If you don't wan't to build a HTPC, but still want to try it, you can buy the inexpensive WeTek Play here - just be sure to select "MicroSD Card pre-loaded with OpenELEC" when ordering. WeTek Play (also sold as an WeTek OpenELEC edition) is an ARM-based media player device that can currently run either Kodi on Android or on Linux, both using official first-party firmware images provided by WeTek and OpenELEC development teams which comes with Kodi pre-installed.
If you want to download the OpenELEC Linux distribution, you can get it here.
Users running OpenELEC 6.95.1 or later with auto-update enabled will be prompted on-screen to reboot and apply the update. The OpenELEC Team shares the following updated packages. 'The OpenELEC 7.0 (internal version 7.0.0) release has been published. We recommend CuBox-i2eX / Hummingboard-i2eX or better devices". The iMX6 build extends support to all Solidrun CuBox-i/TV, Solidrun Hummingboard devices and the OSMC Vero. The team further explains, "we now officially support WeTek's WeTek_Play device with a build that installs to internal NAND and dual-boots with Android on an SD Card.
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PVR backends such as VDR and TVHeadend will install needed dependencies automatically", says the OpenELEC Team.
Beginning with Kodi 15.0 most audio encoder, audio decoder, PVR and visualisation addons are no longer pre-bundled into OpenELEC but can be downloaded from the Kodi addon repo if required. OpenELEC (32-bit Generic Build, Disk Image) (Freeware) Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) is a small Linux distribution built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer into a Kodi (previously XBMC) media center. "The most visible change is Kodi 15.2 (Isengard).