Recently, I was bold enough to manually upgrade my 21.3 installation on a (64-bit) ODROID N2 to the Nightly Build. I placed the .tar file in the .update directory, and it worked fine.

However, when I now go to “Update” in the CoreELEC control panel, I don’t have access to update channel 22, which means I can’t access newer versions either. How can I fix this?

[UPDATE]

Never mind. The (auto)updates of the Nightly Builds keep coming anyway...

The "missing" update channel 22 is only cosmetically empty and filled after Piers is officially stable I understand.

Help guys

I'm (re)setting up a late 2012 Mac Mini to run exclusively as a media streamer using Kodi. Apart from it being the only computer I had available for this setup, I also chose to use it because it has a built-in IR receiver. Back when I was using Kodi 21, there was native support for the infrared receivers in Mac minis, which meant the IR Apple Remotes were supported. I decided to try Kodi 22 RC1, but was disappointed to find that any and all Apple Remote settings are missing.

I understand that at this stage, the Kodi team isn't looking to add any more features to version 22, but I was wondering if this was something that was intentionally removed or if this is a bug that needs to be addressed. Being able to use the Apple remote without having to install an extra IR receiver is really nice, and I'd hate to see this feature removed in Kodi 22.

One Kodi, one profile, a whole household: Kodi can't tell who pressed play, so everyone's watches end up in one Trakt history.

CrossWatch for Kodi fixes that. It's a service add-on that reports what plays to your own CrossWatch, a free, self-hosted app that syncs watch history, ratings and progress between Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Trakt, Simkl and more, with a profile per person. The add-on works out who watched, so each person's history stays their own.

How it knows who watched (first match wins):

• A smart playlist per person: "Ben's shows" means Ben watched it
• The active Kodi profile, if you use one per person
• Otherwise it asks once when playback stops (never at the start), and remembers the answer per show

Also:

• Optional rating after an episode or film, passed on to the services that take ratings
• Pairs with CrossWatch through an address and a one-time code: no passwords, and Kodi's web server isn't needed
• Finished watches are kept for up to 7 days if CrossWatch is unreachable, then sent

Install: Add-ons > Install from repository > Kodi Add-on repository > Services > CrossWatch for Kodi. Works on Kodi 21 (Omega) and 22 (Piers). It needs CrossWatch v0.13.3 or later.

• Docs: https://crosswatch-app.github.io/kodi-addon/
• Source and issues: https://github.com/crosswatch-app/kodi-addon
• Forum thread: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=389119

Free and open source (GPL-2.0). Feedback welcome!

Morning all, is it possible for me to add an M3U stream to my kodi so I can use it as a second media player ?

Thanks in advance

As stated, I have tried allowing Kodi to access files and media in the Firestick's settings. I have cleared the cache. I have reinstalled Kodi. I have removed and added back the network shares. I have tried recreating the shares using the ip address. I have tried recreating the shares using the server name. Also, I've tried other Network Browsers like X-File Explorer installed on the Firestick, and they don't seem to be working either. There must be something about the update (FireOS 8.1.8.5) that is preventing apps from scanning network folders. I can access all my network folders fine with all my other devices (PC, Andrioid Phone, AppleTV).

Update: The problem seems to be solved. I have Windscribe VPN, but I almost never use it. I bought it a long time ago and only used it a couple of times when I was out the country. It was installed on three of my four Firesticks. Network shares wouldn't work on any of the Firesticks that had the Windscribe app installed. The app was not active. It was not anonymizing my ip address. Still, the only one of my four Firesticks that would allow me to access network shares was the one without the Windscribe app installed. I removed the Windscribe app from my other three Firesticks, cleared the cache for all the apps, and restarted the Firesticks. Boom. Fixed. They can all now access network shares. I was curious, so I reinstalled the Windscribe VPN app. After reinstalling it, network shares continue to work.

Does anyone happen to know a lightweight build for a 2015 MacBook Pro? If so do they have a tutorial thanks

I’m running CoreELEC on a Ugoos AM6B+

I have two Jellyfin users in the house and need the box to be family-friendly. I tried JellyCon because it supports user switching, but the CHANGE_USER flow was unstable and actually caused Kodi crashes / Safe Mode.

I now have two separate Kodi profiles, each configured with Jellyfin for Kodi under a different Jellyfin account. That part works correctly.

The problem is Arctic Fuse 3. Its built-in “Switch User” option seems to be tied to JellyCon rather than Kodi’s actual profile system. Direct "LoadProfile(Peanut)" / "LoadProfile(TheRetreat)" commands work perfectly from SSH, but I can’t figure out how to expose that cleanly inside Fuse 3 as a normal user-switch button.

Has anyone built a clean multi-user setup like this?

