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The basic hardware you will need is
the R-Pi board itself
a power supply (Micro-USB, 5V, upto 2500 mA)
a (micro)SDHC memory card to install the software. (Because video decoding is more resource-intensive than many other operations, it may be more important to have a fast/high quality memory card for Kodi than for other uses.)
Easy / Kodi centric distributions
OSMC - Home Installing • Wiki • Support Forum
Advanced / can be used with Kodi
Note that Arch ARM provides different Kodi packages optimized for different RPi models. All builds offer some flavor of HW accelerated decoding just like LibreELEC. The following packages will supply the current stable version of Kodi:
kodi-rpi for RPi 3/4/400
kodi-rpi-legacy for RPi 2
Users wanting to track the master branch may select:
kodi-rpi-git for RPi 3/4/400 only
Batocera Linux - Learn More
Buildroot - For experienced users only !
RetroPie - See full guide here
For installs that don't directly include and/or boot into Kodi automatically.
Editor note: We need to expand on this section, but here are the basic commands if you are familiar with the command-line:
(Current Version - 18.7)
PVR Addons
PVR Addons can be installed directly from the command line:
but replace PACKAGENAMEHERE with the PVR addon required.
The PVR client add-on should now be installed. If Kodi was already running, restart it to load the add-on.
Here's a youtube guide:
Notes for advanced users who wish to try and build Kodi from source code.
Various good notes mentioned here: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/docs/README.RaspberryPi.md
HOW-TO:Install Kodi on Raspberry Pi