Audio Input

Hi All, I've purchased an Amazon Echo Dot, probably wont use it - more of a novelty item? I need to hook the Echo up to my sound system as the Dot doesn't have a speaker. I'm currently using Kodi Ubuntu with TOSLink cable from my PC straight to a hom...

Kodi and keyboard

I have just bought a NEXBOX A95X and I want to use a Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse with it. These are currently used with my pc. What steps do I take to have them also work with the NEXBOX?

No OSD when pausing and FF?

I recently migrated from MythTV to TVHeadend. MythTV had the OSD pop up when I paused or started pressing the FF button to jump ahead. TVHeadend isn't doing that for me at the moment. It can make it hard to jump forward a specific amount of time for pe...

Installed ok on MacOs but not Android

Anyone have any idea why Back Row has installed ok on my Mac desktop computer but returns an error when I try to install it (by any means) on my Android TV box which is running an identical version of Kodi (16.1)? Sorry to note that Sharpe hasn't been...

Change gui xml info with script

Basically what im trying to do is to pull in trakt ratings on the fly and update myvideonav.xml with the new rating along side imdb. I currently have it overriding imdb ratings in the database but would prefer to pull it on the fly and update the gui....

Metacafe fails

Using Kodi version 16.1 on Ubuntu 16.04. Installation of Metacafe version 0.0.2 seems to work fine, but when I try to access it, I get an error. Here is the log: 14:26:02 T:140423372535552 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Pytho...

Exit button to shut down Android

Hello, i am running kodi 16.1 and modified it to run as Launcher on my cs968 Android 4.4.2 TV-Box. Now i am about to do some fine-tuning and want to know, if it is possible to remap the shutdown button on the main screen to shotdown Android. Right now...

Skin helper service : stripstring

I am trying to split ListItem.FileName for use on the movie information window (View_50_List).

Via this forum I found the stripstring service from marcelveldt, which should solve my problem.

Like marcelveldt stated in his skin helper thread ("If you want to have an example of how to implement all stuff in your skin, you can look at the Titan skin.") I searched the Titan skin for an example.
I tried all kinds of approaches that I deducted from the (unrelated) RunScript examples I found, but I am stuck.

This is what I am trying to split, but I don't know how and where I should put this statement.
RunScript(script.skin.helper.service,action=stripstring,splitchar=-,string=$INFO[ListItem.FileName],output=ShortCast,index=1)

I am not a skinner, just a web programmer ;-), so I hope someone can provide me with a working example or point me in the right direction.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Trapezoidal Screen Distortion?

Hi! I'm using Kodi with a projector, and the surface I'm projecting on is at a weird angle. I've been able to use the overscan calibration to correct most of this, but the screen still appears as a trapezoid on the screen. I'd like to stretch the top t...

Scrolling background images only from certain folders

I have my Kodi main screen background set to scroll through images of my most recent movies. Is there a way to exclude the folder where my daughter's 100+ movies are stored so that only my newest movie backgrounds scroll through? This is a Windows 7...

Check subtitle forced ?

Hello guys.... Is there any cheat to get is a subtitle language is flagged FORCED inside MKV.... ? With "ListItem.Property(SubtitleLanguage.x)" I only get "fre" and "fre" for forced or not forced french subtitle.... thank you