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Getting to the various ports on the Pi3 is pretty easy. There is a removable panel on the bottom of the AA to get access. From there you could put a U shaped opening in this panel for wires to come out when you reinstall it.

I took a PI3 unit home the weekend, got kodi on it, once my air ships I'll plug it into the aux in and compare both interfaces. I'' assuming the Air's Pi unit is hardwired in...you know so when version 4 comes out we can't simply unplug the old one and in with the new.

It is actually not that hard to change the Pi. It is four mounting screws with all the connections on the I2S bus.

Not that hard to change the Pi board for you engineers I would say! For us computer scientists, we try to turn each screw a few times, but after approximately three turns we get all confused and go into some kind of infinite loop for some reason...

lol. I was an electronic eng before the IT side of me came out. So I'm good at taking screws out, I just lose a few.

Regardless, I think the safest way is to just plug a new pi into the analog aux jack on the back of the air if I just want to try kodi on it. Leave the original in tact. I'm not sure how good kodi is at things like streaming radio and stuff. Haven't the time to try. This Axiom Air certainly has potential though, shame more do not know about it. Excited to get my hands on it. Funny, because it is more of a gift for the woman than me.

FYI - I have already co-loaded JRiver Media Center on the AA and it works find - Thread here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,104473.0.html

While I'm running both Volumio and Media Center at the same time on the original setup, if you wanted seperate configs, you could have two different SD cards to swap instead of the entire Pi

That's a good point. different SD cards, much cheaper.

jmone, I read up on your thread on the the other forum. You did some impressive work. That was along the lines of what I was thinking. Of course if the air does what I want it to do out of the box - I'm done. But it's nice to know there are other alternatives with Pi. I'm very new to Pi. I got Kodi installed on one in about 10 mins - thanks google, but have a lot of reading to do before I get you your level. I'm going to enjoy a Stock Air for a while as is, and like I said, I can plug the pi3 I have into the analog in for messing around with kodi if I like. I'm hoping I don't need to. This was a gift for the woman for xmas, so I'm hoping it's not hard to use - considering that is the point of it. Making it more complicated is the opposite of what I want.

Does the air use an unmodified version of Volumio?

Back in 2016, it was a customized version of Volumio. But who knows? Maybe all the features in the customized version have made it into baseline.