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I use Yatse. It automatically connects to kodi, although if you don't have a static ip address you will need to automatically connect again each time your ip changes. Usually it changes by a digit.

Edit: You can also view the media on your phone.

If you have an Android phone and install Yatse Remote pretty much any link/media you open give you an option to send to XBMC/KODI.

Is that along the lines of what you are looking for?

EDIT: From the Description

◆ Stream your videos to your Android devices or UPnP / AirPlay / Chromecast devices*

◆ Send your Android media to your media center or UPnP / AirPlay / Chromecast devices*

xbmc's web server appears to be having a hard time today... so here's the summary:

Supported Channels

• Business News Network
• Bravo
• Bravo Fact
• CBC (**)
• The Comedy Network (*)
• CTV
• CTV News
• CTV Local News (BC, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Northern Ontario, Ottawa, Regina, Saskatoon, Southwestern Ontario, Toronto, Winnipeg)
• Discovery
• The DIY Network
• Fashion Television
• The Food Network
• Global TV
• Global News (News, National, BC, Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Maritimes, Montreal, Regina, Saskatoon, Toronto, Winnipeg)
• HGTV
• History TV
• Much Music (***)
• Showcase
• Slice TV
• Space
• Treehouse TV
• TSN
• TVTropolis

• YTV

  ( ) = Some Streams may fail to play due to lacking full rtmpe support in XBMC. ( *) = Pretty much all streams fail to play for the same reason. ( *) = navigational bugs may exists such as empty categories or too many video results being returned.

The plugin is available through its own repository. To install it, download this zip file

Then, in XBMC, go to System -> Addons -> Install From Zip File, and choose the zip file you just downloaded. A new repository is now listed under 'Get Addons' where you can find 'Canada On Demand' ready to install. Once it's installed the plugin will keep itself up to date, you never have to worry about it again.

Its also available on github: https://github.com/andrepl/plugin.video.canada.on.demand

This is fake. Team Kodi has said repeatedly that they will not/cannot post Kodi to the play store because Google will not accept it.

The only only version of Kodi that is on the playstore is a fork by a current kodi developer that was made especially for the oyua (see here

I had this problem.. your problem is not with XBMC but the default skin.. I've modifed the latest confluence skin to replicate the straight to videos option for the movies menu item.. I'll dig it out and paste it below

Edit :

I've packaged up my version of the skin : http://www.datafilehost.com/d/d92d920d (make sure you untick the download manager option before downloading)

Code : home.xml (in 720p folder of the skin)

<item id="10"> <label>31954</label> <onclick>ActivateWindow(10025,&quot;smb://DAN-NAS/Movies/&quot;)</onclick> <icon>-</icon> <thumb>-</thumb> <visible>!Skin.HasSetting(HomeMenuNoMovieButton) + Library.HasContent(Movies)</visible> </item>

This is for v14 btw.. You'll obviously have to change the smb path in the code above.. and if you use the zipped up skin, also change it in there. The changes for 13.2 are pretty much identical. Just do a find on 31954 and it should put you in the right place in the HOME.XML file.

the scraping, as far as i know, is really down to the scraper you're using.. i very much doubt you can change how it works because it relies on how the scraper source recognises the shows... To be honest i really don't understand why you would want them named that way but it would be very simple to write a vbs script or use http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk to rename your folders very quickly.

Shameless plug: we over at www.tvmaze.com could be considered an alternative to TheTVDB.

We run an independent database (instead of mirroring tvdb or another existing source) that contains detailed information & images for shows, episodes, cast and crew; and expose it through an open API. The content is crowdsourced: anyone can sign up and edit, with some gradual limitations on new accounts to prevent vandalism. For now this works fine without us getting into any conflicts or edit wars, but if we ever do reach that point we have a vision to resolve them via a democratic process of community policing (much like stackoverflow's model): http://www.tvmaze.com/threads/9/user-permissions

If there's anything lacking in our functionality or API for anyone's usecase, we'd love to hear about it and work together to improve!

You sure can. Just make sure to get the advancedsettings.xml file in the correct location for each of your different types of installs. The program will take care of the rest.

Helpful link #1

Helpful link #2

Gave it a look, pretty good overall. Loads quickly and was super easy to set up. Still think Music Pump's Kodi Remote is by far the best though.

As with most add-ons, there is no official site since its just a bunch of code made by someone tossed into an add-on.

Here is a good start and what you can do with it, though, and how to begin setting it up:

http://www.howtogeek.com/195099/how-to-recreate-the-channel-surfing-experience-on-xbmc/

Technically speaking I don't think there is a Windows tax in this case - from what I recall the version of Windows on there comes with no licensing cost at all to the manufacturer...

