This is a light version of one of the most popular Kodi skins Titan Bingie Mod. When I say light, I primarily mean the demanding nature of the skin itself. This is my attempt to make the skin as easy as possible for weaker devices, and I'm primarily referring to Android TV boxes. Of course, don't expect performance like with Kodi default skin, it still has a lot more features than it. The complete code has been cleaned and tidied up. The skin file size of around 20MB says it all. Skin is no longer based on Skin Helper Service. Now most things are handled by TMDb Helper. Unfortunately, due to reducing the resources of the skin, some features have been removed, but some new ones have also been added:
- added Arial as a second skin font
- a custom search function has been added
- now more complete information about movies and tv shows can be obtained via wikipedia
- if there is nothing in the local library, the content will be displayed via TMDb Helper
- recreated original Bingie startup animation
- improved support for addons
- increased number of widgets to 10
- music hub added
- bingie music OSD added
- PVR is improved
- now, when watching a movie or TV show, you can get information about the actors and crew from the OSD menu
- icons, buttons and animations have been improved...
Don't forget one thing, this skin is still primarily intended for watching movies and TV shows, all other Kodi functionalities are there but maybe not as you expect.
Installation
1. Enable "Unknown Sources" in Kodi Settings > System > Add-ons
2. Enable "Update official add-ons from: Any repositories" in Kodi Settings > System > Add-ons
3. Install repository using zip or file manager source
ZIP Install: https://matke-84.github.io/repository.bi...-1.0.0.zip
Kodi File Manager Source: https://matke-84.github.io/repository.bi...ry.bingie/
4. Install the skin from repo: Bingie Repo > Look and Feel > Skins > Bingie
Ratings
For ratings (IMDb, RottenTomatoes, Metacritic...) it is necessary to have a personal OMDb and MDbList API key.
You can get a free key from:
https://www.omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx
https://mdblist.com/preferences
Enter your API key(s) in TMDbHelper settings
Skin Settings > Supported addons > TMDb Helper > API Keys > OMDb API key
Skin Settings > Supported addons > TMDb Helper > API Keys > MDbList API key
Additional features
Some functionalities require to connect your Trakt account with TMDb Helper.
Skin Settings > Supported addons > TMDb Helper > Trakt > Authenticate Tract account...
Translations
Currently, only English language is available. If you want to make a translation into your language, you can do that by making a PR on the official repo.
Bug Reports
Considering that huge changes were made in the code, some bugs are possible. Report bugs by creating a new issue on github.
Enjoy the Bingie skin!