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To set up an autoplaying headless media center
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Headless OSMC set up.md

Headless OSMC set up

To set up an autoplaying headless media center

Requirements

  • Raspberry Pi
  • monitor/keyboard for setup

Steps

  1. Download OSMC (https://osmc.tv/download/)
  2. Flash it to SD card
  3. Mount the boot parition
  4. Append hdmi_force_hotplug=1 to config.txt (allows boot without monitor connected)
  5. Boot up and walk through the setup (Need a monitor)
  6. Create a file /home/osmc/.kodi/userdata/autoexec.py
  7. Enter the following contents
import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin( "PlayMedia(/home/osmc/playlist.m3u)" )
xbmc.executebuiltin( "PlayerControl(repeat)" )
  1. Create /home/osmc/playlist.m3u Its contents is a line delimited list of media (local or remote)

Further customization

For the complete list of actions you can take you can go to http://kodi.wiki/view/List_of_built-in_functions and you can use xbmc-send to test out your functions before adding to your script

xbmc-send --host=192.168.0.1 --port=9777 --action="XBMC.Quit"
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