Posts about media centre

With its small-sized PCB, the Raspberry Pi can easily be protected by many types of cases. Here I show how to build a Raspberry Pi into a mini-ITX tower. More…

Categories Raspberry Pi

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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…

Categories Raspberry Pi

Tags KodiLinux softwareOpenELECRaspberry PiXbianmedia centremedia centre hardwaremedia centre softwaremp3 playermusic software

What is a media centre without remote control? Fortunately, Kodi can be configured with various types of remote controls. This post explores all the remote control options available and show how to to connect and map them in Kodi. More…

Categories Raspberry Pi

Tags BluetoothKodiKodi add-onsOpenELECRaspberry Pimedia centreremote controlwireless communication

Although Kodi is quite comprehensive with a lot of automatic functionality (build-in or via plugins), there are still some things that needs to be done manually. Cleaning and updating the media libraries are unfortunately some of them. More…

Categories Raspberry Pi

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After new content has been loaded to Kodi’s storage locations, a media library update is required to add this content to the front-end. This post will show how to automate this process by installing an auto library updater for Kodi. More…

Categories Raspberry Pi

Tags KodiKodi add-onsOpenELECRaspberry PiXbianmedia centre