Questions tagged [kodi]

Kodi™ (formerly known as XBMC™) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Kodi runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.

Kodi, formally known as XBMC, is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for digital media for HTPCs (Home theater PCs).

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Kodi custom build : unable to create application

I have prepared xbmc-Krypton build with custom skin and applied necessary changes as below : At : \system\settings\settings.xml CHANGE SKIN NAME my skin name At : \system\addon-manifest.xml ADD…
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How to debug Kodi add-ins on Android device without root?

I had no issues with debugging some add-ins that I wrote with Kodi on Linux. Debugging on an Android device without root is another story. I have no way of looking at the logs on the device, as the different apps are using different UIDs - Kodi is…
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Print text file with python

Editing a kodi plugin at the moment and trying to solve to print out a specific txt-file with python. There is a txt located on another folder containting: build021.7.0 I want to be able to print out the version number. How can this be done? Would…
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Can't get Kodi to accept keys emitted from python-uinput?

I'm emitting keys from a python script using python-uinput. Basic stuff such as up / down / enter / esc. As far as I can see this works fine on my desktop, in the terminal, and with the browser. But when I run Kodi, it doesn't seem to respond at…
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Dim a display with a raspberry

I'm using the Pi3 and the last jessie-lite OS, and I want to manage the brightness of the screen like Kodi does with the dim screensaver. After some google searching I found some tips but nothing works. I'll be using an external light sensor and I…
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Beautifulsoup4 performance raspberry pi3

I am making a Kodi addon that i will run on my raspberry pi3. In my addon i scrape information from a website so i can fill a list of items. Everything i have right now is working but when i deploy it on my raspberry pi 3 the performance becomes an…
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Media Player Crashes on Real Device Android

I have a songs in list view which i am getting it from json service. I have a play button, Facebook and Twitter Share Button on every row. When i click on play button song starts and seek bar & Fb Twitter sharing also working Fine. Its working fine…
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Making a custom HomeScreen GUI with Kodi

I know Kodi is Open-source and one of my buddies was talking to me about it one day saying you could customize Kodi where you can redesign the home screen environment as in making it like a kiosk screen with apps that you would want to display and…
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Way to edit skin in Kodi (openelec on raspberry pi)

I just downloaded a new skin for openelec and decompressed it from zip file. Customized it and compressed it into a zip, then when I'm trying to install it in Kodi (openelec on raspberry pi), it shows an error "addon does not have correct…
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Get Python to print Location or Get

Guys i m scraping this url 'http://goldfilmesonline.com/jack-reacher-sem-retorno-legendado-online/' to try to get 1 link,but they have 2 that work for me, what happend to the site, i think it redirect, whem u play the video, 1 thing i know it send 2…
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NFO files XSD or DTD

I'm writing a tool that modifies metadata of existing NFO files and adds new metadata. Unfortunately I cannot find XSD or DTD defining the format of NFO files. Where can I find such an XSD / DTD please ?
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Osmc CEC not working after using cec-client in ssh terminal

I have a RPI2 with OSMC installed and I want to do some cec commands to check if the Tv is ON or OFF. The issue is that after any command cec-client ( except cec-client -h :) ) the OSMC won't receive CEC commands until I restart the RPI. Is there…
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Simple login function for XBMC (Python) issue

I'm trying to scrape sections of a Javascript calendar page through python(xbmc/kodi). So far I've been able to scrape static html variables but not the JavaScript generated sections. The variables im trying to retrieve are
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kodi launch with addon with java

I use this code to launch kodi from my android app. startActivity(getActivity().getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage("org.xbmc.kodi")); I am wondering how to launch kodi that auto starts playing an add on channel.
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Sound issues with RaspberryPi 2 and OSMC (Kodi)

I have sound issues with some video files I want to play from an external HDD with my Raspberry Pi 2 and OSMC. Instead of the video sound I hear a very loud chattering, rusteling sound. Kind of like a machine gun sound in an old video game. The…
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