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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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Smart list to shuffle Christmas music (Kodi 15.x)

This is my first year using Kodi. I have a main library of general music. The file structure for my music is always music > artist > album > songs. I doubt it matters, but I'm using Kodi 15.x on Win10, Confluence skin. I set up a generic smart…
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how to use variable inside Python a regular expression search?

could any one show me how i can use variable url inside Python a regular expression search?Url is the variable passed to the function that holds the code below. I tried the following but keep getting error.Hope some help me fix this error.Thanks in…
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How to create directories(with thumbnails) for xbmc/kodi addon?

I have created two directories for my xmbc/kodi addon with thumbnails but it doesn't show the thumbnails and both directories show below each other as text(instead of showing the directories in one row with thumbnails).I placed the thumbs in…
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How to create multiple directories in xbmc/kodi addon?

I have recently start learning how to make xbmc/kodi addons. I am trying to create multiple directories but keep getting "error:script failed:" when i click the addon icon on video section. Could anyone help me fix this error and create multiple…
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kodi waiting for external storage

I've been getting the waiting for external storage message in Kodi on Android 4.2.2, and now it doesn't start (Kodi version 14.2 Helix) After some logcat debugging, I found this on the messages: D/Kodi ( 6945): External storage = /mnt/sdcard; state…
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Gamepad-friendly web browsing for Raspberry Pi?

I'm running XBMC/Kodi on my Raspberry Pi. I want to launch a web browser that lets me enter URLs and text fields easily with an Xbox 360 gamepad in much the same way as the browser in Steam's Big Picture mode. Trouble is, no such gamepad-friendly…
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Python Script Error - Kodi/XBMC Wizard

Long story short i got a developer to make me a wizard and even though I have paid him he has not left without reply and stuck with a half working python wizard. The wizard works inside Kodi and downloads a zip file and extracts it. But sometimes I…
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Python How to accept only certain words with user input

Ok so The script is now working, Id like to thank all for the advice. heres the final script import smtplib import xbmc import xbmcgui import datetime list = ("mary", "james", "tilly") kb = xbmc.Keyboard('', 'Please type in your name to…
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Is there a way to let a pictures add-on navigate across page breaks?

I am currently trying to create a Kodi add-on that provides pictures to the user. From what I understand from the Kodi programming instructions this is done by providing a set of links with a title from a Python script. The pictures I want to…
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Create zipfile using xbmc addon (python)

I am trying to create a zip file using xbmc/kodi, but I got an empty zip file. Please help. Thanks in advance. Here are the codes that I've used: def zip_folder(): zf = zipfile.ZipFile(xbmc.translatePath(os.path.join(home,…
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Python - How to delete rest of string after a specific word/character

I'm a complete python noob, so please go easy. I'm currently hacking/editing a kodi plugin called pseudo library, so that it cleans up the titles of the streams I'm grabbing so that I can put it into a better looking EPG. Currently they look like…
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Japanese and Korean titles are blank in kodi/xbmc for FireTV

I'm using original titles for my kodi/xbmc on amazon FireTV , however the titles are displayed blank or '' or ' ' any solution ? Note: duplicate of question asked in more relavant forum original question
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XBox 360 Wireless Controller not working with Kodi / XBMC

System: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (kernel: 3.13.0-45-generic) Kodi (14.2-BETA1 Git:2259d0b). Platform: Linux x86 64-bit Original XBOX 360 wireless controller with Xbox 360 USB Wireless Adapter What I did: Install ubuntu-xboxdrv: sudo apt-add-repository…
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Requirements for Kodi addon auto-updates - sees update but doesn't retrieve it

I can manually install the updated plugin over the older version and the older version will see that an update is due within Kodi (by noticing new addons.xml.md5) but it never progresses further. I didn't make a separate repository plugin zip -…
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