Krypton Titan widget for “more” in add-ons

Searched for a while, looking for a solution on how to add more addons that already have a repo installed. It appears in Krypton they use a widget but I can't go to addons and find the more button on addon browser or in system

Retrospect // username / password

Hello I have installed the addon Retrospect on my raspberry with Kodi When I want to view someting on a channel it ask my pin and after that I have the message username and password are not configured in the addon configuration Any one an idea were...

If I disable a repository………

Where do I navigate to in order to enable it again? I ran into this issue last night and it was maddening. The only way I was able to locate this disabled repo again was through a search.

MYSQL Library Sharing

Good evening or day (depending on where you live), community. I've recently tried to set up a MySQL-Server to share my Kodi database with my upcoming new clients (I'm planning on 3 additions soon). So I figured I'd get the server set up before my new ...

Like IMDB

Is there an add on that's like IMDB app? Sent from my SM-G935T (typie typie)

DVB-subtitles missing RC4

Anybody else noticed that DVB-subtitles (transmitted as a separate stream) are not visible in latest Krypton Release Candidate? I checked also couple of latest nightlies and subtitles are still working in couple of days old build but not anymore one ni...

PC Games via Nvidia Shield

Hi Guys, I am new to the forums and fairly new to Kodi and would love some information regarding a question that I have which I will detail below. I have a Samsung 55" HD TV which I have an Nvidia Shield console connected to with Kodi installed on th...

Home Screen Programs missing.

I have a weird situation. I have just purchased a Gostreamer G8 media box. This is configured with Linux and was supplied with the Estuary Skin.Albeit Kodi 16.1 is installed. I changed the Estuary to Confluence , which my family understand !, however o...

Pulling hair out w/ 4K and I’m already bald!

Ok all, I've been googling for a while now, searching through various Kodi posts and even dabbled over at Reddit. I'm at a loss here.

I have this Samsung 4K TV hooked up to this GTX 1050 video card passing through this Sony AVR

I have the TV set to 1080p@60hz for the Kodi GUI because Kodi forums said to not have it run natively at 4K because you can't downscale to 1080p, you can only go up! I was watching a video last night via Kodi in what I thought was 4K. Apparently, it was not. I guess you have to enable Adjust Refresh rate to match video on start / stop in Kodi (from what I've read via Google) to get the TV to switch to the 4K resolution of the video file, I never had that enabled.
Once I did enable it, I was greeted with nothing but dropped frames, audio out-of-sync, stuttering and all sort of other wonderful things.

The video card is HDMI 2.0 complaint. I am running 4K HDMI cables to all the devices. The HDMI cable is connected into HDMI 3 which is ARC. I've also just recently discovered that you have to manually set the AVR (located on page 32) of the User Manual to enhanced HDMI to get video formats such as 4K/60p 4:4:4, 4:2:2 and 4K/60p 4:2:0 10 bit. I changed that to no avail. I'm still getting stuttering and frame drops.

I've hit the O key while watching a 4K video file and sometimes it will say "Hardware decode" and other times it will say "Software decode". When it's on "Software Decode", my CPU is @ 100% and my CPU fan is screaming for help. When it's using "Hardware Decode", my CPU is about 5%.

I'm out of stuff to check here because there are too many freaking variables and I've been tinkering, changing, stuff on the TV, stuff in Kodi, etc...etc..etc. I don't know where I started or where I left off now.
I'm fried, confused, and at a loss here. If anyone need any other information, feel free to ask, I'll send you whatever you need.

If I load up the TV's "Smart Apps" and launch Netflix or YouTube and watch 4K content, I don't have an issue. So it's got to be some setting or something in Kodi, right?!?

I just dropped some serious $$$ and time getting to 4K, I'd like to be able to actually use it.

Slack to Kodi – Tellybot

As a little hack project at work I decided to get Slack working with Kodi. It's now easy to display pictures and videos on the big TV that's on our office wall. I won't pretend it's a polished effort but it works and might help someone get something more impressive started.

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This thread was useful in finding some working Kodi API examples. This was useful on the Slack side.

You don't write any code in Slack. Instead, Slack needs to point to your PHP script on a webserver that has an SSL certificate. SSL required. I used my 1and1 account to host. The PHP script then talks to the Kodi box which will need to be accessible from the wider internet. Getting Slack talking to the PHP on the webserver, talking to the Kodi box took the majority of the effort.

To get things going, I used the Simple REST Client for Chrome. I was able to get Kodi to display a JPG when the data was in this format:

Quote:URL:
http://192.168.4.168:8080/jsonrpc?request=
Header:
Content-Type: application/json
Data:
{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params": { "item": { "file": "http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/google_2015_logo_detail.png" } }, "id": 1 }

Kodi's functionality is great. With the YouTube extension installed I got this to work.

