Kodi is one of the most popular media center applications on earth, and for good reason. The open-source program makes it easy to organize local files and watch streaming media on a wide variety of devices, all with the same highly customizable interface and user-friendly features. And for all of its abilities, Kodi is actually quite a lightweight program, perfectly suited for running on old PCs and other devices – including the tiny and versatile Raspberry Pi. Our favorite little computer is a very popular choice for Kodi users, which is why we’re here to show you how to install Kodi on the Raspberry Pi.
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Kodi isn’t an operating system, of course, but there area number of lightweight operating systems that work on the Raspberry Pi while using Kodi as their front end and user interface. The most popular of these are LibreELEC and OSMC. Today, we’ll be showing you how to use LibreELEC. OSMC is very similar, and if for some reason you have strong feelings about this sort of thing, you can find our OSMC guide at Cordcutting.com. For LibreELEC, you’ll have two choices: NOOBS or a direct installation.
How to install Kodi on the Raspberry Pi using NOOBS
LibreELEC is one of the most popular methods for putting Kodi on a Raspberry Pi, so it’s no surprise that we find LibreELEC among the options in NOOBS, a popular operating system installation program for the Raspberry Pi. https://heavenlytag826.weebly.com/eazy-addons-kodi-android-download.html. NOOBS works pretty simply. You just put it on a microSD card, boot your Pi to the card, and choose which operating system you’d like. For a detailed description of how to install NOOBS on the Raspberry Pi, check out our article on the subject.
Once you have NOOBS up and running, you’ll see a list that looks like the one below. LibreELEC is easy to spot – it’s second on the list, with the colorful box-top logo.
To install Kodi on the Raspberry Pi, choose LibreELEC. You can also choose OSMC if you wish – as we mentioned earlier.
How to install Kodi on the Raspberry Pi using LibreELEC
If you don’t want to use NOOBS to install LibreELEC, you can choose to install the operating system directly. The method is pretty similar to one we used to install NOOBS on the Raspberry Pi. We’re going to download LibreELEC, put it on a micro SD card, and then boot the Pi to the SD card (you can also use a USB drive and follow these same instructions).
Step 1: Download and open the LibreELEC’s installer app
First things first. Hop on a computer with a SD card drive and download the LibreELEC USB/SD creator app. Just choose the right download for whatever type of computer you’re using.
Download finished? Great – go ahead and open that new app! You may have to have administrator privileges to do this.
Step 2: Download the right disc image
LibreELEC’s app makes this process very simple. When you open the creator app, you’ll see four colorful steps. We’re dealing with steps one and two here: select the right version for your Raspberry Pi and then hit “download.” The app will download the right disc image for you. Foolproof, right?
Step 3: Select your SD card
Go ahead and tell the app about your SD card (or USB drive) by choosing it from the drop-down menu.
Step 4: Write to the SD card
This is the easiest step yet: just hit the “write” button and wait for the magic to happen! Once your SD card is created, eject it safely from your computer.
Step 5: Put your SD card into your Raspberry Pi and boot it up
Put everything together and boot up your Raspberry Pi with the SD card in it. You’re home free now – your Pi will boot to Kodi and hit you with a pop-up welcoming you to LibreELEC. Enjoy!
Try out add-ons
Kodi has a ton to offer to Raspberry Pi users. Though the service made its name as a way to manage local content, there are lots of ways to enjoy streaming content and other types of entertainment on Kodi. Kodi has a ton of “add-ons,” which essentially act as apps within the app. They can allow you to use popular streaming services within Kodi. Just be sure that you’re getting legitimate add-ons – thanks to a number of pirate add-ons, Kodi is now taking pains to certify certain add-ons and disavow others.
For more tips on choosing the right add-ons, check out our list of the best Kodi add-ons over at Cordcutting.com.
Fire OS 5, the latest version of the Fire TV operating system, ships on the 2nd-gen Fire TV and is coming to the 1st-gen Fire TV and Fire TV Stick soon. As you probably know, Fire OS 5 is based on Android 5.1 Lollipop. With the upgrade comes Androids new tighter restrictions on app permissions. One of those new restrictions in Android forces apps to explicitly ask for your permission before they’re allowed to modify files on external storage devices. Some apps, including Kodi, have not yet been updated to request these new permissions, so are unable to modify files on a microSD card or USB drive connected to a Fire TV running Fire OS 5. This is why you cannot currently fully move Kodi to external storage on Fire OS 5.
