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I use Kodi on a Fire TV and shortcut to the Netflix app (or any other that is on the Fire TV) within Kodi and put it on my front page of my Kodi skin. . Once I exit Netflix it brings me right back to Kodi. Amazon content I haven't figured out how to get on my home screen of Kodi but I just voice search content that is on Amazon and I'm good to go.
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If you dump the adb exes and kodi apk in your root c: drive sideloading can be done in about 15 seconds as an experienced user. I was able to sideload it on my Fire TV with about six beers in me and it took me less than 3 minutes once I downloaded the adb software and figured out all that windows environmental path crap is purely optional. The FireTV really is the premier kodi experience, if you plan on using it with a TV in your living room I can't think of a better option and I've been exceedingly happy with my purchase for almost a year now with zero complaints.
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Jun 22, 2015 23:13
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I've got 2 firetvs, a firetv stick, an atom box and now an nvidia shield android TV. Of them, the shield has the most balls, but also costs twice what a firetv does. The firetv does run kodi pretty well compared to the stick, which is a little lacking in horsepower.
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Jun 23, 2015 03:13
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Thanks for the help, guys. Looks like Fire TV is probably the way to go at this point.
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Jun 23, 2015 14:45
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So Ive swapped out plex for Emby... Using the Kodi Emby video plugin, how to I make it populate my movies and tv shows main menu items ? I don't want to browse to Videos --> Video Addons every time. Do I need a skin Installed ? This is on a fresh kodi install on my Nexus Player
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Jun 25, 2015 23:18
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Once youve installed the add on and let it scan, it should populate your moviea and tv show lists. Mine did. Im using Mimic skin.
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Jun 25, 2015 23:21
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jonathan posted:So Ive swapped out plex for Emby... Using the Kodi Emby video plugin, how to I make it populate my movies and tv shows main menu items ? I don't want to browse to Videos --> Video Addons every time. Are your videos sorted into movies and shows within Emby? It should just work within Kodi.
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Jun 25, 2015 23:21
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jonathan posted:So Ive swapped out plex for Emby... Using the Kodi Emby video plugin, how to I make it populate my movies and tv shows main menu items ? I don't want to browse to Videos --> Video Addons every time. I've not used Emby, but with certain skins you can add video add-one right to the main screen. I'm pretty sure Confluence supports this, but I know Eminence does, and does it better than anything else I've tried.
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Jun 25, 2015 23:49
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I just set up Emby/Kodi last night. Install the Emby add on, then exit Kodi completely. When you open it back up, it'll launch a wizard to get you set up, and then populate your library just like native content.
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Jun 26, 2015 03:17
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G-Prime posted:I just set up Emby/Kodi last night. Install the Emby add on, then exit Kodi completely. When you open it back up, it'll launch a wizard to get you set up, and then populate your library just like native content. Make sure you use beta Emby repo so its comptabile with the nexus player (isengard beta 2). EC posted:I've not used Emby, but with certain skins you can add video add-one right to the main screen. I'm pretty sure Confluence supports this, but I know Eminence does, and does it better than anything else I've tried. Since emby writes directly to the xbmc database now, you can use any skin you would like. It's pretty drat slick.
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Jun 26, 2015 04:05
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Using Emby looks just like a normal library to me, you did something wrong. Multiple skins, metropolis, aoen, etc.
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Jun 26, 2015 04:44
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Am I the only person whose shows keep getting marked unwatched in Emby? I don't know how I could have set something up incorrectly.
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Jun 26, 2015 12:26
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Haven't seen that, no. Mine didn't import watched status for tv correctly when I set it up initially, not sure if that's because I set it up on a htpc without the watched status synced (bedroom htpc that I just play random stuff on while going to sleep, never cared enough to sync watched flags to it) or not, but once I fixed it it's been fine. Movies were okay.
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Jun 26, 2015 12:33
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Anyone else get some things "stuck" in Recently Added? I have a few things where timestamp on the file was messed up so I corrected it and did a fresh clean/scan of the library but they persist at the top of recently added items. It's kind of driving me nuts.
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Jun 27, 2015 02:37
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Why did the Kodi team decide to put Isengard Beta 2 as their grans arrival to the play store? It's giving my quite a bit of trouble with some things and some add-ons are failing to update presumably due to incompatibility issues.
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Jun 28, 2015 18:37
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I decided to try to give Emby a shot to manage my watched tags and other nonsense. So far so good but a few oddities. My videos are playing as "Direct Stream", is this the same as Direct Play? I'm running Kodi with the Emby addon on a FireTV so I don't want transcoding or etc on the server when it isn't necessary. For anyone wondering if you can preserve your existing Kodi library/watched tags while merging with Emby, the answer seems to be no. I had to trash everything and start over.
