It makes a perfect settop box device where its a media machine with occasional browser use and its so good like that. I have been using Kodi/Chromium/Droidmote so that I can use a phone as a system keyboard/mouse to use for Chromium. Stuck on that one as compling Kodi GBM/X11/Wayland is a doddle but struggling with Chromium ozone but will give it a try again. So to cut a long story short Kodi19 is looking like it will support chromium and presuming LE will add it.īut also Chromium Ozone has just reached beta which means you can have a Chromium-gbm so that Kodi18 could also have.
Its just a shame the default build of Kodi misses some of the essential kodi system addons of libreelec such as bluetooth pairing and such like.īut apart from that there is little difference. I don't really find X11 bloated on a Pi4 and it works great on x86_64 if you make your own standalone service with a distro.Īrch is so fast on an old 2nd gen I3 that you could make your own. On Kodi 19 Alpha which has compile commands for GL or GLES ffmeg-mmal on the Pi seems to work great.Īs does the x11 compile but the python bit of addons seems to need more work as the chromium launcher doesn't seem to work. Problem is "vpdau-vc4" from memory isn't loaded so no "hardware acceleration" on the pi. On the Raspberry Pi I have compiled Kodi 18.5 on arch linux installed chromium with the launcher and it works great. I installed chromium on various platforms and used the chrome launcher, you may need to hack the files as likely if linux you will be running chromium and the cmd line will change.