How does rp2 perform with kodi?is it better than android box?

much much better
boot up to Kodi in less than 10 seconds.and the animation,perfomance is silky smooth thanks to the Quad Core

i interested in openelec but i am also love to browsing web on rp2..how can i install kodi on raspbian..or do i need to have dual boot which consists of openelec and raspbian?

apparently you can
just normal install Raspbian. then you can install Xbmc on top of it
official guide = https://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianXBMC

the fastest method is using the binary install
http://michael.gorven.za.net/raspberrypi/xbmc

OR, the easist way is, just install a browser addon in the XBMC/Kodi. bet it would work like a charm

p/s : just realised that in the page mentioned that it would take 12 HOURS to compile them from source. hopefully not that long on RPI2

This post has been edited by buyoq: Aug 12 2015, 05:30 PM

Wow 12hours of compilation
I am not really understand on how to install using binary shell especially on adding the archives and import it if only it have video tutorial might help a lot

Before doing this test, i even built a button for resetting the /etc/network/interfaces , because mine one is headless, any problem ssh into it, really die laio

here is my OSX static ip:

address:192.168.10.2
subnet mask 255.255.255.0


hers is my Rpi static ip:
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.10.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.10.2

result:
fail to ping from both side. [with or without gateway mentioned in Rpi] and [with or without connected to wifi at the same time eth0 conneted]

anybody using Ubuntu with rp2?
can you install the normal i386 package using apt-get?
anybody tried running MS office on top of playonlinux? how the performance is it acceptable?

thank you

I have kodi on raspbian..how can I direct boot to kodi?

wow didn't know there's so many rpi users here!
i'm a noob to rpi, just recently bought a rpi2 and load up raspbian into it.
at the moment i'm using it for torrenting (transmission), file sharing, and my personal cloud storage (owncloud).

not sure what other stuff i can put on it yet...is there any central page for all the uses you guys use for your rpi2?

central page?

something like having a first page with some of the popularly used functions from the users here on their rpi2

what can we do with this?

that you would have to PM the TS i guess a lot of ppl used the Pi as a media box?

i believe so, since there's even dedicated OS for media box haha!
but i mainly use it for torrenting since it's a low power device, better than running my rig just for torrenting.

used to do torrenting with the Pi,same setup as yours (transmission,file sharing).
after sometime,i have nothing to download,end up using it to test all sort of nonsense (Pi cluster, IoT stuff,lap timer..)
now its collecting dust

have u used it for your internet connection packet tracing?

Nope..trace packet for your own device or the connected network?

If you are using the rpi only for media, try osmc.tv, the evolution of raspbmc. Very good UI, and stable. Auto updates, so not much of tweaking need to be done.

Guys I am using my RPI2 to torrent. I notice that all my trackers have error after sometimes and I do not have incoming connection. My download speed and upload speed is running @ 0kb/s.

do you set port forwarding for the port that your torrent is using?
make sure that the torrent is a live ones? and not with 0 seeders.
also, what torrent are you using?