Kodi onto PiOS Bookworm 32 bit onto a Raspberry PI 3B+



Kodi Nexus onto PiOS Bookworm 32 bit on a Pi 3B+

sudo raspi-config

Turn on SSH.
I chose X11 instead of Wayland.
GPU memory allocation is handled differently in Bookworm so isn’t listed.
Setup wireless if needed.

SSH into the Pi…

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

sudo apt-get install kodi

sudo reboot

sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/kodi.service

copy and paste the following….

[Unit]
Description = Kodi Media Center
After = remote-fs.target network-online.target
Wants = network-online.target

[Service]
User = pi
Group = pi
Type = simple
ExecStart = /usr/bin/kodi-standalone
Restart = on-abort
RestartSec = 5

[Install]
WantedBy = multi-user.target

Then reboot again…

sudo reboot

sudo systemctl enable kodi

Then reboot again…

sudo reboot

Takes a while to boot into Kodi….

Handy apps to get you going.

sudo apt-get install kodi kodi-bin kodi-inputstream-adaptive

sudo apt-get install kodi-pvr-iptvsimple

sudo apt install kodi-pvr-hts

Be sure to enable these when prompted after a reboot.

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