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How to autostart Kodi at boot?
Aside from the answers already provided by others, you could also utilise the crontab to do this fairly easily provided that you have already disabled starting Raspbian GUI on startup via raspi-config....
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LibreELEC: Fix date
Figured out how to set the correct date and time from within Kodi.
Go to "LibreELEC Settings"
From the main menu: Programs -> Add-ons -> LibreELEC Configuration
Go to the "Network" tab
Add some ...
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How to autostart Kodi at boot?
If you are running Raspbian 10 (based on Debian Buster), then the proper way to add it is to add @kodi to the file ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart which will automatically start it only for your ...
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How do install Chromium on openELEC?
OpenELEC appears to be an intentionally confined, minimal operating system. I assume it is simple to use, partially because you cannot do much with it beyond Kodi.
Part of this is that it does not ...
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How do I install/run kodi on raspbian?
Because you should have just asked for what you wanted:
apt-get install kodi
For future reference, apt has a search feature:
apt-cache search kodi
This will return a list of packages with "kodi" ...
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Exiting KODI makes TV turn off
Kodi implements Consumer Electronics Control (CEC), which sends control signals between the Pi and the TV. It's pretty handy on the whole, allowing you to shuttle around menus using your infrared TV ...
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Netflix Addon for Kodi/OSMC
There is a proper Netflix addon but it uses Kodi 17 (krypton)'s newly implemented InputStream API. However, Kodi 17 still isn't enough for running the plugin, Netflix uses DRM encryption which is only ...
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Copy current SD image to larger SD card
The following worked for me, with an SD card that was originally prepared with NOOBS. I was going from a 32GB SD-Card to a 128 GB Card.
Insert the new card into an external card reader and attach it ...
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How do I get RCA video out of OpenELEC/LibreELEC?
For future reference.
OpenELEC config.txt file is in /flash
To modify it, you need to remount the /flash directory as rw, as it is read-only by default. The easiest way to do that is to have both ...
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KODI and analog audio
You must edit your config.txt in boot partition.
Set:
hdmi_ignore_edid_audio=1
hdmi_force_edid_audio=0
This will force audio due analog output. After changes reboot your device.
You can read more ...
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Opening Terminal From Kodi (OpenELEC)
To the best of my knowledge there is no terminal access in OpenELEC. There is, per Ghanima's comment above, an Exit option and terminal access in vanilla Kodi on Raspbian, but not in OpenELEC.
The ...
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Watch Youtube videos without "personal API key", because I don't have a Google account
I don't know anything about Kodi, but you can get YouTube videos without allowing Google to sniff your privates:
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
I've found youtube-dl to work well for my purposes, ...
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KODI and analog audio
Actually, in a recent version of kodi (using openelec build 8.0.0 for the raspberry 3, which is kodi 17) there is an option to select the audio output under
settings -> system settings -> audio
and ...
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Kodi 17.0 (Krypton) on Raspbian
If your question is about getting a recent Kodi (rather than just about testing) There is an up-to-date repository for the Pi.
I am currently running:- 17.0 Git:20170202-523ece1-dirty Media Center ...
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How to autostart Kodi at boot?
For Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (Stretch), the following is used to autostart kodi at boot:
Edit file /etc/default/kodi and set
ENABLED=1
Unmask and enable the kodi systemd service:
sudo systemctl unmask ...
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How to start kodi at startup automatically?
There is a typo in your Unit file. Please correct StandartInput=tty to StandardInput=tty. Then I do not understand why do you use this setting. According to man systemd.exec it is said:
If tty is ...
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Openelec(Kodi) Amazon Instant video?
As far as I know it is not possible at the moment to run Amazon Prime on the Raspberry Pi.
Perhaps when the new Kernel 4.4 is released it might work eventually again. But at the moment no chance :(
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Kodi & RetroPie on one box
It seems like the dual/triple boot option using noobs isn't working properly for me (SD-Card issue???)
I wiped my OSMC kodi install from my SD card and installed Retropie 3.3.
From there I use the ...
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stream games/screen to kodi
There's a complete walkthrough here on using VLC to capture and stream the desktop of a PC to a second machine. At the time of writing there is a bug in versions subsequent to 2.1.5 which prevent this ...
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Can Raspberry Pi B+ run Kodi efficiently?
I have Kodi running (as part of OpenELEC) on a Raspberry Pi model B (not the +) and it does just fine, including playing Blue-Ray videos over the network. So the answer is: yes, it will run fine - ...
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Can Raspberry Pi B+ run Kodi efficiently?
I've had various flavours of pi tucked behind my tv running kodi for years now, upgrading whenever a new model turns up. The biggest differences you're likely to notice moving between the pi A/B -> A+/...
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Kodi update for complete novice
I can see a couple of options on the osmc.tv/wiki page:
Setting up an update schedule
By default, OSMC will check for updates automatically and prompt you.
You can refine this via My OSMC. If ...
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How do I turn my pi3 back on?
The only way to restart the Pi are:-
Cycle power, or
Connect a switch to the reset pins on the Pi
If neither of these suits you DO NOT TURN OFF; the Pi uses less power than most devices (TV, ...
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Cannot ssh into Pi3
When trying to connect to the OSMC Media center (installed from the NOOBS installer), remember that it is OSMC and not XBMC.
To remote connect via ssh you need to use the credentials osmc/osmc and NOT ...
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Kodi on Raspbian vs. Kodi on OpenELEC
The following thread on the RPi forums discusses some differences between OpenELEC+Kodi and Raspbian+Kodi.
According to that discussion, a key difference is the memory split in Raspbian. Essentially, ...
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Trying to force OpenELEC to keep HDMI on, but fs is readonly
I just installed OpenElec on a Pi 3, and it puts the partition that is normally mounted as /boot on other distributions as /flash.
OpenELEC:~ # df | grep p1
/dev/mmcblk0p1 524008 151736 ...
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Netflix for libreelec stutters
The raspberry pi 3 is not fast enough for 1080p, because widevine does software decoding because of the DRM In the netflix plugin it is a bit confusing how to set the bitrate in a permanent way.
I ...
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Separate video audio output two Raspberry Pis
Make the RPi connected to the audio system essentially a bluetooth speaker. Stream the audio from the RPi that's playing back the video. Most video player apps have sound delay/advance configurable. ...
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