Some details here: http://www.howtogeek.com/195934/what-exactly-is-windows-8.1-with-bing-do-i-have-to-use-bing/

The problem is that while the original theory behind drive failures is that they fail randomly, over time it has been found that drives purchased around the same time tend to fail around the same time. If one drive fails, you are then doing extreme amounts of reads on all of the remaining drives to rebuild your array, which is likely to increase the chance of a second failure because you're now reading the entire contents of each remaining drive, and the likelihood of a failure shoots up drastically.

This isn't a huge problem with smaller capacity RAID 5 arrays, but as drives have become larger and larger, it's reached the point where if you have a drive fail in an array, the likelihood of a second failure during rebuild is almost certain to occur.

There are quite a few good articles that discuss this. It basically boils down to: don't use cheap drives in your RAID 5, and don't use RAID 5 with huge drives.

The interim fix is to use RAID 6, which is two drive fault resistant, but even this will succumb to the same issues of RAID 5 as storage capacities increase over time.

Remember, RAID is NOT a replacement for a reliable backup of your data!

This is the guide I used some years ago and I just gave it a skim over; it looks like its still current. None the less you might want to cross check it against the XBMC wiki.

To answer your question directly, you would make the office computer the MySQL server by installing MySQL on it (it's free) and setting up a simple database for your media centers to use. Then you'd tell all the XBMC installs to look to the database (it's a simple text-based edit in a few files).

It takes a tiny bit of effort to get running but it's so worth it.

Looking on the rasberry Pi forums, I found this link:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6256
From what I can gather, there are some manual steps required to configure the adapter. There are other releases of XBMC for PI called raspmc and one called arch. One of them might have that driver included.
Here is a list of supported wifi adapters for the pi for different platforms: http://elinux.org/RPi_USB_Wi-Fi_Adapters From the list it is unknown if that chipset (RTL8188CUS) is compatible with any of the XBMC distros.
So your simplest choices are to use the script to install the drivers or to return the wifi adapter and get one from the "approved" list.

Ya it looks like the repo maintainer hasn't put the "trusty" versions for 15.0, 14.2, 14.1 and 14.0. There should be at least a 14.2 version there.

See the man page for "apt-get" I forget the exact syntax but you can install the 14.2 package from the "precise" distribution. By default it is only showing you packages for your current distro. Older ones should work.

According to the repo the 14.2 package is there.

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows

In powershell.exe

cd path-to-your-files Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.icon | Foreach-Object { path-to-imagemagick\convert.exe $.fullname ($.DirectoryName+'\folder.jpg') }

This would automatically convert all your .icon files to jpgs. If you have any questions feel free to ask me or /r/powershell.

XBMC is mainly to display and access large movie/TV show collections in the living room. XBMC itself provides no video content, but there are add-ons that do. That being said, I would avoid most of the free-TV show add-ons because the quality isn't very good, and it can often be a very frustrating experience. I prefer to download my shows and then scan them into XBMC. There are programs that can mostly automate this process, as well, such as http://tvshowsapp.com

Known issue in RaspBMC October update (http://www.raspbmc.com/2013/11/raspbmcs-october-update/). Check out the top comment for more info and work-around. Essentially 2.0 down-mix will fix your problem (or an upgrade)

Have a look at https://sonarr.tv/ Load up your favourite shows and it will populate a guide as to when the shows will come out. If you want to take it further it will also automatically download said shows into their own directories... It's like an integrated Sickbeard, Cheetah, TheRenamer concept. Looks nice to me but haven't spent any time trying it out myself.

Personally I use a combination of the Genesis add-on along with an account on https://trakt.tv/

When you have it all synced up it will automatically mark your movies and tv episodes as watched and you never need to worry about losing track of what you have watched and what you still have to watch.

I highly recommend this approach

The best route is to serve all your content from a dedicated PC / RaspPI running https://jellyfin.org/

Kodi / Plex / Firsticks will then just be a dumb frontend to browse and play that content.

Maybe use a third party media manager to do the scanning/scraping first? I use Media Center Master. Point it to the folder with your media and ask to fetch metadata and prep for XBMC in the options menu. It does its thing and then lists every sub-folder and highlights the ones it can't identify in red. There may be a better solution specific to anime but I find that it handles tv and movies pretty well.

Hey I still happen to have those Aeon wallpaper packs from 2010 still sitting in my downloads folder. Just the movies and TV packs.

Here's a preview... http://i.imgur.com/yEjzBe7.jpg

And here's packs, about 400 megs http://www.filedropper.com/aeonpacks

They are a little dated... Anybody remember the Friends spin-off Joey? lol...

This is true. Since there is a large amount of TV shows in theTVDB, there's a strong possibility of it misinterpreting shows if not formatted properly. There's a lot of guides out there for Filebot (like this one).

I use Private Internet Access as a vpn. Check out /r/VPN. Being Canadian I use the vpn for netflix, which alone is worth the price as the American netflix is so much better. I don't bother with hulu but also use it for the XBMC plugin ustvvod, not to be confused with ustvnow which aggregates all the free network content available online from the USA only available to Americans and brings it right into XBMC. I also use it for Pandora radio. It's a simple setup, easy as signing up, downloading their client and presto you're from wherever you choose in the client.

