Screensaver deactivated without any reason

Hi! I just upgraded to Kodi 17.1 and now I'm having an issue with the screensaver. It activates as it should after 1 minute, but then it deactivates without any reason (no input). As you can see from the debug log (https://pastebin.com/LT4Yd6YN) the...

Album series help

Hello everyone. Don't blame me i really carefully tried to search something before posting this question, but didn't found Just post here link to similar topic if this has been discussed here before, because i don't believe nobody faced this. I have a...

nfo file: entering IMDB Movie id yields no result?

Hi, (new to Kodi) I come from a Popcorn Hour device and when it couldn't scrape a movie, the solution was to simply enter the IMDB id (i.e. tt1234567) in a nfo file and that's it! It would then scrape properly and come up with all the info (plot, ratin...

Kodi 17.1 freezes on exit

Hello, Since updating to 17 (first 17.0 then 17.1) my kodi won't exit properly. And consequently, windows won't shutdown. Worse is that I can't start Kodi once it is in this state. I have to go to the task manager to end the task until I can start Ko...

Option to flatten specific TV shows

I've got lots of shows like 'Discovery Channel Documentaries', 'Horizon' and 'BBC Documentaries' that have many many seasons with only one or two episodes in each season. It's kind of a pain to go searching through each to find the episode I want to wa...

Commercial use?

Hi everybody, I made a project with Pi and since it has drawn some attention i'm selling it. I would like to know if it can be sold with KODI in it. PS I found a link: kodi.tv/about/commercial-use but the page does not exist anymore. Is there a new ...

No channel icons in EPG?

I am loving the new estuary skin, however I have noticed that there are no channel icons when viewing the EPG, however I have channel icons in every other live TV view. I also have channel icons in every other skin that supports viewing them. I am us...

Slowness on large libraries – workarounds and ideas

[EDIT: split into own thread for further discussion - DB] First of all thanks for all your work on the music part of kodi daveblake, its so much better today then it ever has been. A little problem I have though is that my entire kodi becomes so slow ...

Kodi and hardware decoding.

Hello. So first of all I will tell you my story. I watch movies via Kodi. I bought Android TV (4K,HDR( with speakers and amplifier (all kind of dts hd,truehd audio stuff) connected it and try to watch movies. (KODI - for Android TV) Start to play movie...

PVR.IsTimeShift returning false even when timeshifting

Writing a skin whose OSD contains some info about the timeshift - specifically, how much time is in the buffer and where we are in it. PVR.IsTimeShift is returning false even when timeshifting. Consquently, PVR.TimeshiftStart and PVR.TimeshiftEnd are ...

Display off on idle

Hi everyone, I have my KODI - libreelec build (x86 intel) linux build going into the TV via a HDMI switcher. In kodi I noticed that the software can and does stop the signal after a set period of time of inactivity. I was wondering if it was possible ...

What is a PVR Client?

I have recently installed Kodi on my new system. I have Windows 10. I've added sports addon for me to watch football but somehow it's not streaming and saying "PVR Client is not configured". I have never seen this issue before. Can you guys help me?

OpenElec SD card crash

I had a microSD card (Samsung EVO 8GB) that all of a sudden decided to stop loading Kodi. SO I figured it was a good opportunity to try another version of Kodi and wanted to format it, but nothing I'm doing is formatting this microSD card successfully ...