Adding more external applications

General
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Hi all, and thanks for this nice project.

I need a couple of “mainstream” application in my system in addition to KODI like
JAVA, MariaDB, openHAB , SAMBA Server , Mosquitto, minidlna, syncthing

None can be found in the entware repository as entware is addressing embedded devices.
So far, so bad.

As outlined in this thread https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/coreelec-or-armbian/10020, corelec is a “just enough OS” for Kodi.
Understood.

But going to a more mainline distribution like ARMBIAN , I fear loosing the hardware accelerating capabilities built-in here.

Is CORELEC then still the choice for my needs ?

Or is there any possibility to add more/other repository sources ? Cleary speaking, I’m missing ‘apt’ :wink:

Thanks for any comment !

Gerry

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Why do you need all that on CoreELEC?
You have 2 choices, use another device with Armbian on it, or try Docker on CE.
CE has SMB server.
I’m sure that most of the other things you mentioned have a docker container you could use.

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What you say is not entirely true. Entware aarch64-k3.10 for CoreELEC includes the services you named (samba, syncthing, mariadb, mosquitto, and minidlna), it is an excellent repository that is very easy to install and configure, and it has updates several times a year.

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Another option is to install Debian arm64 in chroot. This gives you even more freedom. Although some additional work is necessary to workaround missing systemd in this chroot.

5

Docker is your solution

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Hi!
I would also like to move my openhab system into the always running odroid N2 that has coreelec preinstalled. I want to keep my kodi alive on the odroid (because that’s why I bought it).
I’ve been looking into docker and was able to install it as an addon in kodi. I can ssh into the odroid and can run commands like docker ps.
I’m a bit stuck on bringing in the openhab environment. I’ve tried these two pages: https://www.openhab.org/docs/installation/docker.html
https://hub.docker.com/r/openhab/openhab/
but it starts with making a new user which is not possible on the coreelec. I’m not getting much further. Did anyone succeed in this?

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Skip the user creation. Just pull the docker.