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Kodi is a cross-platform, open source media player. Versions < 14.0 were called XBMC.

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.

reference: About page from the Kodi website.

XBMC is the old name for what is now known as Kodi. XBMC is still the proper name if you are referring to an old version of the program (e.g., XBMC v13), but versions as of v14 and the project itself is known as Kodi.

reference: What is Kodi? What is XBMC? Intro FAQ on the Kodi wiki.

Kodi is a media player application developed by the XBMC Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium.

Kodi has a comprehensive API, allowing 3rd party plugins and addons to be developed.

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Why unknown selector when calling JSONRPC on XBMC?

can someone give me a hint why i always geht an "DSJSONRPC doesNotRecognizeSelector" when calling jsonrpc interface from XBMC? Result in console: *** JSON-RPC REQUEST: { id = 654509193; jsonrpc = "2.0"; method =…
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I hide (not to kill and hide) XBMC for raspberry pi?

I hide (not to kill and hide) XBMC for raspberry pi? On xbmc I have written only a catalog, clicking on the item you want to run my app, while hide xbmc and start again as my app quits I try…
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shell script to rename folder by info from file inside

well, I got a set of folders each containing a *.nfo file from XBMC (beside other files such as videos and pictures etc). I want to rename the folder by strings inside the *.nfo file. The relevant content of such a *.nfo file: ... …
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Run a a script from system python interpreter from an external python interpreter

XBMC has it's own python interpreter inside of it. From this built in interpreter I need to run a script on the local machine python(i.e. the system python). I call os.system("python myScript.py") but I get back the error in my system…
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Need pointing to sources of information regarding Schedules Direct data requests

I am developing an add-on for XBMC to pull U.S. and Canada scheduling data for an EPG. Currently, there are several PVR's, several techniques and means to obtain data from, it seems, everywhere except the U.S. and Canada. I've found a service (in…
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How can I implement some sort of alarm clock functionality for a Python program running on raspbmc?

I'm turning my raspberry pi running on raspbmc (based on Debian) into an alarm clock that turns my tv on, displays the weather and plays a predifined song at, you guessed it, a specific time. I currently have most of the functionality implemented…
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Which Beautiful Soup version is included in XBMC?

I am trying to do some website scraping in Python in combination with XBMC. When I look at the website of Beautiful Soup the latest version is version 4. When I look at XBMC it says version 3.2.0…
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What is the standard way to install XBMC service and launch it automatically

I need to make an installation for XBMC service (not Add-on) and after installation the service must be registered to be launched automatically after XBMC start. I can't find any description and standard solution anywhere. It would be perfect if the…
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How can I suspend a process when other starts? (Python, Linux)

I have a device which automatically runs XBMC when it turns on. One of the menu options opens Google Chrome, and when that occurs, I want that XBMC stays suspended in background. How can I do that? Should I use a daemon, an event listener? Thanks…
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Using os.walk to add to list

I have been trying to add sub-directories to an "items" list and have settled on accomplishing this with the below code. root, dirs, files = iter(os.walk(PATH_TO_DIRECTORY)).next() items = [{ 'label': directory, 'path': plugin.url_for('test') }…
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XBMC/Xbmcswift - Movie/TV-Show metadata

Is there a way for xbmcswift to automatically provide metadata for video items? I know this is possible using a sqlite database, but is there a way to do this automatically without using a database/sqlite? Possibly from websites like…
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Convert XBMC Database Schema 4.0a in sqlite to mysql

I would like to use the database schema of Xbmc to my webapplication. You can see the schema here : http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Database_Schema_4.0/a In my server, I have a mysql database, so I test to convert sqlite to mysql with firefox…
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Time sleep function not working with string

Want to import a string from xbmc setting and put it in the time.sleep function. Code: debouncing_video = settings.getSetting( "Debounce_video") debouncing_audio = settings.getSetting( "Debounce_audio") time.sleep(denouncing_video) If i replace…
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if no value, do nothing else

here the code import subprocess,os import xbmcgui import xbmc import xbmcaddon import urllib2 import re import string #Initialize value for ref. menu = 0 video = 0 audio = 0 music_title = 0 music_title1 = 1 #Initialize…
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Remove space not working in python

i have a code that take the music title of xbmc and i want to put it in a url to send it. However urllib does not like the space in the title here the code: if xbmc.Player().isPlayingAudio() and audio != 1 : audio = 1 …
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