My Kodi Notes
Kodi Image
My personal preference for running Kodi is on a Raspberry Pi. At the time of this writing, an image can be burned to a micro SD card using the LibreELEC USB-SD Creator. I use the 64bit version, but it also comes in 32 bit as well.
- Official LibreELEC downloads: https://libreelec.tv/downloads/
- My personal copies:
Note: LibreELEC USB-SD Creator is a stand-alone application and must be ran as root.
$ sudo ./LibreELEC.USB-SD.Creator.Linux-64bit.bin
Once started, select the Pi version and the image, click Download, and then Write.
Basic Configuration Notes
My intentions for this section are to put some notes on things I always seem to forget...
Oh...I usually use Eminence as my skin, so that's what these notes are based on.
Timezone
Settings --> Interface --> Regional
NTP
LibreELEC Settings --> Network
- Timeserver#1: 0.north-america.pool.ntp.org
- Timeserver#2: 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org
- Timeserver#3: 2.north-america.pool.ntp.org
Name
There are two places where you need to configure the name:
- Settings --> LibreELEC Settings --> System --> System Name
- Settings --> Services --> General --> Device Name
The Device Name is what shows up in the device discovery on the phone.
Addons
The notes I have on addons here are minimal at best. My intentions are not to provide all-inclusive documentation, but more of a quick reference to links and maybe some non-intuitive direction here and there.
Video
Covenant
Repository: https://covenant01.github.io/zip
Crew
Repository: https://team-crew.github.io
The Magic Dragon
Repository: http://www.narcacist.com/repo
FEN
Repository: https://tikipeter.github.io
Seren
Repository: https://nixgates.github.io/packages
Provider Package: http://bit.ly/a4kScrapers
Music
MP3 Stream
Repository: http://sgkodi.de/SGK-Repo/
Services
VPN Manager for OpenVPN
Repository: Service.vpn.manager-master.zip
Notes: I usually run a local webserver that I can point to this file for Kodi installation.
Desktop Configuration
Display Kodi in a window
vi .kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml
Change:
<setting id="videoscreen.screenmode" default="true">DESKTOP</setting>
to
<setting id="videoscreen.screenmode">WINDOW</setting>