Hi,
Testing this installation and finding it a bit unstable. There is some kind of issue with the Menu system. Hangs for a while then gradually comes back. Or just goes unresponsive.
Also people have posted that they have got Kodi installed and working but when asked how they are not surprisingly silent. I would greatly appreciate a step by step for anyone that has gotten Kodi to work on the Rpi2 Ubuntu Mate distro.
My main use for this is to use it onboard a boat. I can get opencpn and zygrib to work, Kodi would be the final piece of the puzzle. It also runs a little better from a USB stick. Just install as normal to a sd card. Then use either dd or the disk tool on linux to create an image of the installation. Then blank a USB stick and write the image to the USB stick. This will put both the PIBOOT and PIROOT partitions on the usb stick. Then use gparted to expand the PIROOT partition to fill the usb sitck. Edit the cmdline.txt file on the SDCARD and point to root at /dev/sda2 (the second PIROOT partition). Mount and edit /etc/fstab/ on the USB Stick PIROOT partition and point / to /dev/sda2. Put the SDCARD and USB in the Rpi2 power on. The Rpi2 will boot from the SDCARD and then use the USB PIROOT partition as the filesystem. If you wanted you could use a small SDCARD and image the PIBOOT partition only on the SDCARD and the PIROOT partition only on the USB Stick, In that case change /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda1.
Also can’t get any videos to play with omxplayer -o hmdi myvideo.mp4 I have both codec licences installed in config.txt.
Cheers
Spart