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Jun 28, 2015 20:43
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Gozinbulx posted:Why did the Kodi team decide to put Isengard Beta 2 as their grans arrival to the play store? It's giving my quite a bit of trouble with some things and some add-ons are failing to update presumably due to incompatibility issues. Because apparently the isengard beta on android is much more functional than the helix stable or whatever.
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Jun 28, 2015 22:56
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Am I the only person whose shows keep getting marked unwatched in Emby? I don't know how I could have set something up incorrectly.
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Jul 3, 2015 18:11
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So far its been fine for me, everything is marked correctly. I notice in the log file it does a mini update every time there is a change even.
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Jul 3, 2015 18:54
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I'm working on migrating my files from my HTPC to a home server. Will changing the source of the files wipe my library? I'm concerned about keeping my movie poster selections and watch status. Is there a way to export a file with the watch status in case things go bad so I can manually redo it?
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Jul 3, 2015 19:05
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Uthor posted:I'm working on migrating my files from my HTPC to a home server. Will changing the source of the files wipe my library? I'm concerned about keeping my movie poster selections and watch status. I recently did this with Trakt. Installed the add-on, synced all the movies/tv shows, wiped (what was) XBMC, installed Kodi, added all my files back, installed Trakt, synced, and it was done. If you take a look through the program add-ons I think there's one that specifically handles watched tags as well. I remember using it awhile ago without issues.
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Jul 3, 2015 19:13
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Would there be a reason why like 1 folder doesn't get scanned in Kodi? Like I can play the files through the file manager (on a firetv) but they don't come up on the tv tab, but the folder does.
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Jul 4, 2015 00:59
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TLG James posted:Would there be a reason why like 1 folder doesn't get scanned in Kodi? Like I can play the files through the file manager (on a firetv) but they don't come up on the tv tab, but the folder does. File name. Try renaming them and rescan.
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Jul 4, 2015 01:05
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Am I the only person whose shows keep getting marked unwatched in Emby? I don't know how I could have set something up incorrectly. I gave up on Emby as a backend for Kodi clients after a couple days because of this issue. That and I didn't really see the point for me.
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Jul 4, 2015 01:43
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I'm using Emby as a basic parental filter. Kodi has add-ons to do it, but they still show the full library, including fanart. By using Emby as the library source, the objectionable stuff doesn't even show up on the device that only my son uses. I just set a max rating, and then did some light tagging manually to filter stuff we don't want him to watch that's arguably appropriate.
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Jul 4, 2015 02:03
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G-Prime posted:I'm using Emby as a basic parental filter. Kodi has add-ons to do it, but they still show the full library, including fanart. By using Emby as the library source, the objectionable stuff doesn't even show up on the device that only my son uses. I just set a max rating, and then did some light tagging manually to filter stuff we don't want him to watch that's arguably appropriate. This is a good idea and something I always struggle with.
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It works pretty fantastically, to be honest. We're still working out a few small things (mostly just getting it through his head to not hit the home button on the remote for the Fire TV Stick, and occasionally finding something that slipped through the filter, because there's no way to set default tagging on everything that enters the library). I made him a personal user account on the Emby server, hid it from the login screen, and set it to not have a password. When Kodi starts up, it automatically connects, fetches the complete library, adds anything new it needs to, and removes anything that's gone. Just for example, we decided he's too old for Team Umizoomi (which he loves, but isn't challenged by at all, because he's 6), so I added a custom tag for stuff that is too easy, and added that and a couple other things, and on the next sync it was gone.
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Threep posted:I have that exact same problem as well. Really frustrating. Thermopyle posted:I gave up on Emby as a backend for Kodi clients after a couple days because of this issue. That and I didn't really see the point for me. It might be a little early to tell yet, but I may have fixed the issue. Emby Server -> Metadata -> NFO -> Sync user watch data to nfo's for: It will probably to set to your Emby profile name, but setting it to blank should fix it.
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Jul 4, 2015 21:30
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Does anybody here use SickRage? It's supposed to be a superior forked version of SickBeard, but for some reason it won't recognized mapped network drives when I attempt to add an existing folder. Any ideas?
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Jul 4, 2015 21:49
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Use Sonarr.
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wolfbiker posted:Use Sonarr. Yeah I dropped SB a week or two ago and I don't know why it took me so long. Sonarr is great.
