Setting up OS MC on a Raspberry Pi: A Step-by-Step Guide

If you bought a power supply with a switch, it's normal for the first boot to take a little longer than usual. This is because the device needs to format the SD card and install all the files. So, just give it some time to finish up, and it will automatically reboot into the OS MC interface.

Upon startup, you'll be presented with a menu that looks like this. From here, you can choose your region and language. If you're using a keyboard, simply use your arrow keys to navigate and press Enter when you're ready. You'll also need to choose your timezone and give your device a new name if you'd like. In my case, I'm sticking with "OS MC" and accepting the default settings.

After choosing your settings, you'll be prompted to enable the SSH server. Since I won't be using it on this device, I've disabled mine for now. If you want to use SSH, make sure to enable it instead. Next, you'll need to set up your network connection. Since we didn't do this earlier during the installation process, I'm going to set it up manually.

To start, scroll down to the "Wireless" option and enable your adapter. From here, you can choose the network you'd like to connect to and enter your password. Once connected, proceed to exit and look-and-feel options. You can choose between the OS MC theme or Kodi. I'm going with the OS MC theme, but feel free to experiment with both.

Now that OS MC is set up and running on your Raspberry Pi, you're ready to explore its features. Let's start by installing some add-ons from the main menu. To do this, scroll down to "Settings" and then find the "Add-on Browser" option. From here, select the repository you'd like to use and choose which add-ons you want to install.

For music add-ons, I'll just press Enter to begin the installation process. You can explore other options, such as video add-ons or sports channels. If you're feeling adventurous, you can search for more add-ons online. Once installed, you can back out of the main menu and find your newly installed add-ons.

Next, let's take a look at YouTube real quick. You can sign in to your account or search for something new. From here, you can watch YouTube videos on your Raspberry Pi. To play media from an external drive, navigate to the "Videos" folder and select your drive. From there, you can browse through your files and find something to watch.

For example, I have a 2 terabyte USB 3.0 Drive plugged in, and I'll just scroll through my files to find something to play. Ah, here's a 4K video that should work well on this device. Let me take a screen capture of it to demonstrate how to play media from an external drive.

Overall, OS MC is a great media center for your Raspberry Pi. With its user-friendly interface and vast array of add-ons, you'll be able to enjoy all sorts of content on your device. Whether you choose Kodi or OS MC as your skin, there's no denying the power of this media center. If you have any questions or need further guidance, feel free to ask in the comments below.

For those who want to get started with OS MC and Kodi, I've included some links to the official forum and Amazon page for everything you'll need to set up your device.

**Additional Resources:**

* OS MC Forum: [link]

* Amazon Page: [link]

