High CPU and disc usage

I've been seeing a number of questions on CPU usage on reddit and now I'm really starting to get concerned myself. Kodi is using between 60-104% of the CPU and something is happening to the storage in my home drive. It's shrinking by about a G a second...

How to add an item to the main menu in Metropolis?

I just upgraded my chromebox from LE 7.0.3 to 8.0. After the upgrade, the Live TV item is missing from my main menu. I switched to another skin to confirm that live tv is still enabled and working, but Metropolis is my skin of choice. "Live TV" is not ...

Stop new Gui settings being generated.

I want to make a backup of my Kodi 17 stick with the skin etc. Am I right in thinking that every time Kodi is first launched it generates new gui settings and replaces the old ones? If so is there any way to rectify this? Kind Regards.

How do I download kodi onto an amazon fire TV box?

Hi I bought a fire box last year with kodi already installed but tonight the box is playing up and not connecting to the internet but my other devices are. I want to try a factory reset but I don't want to be without kodi. Can anyone tell me how to re...

How to import library info for addons

Hi, I have a video addon where some of the links have the watched status. I understand those are kept on MyVideoXX.db file Can I export this information and then import it (I'm thinking moving from sqlite3 to mysql) Tx -J

Nightcrawler (and other addon frameworks)

I stumbled upon xbmcswift2 last night, got very excited, only to find that it's fallen into disrepair in the last few years and seems to have been abandoned. Just now, I came across "nightcrawler", hidden away within bromix's soundcloud addon repo: h...

full volume streaming to DNLA

I love this program, im so happy about it, but there is this only glitch that is extremely annoying.. every time i play a video, movie or show, in my pc, and y click "play to" and select my smart tv, the video inmediately appear on the tv, but fro some...

Trouble working with urllib3 and requests

I'm working on a Kodi addon where I need to do a couple of requests to servers. The addon was initially a python script, before I decided to make it into a Kodi app and it is 100% functional using urllib3 and requests. However, now that I'm making it ...

Fanart & roles

With the new roles we have in v17, it's possible to scrape artists data including fanart. When exporting into single files, one is able to export fanart and artist pictures, too. But, where are these pictures saved? Say I have an artist folder 'Ray ...