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TLG James posted:Would there be a reason why like 1 folder doesn't get scanned in Kodi? Like I can play the files through the file manager (on a firetv) but they don't come up on the tv tab, but the folder does. I had this problem using OpenElec, I deleted the entire source and rescanning it in from scratch and it worked fine. If the files hosted on Linux it may be a problem with permissions or naming.
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wolfbiker posted:Use Sonarr. It has the same exact issue - doesn't show networked drives when I attempt to add an existing folder.
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:It has the same exact issue - doesn't show networked drives when I attempt to add an existing folder. Are they actually connected? Windows likes to tune out network connections for absolutely no reason. Edit: is there really no way to update season art in Kodi without refreshing the whole drat thing? EC fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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Thermopyle posted:I gave up on Emby as a backend for Kodi clients after a couple days because of this issue. That and I didn't really see the point for me. I don't know, certainly is making my life easier. I got rid of an ancient WDTV in the basement last night, setup a new FireTV and had Kodi running with Emby on it in 5 minutes with all of my tags/etc preserved. I have a similar setup upstairs in the living room. I'm sure one day Kodi will get there but right now I don't want to bother with UPNP and its nice having that all centralized between various devices and apps. Setup user accounts for friends and family already, deleted Plex on their Rokus and pointed them at Emby instead. No issues so far and I'm loving the admin side of things, great feature set there. The metadata handling is especially nice. Plex I found was easier on the CPU with transcoding, I'm not sure what ffmpeg settings Emby uses yet, I will have to dive into that more since it seemed really high last I checked.
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I know everyone hates the M8 android boxes I raved about last year but I'm still going strong with them and recently decided to experiment with the unofficial OpenElec build made for them. Works great and very smooth and snappy and no fiddiling with all the android stuff. I happen to like having Android on my TV but it's a great alternative for those who don't care for anything else other than Kodi. Also I dig the SFTP/SSH access to the Kodi config.
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The Gunslinger posted:I don't know, certainly is making my life easier. I got rid of an ancient WDTV in the basement last night, setup a new FireTV and had Kodi running with Emby on it in 5 minutes with all of my tags/etc preserved. I have a similar setup upstairs in the living room. I'm sure one day Kodi will get there but right now I don't want to bother with UPNP and its nice having that all centralized between various devices and apps. Setup user accounts for friends and family already, deleted Plex on their Rokus and pointed them at Emby instead. No issues so far and I'm loving the admin side of things, great feature set there. The metadata handling is especially nice. Ok what's the trick to get Emby to scrape all your poo poo correctly? I can point Plex at my TV Shows and Movies and it got something like 98% correct, Kodi hits 100% correct first try. Emby, took like 5hrs to scrape 500 films, and probably only got about 75% correct. Don't all these programs use a similar algorithm for this sort of stuff? Am i missing some magic setting in Emby?
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By default it uses a different scraper but that's been fine with me. I have no idea how you named your stuff. I use Name (Year) and sometimes append quality/res to the title and I only made 5 corrections out of 700 films. Go to the Server Admin panel and click Metadata then click Services. Try bumping up Themoviedb instead of the open movie DB then slick Save. That's the one that Kodi/Plex use by default I believe. You might have to do a full refresh after that, not sure as I didn't have to do that since it got most of mine right on the default.
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The Gunslinger posted:I don't know, certainly is making my life easier. I got rid of an ancient WDTV in the basement last night, setup a new FireTV and had Kodi running with Emby on it in 5 minutes with all of my tags/etc preserved. I have a similar setup upstairs in the living room. I'm sure one day Kodi will get there but right now I don't want to bother with UPNP and its nice having that all centralized between various devices and apps. Setup user accounts for friends and family already, deleted Plex on their Rokus and pointed them at Emby instead. No issues so far and I'm loving the admin side of things, great feature set there. The metadata handling is especially nice. I very specifically put "for me" in there! I already have everything centralized with MySQL. If you're not using MySQL then I'm sure Emby is a lot more attractive to you. For me there's no upside and there's the very significant downside of all my metadata being dependent upon yet another party.
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Thermopyle posted:I very specifically put "for me" in there! All of the above is valid. In fact, honestly, once I get my NAS up and running, I'm probably going to migrate over to MySQL for the library for everything except my son's Kodi instance and keep that on Emby specifically (unless Kodi's parental controls improve). I know running both in tandem is going to be a pain in my rear end overall, but while he's this young, I value that functionality. The shared MySQL setup is so drat nice, though. Being able to stop a video in our basement and pick right back up in the bedroom at the exact moment we stopped is really cool for the wife and I.
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