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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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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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Storing social network app credentials in XBMC plugin code

I'm working on an XBMC Kodi plugin that uses parts of the Twitter API. This means that I have to store my Twitter app credentials (consumer key, secret, ...) in the plugin's code. Now, as Kodi plugins are distributed as sourcecode, this means that…
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Python : JSON-RPC 32700 error?

I'm sending the following request to XBMC to add a file to a playlist: req2 = '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Playlist.Add", "params":{"playlistid":1, "item" :{ "file" : "' + path + '"}}, "id" : "addToPlaylist"}' connection.request('POST',…
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Writing my own plugin for kodi

Is it possible for me to write a separate plugin in kodi for an android app where i have to put typed name, typed description and logo for each channel, or is there any link for guidance? thanks
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XBMC 13.2 linker error on Raspberry Pi: undefined references to COMXImage and g_OMXImage

I have tried to compile XBMC 13.2 Gotham on my Raspberry Pi using DistCC to speed up compilation. When it comes to linking, I got the following error: AR xbmc/cores/paplayer/paplayer.a LD xbmc.bin xbmc/linux/linux.a(RBP.o): In function…
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downloading the file and cancel in python

I'm working on my python script to download a xml file from my server and write the data in a sqlite3 database in parallel. I need some help regarding how to cancel the connection from my server using the urllib2 library. I want the database to stop…
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update the database while using the timer

I'm working on my python script to write the data in a sqlite3 database at the same time when using the time.sleep function. I'm having a trouble with writing the database at the same time when I'm using the time.sleep function. I can be able to…
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how do I set up the calculate progress

I'm working on my python script for xbmc media application to send the request to url to get the response so I can store the data in a sqlite3 database. I want to to set up the calculate progress from 0% to 100% for the label control to see how far…
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check XBMC with Arduino

A week ago I started a new project with my Arduino MEGA 2560 with Ethernet Shield. I'm able to send a WOL to my server but now I want to PING my XBMC server with the JSON-RPC command. With my Chrome browser I'm able to check the server with…
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os.remove can't find file because of slashes

I want to remove a file. That file was created earlier by the same program that I want to delete it. This is what I have: USER_FILE_NAME = 'user_info.json' file_to_delete = os.path.join(ADDON_DATA['profile_dir'], USER_FILE_NAME) xbmc.log('File to…
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How to add icon and fanart to xbmc addon on menu

I can get them to show up within the addon, but I can't get them to show up on the addon select screen. Can someone show me what I'm doing wrong? (this is my first addon and I'm new at this so please forgive if it's a rookie mistake.) import…
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Not able to connect to ARServer

Here is my code: import com.bmc.arsys.api.ARException; import com.bmc.arsys.api.ARServerUser; public class ARServer { public static void main(String[] args) { ARServerUser ar = new ARServerUser(); …
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Select a folder with python json xbmc module

I have been trying to get xbmc (raspbmc) to boot up in a particular videos folder, it currently boots up in the Videos menu (set by appearance skin settings), inside this view the is an option called Files, and inside there, there is an option…
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how to block the loops when storing in a database?

I have got a problem with my current script where I'm working on the keyboard event for xbmc. When I'm pressing on the enter button of the keyboard, the code will keep firing by re-fetching the same values from the XML tags which it will keep doing…
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Does anyone have an updated example on posting a JSON request?

I am having a mess of a time finding up to date information on sending a JSON request to a local server. I keep coming across examples that use deprecated code, and I'd really like to do this with code that isn't. I can at least say that I now have…
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