Kodi, and all other apps, have no problem reading files from external storage. This means you can play media files, stored on a USB drive or a microSD card, with Kodi without any issues on the 2nd-gen Fire TV. Where you run into issues is if you change Kodi’s advanced settings to use external storage for other purposes, like storing your database or thumbnails. Read and write access on internal storage for all apps is unrestricted in Fire OS 5 and Android Lollipop.
Some apps, like ES File Explorer, are already updated to properly ask for permision and can have full write access to external storage. Kodi’s developers need to implement Android Lollipop’s new external storage access API before some of its advanced functionality will work with Fire OS 5 and any other Lollipop based device. Once that’s done, I’ll update my guide for partially or fully moving Kodi to external storage. These stricter permissions in Android do not affect moving apps to external storage within the Fire TV’s application management settings.
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ShareShareTweetShare+1jimsays:October 8, 2015 at 11:47 am
I think that I must be missing out on a lot of things that Kodi is capable of. I mainly just watch movies, and download (to where I have no idea) one here or there to watch without buffering on N***.
But when you say “This means you can play media files, stored on a USB drive or a microSD card, with Kodi”. Or “use external storage for other purposes, like storing your database or thumbnails”. I am totally lost.
natebetween
Download Kodi For Windowssays:October 9, 2015 at 4:43 am
You’re probably not as lost as you think. Basically you can play media files that you have on a USB or micro SD card just by inserting them, and telling KODI where to find those movies (through the files option). Then, when KODI scans your movies to produce artwork, thumbnails, .XML files etc., this can take some time as KODI is downloading and creating these files. Now that KODI has all of this info, you have the option to export that BACK to the storage where the movies are. Also, if you make any edits to description of a movie, thumbnail, etc., it will edit the .XML file…basically the file that tells KODI what pictures, description, rating, actors, etc. to display.
This means that if you move your storage from, say your AFTV in the master bedroom to you AFTV in the living room, the box doesn’t have to re-scan and re-download all of that info. This can save you a LOT of time if you have a big movie collection.
Sharonsays:October 4, 2017 at 6:23 am
I have the same issue. It downloads, but then is not there. Help!!
Ghislainsays:October 8, 2015 at 11:56 am
The problem is also true for the new fire tablet. 3rd party apps can’t write on sd card. Unfortunately as ES explorer! I hope a progress on this in a short delay.
Congrats for your website
Cheers from France.
AFTVnewssays:October 8, 2015 at 12:08 pm
ES File Explorer does correctly ask for write permissions and can write to both a microSD card and a USB drive connected to the 2nd-gen Fire TV running Fire OS 5. Internet download speed slower than upload.
Ghislain
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But that’s not the case on the fire tablet :(
Ghislainsays:October 8, 2015 at 12:23 pm
ES explorer is not the only app : OfficeSuite 8 for example can write but not save on sd card.
Grindersays:October 8, 2015 at 12:55 pm
Upgrade to Jarvis. Solved.
Ian Sutherlandsays:October 9, 2015 at 4:37 am
What version of jarvis are you using
Nicksays:February 29, 2016 at 3:52 pm
I’m on jarvis and still can’t save to external usb! Kodi 17.4 download for windows. What did you have to do to make it work?
Ashsays:October 8, 2015 at 1:14 pm
What would the benefits be to put kodi on a storage device? I mean, would it help stop buffering etc if I used like a 128GB USB as apposed to the small fire tv storage memory.
AFTVnewssays:October 8, 2015 at 2:39 pm
Kodi performance is better on internal storage. Download kodi with neptune rising sun. How to download hulu on playstation 3. The benefit of moving it to external storage is mainly just freeing up internal storage usage. Some people have huge libraries that take up a large chunk of internal storage.
