2014-12-23, 15:18
(2014-12-23, 01:42)topfs2 Wrote: I've recently been trying to gather up some patches and fix those things that depend on the gui in kodi so that we may at one point have a headless version of Kodi.
In general my goal is to split out my efforts over multiple PRs so that master gets better and better.
But for those interested I have pulled in all needed patches for my initial headless version of kodi on a base of Helix. Which can be found over at my repository https://github.com/topfs2/xbmc/tree/helix_headless
The initial attempt here is not to compile down a stripped version of kodi just for headless use, but rather to disable the gui on start. This means that it can replace a Helix and if its headless or not is only choosen via the startup argument --headless.
When headless uPnP and Webserver are default to on, as what point is headless if you can't connect to it
To run after compile simply
Quote:/path/to/kodi --headless
Please let me know of any bugs and crashes when running in headless so we can get headless into master ASAP!
Cheers,
Tobias
i've just made a separate ubuntu 14.04 VM specfically for playing with kodi builds and i'm gonna use it for this first , as far as dependencies go should i be looking to the kodi ppa and installing build-dep or getting the dependencies seperately ?