As far as high quality live streaming television on XBMC. Besides ustvnow, there really aren't many other reliable sources for actual live streaming tv. I had the premium package for awhile and while some of the channels were of decent quality, some weren't and found them to be the ones I watched most so I ended up cancelling. Addons such as Mashup, Navi-x, iStream, P2P streams, all have hit and miss live streaming content of questionable quality. P2P Streams is great for sports though.

Depending where you live a good option is a tv tuner card and antenna for your setup as most major network channels broadcast free OTA HD that can be brought into XBMC. I'm currently trying to set that up. Know here in Calgary we can get Global, CTV and CBC I think free over the air HD with an antenna and tuner card.

If you are browsing reddit from an Android device (and it is a YouTube video), I usually use Yatse https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.leetzone.android.yatsewidgetfree&amp;hl=en

Instead of playing on the YouTube App, pick the Yatse Play on Media Center instead

Then install Icefilms outside of XBMC and use its actual built in download option.

Presume you've already got a network share set up that you can move the download into and stream to the ATV2 from afterwards?

Ember Media Manager seems to be liked by quite a few people and is what I settled on using. Once set up it gives you complete control over every aspect of the scraped data, which is nice to be able to choose your own fanart etc.

And if you wanted something a little more in-depth than the user manual to get you up and running with EMM, here's a handy guide I just found.

I would just plug the external drive into a computer and clean it up. Search and delete, if you had Kodi saved nfo and thumbnails they might also be duplicated and cluttering around.

But since you mac is creating these dot underscore files, maybe some can help you prevent this from happening again.

You don't need NOOBS, you can flash Raspbmc or OpenELEC on the SD card straight off. BUT I would suggest putting NOOBS on there as it has a pretty useful recovery console. NOOBS setup.

Get hyperspin from here http://hyperspin-fe.com/. You will want to get the emulators for their respective sites, just do a google search. Roms will also be dependent on the emulator and might also work zipped. Your wii emulators won't work, but you might be able to use the roms if they aren't hard coded into the dol. Check out the hyperspin forums for more info.

Glad to help! I did a little searching and I found this program built for OSX that can scan media and rename files to fit naming conventions. Never used it but maybe that will work.

Airplay for iOS7 was fixed in the November update for RaspBMC.

Not sure what was done though. Trying to dig though the forums to find it.

I am guessing it is because you are replacing the file you download with the new one each time you download so you only ever actually have one file to play. The system is designed to function best when each movie is in its own folder.

Ideally your structure should be [root folder]/[Moviename (year)]/moviename (year)-theme.mp3 E.g: Movies/Divergent (2014)/Divergent (2014)-theme.mp3

Put each movie in a separate folder so that you can store the nfo, fan art, trailers, etc, locally. This will help ensure your addons function correctly.

Also your tv shows should be: [root folder]/[show name]/[Season #]/file E.g.: Shows/Constantine/Season 01/Constantine - S01E01 - Pilot.mkv

I highly recommend http://www.therenamer.com for automatically sorting and filing your shows and movies to best suit XBMC. It will create the folders for you and you can finesse the structures to your preferences. When you download a new file in the future, drop it into the renamed and it will identify, rename, and file it in the right place in one easy step

I'd suggest you get theRenamer and rename your Cosmos files using the program. The easiest way to get the right show is to:

1) Open the program.

2) Click the "TV Manual Scraping" button at the bottom left.

3) Enter the show's ID (This can be found at thetvdb.com when you search for the show)

4) Keep the "TV Manual Scraping"-window open.

5) Pull the folder containing the show into theRenamer.

6) Make sure it found the right show.

7) Press proceed.

I do this with all of my shows that XBMC do not scrape correctly. Best of luck to you.

The Renamer is your best friend here. You have to tinker with it a bit, either follow the instructions on the website or parts of this guide that was posted in this subreddit a little while back. Once you get the renamer set up, you can just drag-and-drop your movies and it'll sort it quite nicely.

not with xbmc no. But if you can custom firmware then you can run other applications.. They aren't nearly as functional or pretty though.

If you just want to use your PS3 to stream media though then you can run transcoding servers such as http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/about/

I've been using MediaElch (company and site are German, but the app itself is in English)

http://www.kvibes.de/en/mediaelch/

It is not perfect, but pretty well featured and gets the job done. I manage my >500 movie collection pretty seamlessly so my XBMC doesn't have to do any scraping work. I periodically look for others and there are very slim pickings. I am interested to see if others can offer other suggestions.

Hope this helps!

EDIT: (Sorry, hit Save too soon) I like this program because it has several lookup resources (TVDB, IMDB, Fanart.tv, etc) but both when/which it uses, as well as how much data it does or does not populate, is entirely under manual control. You can easily create/edit NFO files without doing any automatic server population at all, just setting the data you want.