What I want is:

\- CoreELEC on AM6B+

\- Arctic Fuse 3

\- Jellyfin for Kodi

\- separate Kodi profiles for each Jellyfin user

\- no Kodi login screen at startup

\- a simple button inside Fuse 3 that switches between Kodi profiles

\- each profile keeps its own watched state / Continue Watching / library

Is there a proper way to map "LoadProfile(profile_name)" to a Fuse 3 shortcut or menu item?

Hi
What would you recommend to put Kodi onto?
I currently has a cheap android box but I think it’s getting viruses

Thanks for all the feedback on the first post! Here's what's new. If you already have the repository installed, Kodi updates everything automatically.

New: Groove, a music-first skin. The room glows with the colors of whatever you're on. Now Playing slides the record out of its sleeve and spins it, showing the album's printed disc art if you have it, or black vinyl otherwise. You browse albums in a crate, a cover wall or a shelf of spines. Time machine lets you explore your collection by decade and year, a Wheel of genres, styles and moods plays a mix, and Liner notes shows each album's review and the artist's story. There's a Dark and a Light room.

Duotone gets three looks: Color (as before), plus Light and Dark in black and white, where only the item you're on keeps its color.

All 12 skins:

- A Sets row in the films library panel, to browse all your collections without turning on "Group movies in sets".

- Search now handles titles with &, + and |.

- A fix for controls disappearing or staying enlarged with Reduce motion on.

- A big code clean-up, so every skin passes Kodi's official checks with zero errors.

KarmaMole Skin Helper (optional): one small helper add-on that adds extras to the skins that use it, starting with Groove (album colors, colored album spines, reordering Up next, style and mood rings on the Wheel). Every skin works fully without it.

All 12 skins and the helpers are now submitted to the official Kodi repository, so they'll show up there when and if approved :)

Screenshots and install: https://karmamole.github.io/kodi-skins/

UPDATE (24 Oct): the repository is fixed!

Thank you to everyone who reported "Could not connect" or an empty repository, and sorry for the hassle. It turned out to be two separate bugs in how Kodi 21 handles the website, not the skins themselves. Repository 1.0.6 works around both, and I've tested it on Kodi 21 and Kodi 22: new installs, upgrades, and installing skins straight away.

New here? Nothing special to do:

1. Settings › System › Add-ons › turn on Unknown sources
2. Settings › File manager › Add source › https://karmamole.github.io/kodi-skins/ and name it karmamole
3. Add-ons › Install from zip file › karmamole › repository.karmamole.zip
4. Add-ons › Install from repository › KarmaMole's Kodi Skins › Look and feel › Skin, and pick one

Already installed it, but it didn't work?

Check which version you have under Add-ons › My add-ons › Add-on repository › KarmaMole's Kodi Skins.

- 1.0.4 or 1.0.5: install repository.karmamole.zip again from your karmamole source. It should say 1.0.6.

- 1.0.3: uninstall it first from that same screen, then install the zip again.

Kodi doesn't update a repository that was installed from a zip on its own, so this one reinstall is needed. After that, skin updates arrive automatically as usual.

If Kodi 21 gets stuck on a spinning busy icon while you're adding the source or browsing it: force-stop Kodi (on a Shield: Settings › Apps › Kodi › Force stop), open it again and carry on. Nothing needs reinstalling. Leaving a few seconds between steps helps. Kodi 22 doesn't have this problem.

Still stuck? Comment with your Kodi version, your device and the repository version, and I'll help you sort it out. Thanks again for your patience, and enjoy the skins!

UPDATE (Oct 28): a big update is out for all 12 skins.

New: put add-ons on the main menu. Every skin now has Custom menu items in its settings. You get up to three slots, each holding an add-on, a favourite, a playlist or a library folder. They sit on the main menu in that skin's own style, and you can rename them. Leave them empty and your menu stays exactly as it was.

New: lots more views. Every skin now has at least six views for movies and TV and at least three for music:

- poster walls and contact sheets

- a big single-title showcase

- wide-picture grids, which suit series, sets and add-ons

- lists with plots, and episode lists with stills

- artist pages with backdrops, album walls and tracklists

Each view is designed in its skin's own style, not just reskinned. Pick one from the view options on any library screen. Your current views don't change unless you switch.

Fixes and polish:

- long plots no longer show half-cut lines, and they end cleanly

- strips no longer cut the last card off at the screen edge

- missing artwork shows a tidy name card instead of an empty frame

- assorted small layout fixes across the skins

Reminder of what's already there:

- hide any main menu item you don't use

- add up to 3 custom rows on Home from any add-on, playlist or folder

How to get it: if you installed from the KarmaMole repository, Kodi will update automatically, or you can force it with Add-ons › Check for updates. New here? The install steps are at karmamole.github.io/kodi-skins.

