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This is a guide on how I setup Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 3 running Arch Linux ARM.

Prepare the Environment¶

• Install Arch Linux on the Raspberry Pi, see issue #682

• Make sure the system is up to date:
  

  pacman -Syu
  

• Install wget:
  

  pacman -S wget 
  

• Install yaourt

• Edit the boot config file:
  

  sudo nano /boot/config.txt
  

  • And increase the amount of GPU memory:
    

    arm_freq=1350
    core_freq=500
    over_voltage=4
    disable_splash=1
    gpu_mem=320
    

Install Kodi¶

• Install the kodi package for the raspberry pi:
  

  sudo pacman -S kodi-rbp xorg-xrefresh xorg-xset bluez python2-pybluez libnfs lsb-release polkit
  

• Install omxplayer-git from the AUR:
  

  yaourt omxplayer-git
  

• Edit the raspberry pi udev rules file:
  

  sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/raspberrypi.rules
  

  • And add the udev rule to enable typing with a physical keyboard.:
    

    SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="tty0", GROUP="tty", MODE="0666" 
    

• Enable Kodi at boot:
  

  sudo systemctl enable kodi
  

Resources¶

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kodi