I have done this exact thing with all my Christmas specials. I have a "show" called Christmas Specials and then name everything S01EXX.Showname. I like to keep each show in a separate folder so for me it's \Television Shows\Christmas Specials\Season 1\Showname\S01EXX.Showname.ext but I don't think they have to be in separate folders. I then use MediaElch to create the nfo files manually. Usually I just clean up the display name and add a blurb about the show if I can find one quickly to copy/paste. It works perfectly and then I set that particular show to display in alphabetical order instead of episode order and the result is an easy to find list of all my Christmas specials.

heh, I am surprised you even need to jail break your device to install Kodi. That makes no sense at all. You can install it on android without root. But apparently it is possible to install Kodi on ios without jail breaking your phone via various other ways (paid app, signing the install yourself). I guess another reason to add to my list of why I am glad I don't buy apple devices. Needlessly restricting your device...

If you don't want to use Kodi as client then I'd suggest you have a look at Emby.

Yup, i have 8GB RAM in my machine and have tweaked it so when paused it continues to buffer the video in RAM. This page explains how to modify your advancedsetting.xml file to achieve this.

You can configure Kodi to sync amongst different machines but it can be a bit hacky. Instead i use Emby to serve TV shows and Movies to Kodi and sync played status. Really great app.

You can adjust your subtitles with SubtitleEdit. Select all the lines after the credits and then go to Synchronization/Adjust all times (make sure the "selected lines" is checked) and input your desired delay - for example 60 seconds and then click on "Show earlier". Save the subtitle. Done.

Check this one out:
http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/xbmc-full-html

It's an eBook which guides you through the entire process. From installation to adding Media. It's nice as it comes with pictures you so will always know exactly where they do what. And you can download it as an epub or as a pdf to put on your tablet if you want.

Have a read here: http://serverfault.com/questions/9038/run-a-bat-file-in-a-scheduled-task-without-a-window

The top answer will work, it uses the vbs scripting host to spawn a cmd batch process, without a pop up window.

As everyone says here, 1080p x264 playback is great, as long as the video doesn't have dts audio. Requires a lot of grunt to decode dts and there is no hardware decoding so unless you have an external dts decoder that you can "pass through" the audio processing, you will get stuttering. When playing a x264 1080 with dts CPU is 100%, pass through dts and CPU drops to 40%.

Some people have had success overvolting and then overclocking to 1050mhz (stock 700 however pretty safe to go to 900 with out overvolting - at your own risk!! ) but the pi guys know about the dts issue and are working on it - http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&amp;t=15546

A low-tech solution is to run a webserver on the storage system. You can browse the folders in raw directory mode or install something like http://larsjung.de/h5ai/ and use that, the latter also works nicely with touch devices and even generates preview images. When clicking on a video it is streamed via raw http, which most video players can play, for example vlc.

Yep, I've used MediaCenterMaster for a few years and bought the lifetime license for $50 w/o regret. It has more functionality than I need on my home box, but it scans for the latest episodes for shows I want to follow or movies above a certain rating and drops the torrent file in a Dropbox folder. Being in Dropbox allows me to put whatever else I may want to d/l from any device. A simple SCP script as a scheduled task transfers it to my seedbox and clears the folder when done. Then I use BitKinex with a multi segmented SFTP connection to mirror my completion folder on the seedbox. Another simple script to tell me what's new and I manually copy/move the content after a quick review to make sure it's what I wanted. Too many grabs w/hard coded subs to leave it automated, but pretty much hands free.

Now I just need to create some custom xml files to handle some unique grouping now that I rebuilt my HTPC w/OpenElec and Frodo. (Do I put Aliens vs Predator with Aliens, Predator, or a combo folder for space monsters?)

It can be as simple or as complex as you need. MCM really solved a lot of my problems for scanning and scraping for new content, naming and fetching metadata for XBMC and BitKnex gives me a fast, secure, and automated transfer.

My setup is like this: I have my media on a file server, and I have jailbroken AppleTV's running XBMC attached to my TVs. I like to do the scraping through Media Center Master on my computer rather than through XBMC's built-in scrapers because:

a) since I have multiple XBMC boxes, each box would have to scrape the information and artwork separately if I let XBMC do it

b) I like having more control over the scraping process so I can catch errors and so on.

c) if I switch to another kind of media center, like Boxee or MediaBrowser in Windows 7 on an HTPC or whatever, I won't have to re-scrape my files. This has actually paid off a lot because I originally started doing this with MediaBrowser in Vista on my old HTPC, then I used a Patriot Box Office nettop box for a while, and then most recently I switched to XBMC. But since all my metadata and artwork is saved with my movie files, I didn't have to re-scrape my entire collection every time I switched. In fact if I wanted I could use XBMC in my living room, my Patriot Box Office in my bedroom, and Windows Media Center in my den and they would all be able to read the same metadata stored with my media files if I wanted to. Not that I would of course - XBMC all the way!

