Chapter 4. Turn Your Pi into a Media Center
We have been administering our Pi and implementing useful projects in the previous chapters. In this chapter, we will use our Pi more as a source of entertainment and turn it into a media center. The topics covered are as follows:
- Installing and setting up a media center on the Pi
- Connecting to a media center via remote control from Android
- Getting more from your media center
- Installing a media center using NOOBS
Installing and setting up a media center on Pi
The media center software we've chosen for the purpose of this project is Kodi, formerly known as XBMC. It is open source and widely used with lots of add-ons.
As usual, we will start by installing the necessary software on our Pi using the apt-get command: ...
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