Then, install the microSD card into the slot on your SolidRun board and boot it. Or, you can use the LibreELEC USB-SD Creator tool to make your microSD card using a Windows PC. Sudo dd if=LibreELEC-im圆.arm-8.2. of=/dev/sdd bs=1M Here are the required steps:įirst, unzip the downloaded LibreELEC image file and write it onto a microSD card (4 GB or larger) using a Linux command shell: gunzip LibreELEC-im圆.arm-8.2. But, you will have to download and flash your own microSD card to use these boards for Kodi. The SolidRun boards have long been among my favorite ARM i.MX6 boards because of their compact designs, better heat-sinking and better support for Kodi. If you don’t have a Windows HTPC, then enable the TVHeadEnd add-on that is provided with LibreELEC, which also requires a NAS drive and TV tuner on your network. If you install the MediaPortal add-on, it will work great with the Windows-based HTPC detailed in my Guide. Either of these boards can be attached to the back of a TV for a fantastic Kodi on ARM solution for an OTA broadcast TV DVR using a MediaPortal TV-Server, or just about any other popular back-end. LibreELEC’s official images work great on SolidRun’sCuBox boards using a 4.4 Linux kernel (which is included), or there are also images available with the older 3.14.79 kernel for other boards, including SolidRun’s HummingBoard2. But, here is a system combination that works really well now using the very latest LibreELEC 8.2.2 distribution of Kodi 17.6 (Krypton) and boards from SolidRun. The problem has been that support for Kodi has been lacking from most i.MX6 board vendors. The result is a responsive, yet very cool-running system, compared to Intel or weak ARM chips, like Raspberry Pis and BeagleBoards. This is critical for modern versions of Kodi on ARM because of Kodi’s heavy use of OpenGL and the need to off-load video decode tasks from the CPU. The NXP i.MX6 series ARM processors have big advantages because of their better integrated GPU and VPU. I have been searching for awhile to find the best Kodi on ARM solution, and I just discovered a great new combination.
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