Setting up Kodi
LibreELEC is probably the easiest Linux distro you ever installed, and Kodi will be ready for action in no time.
M aking and booting a LibreELEC SD card follows much the same procedure as any other Pi operating system. You just need to ensure you use the correct image. LibreELEC 10 only supports the Pi 4 at present, but this will change in future (see
box, previous page).
Download the image from the releases page at https://libreelec.tv/downloads/raspberry. For Pis Zero to 3, use the latest image from the previous 9.2 series which you’ll find by scrolling down. Or consider investing in one of the ‘other’ boards supported by the new edition, such as the Pine64. There’s also a generic image for running on a regular 64-bit PC, or a ready-togo virtual machine image. Oh, and there’s an official LibreELEC USB-SD Creator tool for macOS, Linux and Windows. But it didn’t work at all well for us so we’ll continue to recommend Balena Etcher for this purpose. See the install page on the wiki (https://wiki.libreelec. tv/installation/create-media) if you have any problems.
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Once you’ve made and booted your SD card, you’ll be greeted with the LibreElec splash screen followed by the Kodi setup wizard. You’ll probably need a keyboard, mouse or gamepad plugged in to navigate this. But if you have plugged everything into an HDMI receiver with a remote control, then you can use that because Kodi supports CEC (Consumer Electronic Control) protocol too. Magical. Keen eyed readers might notice a CEC adaptor being detected during the setup stages.