Not sure I recommend my way for most people though. It's definitely the geeky way to do it, and there is a bit of a learning curve involved, much more so than just letting XBMC do everything for you - especially in your case since you only have one XBMC device.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I used to use Media Center Master for TV Show metadata, but now I let Sickbeard do everything for me, it's been a revelation. I only use Media Center Master for movies now.

I would just go with programs like CouchPotato for Movies and Sick Beard for TV Shows. They both are meant for downloading new stuff, but you can have them reorganize an existing library. They will move and rename your files, and download the cover art and such for everything.

That's probably your easiest solution, plus you have helpful programs for "acquiring" anything new in the future.

I use bittorrent sync because it doesn't hit any 3rd party servers. I don't sync advancedsettings.xml or stuff that would be in mysql but anything else gets synced to every machine including to my backend that holds my videos and the mysql server. I also sync the install files because I use all osx machines and want to make sure I'm always using the same version everywhere.

Speaking of LVM what's you guy's opinion on Greyhole? Currently have a pool setup but I'm worried about data loss. Would something like SnapRAID be better than starting all over?

Give owncloud a shot. performance will depend on what your streaming and the upload\download speeds each side of the connection. Dont think the server side will run on windows so you might need to create a VM to test in.

https://owncloud.org

XBMC plugin to be able to access media on the recipient end here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=189856

going forward if it all works as expected. It would only really be as expensive as the storage youd want to have. For example, you could host the server on a Raspberry Pi, connect it to a NAS for the storage, and mirror the drives to protect against failure. HDDs come with pretty hefty warranties, especially on the 'NAS' branded drives from WD.

Here's a pretty good lookin' option from life hacker http://lifehacker.com/5332535/amahi-turns-old-systems-into-full-featured-media-servers I helped my bro set this up and it wasn't all that difficult and it has quite a few apps that can be used with it as well anyways here's the link if you want to check it out http://www.amahi.org/

Is the original drive c? If not, move files, keeps paths, move drive letter.

The other option is an alternative database editing tool that will let you edit the tables. Maybe: http://razorsql.com/features/sqlite_table_editor.html

Keep in mind that path changes will mess up you image caches, at least it used to.

You are using raring which is out of support from Ubuntu. This means we can't upload new packages to the launchpad repository. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Version_timeline Obviously it is a weird situation where the older non-lts is supported longer than the new non-lts but that is the way Ubuntu changed their support regime. Upgrading to the next LTS seems like a good idea - we are already preparing a new xbmcbuntu installation iso that uses trusty. It is currently in beta but should be finished when Gotham is ready. You can either reinstall xbmcbuntu with the new iso or do an upgrade of your existing system to trusty if you feel up to it. Of course it depends on the availability of other software you may run on the system. In any case be sure to backup your userdata folder in case everything fails.

The latest unstable version is beta 3 but the latest unstable that went into the raring apt repo is alpha11 which is 3 months older.

Precise, quantal, saucy and trusty do have beta 3, although quantal will be dropped soon as well as support is almost ran out.

See https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/unstable and check the versions of the xbmc package to get an overview of available packages and their upload date.

To expand a little more, (gigabit - check the speeds, they vary) Ethernet over Powerline works waaaaay better than streaming wireless. (way to much interference for 99% of people). If you plan to stream live tv from a HDHomeRun to other rooms, and cant physically run an Ethernet cord, this is the best option.

In short,

• return cable box (and save not having to pay ~$15/month, $180/yr)

• get cable card

• insert into HDHomeRun Prime

• Stream to Kodi Boxes/HTPC (I have a WMC recorder/viewer, and a Kodi Client on a $50 Nexus Player)

• Avoid Wifi for streaming. Artifacts are guaranteed.

asked this question a while ago in /r/htpc and here is what i ended up doing. it works seamlessly. Audio goes through my tv but as soon as i turn on my bluetooth headphones, the audio switches over.

I bought these two: Ausdom M04 and this dongle

The only thing is that you have to do restart XBMC after you turn on your headphones if you are swtiching from one to the other

Here's a high priced, yet very nice solution. Harmony smart control with smart phone app remote. $100, You may think it's overkill, but I love this thing.

It can turn off your TV remotely through an app and probably shut down your computer as well at will or according to a sleep timer. If you had Phillips hue lights you could even dim the lights in the room from the app as well to give them the bedtime hint!

Here's some screenshots . I just turned the TV off in my living room probably pissing off my wife just now to take these screenshots. I may just do it again just for fun.

I stream from a NAS using Samba. No issues. I've used Yatse (and it's great) but now that Kodi has an official remote app, Kore, I've been using that instead.

