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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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Counting lines gives the wrong result for scrolling the textbox

I count lines in python for a text like this: count = 0 for ch in text: if( ch == "\n" ): count += 1 return count The same text goes into a textBox control. I would like to scroll to the last line but the line count does not help ,…
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how to get mac address in android with python

I am trying to code an addon in XBMC linux environment within Android. I can see Mac address inside XBMC. But I'd like to grab the mac address for the addon and I can't figure out how. mac=uuid.getnode() I have already tried with code like above…
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Launching an application when switching HDMI displays

Very simple, I want to simply run XBMC when I push the switch on my switcher to switch from my PC display to the TV above it. I'm not too fussy on the language but was more curious if there was an event I could subscribe to do this (in the Win32…
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Python scripting for XBMC

I am new to programming and to Python itself. I have no programming experience. I have managed to read up on Python and done some fairly basic Python tutorial, now I am ready for my first project in Python. I am basing my project around XBMC, I want…
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How do I search for a link in this web site (on Linux)?

I'm trying to write a xbmc plugin for mako.co.il (I know there is a xbmako but I can't install it on linux). When I try to regexp the episodes site I don't get any result. I tried this web page and I could find the link using a…
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Matching with javascript

I'm currently developing a webinterface for XBMC witch contains ajax. Due the limitations of the out ajax i was forced to make use of the local resources, instead of my ajax class, that normally generates the output. I have a string. The * means,…
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Add context menu to XBMC-Plugin

I am trying to get a context menu to display, where I have a button e.g. to delete (or whatever) the selected item.
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xbmc jsonrpc and jquery

Basically I'm trying to poll my xbmc using the jsonrpc with the following: _data = '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"VideoLibrary.GetMovies", "id":"1"}'; _XBMCHOST = "http://192.168.0.140:8080/jsonrpc"; $.ajax({ dataType: 'jsonp', data:…
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How can I access the XBMC JSON interface via Java?

I've been searching for hours and I can't find the basics I need. :( I'm starting small, right now I just want to get this Java program to contact the JSON interface for XBMC and retrieve a list of Music on it. Can anyone please point me in the…
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Detecting if XBMC is playing, from shellscript?

I have an XBMC setup that I absolutely love at home. Now, I've been doing a bunch of automation to make everything run smoothly and without manual maintenance (Like updating my library automatically on new arrivals etc.), however one thing I'm…
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How to display list item tags in a kodi skin

I'm trying to customize the default Kodi skin 'estuary'. My plan is to display the tags of a movie next to the movie title. The skin uses $INFO[ListItem.Tag] in the DialogVideoInfo.xml template file and Kodi displays the tags nicely when opening…
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Kodi jsonrpc know if an episode has been see

I trying to retrieve a list of episode of a TV Show on my Kodi jsonrpc api, it return the list of episode but only id and name instead of all attributs show in the doc http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v8#Video.Details.Episode Here is my request :…
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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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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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How to programmatically rename movie and TV show files in an iTunes library, for XBMC compatibility?

I have a collection of movies and TV shows in iTunes, and I'd like to rename them to an XBMC compatible naming convention without breaking the links in iTunes. All the necessary metadata (season number, show name, episode number, etc) seems to be in…
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