HOW-TO:Install Kodi on Raspberry Pi
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The basic hardware you will need is
- the R-Pi board itself
- a power supply (Micro-USB, 5V, 1200 mA)
- a SDHC memory card to install the software. (Because video decoding is more resource-intensive than many other operations, it may be more important to have a fast/high quality memory card for Kodi than for other uses.)
- See also: Raspberry Pi FAQ
Basic options
- Easy / Kodi centric distributions
- OpenELEC - Installing • FAQ • Help forum
- OSMC - Installing • FAQ • Help • Forum
- XBian - Installing • FAQ • Starters guide • Forum
- Advanced / can be used with Kodi
- Raspbian -
Up-to-dateversions (only up to version 15.2) of Kodi are now on the default Raspbian repositories. See full guide here (Version 16.1 is at the moment only available in Raspbian testing.)
- CarPC - Guide
- TriPi - Kodi, RetroPie, and a Rapbian desktop environment, in all one image with full Xbox360 controller support. (Xbox One controllers not supported yet) Guide
- RetroPie - See full guide here
- Recalbox - Installing (note: game controllers currently don't work in Kodi, so an additional remote or keyboard is needed)
- Buildroot - For experimented users only !
Specific install guides
For installs that don't directly include and/or boot into Kodi automatically.
Raspbian
(only up to version 15.2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kodi
- Alternative source
- You can also download Kodi from http://michael.gorven.za.net
- Pplware has a build of 16.1 for Raspbian, see https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=832735#p832735 and https://mtantawy.com/quick-tip-how-to-update-to-latest-kodi-16-jarvis-on-raspberry-pi/#comment-80
RetroPie
Here's a youtube guide:
Compiling Kodi
Notes for advanced users who wish to try and build Kodi from source code.
- Various good notes mentioned here: http://not-guild.de/temp/kodi.txt