[GUIDE] Kodi on Volumio 2.x -> Install on a nonvolumio image

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Thanks a lot for your answer. I’m glad I don’t have to install Kodi again and re-do all my settings. That’s good news.

And the remote control question isn’t really a pressing one, since the solution with using two different IR receivers is working pretty well for the moment. I guess I will tackle it at some point in the future. And if you are curious about using the IR plugin yourself, you can find all I had to learn about it in this thread: https://volumio.org/forum/remote-controller-feedback-thread-t6668-20.html At the end there’s a little summary of my findings. Maybe that’s useful to you.

Thanks again.

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Thanks! Will read into that!

As for those who are wondering, yes the package downloads the latest Krypton build (17.3 now), so the subtitle fix is in it.

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I just downloaded and installed it from github.com/Saiyato/volumio-kodi-plugin It is claiming it is Kodi Krypton RC1. Also it errored out when I enabled the plugin claiming the file was already there even though I was using a clean install that didnt have it.

I tried uninstalling the plugin through the GUI and re-uploading it and reinstalling it. It hangs at 70% and says:

Adding plugin to registry
Plugin Successfully Installed
Installing Kodi and its dependencies…
Plugin is already installing! Not continuing…

After a minute or two it proceeds with:

The following error occurred when installing the plugin: Error: Plugin Kodi already exists
0%

Any advice?

Thanks!

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SSH into the box. Manually deleted the plugin and reinstalled it. This time it got to 70% with the following out put:

and then it hangs and after a minute I get this output:

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This is Volumio behaviour, not sure how to have Volumio uninstall the plugin upon error on install.sh. Will have to read into this and gather information. This is because the kodi directory is writting in the plugins dir, you need to refresh the page, uninstall the plugin and then re-install.

First of all, I will update the comment in the script, because we’re at Krypton 17.3 now (RC1 was a few months ago). In your post it says:

Sorry, your device is not (yet) supported!

On what kind of device are you installing the plugin? Because in the thread it is mentioned, but I do realize now that the plugin repo doesn’t contain info regarding the supported platforms (only raspberry Pi).

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Yeah, it is using the official x86 image. Is there a way to get this plugin to work with that image? Could I install Kodi manually and then use it to control the settings?

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I have no idea mate, haven’t tried it yet :unamused:

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Hi,

I am very pleased to learn volumio recently.

However, I had difficulty using volumio because it is a Linux standalone booting method,
and I have just seen this article.

I have some question.

We know how to boot Linux Debian 8 on Android TV OS (5.1x) base. (This is not the way to use the Linix deploy app.)

The screen is configured to run the leanback launcher of the Android TV OS and run the Linux server in the background.

We hope to run the volumio server on an ARM 32bit based Debian 8 OS running in the background.

Is there a way to install volumio on Linux?

Please let me know if there is a way to do this.

Thx.

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Hi!

Wonderful project!

I installed the plugin today but when i turn on the tv i just see the volumio console…

Why is this?

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You need to reboot the machine and then (after reboot!) start the plugin.

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Hey,

I think the linux distro’s can all use the PPA I use, but I have no experience in the matter.
Can’t tell if it’s just click and play, sorry.

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I tried that already :cry:

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I don’t know how Linux savvy you are, but can you post the journal from the moment you start the plugin?
I.e. run “sudo journalctl -f” over SSH, start the plugin and copy the output to here.

Else you could try to re-install the plugin, if nothing happens that implies the Kodi installation did not succeed at some point.

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[size=150]EDIT:
NVM!
I did a fresh install of volumio and Kodi is working now! Excited to try it out![/size]

[spoiler]

Started with reinstalling the plugin. Still no picture on tv.

Volumio won´t let me login through ssh, so I had to plug in the keyboard. Sorry for bad quality, but I have attached a picture

I guess we´re looking at Failed at EXEC spawning ....
Permission error???

Thx[/spoiler]

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Awesome, if you run into any problems just post back here. If I can’t, maybe someone can solve the problem :wink:

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Hi,
It could be useful to be able to enable http remote from plugin setting. I use it on rpi2 plug on a TV screen with no keyboard /mouse. And I can’t use software like kodi Kore to remote it. It also requires to change remote port to avoid conflict with volumio. Or I missed something ?
Thank anyway for your work !

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Hey,

Will check if I can add it to the plugin somewhere in the near future, see issue #11.

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Saiyato,

I’m currently trying to use your script to install Kodi on the x86 image (Intel NUC Hardware). Some things I was able to figure out but at the moment there seems to be an X11 related problem so Kodi crashes on launch. I will try to have a look at that tomorrow.

Care to get into this a bit or will you focus on Raspberry only?

Well, here’s some info if you’re interested:

/etc/apt/sources.list

  • added sources for Kodi dependencies to install (could be integrated into install.sh)

deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie-backports main deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main
install.sh

  • removed CPU check lines
  • fixed path to boot configuration: “/boot/config.txt” becomes “/boot/config-3.18.25” (not sure if those RPi options are generic though)
  • /etc/systemd/system/kodi.service: changed “ExecStart = /usr/bin/kodi-standalone […]” to “ExecStart = /usr/bin/kodi --standalone […]” because the kodi-standalone wrapper is missing?!

Errors:

ERROR: DBus: Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs - No such property CanSuspend ERROR: DBus: Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs - No such property CanHibernate ERROR: PulseAudio: Failed to connect context ERROR: X11 Error: No Display found FATAL: CApplication::Create: Unable to init windowing system

//EDIT:
Oh well… "The integrated Intel HD graphics adapter does not work with Debian Jessie. It is working with Debian Stretch (Testing). "

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Added to the plugin and uploaded

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I just bought a new laptop, so I’m thinking about setting up the old one as an x86/x64 test machine. Not sure if it’s easy to do, but I’ll try to read into it this summer. The SnapCast plugin is taking a bit longer than expected, so I haven’t put much effort in the Kodi plugin as of late.