How much experience do you guys have with LibreElec? I’ve been playing with Kodi on and off for years and years, but am looking at this to replace a fleet of rokus at the house after the recent terms debacle. Anyone have recommendations for UI and usage tweaks to make it easier for the family to use?
I see that it has docker abilities which seems awesome.
Right now I have it installed on bare metal, but might consider running 3 LibreELEC VMs on the same machine with proxmox if that would even be possible. Has anyone tried that? How much horsepower would one need to run 3 1080p streams if it’s possible.
If I’m barking up the wrong tree, I apologize! And would appreciate being pointed to the correct community.
I ran it very successfully on a RPi4 as a media center connect to the living room TV.
However, I don’t really get your plan to virtualize them on one machine. What’s the goal here?
Well this machine has 2 display port and another HDMI output, if I passed a connection to each VM, could I keep from needing 3 different media players? as everyone’s HDMI cables run to the same closet.
I used Kodi for around 3 years (on LibreELEC and standalone on various computers). I would recommend going through the settings of Kodi and any addon you install as there are a lot of things you can tweak. In my experience, most good looking skins/themes made Kodi too slow to use (and take a while to setup). I mostly used Kodi to stream using the Fen addon, so I just configured it to open automatically when starting Kodi.
I would give more specific recommendations but I haven’t used Kodi in around a year at this point and Kodi-related projects have a tendency to get abandoned/disappear; I’m pretty sure Fen was taken down since I last used it, for example.
I think this is the right place to ask (and thanks for introducing me to the subject!). The people at [email protected] would like that too.
Yeah I figured that would be my next spot to ask!
Libreelec is a great htpc, meant to give you that same “10ft computing” experience as any other media center. Its requirements for 1080p aren’t that intense, as it runs well on a raspi 4/5. They do recommend keeping the resolution set to 1080p in kodi and letting your tv upscale to 4k if youre playing 4k content, so that is a good metric to target.
You can run it as a VM, but running 3 off the same machine loses a lot of the “media center that controls one tv” utility, unless you have 3 hdmi ports on that computer that are wired to those 3 TV and can pass through 3 IR blasters or bluetooth connections for physical remotes. If you can, it should work fine.
If you are routing IR blasters, flirc has a USB blaster and a remote called the Skip that should work out. Ive used the usb blaster with kodi and it integrated seamlessly, but haven’t used the remote yet.
So you could get 3 of the remotes, 3 usb IR blastere and whether length of usb cable you need for each to connect to the host and pass those through to the VMs.