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on everybody it's ETA prime back here again today I'm going to show you how to turn your Raspberry Pi into an awesome little open-source media center using OS MC which stands for open source Media Center now this is really easy to install basically what we have here is a minimal Linux operating system with a pre-installed custom version of Kodi now you can switch between the OS MC interface that looks like this or the regular Kodi interface if you ever want to there are hundreds of legal video picture and music add-ons that we can install from the built-in repositories or you could add your own repository and add some other add-ons that a lot of people use with Cody in this video I'm just gonna be focusing on the stuff that's in the built-in repository that we can access very easily you can also use your own USB Drive external hard drive or Nass to stream your own videos that you have pre downloaded to this OS here there's a few things we're gonna need before we get started here everything will be linked to Amazon in the description in case you don't already own it you can pick it up from there first up Raspberry Pi I recommend using the three B+ but a two or three will work you're also gonna need a power adapter for the Raspberry Pi it's a micro USB N 5 volt 2.5 amps are better and finally for the PI side we're gonna need a micro SD card eight gigabyte 16 32 64 all the way up to 256 will work you can buy a kit that contains everything you need to get up and running on Amazon like I mention links will be down below you're also going to need something to control the interface on the Raspberry Pi keyboard and mouse works fine you can use an air mouse remote or a Bluetooth game controller I recommend a ps4 controller this part is totally optional but you might want a nice looking Raspberry Pi case one of my favorites here is the flirt case they offer the all-black version with the Kodi logo on top or the older silver version these also act as a heat sink for the PI to keep it cool so we're gonna go ahead and install OS MC to the SD card to do this we're gonna need a separate computer you can use a Windows Mac or Linux machine we're gonna flash OS MC to the SD card when we're done we'll pull that SD card back out of the PC place it into the PI power it up alright so let's go ahead and install OS MC on the SD card so we can run it on the raspberry pie I've already placed my SD card inside of my PC I'm just using a 32 gigabyte P&Y card like I mentioned an 8 gigabyte or larger SD card will work but these 32 gigabyte cards are really cheap nowadays on Amazon so I'd recommend going with at least a 32 first thing we want to do is head over to the links in the description os mctv from here we're gonna find download and we're gonna choose raspberry pi if you're on a Windows machine download this installer if you're on a Mac OS X installer if you're on Linux download this one we're on Windows here so we're gonna go ahead and click on download comes down really quick I'm gonna place it on my desktop I'm going to right click and I want to run this as administrator here's the installer interface really easy to use very self-explanatory the language English what would you like to install OS MC on Raspberry Pi there's also an option for the Raspberry Pi 1 or Raspberry Pi 0 but we're doing a three B+ so we're gonna choose the Raspberry Pi 2/3 click Next please select which version you would like we're gonna go with the latest one here we're gonna click Next we're gonna install this on an SD card from here we could set up our wireless network so we don't have to do any setup on the PI but a lot of people aren't going to know their SSID or anything like that so I'm just gonna leave wired checked we're gonna click Next from here we need to select the SD card we want to flash to make sure you're choosing the correct Drive we take a look here this is my sd card it's Drive D yours may be different drive D click Next accept the license agreement next and it's going to start downloading os MC and might ask you if you want to redownload it just go ahead and click yes if this is the first time you're using it you might not be prompted for anything when it's finished downloading it's gonna prompt you one more time are you sure you want to erase this SD card I'm gonna click yes it's going to write the image to the SD card and we're almost done here the SD card is finished flashing all we need to do is hit quit take the SD card out of our PC plug it into our Raspberry Pi we're also gonna plug in the HDMI to our display our keyboard and mouse or controller whatever you're using and we're gonna boot the Raspberry Pi up to boot the PI just plug it in if you bought a power supply with a switch turn the switch on the first boots gonna take a little longer than normal because it needs to format the SD card and install all the files for us so just give it a little time to finish up it's going to automatically reboot into the OS MC interface so in your first startup it's gonna bring you to a menu that looks like this we're gonna choose our region and our language if you're using a keyboard just use your arrow keys and press Enter are you sure yes we're also gonna have to choose our timezone you can give your device a new name if you like I'm gonna stick with OS MC and accept you can enable the SSH server I'm gonna disable mine because I'm not gonna be using it on this bye click accept you might want to read through their Terms of Service click continue you now need to set up your network because we didn't do it earlier when we did the install so I'd like to set up my network manually I want to use Wi-Fi so over on the very left hand side I'm gonna scroll down to wireless and enable my adapter now we can choose the network we would like to connect to we'll have to put in our password I'm now connected so I'm gonna go over to exit look-and-feel OS MC which I really like or we can go with the classic Kodi look it's really up to you I'm gonna go with OS MC