A multitude of Kodi android TV boxes have been introduced in the last few years with the Dragon Box being one of them. The Dragon box originally came with a dual core CPU but has since been upgraded to a quad core. With many android TV boxes having a quad core or even octa core… Read More »
A TV dongle is a generic name given to the many TV sticks roughly the size of a USB flash drive that are available in today’s market. These small TV sticks are basically small computers that plug into a TVs HDMI port and can than display a multitude of content. Most all will… Read More »
Kodi can be run on many platforms from a standard desktop to a Raspberry Pi. The minimum hardware requirements are listed as having a Dual core 2 GHz CPU, 3D capable GPU graphics hardware controller , and 1 GB of RAM. I have run Kodi on much slower machines and it does work although the… Read More »
After receiving the new Raspberry Pi model 2 I was all ready to install Kodi with Rasbmc as I had done before on the B+ 512 Mb version, but I found out it was incompatible with the new quad core model 2. The good news is that Rasbmc has been renamed and updated and now… Read More »
OSMC RC3 vs OpenELEC 5.0.8 on a Raspberry Pi 2 Since getting the new Raspberry Pi 2 Quad core I have installed both OpenELEC and OSMC on it to see which one was better at running Kodi. I did a write up on how to install Kodi using either OpenELEC or OSMC which… Read More »
Many users of Kodi find that their router is not up-to-date enough to transfer the large amount of data that Kodi needs to stream content. The question of “What is the best router for Kodi?” is being asked in many forums as Kodi users look to speed up their Kodi machines WiFi. One… Read More »
Building a Raspberry Pi smart TV box is not that difficult and can make a TV a true smart TV. The first thing to decide on is what software to load on the RasPi. There are many options such as Plex or MythTV but by far the commonly used software to use with… Read More »