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Using a Raspberry Pi as a cheap media centre

2 March 2019

With a plethora of mini media centre boxes becoming readily available, it comes as no surprise that open source platforms are also available for this purpose. Kodi is one such platform and it is available to be installed onto a Raspberry Pi. More…

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Installing Kodi on a Raspberry Pi

9 May 2015 | Updated 8 July 2018

Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is an open source media centre software and is available in different forms for all major operating systems. For home use, XBian and OpenELEC are two popular Kodi-embedded media centre distributions. More…

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