you can sign up for their newsletter if you'd like to and now we're gonna exit we now have OS MC setup and ready to use on our Raspberry Pi I'm gonna go over a few things like installing video and music add-ons I'm also gonna show you how to run your own videos from an external drive first up we're gonna install some add-ons from the main menu we're gonna scroll down here to settings from here we're gonna find add-on browser install from repository and we can choose which one we'd like here if we want music add-ons we're gonna go in here and I'll just press ENTER install it's gonna install for us we'll do one more here there's a lot to choose from I'm just not going to go through the whole list now we're gonna back up by pressing backspace on our keyboard and we want to find some videos so we're gonna go to video add-ons again there's tons of stuff to choose from install ABC family install Adult Swim another sparts really up to you find what you'd like to install and install it if we go all the way down to the bottom YouTube go ahead and install this there's a lot of sports there's weather there's all kinds of stuff in here to choose from and like I mentioned in the beginning if you want to install other add-ons just do a quick Google search you can find tons of them we're gonna back out of here from the main menu music music add-ons here's the add-ons we just installed I'm gonna back up videos video add-ons and here we are so we'll go to YouTube real quick you can sign in to YouTube or go to popular right now or even search so we'll go with a search real quick and from here we can watch YouTube videos what's going on guys the CTA Prime back if you want to pause today I'm gonna show you press your spacebar and we'll just back out so that's it for video add-ons you just need to find something you'd like now I'm gonna show you how to play media from an external drive so you want to watch some videos from an external drive I have a 2 terabyte USB 3.0 Drive plugged in right now I'm gonna go to videos files and here's my Drive you can just scroll through here and let's see that's 4k it's not gonna play well on here let me see if I can find here we go we'll go with this this was just a screen capture I did of the Nvidia Jetson Anna and that's how you play media from an external drive you can do this with music pictures or anything really so that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching I hope you have oh s MC up and running on your Raspberry Pi now there are tons of different media centers that you can use this was just a different one that I wanted to show you guys I enjoy using this one you can go with Kodi if you want to or you could use OS MC and Kodi mode so you have that skin it's really up to you if you have any questions let me know in the comments below I'm going to leave some links to the OS MC forum and Amazon links for everything you need to get up and running it'd be really cool if you could hit that like button maybe subscribe to the channel but like always thanks for watching youwhat's going on everybody it's ETA prime back here again today I'm going to show you how to turn your Raspberry Pi into an awesome little open-source media center using OS MC which stands for open source Media Center now this is really easy to install basically what we have here is a minimal Linux operating system with a pre-installed custom version of Kodi now you can switch between the OS MC interface that looks like this or the regular Kodi interface if you ever want to there are hundreds of legal video picture and music add-ons that we can install from the built-in repositories or you could add your own repository and add some other add-ons that a lot of people use with Cody in this video I'm just gonna be focusing on the stuff that's in the built-in repository that we can access very easily you can also use your own USB Drive external hard drive or Nass to stream your own videos that you have pre downloaded to this OS here there's a few things we're gonna need before we get started here everything will be linked to Amazon in the description in case you don't already own it you can pick it up from there first up Raspberry Pi I recommend using the three B+ but a two or three will work you're also gonna need a power adapter for the Raspberry Pi it's a micro USB N 5 volt 2.5 amps are better and finally for the PI side we're gonna need a micro SD card eight gigabyte 16 32 64 all the way up to 256 will work you can buy a kit that contains everything you need to get up and running on Amazon like I mention links will be down below you're also going to need something to control the interface on the Raspberry Pi keyboard and mouse works fine you can use an air mouse remote or a Bluetooth game controller I recommend a ps4 controller this part is totally optional but you might want a nice looking Raspberry Pi case one of my favorites here is the flirt case they offer the all-black version with the Kodi logo on top or the older silver version these also act as a heat sink for the PI to keep it cool so we're gonna go ahead and install OS MC to the SD card to do this we're gonna need a separate computer you can use a Windows Mac or Linux machine we're gonna flash OS MC to the SD card when we're done we'll pull that SD card back out of the PC place it into the PI power it up alright so let's go ahead and install OS MC on the SD card so we can run it on the raspberry pie I've already placed my SD card inside of my PC I'm just using a 32 gigabyte P&Y card like I mentioned an 8 gigabyte or larger SD card will work but these 32 gigabyte cards are really cheap nowadays on Amazon so I'd recommend going with at least a 32 first thing we want to do is head over to the links in the description os mctv from here we're gonna find download and we're gonna choose raspberry pi if you're on a Windows machine download this installer if you're on a Mac OS X installer if you're on Linux download this one we're on Windows here so we're gonna go ahead and click on download comes down really quick