ListItem fromString and offscreen=True

I have been revisiting an old addon I was working on and had some issues with ListItems being slow to create on slow machines like Pi2 etc The problem was as soon as I called any of the setProp or setInfo function on the ListItems it was very slow, abo...

Kodi interrupted by voice interface on Nvidia Shield

This sort of thing happens repeatedly: I am watching ncis on kodi on a new nvidia shield and suddenly the ever helpful voice input screen pops up wanting me to say something. I am not even holding the remote or the controller. The only button on the s...

ListItem.Trailer Script, odd behaviour

Hello, I'm trying to make a script that can work with a keymap - basically I want it to play a video trailer on key press. I have everything seemingly working, except for if there's a local trailer in the drive, it seems to throw different behaviours...

Revert Back to Older Version Perhaps Helix

This is my first visit. I have an older Linux system running Mint 17.1. The graphics card is older Radeon RV280 9200; the system runs excellent. I tried to install Kodi and it was version Jarvis however wouldn't load the screen past the Jarvis disp...

Cant open Kodi after download, get error

Hi, When I try to start kodi on my windows 7 laptop I get this error "the program can't start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer" Ive tried multiple uninstalls/reinstalls, and checking for new windows updates. ...

Display Album Art

Hello, I've used XBMC and now Kodi and feel that I am fairly familiar with the functions but I have an issue with the display of album art. I use Kodi/Quartz (greatest skin there is) with Flac or MP3 files that have album art in the tags. I have fold...

Use multiple profiles? Don’t upgrade to KODI 17

Folks, Profiles are broken in K17 Long term KODI / XBMC / XBMP user on multiple platforms and versions. This is the first time, in a long time that I can remember, that a major release has had something that just flat-out didn't work, that has be...

American channels not working on FireStick

I bought my FireStick about a week ago and cancelled my Sky TV subscription because KODI was far cheaper and also had way more channels. I also bought a month subscription to RUYA seeing it most of the free addons don't work all the time. For the first...

Music Server – Pandora/Spotify Clone

I am currently running Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 64-bit on a Intel Core i5-4590 Quad-core 3.30GHz CPU and Plex Media Server which I have found works great for my video needs. I was recently introduced to Kodi and while I'm not interested in t...

Failed to install a dependency

Hey guys. Im trying to download a video app but everytime it downloads and i got to install from repository, i keep getting the error message"failed to install a dependency. What could be the issue ?[/php]

New User, Remote, SageTV, Ext Player

New User, as noted: 1. I use an old but VERY capable Remote Wonder with SageTV and whatever I'm playing with for media - especially for SageTV (which I notice isn't set for the TV, but that's another question later on). I use RWKeymaster and all is da...