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LibreELEC setup? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.