Adding external storage to amazon Fire TV

March 22, 2015, 10:44 am

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Hi Guy's,

I know that the ability to add external storage to Fire TV is not possible with the latest Fire TV Firmware which is the case for me and I find this really unfortunate but do you know if it might be available in the future or is this something that will never happen?

Thank you all!

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xbmc launcher and Windows Green button

March 22, 2015, 10:51 am

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Hi, I don't want KODI to launch whenever I start my HTPC, but I want the large Green windoes button on my media center remote to launch KODI, not Microsoft Media Center. I read somewhere that the xbmc launcher add-on, which I have installed, can do that for me. I have managed to turn off the auto start, but I cannot find a setting for the Green MCE button. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Christopher

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Advancedsettings transfer to Openelec - not finding media (mysql)

March 22, 2015, 10:51 am

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I've transferred my advancedsettings across Win7 instances (v13) on multiple occasions, and usually after firing it up, BAM, all my TV shows and Movies are there w/o having to do anything because I have mysql set up.

This time, I'm trying out Openelec v14.2, and after the transfer, no media. I put it in the right directory because I've done pathsubstitution on other areas and can acces them just fine.

I read somewhere all installations must be on the same version, is that the problem? Do I need to update all my machines to 14.2?

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Copying everything to new micro sd card????

March 22, 2015, 11:53 am

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Hi, got a Pi 2 and pretty much have it up and running perfectly..Only thing is I used a random (PNY class 10) micro sd card I had laying around to set it up on..It works but i get much better performance from my 2nd Pi 2 setup which I used a Samsung class 6 smart choice micro sd card in it. I also read that in most situations you get better results from class 4 or 6 because of the way the Pi 2 writes and reads the sd card..From my own experience i believe this to be most definitely true!! The Samsung Pi 2 setup scanned in almost 1000 mkv files WAY faster than the class 10 PNY..

My question is, I bought another Samsung card and want to know can I just "copy" all contents from PNY card to new Samsung card and stick it in Pi 2 and it'll work no problems? Or should I just start over on that card? Not a big deal, was just hoping not to have to do that.

Opinions appreciated

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Youtube script error

March 22, 2015, 12:06 pm

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Found a lot of posts referencing this script error, but none of the steps listed(that I found anyway) worked.

Normally just use the Youtube addon for Trailers, but whenever I click to view a movie trailer, it throws the error.
The same occurs when I launch the Youtube app and try to load a video.
I added the addons and scripts that bromix had posted, I've uninstalled and reinstalled.
Deleted the userdata addons folder

Is this perhaps because I'm running the RC version of Helix?

Kodi (14.2-RC1 Git:20150311-e7ba06f)
Using Release Kodi x32 build
Kodi compiled Mar 11 2015 by MSVC 180030723 for Windows NT x86 32-bit version 6.0 (0x06000000)
Running on Hewlett-Packard 200-009 with Windows 8.1, kernel: Windows NT x86 64-bit version 6.3
Host CPU: Intel® Celeron® 2957U @ 1.40GHz, 2 cores available
Desktop Resolution: 1920x1080 32Bit at 30Hz

Code:

13:49:44 T:4084   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogVideoInfo.xml) ------

13:49:44 T:4084   DEBUG: XFILE::CPluginDirectory::StartScript - calling plugin YouTube('plugin://plugin.video.youtube/','5','?action=play_video&videoid=qFuzMlfZGWM')

13:49:44 T:4084   DEBUG: XFILE::CPluginDirectory::WaitOnScriptResult - waiting on the YouTube (id=15) plugin...

13:49:44 T:968  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false

13:49:44 T:968    INFO: initializing python engine.

13:49:44 T:968   DEBUG: CPythonInvoker(15, C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\default.py): start processing

13:49:44 T:968  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--

13:49:44 T:968   DEBUG: CPythonInvoker(15, C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\default.py): the source file to load is "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\default.py"

13:49:44 T:968   DEBUG: CPythonInvoker(15, C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\default.py): setting the Python path to C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube;C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\DLLs;C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib;C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\python27.zip;C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\lib\plat-win;C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\lib\lib-tk;C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi;C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python;C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\lib\site-packages

13:49:44 T:968   DEBUG: CPythonInvoker(15, C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\default.py): entering source directory C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube

13:49:44 T:968   DEBUG: CPythonInvoker(15, C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\default.py): instantiating addon using automatically obtained id of "plugin.video.youtube" dependent on version 2.14.0 of the xbmc.python api

13:49:45 T:968   DEBUG: [plugin.video.youtube] Starting Kodion framework by bromix...

