.

There's an annoying bug in the movie source dialog. Creating is fine, but editing a source is impossible. Once you get to the "This directory contains..." choice to select 'Movie', 'TV shows' etc, this dialog pops up in an infinite loop. Only way to exit is again to pull the plug.

It seems that things tend to work intermittently, though my initial impressions were flawed.

The files to put on a USB drive are *installers* that put the apps onto the link, not a place to just load the apps from dynamically as I initially thought (my thinking was along the lines of how Wii homebrew and 3DS titles work with having the source in all the time if you want to load those apps dynamically). Once I figured that out and loaded Kodi WITHOUT the installer on the USB, things seemed to work much more smoothly, but still not without issues.

There are definitely inconsistencies in the UI, though that may just be a problem with Krypton itself. (Hitting B or whatever you have set up for "cancel" often completely exits addons or does other unexpected behavior instead of simply going back a step.)

Playback is hit or miss (I'm on a wifi signal that I have no control over) and many movies I attempted to play (via Trakt account on Exodus plugin) were such a horrible frame rate with pixelation and lack of sound that I had to stop. I'm planning to try using USBMount and enabling downloads, though some sort of more enhanced caching/buffering would be great.

Controller support in general for the link is still wonky, at least for Xbox One controllers via Bluetooth, but it seems the system has "settled in" with my controller finally.

Other than those issues, it seems navigation works well enough and settings save as expected.