A standalone kodi-gbm snap (not usable with X11, Wayland or Mir !) with the MMAL hardware acceleration patches for the Raspberry Pi.
Note: this snap needs a recent pi kernel ( >= 5.4 ) that provides /dev/vcsm-cma.
Please check if the device exists on your install before attempting to use this snap (Ubuntu Core20 as well as the Ubuntu 20.10 server and desktop images for the raspberry Pi will work (UC16 or 18 will not!))
This snap is built from the MMAL enabled branch at https://github.com/PIPplware/xbmc.git It ships with all default binary addons included.
The snap is a standalone kiosk application, it will not start if there is already a graphical session running on the system !
There are still snapd interface fixes pending to make the snap work in full strict mode, thus you currently need to install in --devmode.
If you use Ubuntu Core20, it is recommended to also install the avahi, bluez and (for bluetooth audio if desired) also the pulseaudio snap packages alongside and connect the respective interfaces.
The kodi homedir can be found in /var/snap/kodi-pi-standalone/common/.kodi/
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
On a Raspberry Pi running the latest version of Raspbian snap can be installed directly from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
You will also need to reboot your device:
sudo reboot
After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:
sudo snap install snapd
To install kodi-pi-standalone, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install kodi-pi-standalone --beta
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