13:49:45 T:968  NOTICE: [plugin.video.youtube] Running: YouTube (5.0.9) on Helix (14.2) with Python 2.7.8

13:49:45 T:968   DEBUG: [plugin.video.youtube] Path: "/

13:49:45 T:968   DEBUG: [plugin.video.youtube] Params: "{'action': u'play_video', 'videoid': u'qFuzMlfZGWM'}"

13:49:45 T:968 WARNING: [plugin.video.youtube] DEPRECATED "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=qFuzMlfZGWM"

13:49:45 T:968 WARNING: [plugin.video.youtube] USE INSTEAD "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/play/?video_id=qFuzMlfZGWM"

13:49:45 T:968   DEBUG: [plugin.video.youtube] User is not logged in

13:49:46 T:968   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--

                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!

                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>

                                            Error Contents: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'

                                            Traceback (most recent call last):

                                              File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\default.py", line 7, in <module>

                                                runner.run(__provider__)

                                              File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\kod​ion\runner.py", line 32, in run

                                                __RUNNER__.run(provider, context)

                                              File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\kod​ion\impl\xbmc\xbmc_runner.py", line 23, in run

                                                results = provider.navigate(context)

                                              File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\kod​ion\abstract_provider.py", line 123, in navigate

                                                result = method(context, re_match)

                                              File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\kod​ion\abstract_provider.py", line 186, in _internal_root

                                                return self.on_root(context, re_match)

                                              File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\you​tube\provider.py", line 416, in on_root

                                                return yt_old_actions.process_old_action(self, context, re_match)

                                              File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\you​tube\helper\yt_old_actions.py", line 49, in process_old_action

                                                return _process_play_video(provider, context, re_match)

                                              File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\you​tube\helper\yt_old_actions.py", line 19, in _process_play_video

                                                return provider.on_play(new_context, re_match)

                                              File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\kod​ion\register_provider_path.py", line 12, in wrapper

                                                return func(*args, **kwargs)

                                              File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\you​tube\provider.py", line 299, in on_play

                                                return yt_play.play_video(self, context, re_match)

                                              File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube\resources\lib\you​tube\helper\yt_play.py", line 24, in play_video

                                                if video_stream['format'].get('rtmpe', False):

                                            TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'

                                            -->End of Python script error report<--

13:49:46 T:4084   DEBUG: DialogProgress::StartModal called

13:49:46 T:4084   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogProgress.xml) ------

13:49:46 T:4084   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogKaiToast.xml) ------

13:49:46 T:968    INFO: Python script stopped

13:49:46 T:968   DEBUG: Thread LanguageInvoker 968 terminating

13:49:46 T:4084   DEBUG:  XFILE::CPluginDirectory::WaitOnScriptResult - plugin exited prematurely - terminating

13:49:46 T:4084   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogProgress.xml) ------

Not sure if that code from the log helps, this is a fresh Kodi install on a brand new HP Stream Mini, not sure if it's because I installed the RC version (an oversight on my part) or if this is a permissions issue perhaps?

Appreciate any help/suggestions.

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Unable to install Kodi 14.1

March 22, 2015, 12:14 pm

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I am currently running Kodi 14.0 alpha :o and have the 4.2.2 system installed.

When I got to "install" v14.1 I get the install page to open, but when I click on the install button it looks like it tries to install for a short moment (I get the status bar), then a message pops up saying app not installed.

Using the MXQ box. Have tried rebooting the box and doing the install right away, and still the same thing. I know it is probably something obvious, I am just; either not that bright or simply overlooking something.

Thank you kindly in advance for any suggestions...

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Deleted settings option

March 22, 2015, 1:09 pm

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Hello everyone. I am very very new to the Raspberry Pi and am not much if a tech person! By no means am I useless but my knowledge is not at a high level. Anywho after changing the skin on kodi I wanted to customise my sub categories but by complete accident and lack of concentration I deleted the settings and programs options on the main home menu, so I can no longer access them! Is there any trick or tip to get them back without Flashing the SD card or is that now my only option, to just reinstall it on the SD?
Kind regards and thanks in advance Big Grin

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Help - Android MX Box changes drive names

March 23, 2015, 10:18 am

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I have recently bought an MX Android box, installed KODI 14.1, connected my 4 external USB drives full of films and ended up with the best media player I've ever seen. It's so quick and worked perfectly for about a month.

Then one day I switched on and when accessing a film, a message reported the file/path was missing. I used an Android file manager and realized that all my drives had been renamed e.g drive sdal was now sdc1 etc.

Before I rescan and get everything working again, does anyone know how I fix the drive names so Android/Kodi always see the specific drives and their content? I can do this in Windows but don't know how in Android - is there an app?

