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Devices

This area of the wiki is all about various hardware topics as well as OS-specific topics. Everything from HTPCs to remotes to audio receivers. It is also another way to categorize and discover topics relating to specific hardware or OSes. Feel free to add or create pages/info as needed.

General

Hardware requirements
Hardware for XBMC forum on the XBMC Forum

OS

	Android and Android hardware Kodi for Android is a full port of the complete Kodi application to Google's Android operating-system. With the Android NDK (Native Development Kit for Android) Kodi runs natively under Android as a Native Activity application. The main goal for the Android port is to have Kodi working on inexpensive Android set-top-boxes. And whole Android smartphones and tablets are not the main target platforms they do have limited support as well.		iOS Kodi for iOS is a full port of Kodi to Apple's iOS operating-system. iOS supports both 720p and 1080p hardware accelerated video decoding of H.264 videos, and is compatible several Apple's iDevice's and Apple TVs that uses Apple A4 or higher SoC processors with a jailbroken iOS operating-system or an Apple development certificate to sign the .ipa file with. iOS has full touchscreen support as well as video-out cable support for iDevices.
	Linux Kodi for Linux is primarily developed for Ubuntu Linux. Third-party packages for most other Linux distributions are however available, and it is also possible to compile Kodi media center software application from scratch for nearly any Linux distribution. Linux supports full hardware decoding with most graphics cards. Linux is generally the best way to get a fast, free, and "appliance" feel for an Kodi powered HTPC.		Mac OS X Kodi for OS X runs natively on Mac OS X. OS X for Mac computers from Apple can provide hardware video decoding for H.264 and MPEG-2 video, though most CPUs are able to software decode other formats in 1080 as well. Macs can use the Apple TV remote, among others, for control of Kodi. An Intel Mac running OS X 10.7 (Lion) or higher is required for Kodi.
	Windows Kodi for Windows runs natively on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11. 1080p and 4K playback can be achieved on Windows based computers either via software decoding on the CPU if it's powerful enough, or by hardware accelerated video decoding. Kodi for Windows supports several MCE remotes out-of-the-box, among others.

HTPCs

Here are a few device-specific guides/help areas that the community has provided.

File:Apple TV 1 white BG.png	Apple TV 1 (silver) Apple TV 1	Apple TV 2 (black)
	iDevices (iOS)	Intel NUC Intel NUC
	OUYA OUYA	Pivos XIOS Pivos XIOS
	Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 2/3 and Raspberry Pi Zero are a series of ARM-powered, credit card-sized single-board computers (developer boards) made in the UK by the non-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation organization for educational and hobbyist purposes. These low power computers are mass produced at very low prices and the high number of units sold gives it massive community support. As Kodi HTPC, all Raspberry Pis support full 1080p (Full HD) video playback of the most commonly used codecs, most if not all Kodi add-ons, and have reasonably responsive GUI performance.	x86 hardware Generic desktop-class HTPC hardware advice.