Thanks to everyone who's sent suggestions. Keep them coming.

UPDATE (Oct 28): a big update is out for all 12 skins.

New: put add-ons on the main menu. Every skin now has Custom menu items in its settings. You get up to three slots, each holding an add-on, a favourite, a playlist or a library folder. They sit on the main menu in that skin's own style, and you can rename them. Leave them empty and your menu stays exactly as it was.

New: lots more views. Every skin now has at least six views for movies and TV and at least three for music:

- poster walls and contact sheets

- a big single-title showcase

- wide-picture grids, which suit series, sets and add-ons

- lists with plots, and episode lists with stills

- artist pages with backdrops, album walls and tracklists

Each view is designed in its skin's own style, not just reskinned. Pick one from the view options on any library screen. Your current views don't change unless you switch.

Fixes and polish:

- long plots no longer show half-cut lines, and they end cleanly

- strips no longer cut the last card off at the screen edge

- missing artwork shows a tidy name card instead of an empty frame

- assorted small layout fixes across the skins

Reminder of what's already there:

- hide any main menu item you don't use

- add up to 3 custom rows on Home from any add-on, playlist or folder

How to get it: if you installed from the KarmaMole repository, Kodi will update automatically, or you can force it with Add-ons › Check for updates. New here? The install steps are at karmamole.github.io/kodi-skins.

Thanks to everyone who's sent suggestions. Keep them coming.

Hi guys

I bought a Hisense SoundBar (5.1 system) it has true surround sound etc

But I'm not sure what the "number of channels" should be

Some say 2.0 and then online I read 5.1

So which is the correct one?

Is there a way to create a shortcut to an addon in Aeon Nox Silvo, similar to the shortcuts that could be created in the Confluence skin?

I can't figure it out... Seems like it would be an option in the custom widget section, but I can't make it work.

Closest I can get is looking to an addon in the submenus, but that's not what I'm trying to create.

Any help is appreciated.

Hello all,

We have started to gathering a small collection of M4B Audiobooks. We are in the process of liberating our OWNED content from digital platforms.

I noticed that Kodi insists on loading Audiobooks as MUSIC which cause the issue of Music is not treated as Content you have WATCHED/UNWATCHED on Kodi. Kodi is expecting you to listen to the same music over and over and do not need to track what you have heard.

Furthermore, Kodi treats the Chapters of M4B Audiobooks as individual files. In other words, there's no easy way of telling what Chapter you are on when you return. (While it does retain a progress bar on the Chapter, it is useless without a visual indicator of what Chapter you need to push play on upon returning.)

VLC is able to retain Chapter and Chapter progress but there's no visual library present. We have Kodi setup entirely with NFO files so our Films & Shows are perfectly organized so it seems like a shame of not carrying that over to our Audiobooks.

We would prefer NOT to have to maintain 2 sets of copies of Audiobooks: the Audiobooks for every other device but our TV setup and a second set converted into video files just for Kodi.

Some additional info in case necessary:

• The files are our Home NAS
• Accessed via SMB on an Android TV device (an NVIDIA Shield)
• Kodi is already accessing our Home NAS content so adding our Audiobooks to it made sense.

If there's anyone whose found a work around or solution, I am all ears.

I've been vibe-coding some Kodi skins for my NVIDIA Shield and decided to share them. There are eleven, and each one takes a different idea about how a media library should feel:

Six Degrees: browse by connection. Up goes to the director's films, Right to the lead actor's, Down to films from the same year and genre.

Nocturne: your library as a museum after hours, lit by a torch that glides from poster to poster.

Keepsake: a black photo album of what you've actually watched, with old-camera date stamps.

Fold: films open like paper cards on real 3D hinges, and seasons unfold like a concertina.

Passe-partout: every film framed like a gallery print, on paper that takes the artwork's color.

plus Majan, Void, Orbit, Daylight, Duotone and Sentence.

All of them are free and open source (GPL), for Kodi 21 Omega, and install from one repository with automatic updates. Screenshots and install steps are here: https://karmamole.github.io/kodi-skins/

Feedback and bug reports are very welcome.

UPDATE (24 Oct): the repository is fixed!

Thank you to everyone who reported "Could not connect" or an empty repository, and sorry for the hassle. It turned out to be two separate bugs in how Kodi 21 handles the website, not the skins themselves. Repository 1.0.6 works around both, and I've tested it on Kodi 21 and Kodi 22: new installs, upgrades, and installing skins straight away.

