👱 💍 👩🏾‍🤝‍👨🏻 KODI. How I assembled my most convenient and functional home media center. Part 1 👩🏼‍🎓 🐃 🕰️

Content:

Lyrical digression
My media center requirements
Hardware, software platform:
1. Nettop
2. Remote control
Operating system
1. Preparing and installing Kubuntu 20.04 LTS
2. Initial configuration, removing unnecessary and installing packages to work with the system
3. Mounting a primary storage drive
4. Network directories
5. Installing and configuring a VNC server
6. Setting up an HDMI Profile in PulseAudio
Installing and basic configuration of KODI
IPTV. How to install and configure which service to choose
KODI library. What is it and how to set it up
Elementum and Burst. Configuring online torrent content viewing

1. Lyrical digression

Back in the days of my first TV with Smart TV, I often caught myself thinking that all this was not right, inconvenient, not always beautiful ... And when all this was accompanied by a long response from the embedded OS, crashes requiring reboots, the search for a solution began.

DLNA met all needs for a while, although it was inconvenient to use it. They were not satisfied with unnecessary gestures to watch a movie, and especially the need to have a computer that stores a library and view only offline content.

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• - Intel Celeron J1900, 4 , 4 , 2

• - 4 DDR3L 1333

• SSD - 500 (SATA III)

• SSD - 64 (mSata)

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• HDMI 1.4

• VGA

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4.1. Kubuntu 20.04 LTS

Windows , flash- Rufus. , , rufus.ie. ISO- kubuntu.org, 64- (20.04.2 LTS).

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt full-upgrade

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. midnight commander mcedit, htop – , ssh – , net-tools – , landscape-common - , SSH

sudo apt-get install mc htop ssh net-tools landscape-common

, DHCP. IP-, - , .

ifconfig

kodi@kodi-pc:~$ ifconfig
enp1s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.0.19  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168
        inet6 fe80::8461:dcf8:d2c6:2d48  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 40:62:31:0a:11:a5  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 3417519  bytes 5024924041 (5.0 GB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 2  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1059086  bytes 169628765 (169.6 MB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

enp1s0, IP- 192.168.0.19.

192.168.0.50 , netplan:

sudo mcedit /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml

network:
 ethernets:
  enp0s3:
   addresses:
    - 192.168.0.50/24
   gateway4: 192.168.0.1
   nameservers:
    addresses: [192.168.0.1, 1.1.1.1]
   optional: true
 version: 2
 renderer: networkd

:

addresses – IP-,

gateway4 – IP-

nameservers – DNS . - , 1.1.1.1 – DNS Cloudflare

( ifconfig). IP- 192.168.0.50.

, Windows 10 PuTTY SSH-. SSH , 22.

SSH/SFTP- android-

Android, . , , , Termius.

sudo apt remove libreoffice-draw skanlite okular kpat ksudoku kmahjongg kmines kdeconnect konversation krdc ktorrent thunderbird firefox elisa vlc libreoffice-math libreoffice-calc libreoffice-writer usb-creator-kde kwalletmanager

, apt

sudo apt autoclean && apt clean && apt autoremove

Google Chrome Firefox

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

- qBittorrent.

sudo apt install qbittorrent

4.3.

SSD- (64 500 ). . -, . .

sda1 (ext4). UUID

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10  14 18:01 40792859-581c-46cb-be9d-ad9d9e6ce843 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10  14 18:01 4f311605-04ff-4e66-8121-187f270a51f4 -> ../../sdb5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10  14 18:01 760198b6-694e-4d6f-b21c-ea0c530398c3 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10  14 18:01 c53e5dd8-c36a-48b1-8591-3aeb4bce60a0 -> ../../sdb7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10  14 18:01 f09293e9-209e-4dce-ba4f-56d2e33657e8 -> ../../sdb6

/mnt. (, kodi), ,

sudo mkdir /mnt/kodi
sudo chmod -R 0777 /mnt/kodi

fstab

sudo mcedit /etc/fstab

UUID=760198b6-694e-4d6f-b21c-ea0c530398c3 /mnt/kodi ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0

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4.4.

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/mnt/smb – . , android-. Windows 10 , . X-Plore, , .
/mnt/kodi/qbittorrent – qBittorrent ( qBittorrent , ). - , -, 24/7. Windows 10.

sudo mkdir /mnt/smb
sudo mkdir /mnt/qbittorrent
sudo chmod -R 0777 /mnt/smb
sudo chmod -R 0777 /mnt/qbittorrent

«» samba

sudo apt-get install samba

samba

sudo mcedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

«» , . :

[smb]
comment = smb
path = /mnt/smb
browsable = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = no
force user = nobody
force group = nogroup
force create mode = 0777
force directory mode = 0777

[kodi-qbittorrent]
comment = kodi-qbittorrent
path = /mnt/kodi/qbittorrent
browsable = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = no
force user = nobody
force group = nogroup
force create mode = 0777
force directory mode = 0777

samba

sudo /etc/init.d/smbd restart

4.5. VNC-

. SSH- . .

VNC-,

sudo apt install x11vnc

x11vnc -storepasswd "kodi" /etc/x11vnc.pass
sudo chmod ugo+r /etc/x11vnc.pass

/usr/bin/x11vnc -noxdamage -shared -dontdisconnect -many -noxfixes -rfbauth /etc/x11vnc.pass -bg

Real VNC Viewer Windows Android. - 5900.

, VNC- . .

sudo mcedit /usr/bin/VNCserver-start

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/x11vnc -noxdamage -shared -dontdisconnect -many -noxfixes -rfbauth /etc/x11vnc.pass -bg

sudo chmod u+x /usr/VNCserver-start

VNC- systemd . , VNC .

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4.6. HDMI PulseAudio

- HDMI, , PulseAudio , . . , . - switch-on-port-available PulseAudio

sudo mcedit /etc/pulse/default.pa

#load-module module-switch-on-port-available

, – Kubuntu 20.04 – . KODI!

5. KODI

KODI. Ubuntu, XBMC ( 2014 ). , 2021 , Ubuntu KODI 18.7, 19.0 «Matrix».

, KODI

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kodi

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Settings / Interface / Regional / Russian — Settings/Interface/Regional/Russian

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Settings / Interface / Style / Customize style / Pictures — /// /

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mcedit /home/_/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

<advancedsettings>
<cputempcommand>sed -e 's/\([0-9]*\)[0-9]\{3\}.*/\1 C/' /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp</cputempcommand>
</advancedsettings>

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Error when trying to enable PVR IPTV Simple Client add-on — PVR IPTV Simple Client

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7.5.0 – Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kodi-pvr-iptvsimple/kodi-pvr-iptvsimple_7.5.0-1~focal_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i ./kodi-pvr-iptvsimple_7.5.0-1_focal_amd64.deb

KODI, PVR IPTV Simple Client.

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«Channel Logos» , «Channel logos from XMLTV» « M3U».

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The "TV" section on the main KODI screen — "" KODI

Channel list, detailed information on the right — ,

General information about the channels should also appear in the section "System Information / PVR Service" — « / PVR»

7. KODI.

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KinoPoisk . Seppius ( ). ZIP .

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8. Elementum Burst. -

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At this stage, the basic settings have been completed, the media center can already be used and enjoy viewing.

In the next post, we will talk about the possibility of external control of KODI / Elementum and qBittorrent using the web interface and Android devices. And we will also introduce into our media center the traffic accounting function with the ability to display and analyze in the web interface. Let's not forget about backing up both the operating system and KODI itself.

KODI. How I assembled my most convenient and functional home media center. Part 1