{"id":148,"date":"2025-12-05T21:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diasparscribe.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:39:50","slug":"how-to-install-kodi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diasparscribe.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/05\/how-to-install-kodi\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install Kodi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With a Raspberry Pi you can listen to music, watch tv and videos and generally use it as a home entertainment system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You should be able to do most things with VLC (which comes installed with Raspbian OS). However you can also use other free software such as OSMC, Volumio or Kodi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought I would try Kodi as it is available as an install from the Raspberry Pi repository. Learning to do everthing (and in the right order) involved a fair amount of searching online, but I managed to distil the process down to the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used the following hardware:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raspberry Pi 3B+ \/ 16 GB micro SD card \/ Keyboard \/ Mouse \/ Monitor \/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download Raspbian Lite and check the SHA-256 checksum is right. Put the .img file on a micro sd card using software called imager. (Available from the Raspberry Pi website)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put the card in the RPi 3B+ and connect to a screen a keyboard and mouse and switch it on. It will go through its set-up procedure which should only take a minute or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change the default password and connect to the Pi to the internet. At the command prompt type:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sudo apt update<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

sudo apt install ufw<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

sudo ufw enable<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restart the RPi. At the command prompt type:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sudo apt update<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

sudo apt upgrade<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then type: Y<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This should install all the software updates.
Restart the RPi. Then at the command prompt, install the desktop via:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudo apt install raspberrypi-ui-mods<\/strong>
Sudo reboot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open a terminal window and type the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudo apt install kodi
Reboot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open a terminal window and type:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sudo raspi-config<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change the memory split so that the GPU has 256 megabytes
Change the boot options so that the RPi boots to cmd
Open a terminal window and type the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

crontab \u2013e<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choose the nano option<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add: @reboot kodi \u2013standalone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crtl O then Crtl X to save and close the file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might also like to stop the firewall if not going back on line again by going to a command prompt and type:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sudo ufw disable<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reboot and hey presto Kodi should start up and be available to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a way to install the RPi Lite OS without the raspberrypi-ui-mods and then install<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kodi and add the dependancies that the Kodi gui needs. It looks a bit complex from what I have read online so I just chose to do it this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems relatively simple and it works for me. I will try at some point to do it without the Raspberry Pi gui which should free up some more resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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