Cheers for any help.

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Problem matching VIDEO_TS correctly and DVD9 (DVD5) folder

March 23, 2015, 10:26 am

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I have a issue with movie folder tagged DVD9 (or DVD5) and VIDEO_TS folder inside it.
If i have:

Movie Name 2015 DVD9
|- - - - - -VIDEO_TS
|----------------VIDEO_TS.IFO

Kodi will match the movie as "Video" because it consider the folder VIDEO_TS and not the "Movie Name" folder.

Code:

17:57:16 T:4405084160   DEBUG: FindMovie: Searching for 'VIDEO' using Universal Movie Scraper scraper

But if i remove DVD9 from root folder:

Movie Name 2015
|- - - - - -VIDEO_TS
|----------------VIDEO_TS.IFO

Kodi will match the movie correctly.

So the problem is the tag DVD9 or DVD5.

How can i fix the issue without rename all folder?

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modo kiosko

March 23, 2015, 10:28 am

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hola amigo Marcelveldt uso el skin titan me gusto mucho, pero no encontré la opción quiosco, o la forma de ocultar el menú options de la que aparece ala izquierda de la pantalla Si me pudiera ayudar se lo agradeceria

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Most Economical Solution

March 23, 2015, 10:39 am

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Internet Service Provider: Metronet Fiber IPTV with CAT 5e from the wall to a STB.
HTPC: Asus Chromebox OPENELEC 5.0.6 Kodi 14.2

I do not own any DVR equipment.

What is the most economical solution (Hardware and Software) to get DVR functionality?

It seems I need to choose linux software: Tvheadend, VDR, MythTV, DVBLink (To use Openelec/kodi as my frontend and backend)

I also need to some sort of hardware or dongle to that does tuning to the signal which can read the ISP encryption (if any)? Can I replace the ISP STB? is there any tuner that does CAT 5e IPTV? Most devices I've seen have coaxial.

If I try to use my Asus chromebox as frontend and backend I would just plug an external drive in to store recordings.

I could get EPG from Schedules Direct unless anyone knows a better one?

Thanks! Any help is appreciated. I am trying to read information scattered around the forums. I know nothing of this topic.

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fire tv problem

March 23, 2015, 10:51 am

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install goes great but cant find my network to install digitele sports from my laptop ?? have tried everything I know to get connected NFS is red only blue is are the external stor. and root file sys. cant see my c: drive to install zip with any help would be great

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No music audio after playing a movie

March 23, 2015, 10:53 am

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friend of mine has a HTPC,
when he finished watching a movie a and wants to listen to some music he sometimes has a issue that there's no sound,
when he goes back watching a movie then there's audio.
if he restarts kodi and listen straight away to music there's no issue.

provided a DEBUG LOG

hope someone can help me to solve this issue.
this issue also happens with Gotham

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New machine advice

March 23, 2015, 11:02 am

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Hi Guys! 1st post.

I'm looking for some advice. I'm currently looking to build a combined media box to run Kodi and a few other things. I was hoping i could post some of the parts am intending to use and the stuff I'm asking the device to do in the end.

The tasks:

Run Kodi
Replace my virgin box for recording digital TV
Replace and upgrade my DVD player to a Blue Ray
Run Netflix
Run Some Older console emulators

It is also definitional going to be a network storage device.

I was Hoping to run Linux on the device too.

Hardware I've got lined up:

http://www.cclonline.com/product/173220/...-/MBD1524/

http://www.cclonline.com/product/60879/C...m/RAM0309/

http://www.cclonline.com/product/113596/...r/CAS0834/

2x http://www.cclonline.com/product/171518/.../HDD2519C/

http://www.cclonline.com/product/98220/B...r/CDR0162/

http://www.cclonline.com/product/114150/...l/ACC0615/

I'm wondering about how fast the machine would boot up with the HDDs and weather i would need a SSD, or is i could get the best of both worlds and load the OS off a memory stick

Again, the ram?

I've but PCs on the past but it's been a long while and I've not kept up with the trends.

I'm open to any realistic recommendations but the size and price need to be in the ballparks of what I've all ready selected

Any advice and input is greatly appreciated.

Cheers

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system

March 23, 2015, 11:08 am

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why can,t i get past configure wizard,
it say,s script failed.
can anyone help me.
p.s. i,am on a laptop.
thanks,

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text onscreen when watching movies

March 23, 2015, 11:10 am

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Hi,
I have the latest open elec kodi installed on my Ras-pi b+ and when watching movies the text appears at the top left of my screen (00.02/02 17:27[00.42:07])

My first question is what is this for?
And second would be how do i get rid of it.