Zekesays:October 11, 2015 at 12:03 pm
Agreed, Kodi database is very fast to access from onboard. Only time I ever moved it to an external device was so I could put GTA San Andreas on the internal storage since without root on my AFTV (too new a version from out of the box) it couldn’t run from USB – the app to move it there requires root. The database was on an external USB3 HDD and it was noticeably slow to buffer… I wouldn’t recommend it although a flash memory based USB stick would probably work fine.
Barusch Benitezsays:October 8, 2015 at 2:17 pm
I used a USB stick and two different mSD cards and Kodi never recognized them. They weren’t shown on Kodi file browser. I had to dig in to .root/storage/sd1 to move files from my mSD card to Kodi.
Axecastersays:October 8, 2015 at 3:12 pm
I know the gen1 FTV box is jellybean, but why when I mount an external usb HFS+ drive, only ES File Explorer is seeing and able to play back the contents? What would make Kodi, VLC or MX Player not see the drive or accept handoffs from the file explorer?
Dansays:October 8, 2015 at 4:42 pm
Should a networked mycloud work?
Jocalasays:October 9, 2015 at 5:47 pm
Download Kodi To Sd Card
It turns out that Kodi 15x can write to both /storage/sdcard1 and /storage/usbotg. You have to set up a sandboxed area: mkdir -p /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/ — now Kodi can write to any directory below the org.xbmc.kodi sandbox. It works fine for relocating via the xbmc_env.properties method. Credit to mark7201@xda for the discovery.
Phillip kingsays:March 15, 2016 at 2:23 am
Worked well for me just created the folder below that level and the backup worked fine on kodi on my fire tv thanks
Alansays:October 10, 2015 at 12:50 pm
Thanks for all the information and effort you put into the site. https://Microsoft-365-For-Mac-Student-436.peatix.com/.
I’ve blocked the updates for my AFTV 1 as I’ve got Kodi using an external USB to store thumbnails.
Blocking guide:
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-block-software-updates-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/
I got the perfect setup at the moment and don’t want it to be messed around, unless there’s some worthwhile features coming with the upgrade.
Ian Sutherlandsays:October 10, 2015 at 7:03 pm
Thanks To Jocala and mark7201
mkdir -p /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/
cp -r /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi
touch /sdcard/xbmc_env.properties
echo xbmc.data=/storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi > /sdcard/xbmc_env.properties
Then Run Kodi and repeat
cp -r /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi /storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi
Ukie Mansays:October 11, 2015 at 8:57 pm
echo xbmc.data=/storage/sdcard1/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/ > /sdcard/xbmc_env.properties Kmplayer for mac os catalina.
Without.kodi just org.xbmc.kodi/files/
Ukie Mansays:October 12, 2015 at 3:24 pm
After Fire TV 2 update to 5.0.2.2 and reboot your KODI wont open just Copy and past folder .smb from /sdcard1/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/ to /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/ and add new folder .kodi if you don’t have one and you back in business. I don’t know if it makes any difference but my KODI is installed on Internal Storage in Fire TV Applications but all the files are on sdcard1. P.S. Fire TV 2 5.0.2.2 KODI 15.3 and 16.A4 no /usbotg
dirksays:March 22, 2016 at 1:51 am
Can you explain how to do tjis in plain englisch please . Constable Odosays:April 25, 2016 at 2:04 pm
Looks only for advanced users
I sure hope Kodi Krypton for Android allows writing to external storage without having to jump through hoops. Is it really that hard for Kodi developers to manage fixing the permissions.
nludiansays:July 16, 2017 at 7:35 pm
@Ian Sutherland –
Your post was about as helpful as a screen door on a submarine. At least for us non-coders who came here looking for help. Would it really be so much to ask for plain English walk-through instructions on how to do whatever you were saying in your post. Don’t get me wrong I appreciate that you made an attempt when @Jocala, the person who presented the idea originally, couldn’t be bothered, but what I got from it might as well have been written in hieroglyphs because that’s how much sense it made to me. Still thank you for trying
Johnny
Download Kodi Movies To Sd Cardsays:October 7, 2017 at 1:44 pm
Any word on when, or if this might get fixed? Any work around at all for the write permission problem?
@elias
Download Kodi To My Sd Card
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