How to start Libreelec without kodi ? only cli

verb · October 11, 2017 at 11:16 AM

Hello everyone. I would like to know if there is a way to start libreelec without kodi gui only cli. I dont want to spend resources on kodi .. as kodi eats more then half of the ram.

**escalade** · October 11, 2017 at 11:35 AM

You could put a sleep loop in autostart, but what would you use LibreELEC for then?

verb · October 11, 2017 at 11:39 AM

Hi escalade and thanks for the reply . I want to use it as vpn client and maybe run some web server on the box that's why i don't need kodi ( i won't use it as media player) . If i put sleep loop how could i use it at all ? i wont be able to ssh or do whatever ?

2re · October 11, 2017 at 11:50 AM

You could probably run a script when kodi starts, that execute the command "systemctl stop kodi"

verb · October 11, 2017 at 12:07 PM

Hi 2re. Thanks for the repy. Here is the output after issuing "systemctl stop kodi" (the command didn't helped much ) :

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LibreELEC:~/install # free -m
total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           343        177        166          0         10        101
-/+ buffers/cache:         64        278
Swap:          255          0        255

and here you can find my hw that's why i suppose that libreelec reserves more then half of the ram at boot time. I have even tried to disable starting of kodi with systemctl disable kodi and rest of the kodi services but after reboot they have started again.

**HiassofT** · October 11, 2017 at 12:09 PM

You can do that by masking the kodi systemd service, plus maybe some others you don't need/want (eventlircd etc)

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systemctl mask kodi

Only drawback is that then you have to care about addon updates / installation yourself.

Search the forum, we've discussed that before.

so long,

Hias

**escalade** · October 11, 2017 at 12:09 PM

verb

The autostart.sh file is the last thing that's run before Kodi starts, so the system is otherwise fully booted. So creating a sleep loop there will prevent Kodi from starting.

I'm still confused as to what you are going to do next. You realize that LibreELEC is not a standard Linux distribution with a package manager, right? There's no webserver shipped with LibreELEC. There is OpenVPN so you can set up your box as a VPN client, but then what?

renzz · October 11, 2017 at 12:18 PM

To stop kodi running at boot, do the following:

touch .config/system.d/kodi.service

To re-enable just delete that file.

**lrusak** · October 11, 2017 at 11:12 PM Official Post

Why even run LibreELEC at this point?

the easiest way is to do

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systemctl mask kodi.service

then to undo

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systemctl unmask kodi.service

**nickr** · October 14, 2017 at 2:10 AM Official Post

There are probably better operating systems for using an amlogic device as a server.

clarkss12 · October 14, 2017 at 2:27 AM

I am sure Armbian has a Linux port for your box. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on a couple of my arm devices, including one of my Amlogic boxes.

**milhouse** · October 16, 2017 at 6:35 AM

You can also add "textmode" to the kernel command line.