Quote:URL:
http://192.168.4.168:8080/jsonrpc?request=
Header:
Content-Type: application/json
Data:
{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params": { "item": { "file": "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?path=/root/video&action=play_video&videoid=KnJaayv6fsI" } }, "id": 1 }

So from there I made some PHP code so that Slack can talk to the PHP script and then control Kodi. You'll need to set up the Slack commands in Slack as described here. In the code below, you'll have to change the IP address of Kodi and the token for Slack. You'll need to install Youtube on the Kodi box if you want to use that functionality. I was using Kodi Jarvis on a Raspberry Pi 3, LibreELEC build.

I recognise that it's not the clearest example nor the most elegant of code, but I hope someone finds it useful

PHP Code:
<?php

 
# Grab some of the values from the slash command, create vars for post back to Slack
 
$command $_POST['command'];
 
$text $_POST['text'];
 
$token $_POST['token'];

 
# Check the token and make sure the request is from our team
 
if($token != 'iMoCAW9Tpj5AFh3aUazMtJN1'){ #replace this with the token from your slash command configuration page
   
$msg "The token for the slash command doesn't match. Check your script.";
   die(
$msg);
   echo 
$msg;
 }

 
#using Simple REST Client in Chrome Plugin
 #URL:
 #http://192.168.4.168:8080/jsonrpc?request=
 #header:
 #Content-Type: application/json
 #data:
 #{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params": { "item": { "file": "http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/google_2015_logo_detail.png" } }, "id": 1 }

 #$text = 'http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/google_2015_logo_detail.png';
 #$text = 'youtube KnJaayv6fsI';

 
if (substr($text07) == 'youtube') {
      
$code substr($text, -11);
      
$uniquepart "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?path=/root/video&action=play_video&videoid=";
      
$uniquepart .= $code;
      
#echo $uniquepart;
 
} elseif (substr($text05) == 'local') {
      
$uniquepart "smb://tellybot2:password@DISKSTATION/Temp/tellybot/";
      
$filename substr($text6);
      
$uniquepart .= $filename;
 } elseif (
substr($text, -4) == '.png') {
      
$uniquepart $text;
      
#echo $uniquepart;
 
} elseif (substr($text, -4) == '.jpg') {
      
$uniquepart $text;
      
#echo $uniquepart;
 
} else {
   
$msg "Usage:\n";
   
$msg .= "To display a jpg or png, just use the URL\n";
   
$msg .= "To play a youtube, use _youtube <ID>_\n";
   
$msg .= "To show a file from \\\\diskstation\\temp\\tellybot use _local <filename>_\n";
   die(
$msg);
   echo 
$msg;
 }

 
#this is the URL of the Kodi box. Needs to be available via the internet.
 
$url "http://88.202.102.11:2012/jsonrpc?request=";

 
$data_string "{\"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"id\": 1, \"method\": \"Input.Home\"}";

 
#first wake it from screensaver
 
$ch curl_init($url);
 
curl_setopt($chCURLOPT_POSTFIELDS$data_string);
 
curl_setopt($chCURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
     
'Content-Type: application/json',
     
'Content-Length: ' strlen($data_string))
 );
 
curl_setopt($chCURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFERtrue);
 
$ch_response curl_exec($ch);

 echo 
"Your wish is my command...";

 
#debug
 #echo "\n{ \"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"method\": \"Player.Open\", \"params\": { \"item\": { \"file\": \"";
 #echo $uniquepart;
 #echo "\" } }, \"id\": 1 }";

 
sleep(1);

 
#now send the command
 
$data_string "{ \"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"method\": \"Player.Open\", \"params\": { \"item\": { \"file\": \"";
 
$data_string .= $uniquepart;
 
$data_string .= "\" } }, \"id\": 1 }";

 
$ch curl_init($url);
 
curl_setopt($chCURLOPT_POSTFIELDS$data_string);
 
curl_setopt($chCURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
     
'Content-Type: application/json',
     
'Content-Length: ' strlen($data_string))
 );
 
curl_setopt($chCURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFERtrue);
 
$ch_response curl_exec($ch);

 
#echo 'Response: ';
 #echo $ch_response;

?>

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My Philips TV updated to 6.0.1 Android. I notice in Plex and Emby client the "Change Framerate" option (missing before) I tried my Kodi latest android version ("beta" Krypton) with "Adjust display refresh rate to match video" enabled (i play with this ...

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multimedia keys bug

Before I describe the issue I should mention that this concerns the Windows version 17.0 Krypton rc4 (latest version as of this post) running on Windows 8.1. When I use the << (rewind) and >> (fast forward) buttons, not to be confused with...