[johnodon]

@Dark_Slayer I havent used either Kino Console and/or Limelight but they sound interesting - Im f the same frame of mind as you, Im thinking about turning the gaming htpc into a gaming server to replace my exisiting server and getting a low powered pc to use as a front end.

Well, I haven't tried Kino yet, but I installed Limelight and WOW was it easy

I setup my previously OE 5 intel G1610 (16GB USB Flash boot drive) with Kodibuntu/Steam per your instructions post. Total time spent was about 1hr, but over 20 minutes of that was me scratching my head and not understanding that I was booting to Lubuntu instead of Openbox. Another 20 minutes or so was a combination of research and not realizing that the user name was kodibuntu instead of the user name I entered at the login screen (so I drudged up a keyboard/mouse and only got to use SSH towards the end after realizing what the correct username was)

It works nice, sleeps/resumes, idles around 12W (using a picoPSU) and hovers around 16W during playback/streaming.

After just going through everything, I didn't spot much to modify on your Kodibuntu+Steam post . . . just a couple things

Code:

sudo mv /usr/share/xsessions/openbox.desktop.dis /usr/share/xsessions/openbox.desktop

The actual location is now /usr/share/xsessions/hidden/openbox.desktop.dis

And

Code:

mkdir -p $HOME/.config/openbox/ && echo "export DISPLAY=:0" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && echo "xsetroot -solid black &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && echo "/usr/bin/xbmc &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && chmod +x $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

Would be fine without the export Display=:0 portion (as leetpeet showed me, after copying his autostart I had a blackscreen with just the xsetroot portion)

Also, there's the /usr/bin/xbmc portion that should simply change xbmc to kodi, so all in all it should work with

Code:

mkdir -p $HOME/.config/openbox/ && echo "xsetroot -solid black &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && echo "/usr/bin/kodi &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && chmod +x $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

Thanks for these updates DS.

Question...how do you get back to a visible Lubuntu desktop if needed? I need to connect to a different WIFI network and only know how to do it from the desktop.

John