
I quite like being able to see the Weather Forecast on my Kodi and you can set this by going into SYSTEM then Weather and on the General tab choose the Service for weather information option.

Go into SYSTEM then Appearance then International and change the Region from USA (12h) to UK (24h) and set the Timezone country to Britain (UK) which sets the Timezone to Europe/London.
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To disable it go into SYSTEM then Appearance and on the Skin screen uncheck the Show RSS news feeds option. On the Kodi screens you’ll see a ticker feed running along the bottom. What you do and do not change from the default installation is obviously down to personal preference but here’s what I change: Essential things to change on the default Kodi installation On the Sharing and Remote Access screen ensure SSH is checked under the Configure Services: section. If you plan to have multiple Kodi devices then change the Hostname to something more meaningful. On the Welcome screen change your Regional Settings as required. When Kodi/OpenELEC boots for the first time it’ll take you through the setup process. Remove the USB thumbdrive and select Reboot from the Menu and let the system boot. Once the installation is complete it’ll take you back to the first menu.

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Choose the first option: Quick Install of OpenELEC and when prompted to Enable SSH Server on start choose Yes. Once you’ve got it to boot from the USB thumbdrive you’ll be presented with the OpenELEC installation menu. On my NUC I need to go into the BIOS for this and to get into the BIOS I repeatedly press the F2 key when it’s booting. You need to boot the Kodi machine from the USB thumbdrive. Once it’s finished building the USB thumbdrive remove it and insert the thumbdrive into the machine you’ll use for Kodi. You MUST make sure you choose the correct drive letter for your USB thumbdrive! On my machine it’s D so I’d enter D: as shown on that screen and then press. It should show a screen similar to this:Īs it says, the thumbdrive will be wiped during this process. Next, insert a blank USB thumbdrive into your desktop computer and double-click the create_install.bat file. The file we’re interested in is called create_installstick.bat tar file and once it has extracted you’ll see a bunch of files.

Once you’ve installed 7-zip we can now extract the downloaded OpenELEC. tar files and this software can be downloaded from. Firstly we want to download the latest version of the OpenELEC software from For my NUC I’d download the latest 64bit non-diskimage version. I do this bit using my main Windows desktop. There are only a handful of steps: Download and uncompress the latest version of OpenELEC Installing OpenELEC is really quite straight forward once you know how.
