My goal was to run Kodi 18 on a vanilla Raspbian, install the Netflix add-on, and tunnel all traffic via a VPN. A great number of tutorials exist for that purpose, but none of them was entirely correct or up to date. At the time of writing, 2019-08-11, there are a number of obstacles to overcome. It took me the better part of an afternoon to piece the following together from several sources, with the general approach for the Netflix add-on - differing in details - following the instructions at https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/netflix-amazon-video-plex-raspberry-pi/. The advantage of installing Kodi on a normal Raspbian (instead of opting for LibreElec and other media centre-focusing distributions) is that you can use a variety of other software and, importantly, can use VPN clients other than OpenVPN. Admittedly, I haven't tried OpenVPN in a long while and I think it will have the necessary performance, but I actually like the ExpressVPN client for its e
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May 12, 2020 10:08
Kodi 18 with Netflix add-on on Raspbian (Raspberry Pi 3)
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May 12, 2020 10:08
Repair Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard with single non-working keys
Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 with one or more single keys not working.
Use a key mapping tool (macOS users: Keyboard Viewer) to ascertain that indeed there is really no signal coming from the keyboard rather than just the wrong one. If you do see a keycode when you press the key, you need to have a look what kind of other tools you might have installed that intercept the key. In the following, we assume you do not see a keycode.