[Cincinnatus]

I have a Pi3/HiFiBerry DAC+Pro running Kodi connected to a modestly high-end system tasked exclusively for music. However, there are times when I need to make a configuration change which necessitate disconnecting the unit from my stereo and attaching it to my PC monitor.

Is there a way that I can remote into Kodi as one would a VM (Virtual Machine) from my PC to access the GUI to enable me to make changes to the system without having to physically relocate the box and connect it to a monitor?

Thanks in advance!

[black_eagle]

Depends what you want to do I guess !!

You can SSH to the Pi and change the contents of files such as favourites.xml, advancedsettings.xml etc etc

You can use Kodi's jsonrpc to do a fair bit of stuff without needing to see the GUI. Library updates etc are totally possible with this, but you would have to write a small amount of code to trigger whatever you are wanting to do.

See http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6 for exactly what you can do over the jsonrpc interface.

[speedwell68]

Depends what you want to do I guess !!

You can SSH to the Pi and change the contents of files such as favourites.xml, advancedsettings.xml etc etc

You can use Kodi's jsonrpc to do a fair bit of stuff without needing to see the GUI. Library updates etc are totally possible with this, but you would have to write a small amount of code to trigger whatever you are wanting to do.

See http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6 for exactly what you can do over the jsonrpc interface.

You can do library updates with the standard web interface.

[loggio]

are you running libreelec or Openelc?

you can install VNC addon in the libreelec addons repo and the openelec repo as well.

I think the latest nightlies (milhouse builds) of libreelec come with VNC installed already.
i use this to connect to my pi 3 in the garage that runs as my TVheadend backend