RPi & Kodi

Rough Notes

I'm using raspian lite to keep things, well, lite.  Or better said minimal.  I've used a few other websites, down in resources and modified to my tastes, both in how to install and the final setup.

1. Hooked up the Raspberry Pi to a keyboard, mouse & monitor with sound through HDMI (important if that is what you're doing you ultimately targeting).

2. "Burned" img and started with the "1st thing" steps.  Note I created a regular user to manage things, and an unprivileged user called "koditv" to actually auto-login and run kodi.  

3. sudo raspi-config -> Interfacing -> SSH -> yes (enabled).

4. I then ssh'ed as a privileged user from my laptop to do most configurations.

5. sudo usermod -a -G audio,video,input,dialout,plugdev,netdev,users,cdrom,tty koditv.

6. sudo raspi-config -> Advanced -> Memory Split -> 256 (some instructions say just 160, but 256 seems to work better for me).

7. sudo raspi-config -> Advanced -> GL Driver -> Legacy.

8. sudo apt-get install kodi rpd-plym-splash

9. reboot again

10. log in locally to the raspberry pi as koditv & run kodi-standalone

11. navigate around, download & play a video and/or song, etc.  i.e. check things that you want to do on Kodi

12. back on laptop, sudo nano -w /lib/systemd/system/kodi.service and paste in below;

    • [Unit]

    • Description = Kodi Media Center

    • After = remote-fs.target network-online.target

    • Wants = network-online.target

    • 
      

    • [Service]

    • User = koditv

    • Group = koditv

    • Type = simple

    • ExecStart = /usr/bin/kodi

    • Restart = on-abort

    • RestartSec = 5

    • 
      

    • [Install]

    • WantedBy = multi-user.target

13. sudo systemctl enable kodi.service

14. reboot & make sure Kodi starts up

15. ssh in again, and sudo nano -w /etc/dhcpcd.conf and set a static IP (I know some folks dislike this, but when setting up a home network, DNS and naming is not usually setup)

Resources

• http://kodi.wiki/view/Raspberry_pi

• https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=192499

• http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_on_Raspberry_Pi

• http://kodi.wiki/view/Raspberry_Pi_FAQ

• https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=282593 (not needed)

• https://github.com/lufinkey/kodi-openbox (not needed)

Notes 2

Install ubuntu server

Install stuff:  kodi lightdm plymouth-themes openbox xterm

Create generic user (useradd koditv)

Configure/clean-up lightdm:

• rm /usr/share/xsessions/ubuntu.desktop

• rm /usr/share/xsessions/ubuntu-xorg.desktop

• create /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.confi.d/50-autostart.conf

• change /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.confi.d/50-ubunty.conf to kodi (name & session)