Say you've got something like a Raspberry Pi, and you wanna use it for Kodi. The official wiki page for this sort of thing is at https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:HOW-TO:Autostart_Kodi_for_Linux, which points to https://github.com/graysky2/kodi-standalone-service. You could also just use something like OpenELEC (I hate it, personally), but here's some modified takes on the official-ish instructions. This presumes you're running Ubuntu 19.04 on a Pi 3, or have a similar setup to that. Create `/etc/systemd/system/kodi.service` with the contents as ``` lang=systemd [Unit] Description=Kodi standalone (X11) After=systemd-user-sessions.service network-online.target sound.target mysqld.service Requires=network-online.target Conflicts=getty@tty1.service [Service] User=kodi Group=kodi PAMName=login TTYPath=/dev/tty1 ExecStart=/usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/kodi-standalone -- :0 -nolisten tcp vt1 Restart=on-abort StandardInput=tty [Install] WantedBy=graphical.target ``` If ya can't get kodi-gbm to work (which these instructions presume), you'll probably also need to run `apt install xserver-xorg` now. (One might be able to get GBM to work with `echo "dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d" | sudo tee -a /boot/firmware/config.txt`. Except you'll still probably have to [[ documentation/kodi/standalone/compile/ | compile it yourself ]] if you're on ARM...) Then: ``` lang=bash # Add the group sudo addgroup kodi # Add the user, giving it no login shell and with /var/lib/kodi as its home directory sudo useradd -c 'kodi user' -u 420 -g kodi -G audio,input,uucp,video -d /var/lib/kodi -s /usr/sbin/nologin kodi # Not sure why this is necessary frankly, since the shell is set to nologin anyways sudo passwd -l kodi > /dev/null # Actually make the home directory we're using, and set ownership correctly sudo mkdir /var/lib/kodi sudo chown -R kodi:kodi /var/lib/kodi # Now, enable and start the service sudo systemctl enable kodi.service sudo systemctl start kodi.service ```

Say you've got something like a Raspberry Pi, and you wanna use it for Kodi. There are a few options: # Use [[ https://libreelec.tv/ | LibreELEC ]]. It's a fast, optimised just-enough OS setup for Kodi, and tends to get the fastest support for hardware acceleration since it's largely the Kodi devs themselves developing it. ## If you want to do more with it, see [[documentation/kodi/standalone/libreelec]] here on this wiki. # Use a "real" Linux distro like Debian or Ubuntu. See [[documentation/kodi/standalone/debian]] for instructions. # As an in-between measure, you could use something like [[ https://osmc.tv/ | OSMC ]], which is stripped down and set up for Kodi but is a full Debian-derived distro underneath with `apt` and all that.

Say you've got something like a Raspberry Pi, and you wanna use it for Kodi. The official wiki page for this sort of thing is at https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:HOW-TO:Autostart_Kodi_for_Linux, which points to https://github.com/graysky2/kodi-standalone-service. You could also just use something like OpenELEC (I hate it, personally), but here's some modified takes on the official-ish instructions. This presumes you're running Ubuntu 19.04 on a Pi 3, or have a similar setup to that. Create `/etc/systemd/system/kodi.service` with the contents as ``` lang=systemd [Unit] Description=Kodi standalone (X11) After=systemd-user-sessions.service network-online.target sound.target mysqld.service Requires=network-online.target Conflicts=getty@tty1.service [Service] User=kodi Group=kodi PAMName=login TTYPath=/dev/tty1 ExecStart=/usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/kodi-standalone -- :0 -nolisten tcp vt1 Restart=on-abort StandardInput=tty [Install] WantedBy=graphical.target ``` If ya can't get kodi-gbm to work (which these instructions presume), you'll probably also need to run `apt install xserver-xorg` now. (One might be able to get GBM to work with `echo "dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d" | sudo tee -a /boot/firmware/config.txt`. Except you'll still probably have to [[ documentation/kodi/standalone/compile/ | compile it yourself ]] if you're on ARM...) Then: ``` lang=bash # Add the group sudo addgroup kodi # Add the user, giving it no login shell and with /var/lib/kodi as its home directory sudo useradd -c 'kodi user' -u 420 -g kodi -G audio,input,uucp,video -d /var/lib/kodi -s /usr/sbin/nologin kodi # Not sure why this is necessary frankly, since the shell is set to nologin anyways sudo passwd -l kodi > /dev/null # Actually make the home directory we're using, and set ownership correctly sudo mkdir /var/lib/kodi sudo chown -R kodi:kodi /var/lib/kodi # Now, enable and start the serviceThere are a few options: sudo systemctl enable kodi.service # Use [[ https://libreelec.tv/ | LibreELEC ]]. It's a fast, optimised just-enough OS setup for Kodi, and tends to get the fastest support for hardware acceleration since it's largely the Kodi devs themselves developing it. sudo systemctl start ## If you want to do more with it, see [[documentation/kodi.service/standalone/libreelec]] here on this wiki. ``` # Use a "real" Linux distro like Debian or Ubuntu. See [[documentation/kodi/standalone/debian]] for instructions. # As an in-between measure, you could use something like [[ https://osmc.tv/ | OSMC ]], which is stripped down and set up for Kodi but is a full Debian-derived distro underneath with `apt` and all that.