I'm gonna place it on my desktop I'm going to right click and I want to run this as administrator here's the installer interface really easy to use very self-explanatory the language English what would you like to install OS MC on Raspberry Pi there's also an option for the Raspberry Pi 1 or Raspberry Pi 0 but we're doing a three B+ so we're gonna choose the Raspberry Pi 2/3 click Next please select which version you would like we're gonna go with the latest one here we're gonna click Next we're gonna install this on an SD card from here we could set up our wireless network so we don't have to do any setup on the PI but a lot of people aren't going to know their SSID or anything like that so I'm just gonna leave wired checked we're gonna click Next from here we need to select the SD card we want to flash to make sure you're choosing the correct Drive we take a look here this is my sd card it's Drive D yours may be different drive D click Next accept the license agreement next and it's going to start downloading os MC and might ask you if you want to redownload it just go ahead and click yes if this is the first time you're using it you might not be prompted for anything when it's finished downloading it's gonna prompt you one more time are you sure you want to erase this SD card I'm gonna click yes it's going to write the image to the SD card and we're almost done here the SD card is finished flashing all we need to do is hit quit take the SD card out of our PC plug it into our Raspberry Pi we're also gonna plug in the HDMI to our display our keyboard and mouse or controller whatever you're using and we're gonna boot the Raspberry Pi up to boot the PI just plug it in if you bought a power supply with a switch turn the switch on the first boots gonna take a little longer than normal because it needs to format the SD card and install all the files for us so just give it a little time to finish up it's going to automatically reboot into the OS MC interface so in your first startup it's gonna bring you to a menu that looks like this we're gonna choose our region and our language if you're using a keyboard just use your arrow keys and press Enter are you sure yes we're also gonna have to choose our timezone you can give your device a new name if you like I'm gonna stick with OS MC and accept you can enable the SSH server I'm gonna disable mine because I'm not gonna be using it on this bye click accept you might want to read through their Terms of Service click continue you now need to set up your network because we didn't do it earlier when we did the install so I'd like to set up my network manually I want to use Wi-Fi so over on the very left hand side I'm gonna scroll down to wireless and enable my adapter now we can choose the network we would like to connect to we'll have to put in our password I'm now connected so I'm gonna go over to exit look-and-feel OS MC which I really like or we can go with the classic Kodi look it's really up to you I'm gonna go with OS MC you can sign up for their newsletter if you'd like to and now we're gonna exit we now have OS MC setup and ready to use on our Raspberry Pi I'm gonna go over a few things like installing video and music add-ons I'm also gonna show you how to run your own videos from an external drive first up we're gonna install some add-ons from the main menu we're gonna scroll down here to settings from here we're gonna find add-on browser install from repository and we can choose which one we'd like here if we want music add-ons we're gonna go in here and I'll just press ENTER install it's gonna install for us we'll do one more here there's a lot to choose from I'm just not going to go through the whole list now we're gonna back up by pressing backspace on our keyboard and we want to find some videos so we're gonna go to video add-ons again there's tons of stuff to choose from install ABC family install Adult Swim another sparts really up to you find what you'd like to install and install it if we go all the way down to the bottom YouTube go ahead and install this there's a lot of sports there's weather there's all kinds of stuff in here to choose from and like I mentioned in the beginning if you want to install other add-ons just do a quick Google search you can find tons of them we're gonna back out of here from the main menu music music add-ons here's the add-ons we just installed I'm gonna back up videos video add-ons and here we are so we'll go to YouTube real quick you can sign in to YouTube or go to popular right now or even search so we'll go with a search real quick and from here we can watch YouTube videos what's going on guys the CTA Prime back if you want to pause today I'm gonna show you press your spacebar and we'll just back out so that's it for video add-ons you just need to find something you'd like now I'm gonna show you how to play media from an external drive so you want to watch some videos from an external drive I have a 2 terabyte USB 3.0 Drive plugged in right now I'm gonna go to videos files and here's my Drive you can just scroll through here and let's see that's 4k it's not gonna play well on here let me see if I can find here we go we'll go with this this was just a screen capture I did of the Nvidia Jetson Anna and that's how you play media from an external drive you can do this with music pictures or anything really so that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching I hope you have oh s MC up and running on your Raspberry Pi now there are tons of different media centers that you can use this was just a different one that I wanted to show you guys I enjoy using this one you can go with Kodi if you want to or you could use OS MC and Kodi mode so you have that skin it's really up to you if you have any questions let me know in the comments below I'm going to leave some links to the OS MC forum and Amazon links for everything you need to get up and running it'd be really cool if you could hit that like button maybe subscribe to the channel but like always thanks for watching you\n"