You could try using G-Spot to figure out which codec is causing the problem. You say some files do it, both are generic container files so it must be codec related which is weird. Lets figure out which codec it is (hopefully the same in all affected files) and what hardware you are running.

http://gspot.headbands.com/

http://www.filedropper.com/pluginvideosportsdevil-2015-01-14

I uploaded the SportsDevil file I use. Hopefully it works for you. I have no experience with firesticks, as I only use a Minix box myself. Good luck homie

I don't know that CPU, but as far as low budget goes, I would think this is a much better choice: http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_262158.html?wid=3 or this: http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_268277.html?wid=3

Basically any cheap S905 box. Careful with the plug and the warehouse you select (EU available).

> Last I used Plex it cost money to create guest accounts and stream outside of the LAN.

Guest accounts maybe, but I know I've always been able to stream outside the LAN before for free. The only money I've ever had to spend on Plex was to buy the Roku channel & Android app for my mobile devices.

Edit: Also, here is the list of Plex features, and lists the PlexPass features as well. Streaming is the first thing listed, and is shown as a standard feature.

The closest thing to having them added and organized that I have found is explained on this link This is the approach I have always taken, except the last step: Adding all the links as favorites, and then create an entry with the favorites and call it "Podcasts"

http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box/pp_124593.html

Weird choice of mini USB and mini HDMI, instead of micro, but it already comes with all the cables to adapt the connectors. The wifi isn't bad, but I wouldn't expect 1080 BR rips to stream without buffering. Great deal for the price, though. I would buy another.

1. http://ubuntu-mate.org - you can just download the ISO and install it similar to how Kodibuntu is installed.

2. Install Kodi from the Official Kodi PPA

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

   sudo apt-get update

   sudo apt-get install kodi

3. Ubuntu MATE Control Center -> Startup Applications -> Add Kodi to the list.

Once you do those three things you essentially have a much better version of Kodibuntu.

I've no idea if the addon you want exists, but you may have picked the wrong Distro for what you want.. Openelec is a stripped back linux designed to run only KODI.. if you want other things running in the background you may want to look at Raspbmc / OSMC. They offer a more full featured linux tool set.

http://www.raspbmc.com/

I've never used Raspbmc but my understanding is that it's still a tad bit clunky on the UI side of things. Also, the current version of Raspbmc is the last version.

From HTPC Beginner: > OpenELEC basically has no extra options than what comes bundled with XBMC (or Kodi moving forward). Raspbmc on the other hand is a full debian OS, which gives you the ability to install Debian packages. So one day if you decide to install Transmission bittorrent on it you can do so. In fact, Raspbmc comes built-in with apps like TVHeadend, SABnzbd, etc. On top of that, you may install packages from the Debian repositories allowing for lot more possibilities than OpenELEC. > > Raspbmc provides more control over some of the base functions of the system and it is easy to overclock Raspbmc through the menu. OpenELEC is more protective and messing with the base system requires commandline work.

OpenELEC /storage/.xbmc/userdata/

ssh into the raspberry pi / openelec and put the file there. make sure you reference mysql host (your win 7 box) by IP.

here is a good guide on how to ssh to your pi if you need it: Using SSH

It's pretty straight forward, but you do need to use an XMBC distro that's specifically for the pi. Fortunately, a few of these already exist: http://www.raspbmc.com/

The pi boots off of an SD card, so basically all you need to do is to download an XBMC distro, and copy it to an SD card. This will boot up, and run xbmc - everything is already configured (except media sources of course). There are quite a few install guides out there.

If you're using an IR dongle or USB hub, just make sure that you purchase one that is listed as supported.

i use a combination of showrss.info (rss feeds) added to utorrent which then executes therenamer (upon download completion), and moves them to my xbmc library.

really simple to add new series that i want, and gets them downloaded, renamed, and added to my library automatically.

Links: http://showrss.info/ (don't need to register)

http://www.therenamer.com/

As others have mentioned, I believe your naming convention is not consistent across all media.

If this is the case, you can clean up your file names with programs such as FileBot or theRenamer and mass update.

If things are not set up properly, either program will have problems.

Naming is huuuuuuge at saving a lot of headaches. The stuff suggested here will work on getting meta data and some of the programs can batch rename stuff as well.

If you're ripping new stuff, I tend to use a standard format: One folder for the entire show with the name how it's listed on thetvdb.com I name episode: SHOWNAME.SXX.EXX.EpisodeName That is one of the standards most renamers will use, and there's a couple variations on that.

If you want to batch rename shows, this is a decent program. It'll sometimes not recognize shows, but you can add a show by manually putting in the TVDB id #, and it should scan easily.

XBMC can scrape basic fanart/posters, or you can download manually or use a media manager program to get stuff.

That's essentially what I have done to solve this problem. It seems that documentaries are the main culprit. Some of them scrape as incorrect shows so I threw them all in an unsorted folder until I can find a way to get them to be recognized. I found that proper folder structure and file naming helps. For folder structure, Series name(as listed on TVDB)/Season #, and for file names check out therenamer. Just input the tvdb id number and drag and drop. Hope this helps.

Do they have an iPhone app? Does it require login to your cable provider? If yes its on iphone, and no it doesnt' require a login then its probably an open m3u8 stream that can be played anywhere.