Thanks in advance

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[PROPOSAL] Extensible Database Backend for Retroplayer

March 23, 2015, 11:16 am

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Name: Cole

Summary: Database For Retroplayer

How will I achieve this: I will use SQLAlchemy+Protobuffs+ZeroMQ to create a language agnostic API for Retroplayer data

What will the project focus on:

Extensibility. Most programmers very much dislike SQL and do whatever they can to stay away from it. By abstracting the database away from the developer I will create an easily extensible interface. The API will be defined by the protobuffs definition. If you change the protobuff definition, or add a new message the database will change to meet the protobuff specification. The protobuffs message defines the database structure.

Benefits:

A backend such as this will allow other developers to focus on the core logic of Retroplayer without having to worry about the database backend. This segmentation and tool chain also has the built-in ability to operate across TCP, with any of the numerous languages that are supported by both protobuffs and zeroMQ. When successful it also has the ability to serve as a model for improvements to the Kodi persistent storage model.

This backend will have the ability to build a database from scratch. No user or dev interaction with the database will be needed.

Goals:

1. Discuss implementation and design.
2. Draft initial message design and relationship model, write protobuff messages.
3. Write SQLAlchemy MetaClasses
4. Testing/Documentation
5. Write query API
6. More testing/documentation, will have a goal of 100% code coverage.
7. Implement security best practices and optimize speed.

What does it touch in Kodi: Nothing, it will provide an API for persistent storage agnostic of database implementation.
Possible mentors: garbear

I have professional experience with both SQLAlchemy and ZeroMQ. I know the pitfalls and gotchas of both APIs. I designed an API that used a message system that is similar to protobuffs. It leveraged both SQLAlchemy and ZeroMQ to create a persistent storage solution used for a distributed system of robots at a major US research facility. I feel that this model, after implemented successfully in retroplayer can replace the current persistent data model in Kodi. Becuase of the implementation's ability to create new tables and relationships based upon a simple message definition it will be easy for add-ons to also use the database.

While not in my realm of expertise, I can also design the user-facing portions of the library as well. I do, however, want my focus to be on implementing a rock solid well tested backend. I see this as a start to being an active developer of a project I have used for many years.

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Hardware acceleration issues

March 23, 2015, 11:26 am

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Hey all,

I'm selling Android TV boxes with the RockChip RK3288 SoC. Quad core Cortex A17 and Quad core Mali-T764.

They come with XBMC but I usually offer to install Kodi, explaining it's essentially a name change and they may not even notice the difference.

When playing streams on any of the devices, any attempt to fast forward results in Kodi crashing most of the time (99%). Netflix will crash on occasion but usually handles it pretty fine. If I go into the settings and turn off hardware acceleration, this solves the issue. However, that makes most of the benefit of the RK3288 moot as the GPU power is rendered nearly useless for video streaming.

On one particular device this happens also with the Google Play Store Netflix app as well as pretty much anything to do with video streaming. However, in this particular case, the whole Android box reboots. The solution/workaround is, again, to turn off hardware acceleration in the Kodi settings.

Any ideas if this is because of the newness of the RK3288 SoC, possibly something that will be fixed in newer Kodi versions, any other ideas?

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Uncontrolled switching out of full screen

March 23, 2015, 11:58 am

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Hi, I'm not convinced this is a Kodi problem (will explain below) but it started happening when I upgraded to Kodi yesterday.

I'm using a Mini-Pc running Windows 7 and have a Logitech Harmony 700 remote control.

When I power down which only turns off the reciever and TV leaving the computer on and power backup Kodi changes from fullscreen to windowed and the size and position the window are kind of random. This did not happen with XBMC BUT looking back on it now it did do the same to my browsers (over time FF and now Chrome) where the browser would be full screen and then in a restore down mode.

The Logitech is not sending any extra commands on a power down or off. I did try adding a \ to it but it didn't fix the problem properly.

I don't care about the browser issue that much its just an annoyance but the Kodi issue is driving me crazy.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Looking for help

March 23, 2015, 12:04 pm

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Hello
I am relatively new to Kodi I have purchased a Asus Chromebox ( I haven't received it yet).
I have been reading on the Wiki and forums for a couple of weeks now and have learned a lot.
I would like to give a big shout out to poofyhairguy who has been kind enough to point me in the direction of the Chromebox.
I would like to ask the members that have the knowledge about Chromeboxes and Kodi if there is one that would take me under their wing and help me via pm.
I have questions about remotes and hard drives along with a few other things I haven't thought of yet.
I would like to get the best Kodi experience I can and want to make sure I do everything right.
So if there is anybody on here that is willing to spend some time helping me it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Magoo

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