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I have a similar setup, Rpi3 with OSMC / Kodi installed. I turned an old 500GB laptop drive into an external HD for storage, with reuse of parts I'd say the whole thing cost me €50/€60 - for the Rpi3, Case, PSU (though most micro USB phone chargers will work so don't buy one unless you need one), Micro SDHC card, and SATA to USB cable for the hard drive (I milled out an old Gameboy and stuck it in there for a retro l…
Yes this is something i found out recently, that the remote control works over hdmi. This quite astonished me! Also it works out of the box with osmc... Chromium (open source chrome) definitely works. However if you installed osmc you have propably the openelec distro. I am not sure if you can run a browser on it...
Re: Ask HN: What is your home media PC setup?
#51I had to change some keybindings to map the "back" button on my remote, but it largely worked for me out of the box