Otherwise you can load it from livestream.com, but I'm not sure if there's an add-on for livestream.com

http://livestream.com/accounts/9262780/events/3189705

You would need to request this page and parse out the m3u8_url in the json on that page. I'm thinking of writing an addon for this, but I want to be sure someone else hasn't already done it.

Looks like they have a Roku channel, but that doesn't help us. https://www.roku.com/channels#!details/29216/livestream

I think this is going to be a limiting factor for most people wanting to develop on it or even extend beyond the 1 week preview would be under the Terms of Use https://www.sling.com/terms-of-use:

" You may use more than one Permitted Device, but the number of Authorized User(s) concurrently accessing or using our Services may be limited to one (1) Permitted Device at any time."

Limited to a single device of streaming at a time could be a deal breaker for more people than not. Hopefully people cancelling at the end of the 7-day free trial or at any point share that limitation as the reason for cancelling. Besides bundling I was wondering how they were going to keep the big company spin on this new and welcomed form of cord cutting.

There are a LOT of settings, you can most certainly use local files of trailers you have saved. I haven't looked into streaming trailers for movies in your library that are unwatched, but that sounds super interesting and I would love that to be an option...

However the settings I use connect to http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/ and play 2 random movies, any two (and I have them set to not replay trailers, so if i watch 4 movies in 4 nights, no two trailers will repeat, not even randomly). You can also set trailers to be similar to the movie type you are watching: eg If you are watching a Action Comedy, it will stream 2 action comedy movie trailers.

It's pretty neat!

For the Mac:

MediaElch (I use this daily) - Free, and works with Movies, TV, Concerts, etc. http://www.kvibes.de/en/mediaelch/

iDentify2 - http://identify2.arrmihardies.com

Once you've got everything sorted, you can stop dicking around with the scraping functions and just set it to use local info only and your shows won't get rescraped with bad info.

Definitely. Also I think sd cards work better these days. Initially people went the usb route but not anymore. You'll be good to go.

You might want to do this: https://osmc.tv/2015/04/moving-from-raspbmc/

This is what I use:

Hardware: Raspberry Pi 2 + powered USB hub connected to 2x 2TB usb drives, Logitech wireless keyboard, Edimax wireless adaptor. Can also control the Pi via the TV remote as it's CEC compatible.

OS: OSMC - https://osmc.tv/

Software: Kodi is part of OSMC - then add Sonarr for TV shows, CouchPotato for movies, Deluge for downloads, Genesis for streaming, plus assorted plugins; TV Guide, backup etc.

Takes a bit of configuration to make everything play nice. Certainly having knowledge of Linux helps. I used the guide here http://www.cuttingcords.com/home/ultimate-server/getting-started - which although focused on a WIndows system, can be adapted for other OS.

I would start here if I were you. http://kodi.wiki/view/Supplemental_tools/Windows

Go to 3) Library managers.

I personally for movies, I rename the movie like this. Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead (2014).mkv

Then add a file like this (its just a notepad file renamed). Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead (2014).nfo

Then I just paste inside the .nfo the url from themoviedb.org like this. http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/241842-d-d-sn-2

For TV, I just use sickbeard, creating each folder for each TV show and for stubborn files, I just rename them to something like s02e01.mkv and then let sickbeard rename it for me.

Folder. Death Parade Inside folder. Death Parade - s01e01 - Seven Deadly Darts.mkv And so on.

Kodi does the rest.

I know I'm late to the game, but I already checked and TheMovieDB won't allow the individual seasons to be listed as a movie. Currently there isn't any decent way of doing it short of creating your own nfo manually :(

http://www.themoviedb.org/talk/5354db270e0a265606005c0b

plex server install is fairly straightforward. It's a free program, you download/install and in setup you tell it where the files are. Then in settings, there's a tab for DLNA, make sure that's enabled. If you're having issues, take a look at /r/PleX There's a lot of people with pretty good knowledge.

I don't have ATV, so I'm not sure if it'll pick it up, it should though as my dish hopper picks up my plex server.

added bonus: if you get the plex app, you can watch your content remotely. The only downside is syncing xbmc watched list with plex...that can be a bit of an interesting exercise.

edit: download link

Can you just go here and get it? https://kodi.tv/download/

Being Linux, you might need to actually go here - http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_for_Linux

But I don't know if you're going to need to upgrade the OS first/too.

Sounds like you need to run em through Handbreak.

You were right, this isn't the right place to post this. Your issue has nothing to do with XBMC. You could try /r/usenet or /r/htpc but you might get a similar response. Good luck!

You're welcome. No upvotes?

Subsonic provides a few benefits over the standard windows music manager. It handles a ton of music quickly. If you only access your music over the lan, it is free. With $1 a month, you can access your music over the internet, and have access to mobile players

http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

Checkout the screenshots on the site. Feel free to ask specific questions.

