docker-kodi

Kodi running within a docker container.

This image allows running the latest version of Kodi in a sandbox.

A script is provided to ease launching.

Information

PLEASE NOTE this is a work-in-progress, it will probably not work completely and properly yet

• Docker Hub
• Github

Launching through the included script

Just run the included script from an X-Window session and it should pick up valid values.

$ kodi-docker.mk

Launching manually

Kodi will need to pick up at the very least:

• The X11 socket (/tmp/.X11-unix/)
• The DISPLAY environment variable
• The sound device (e.g. /dev/snd/)

Additionally you probably want it to have to correct timezone so that times are displayed properly (/etc/localtime).

That's what the script will pass by default, here is an equivalent command line:

$ docker run --rm -it \
	    -v /tmp/.X11-unix/:/tmp/.X11-unix/:ro \
		-v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
    	-e DISPLAY \
    	--device /dev/snd \
    	outlyernet/kodi

Persisting configuration and installed plugins

You probably want status to persist between runs, mounting a Docker volume on /root/.kodi will achieve that, i.e.:

$ docker run --rm -it \
	    -v /tmp/.X11-unix/:/tmp/.X11-unix/:ro \
		-v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v kodi_data:/root/.kodi \`
    	-e DISPLAY \
    	--device /dev/snd \
    	outlyernet/kodi

(NOTE that Docker will create the volume if it didn't exist)

Enabling hardware accelerated decoding

To enable hardware decoding of video, pass the DRI device to the container:

... --device /dev/dri

Accessing local media

To access local media you'll have to mount the appropriate directories with additional -v ... arguments.

The included script mounts the home directory (read-only) of the user launching it, but doesn't try to guess any other mount points.
It is mounted in /root/<username>-home, so that within Kodi it's easily reachable as "Home folder" → "<username>-home".

Local build

The script can also build the image locally if you prefer that over pulling it from Docker Hub:

./kodi-docker.mk build