New here? Nothing special to do:

1. Settings › System › Add-ons › turn on Unknown sources

2. Settings › File manager › Add source › https://karmamole.github.io/kodi-skins/ and name it karmamole

3. Add-ons › Install from zip file › karmamole › repository.karmamole.zip

4. Add-ons › Install from repository › KarmaMole's Kodi Skins › Look and feel › Skin, and pick one

Already installed it, but it didn't work?

Check which version you have under Add-ons › My add-ons › Add-on repository › KarmaMole's Kodi Skins.

- 1.0.4 or 1.0.5: install repository.karmamole.zip again from your karmamole source. It should say 1.0.6.

- 1.0.3: uninstall it first from that same screen, then install the zip again.

Kodi doesn't update a repository that was installed from a zip on its own, so this one reinstall is needed. After that, skin updates arrive automatically as usual.

If Kodi 21 gets stuck on a spinning busy icon while you're adding the source or browsing it: force-stop Kodi (on a Shield: Settings › Apps › Kodi › Force stop), open it again and carry on. Nothing needs reinstalling. Leaving a few seconds between steps helps. Kodi 22 doesn't have this problem.

Still stuck? Comment with your Kodi version, your device and the repository version, and I'll help you sort it out. Thanks again for your patience, and enjoy the skins!

How it works

Playnite Kodi Exporter exports your Playnite library to Kodi, with metadata, posters, fanart and clear logos.

Each game folder gets a Play.avi and a .lnk shortcut to the game (Steam, Epic, GOG, emulators, standalone, anything).

When you hit play, the addon sees Play.avi start, stops it, and shows the game’s fanart and logo full screen while the game loads, then launches the shortcut.

The splash closes when the game or its launcher comes to the front. A timeout or the Back button also closes it.

What changed from the old version

No AutoHotkey script running in the background

No portable MPV; Kodi’s own player handles Play.avi

Settings inside Kodi: trigger file name, launch immediately or after the intro video, splash on/off, splash timeout

Custom per-game intro videos still work

Requirements: Windows, Kodi 19+, Playnite. It uses os.startfile, so it’s Windows only and needs local or UNC paths.

Both downloads (the Kodi addon zip and the Playnite exporter .pext) are on the latest release. The README and install guide are on the repo.

GitHub: https://github.com/GoldStart5/Kodi-Game-Launcher

I’d love feedback, especially on how it behaves with different launchers, since the splash timing depends on how Steam, Epic and others take focus.

I watch a lot of foreign films I own and kept hitting the same problems: no subtitle in my language, a subtitle that drifts out of sync, or no subtitle at all. So I built SRT AI Translator NG, a free, open-source Windows app that handles all three with Google Gemini.

What it does

Translate an `.srt` into another language. Every batch must come back with exactly the lines it was sent, so the timing never shifts, and an interrupted run can be continued.

Transcribe the speech in a video or audio file into a new timed `.srt`.

Align a subtitle that runs early, late or drifts, using another subtitle or the video itself as the reference (including 23.976 → 25 fps fixes).
* Pick subtitle tracks straight from a video file, and add TMDB context (title, cast) so names and genders come out right.
* Extra care for Hebrew & other gender based languages: gender-aware translation using a reference subtitle, plus right-to-left display fixes for different players.

Good to know

* Portable: unzip and run. FFmpeg is included, nothing else to install.
* Bring your own Gemini API key. The free tier works, and the app paces requests so you don't hit the limits.
* Your subtitle text goes only to the Gemini API under your own key. Keys stay on your PC and never appear in logs.
* It's a standalone desktop app, not a Plex/Jellyfin/Kodi plugin: open a file, save the result next to your video.
* I built it with the help of AI coding assistants, and tested it a lot on my own films.

Screenshots:

· [Translate]

· [Transcribe]

· [Align]

· [Free-tier protection]

GitHub: https://github.com/Akila3/SRT-AI-Translator-NG

Feedback and bug reports are very welcome!

I have installed the Kodi Backup addon and also the Onedrive addon. Added my account and added it to File Manager.

How do I configure Backup destination path to my Onedrive?

I cannot see the onedrive folder as an option in Backup.

Anything that would make it remember that if Language is not English, show subtitles, and If the content is in "shows" and has a japanese audio track, to always use that one and show subtitles by default?

Sad that we have to do it episode by episode (and worse, that it does not remember it)

Using it with Jellyfin for Kodi using native mode.

I have kodi on Xiaomi TV box and I have an external USB connected to it for storage now I change kodi storage to the USB but now I discovered that the generated thumbnails uses internal storage

My question is how to make this on the external storage only and everything else also on the USB and nothing to do with the internet one? Please help

My version (21.2.0)

Android 11.0.0

I found a way around to make and move the folder using kodi file manger But now the only thing left is how to make kodi see and use my external usb formated as internal storage because it doesn't show on it even when the app location is on it