Booting a Raspberry Pi Directly to Live TV with Kodi! Cord Cutting DVR Project Part 5

Buy it on Amazon - http://lon.tv/6kxuk (affiliate link) - Some viewers asked for a simpler way to boot to live TV on the Raspberry Pi TV box I set up in a previous video. Using Kodi and its autoexec.py feature we were able to do just that! See more: http://lon.tv/dvr2017 and subscribe! http://lon.tv/s

VIDEO INDEX:
02:37 - Keeping family members locked into the tuner
03:10 - Setting up Kodi for SSH connection
04:13 - Connecting to the Raspberry Pi SSH
04:23 - Windows: Use Putty: http://lon.tv/putty
04:58 - Connecting via SSH
06:11 - Creating autoexec.py
08:31 - Switching off the SSH server and rebooting

Find more DVR components here: http://lon.tv/925vh - Definitely check out my full playlist linked above for more context.

If you're looking for how to set up the Raspberry Pi see here:
http://lon.tv/1i908

And yes this autoexec.py feature can autoload other add-ons too.

Step by step instructions:

1. Get LibreElec installed on the Raspberry Pi along with the HDHomerun add on. See here: http://lon.tv/1i908

2. Load up LibreElec and get the IP address of the device

3. Download SSH client for Windows or use Mac terminal SSH

4. Enable the SSH server on Raspberry Pi

5. Log into the LibreElec server (using Putty in our case)

user: root
password: libreelec

6. CD to LibreElec UserData folder:
cd /storage/.kodi/userdata/

7. Type nano autoexec.py

8. Add the following text in Nano:

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('RunAddon(script.hdhomerun.view)')

9. Type Ctrl-O and then type Ctrl-X

10. Type chmod 755 autoexec.py

11. Type Exit

12. Turn off SSH server on the Pi through Kodi interface

13. Reboot the Pi

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