Someone did get it working...kind of. The streaming bit at least. The pi is emulating a Nvidia shield, which does mean you have to have the Nvidia card that supports the sheild ( I think most of the newer ones do). Read up Here

Raspbmc is a free download: http://www.raspbmc.com/

The Raspberry Pi is available from various sources, depending on your location: Premier Farnell, Element14, RS Component, etc: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs#buyingWhere

The receiver I chose is a Yamaha RXV375, which seemed a nice balance of price and performance. I plugged the Pi, xbox, bluray, etc. directly into the receiver's HDMI inputs and the TV into the HDMI output. Only issue with that setup is that I can't mix the sources (e.g. watch a slideshow from the Pi while I listen to FM radio on the speakers).

EDIT: speling

After you've succeeded in getting your SSH server visible externally, I'd strongly suggest taking a look at denyhosts:

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

It's available in the Ubuntu repositories. It will scan the system log for failed login attempts and block IPs found to be causing a large amount of failures. You can optionally have the client contribute to a crowd-sourced list of IPs to proactively block known bad IPs.

http://www.mediacentermaster.com/

This week do all of the work for you. Including renaming all files, putting them in the correct folder.

You can also set it up to download random movies, which you can set up to only download of it has certain imdb ratings or up.

It's by far the center piece to my htpc.

Media Center Master is one such program that sets everything up for you via free online databases (even backdrops and thumbnails).

It only looks at the name of the folder that your content is in. It doesn't care what is in the folder.

I do believe others like Media Browser 3, Media Center Buddy, Plex will fetch based on a hash or id of some sort, so it needs to have appropriate files.

I do this, except I used YANFOE, till a few weeks ago it stopped working, but I never got Ember MM to work satisfactory for me, so I use Media Center Master

Just a simple tool, but I love not having to worry about xbmc losing the library, and makes adding/rescanning things soo much quicker too.

I'm pretty sure that is outdated. I think XBMC now handles the syncing for you. But if you really wanted to get your hands dirty I use Bittorrent Sync for some other XBMC stuff I want on all my machines like configs and wallpapers.

I use Flexible Renamer to rename my TV rips to S01E01 format which usually fixes it for TV. For Movies make sure your title (filename) is as accurate as possible.

Glad you've gotten under way, it sounds like you're really making progress! For me personally I really want to copy my files out of Downloads and have a nice folder structure, so AMC doing that is great for me. If you just want to rename things it might be that just Filebot is enough for you. I don't know.

As for setting up a nice scripting environment, I'm in Windows so I can't answer your questions with 100% certainty, but you can write your code in any plain text editor, (textedit or notepad) and save it with the appropriate file extension and it should work fine. You shouldn't need to be using nano, that's a pain. What will be easier for you, though, is to download a nice editor that's meant for coding. I was using Notepad++, which has what's called, 'syntax highlighting', which means it colors your variables, commands, etc. differently. It will also keep the file open so I just re-save when I make edits.

Notepad++ is Windows only, so you should use Sublime Text. I've used it a bit myself and have friends that use it and I can say it is very nice. Go ahead and download that, figure out how to set it to bash script, skim some of it's features. You're gonna be a lot better off.

I bought an antenna from amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DIFIM36/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_IDbVtb0E7J99Y381

I am using it on a mitsubishi wd-52631 tv. When I search the channels I only got two crappy analog channels. Attached is my tv fool.

Any advice?

Might want to have a look at UnoTelly too, I've been using them for ages after coming from VPN and it works great.

Basically they're a DNS proxy who fool the server on the other end in to thinking you're requesting from the correct location.

Very easy to set up on a router or to add to specific devices, even ones without VPN support.

If you only use PIA for watching shows then consider using OverPlay or some other SmartDNS service which will autoswitch and make it look like you are coming from the right country for tons of streaming services.

To clarify one point: When direct downloading your IP isn't exposed "to the world" but it IS exposed and logged by the server you are downloading from. If that server gets raided then your IP is sitting in a log. They're not likely to go after you as an end user if they raided the service provider, but, depending on jurisdiction and their intent they could. The solution to this is the same as torrenting, or anything else where you want some quick, easy, and effective protection; Use a VPN. I have been very happy with PIA (Private Internet Access) as a VPN provider as well. The only time I turn it off is when latency (online gaming) or bandwidth constraints (my downstream can exceed what PIA can throughput) on safe content. Why not be protected from prying eyes, you are being spied on ALL the time...

There are some workarounds that let you change your location, for instance, by using a VPN service like PureVPN/PIA/HMA , etc , you can manipulate your machine's IP address to specific location like US, therein you can unlock access to Netflix and Streaming Content from Outside the US however please note that your account could potentially be cancelled at any time or your could be locked out in some way because although accessing geographically restricted content with the aid of things like a VPN or DNS proxy doesn't seem illegal, it is likely to be breaching the terms of use of streaming sites to use any service to bypass their restrictions or to lie about your location.

Hope it could help