kodi-monkey-repo

A Kodi repository that contains an OpenVPN script addon. The addon has been tested on a Raspberry Pi running Arch Linux

Requirements

• Only works on Linux and has been tested on Arch Linux.
• OpenVPN installed as a systemd service
• Kodi user has sudo privileges to stop/start openvpn systemd service and change symlinks in '/etc/openvpn' folder.

Usage

The OpenVPN addon requires OpenVPN to be installed as a systemd service. All OpenVPN exit node configuration files need to be in /etc/openvpn.

$ ln -sf /etc/openvpn/Switzerland.ovpn /etc/openvpn/client.conf
$ systemctl enable openvpn@client.service
$ systemctl start openvpn@client

Give kodi user permission sudo permissions:

$ visudo

...
##
## Cmnd alias specification
##
Cmnd_Alias SWITCH_VPN = /usr/bin/ln -sf /etc/openvpn/* /etc/openvpn/client.conf, /usr/bin/systemctl * openvpn@client

...
##
## User privilege specification
##
# Add this as the last entry in the section
kodi ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SWITCH_VPN

Download and install the repo

$ sudo su - kodi -s /bin/bash
$ cd ~ 
$ wget http://raw.githubusercontent.com/monkey-codes/kodi-monkey-repo/master/dist/repo.monkey.zip