I posted earlier about a screensaver I made with Claude which is a skymap of your current location based on lat/long, viewing angles etc, so I bundled it up in a repo if anybody wants to try it out.

https://github.com/P-Hoep/kodi/tree/main/release

https://p-hoep.github.io/kodi/

There's a few other screensavers in there as well. All were tested on my firestick and local mac kodi.

They all run much smoother than the gifs, the screencapture was choppy.

I'm not religious, the first 2 are inspired the God's Eye View app

God's eye - this one gives you realtime flight data, traffic, transit data etc in your area. Needs a free Tomtom key for traffic but works fine without it.

God's world
Various projections (waterman butterfly, robinson etc.) with dwarf fortress style ASCII maps of real time global events (volcanos, storms, earthquakes etc.)

Couchstronomy

Shows realtime interesting space data configured to your location and viewing angle, constellation lines, etc.

Mathclock

Shows various math problems which calculate out to the real date/time as sort of a continuous math quiz

There's also a program which allows you to set screensavers depending on the time of day so it can auto cycle through them.

Happy to answer any questions or if anyone has any feedback that would be cool. Cheers!

Not sure if this would interest anybody else (if so I can bundle it up) but Claude and I build out a screensaver which shows a real-time view of the night sky.

You can enter in your location, altitude, degrees of view, azimuth, and in realtime it will show the stars/galaxies/satellites/ etc, basically like how one of those night sky apps on your phone would work.

If there's any interest I could bundle it up if people would want to try it out.

Cheers!

I'm still using Kodi 21.3 on my Shield TV Pro. I spent a lot of time setting it up back in the day and it's running smoothly at the moment. I'm also using the Aeon Nox Silvo skin, which I really like. However, I'm the type that like to stay up-to-date on versions, so I'm tempted to upgrade to the new 22 Release Candidate 1. I skipped the Alpha and Beta versions of Kodi 22.

Have you all had many problems upgrading to the latest on your Shield TV Pro? Was your library affected? If you have a different skin, did that transfer over smoothly as well?

EDIT: Thanks for all the comments. I don't know why I didn't think of installing it on Windows. D'Oh!

So, I installed 21.3 on my Windows11 PC and installed the Aeon Nox Silvo skin. I duplicated my setup and my movie library (for the most part). I then upgraded to 22 RC-1 and everything went off without an issue. No issues with library or skin. I hope that holds true for the Shield/Android system as well.

I use Kodi to watch my movie/TV show library and listen to music. I don't do any IPTV or streaming apps or anything like that. Just movies/music.

Since Microsoft is nerfing the storage in the family plan, there's any alternative to use cloud storage to consume videos and musice?

I got tired of seeing other people vibe coding their own Kodi add-ons. And I really wanted my own personal one.

I live under a flight path, planes going overhead all the time. I wanted a Kodi screensaver that shows me planes arriving so I'll know which one is going over my house.

So no need to share it here just go to Claude and create your own

my prompt:

I run Kodi 21.3 on Generic PC, LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-12.2.1 
write a text based screensaver which pulls information of 
planes landing at MEL Melbourne airport show distance to airport 
and update every 30 seconds save as my-screensaver.zip

I know this might be totally stupid, but is there a way to display different mugshots for actors and actresses when viewing them inside different movies and series' information pages?

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I’ve been using Kodi since it was still called XBMC, and it’s crazy to think how many years have passed! 🔥

I remember the old days, watching how the project evolved and seeing it grow into what Kodi is today. Through all the changes, updates, and new features, I’ve stuck with it.

For me, Kodi has never just been another media player. It’s been part of my entertainment setup for years, and I still appreciate the freedom and customization it offers.

Who else has been around since the XBMC days? How long have you been using it, and what was your first setup like? Let’s hear some old-school stories! 😁

Hey everyone,

I’m currently running LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi. It works flawlessly for standard movies and TV shows since the scraper does all the work, but I want to add a folder dedicated to my personal family videos (vacations, birthdays, etc.).

My goal is to have these home videos display in a nice gallery view with custom posters, titles, and brief descriptions, exactly like regular movies do.

So far, I've understood that since these aren't on any online database (like TMDB), I need to use local .nfo files and local images (like movie-poster.jpg) and set the scraper to "Local information only", is this ok ? I can't achieve it and find no solution yet 🥺

Looking for sth like Arctic: Zephyr Martian but preferably one that will not require outside metadata engine as I'm providing it via Jellyfin. Any recommendations?

Regards

I Have never used Kodi before. Which device would you recommend to watch 4k hevc hdr10+ movies?

I was looking at used Dell Optiplexes, but all have old hdmi. Mini pcs with n100 cpu vanished from Polish market.

What would you recommend instead?

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Kodi is one of the oldest media centers, predating the rise of streaming services and self-hosted solutions like Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. However, it remains useful more than two decades after its debut, and for good reason. Kodi still offers features you won’t find in modern streaming apps, even in 2026

https://www.xda-developers.com/kodi-ancient-streaming-standards-still-does-things-modern-app-figured-out/

Pretty much as the Titel says, i have had my s26 ultra since a Few months now and ever since ive gotten it, kodi will not run at All. Just Black screen every time i open the app. I have found some posts about it online, without any explanation on how to fix it tho. I hope someone here might have an idea on how to resolve this? (also i have used prerelease which does start, however it brings a new Bug. When pressing back, instead of going back once, it Tabs out of the app completely)

Hello,

i have a xigimi projector (elfin) first generation, the quality of the image is more than enough for me, but I am having a big annoyance, the OS is super slow when using it with kodi. i have kodi with the skin fentastic+, to load on start, i cleaned up all the other applications, i left the bare minimum in the android, but still it is quite buggy laggy I have not a complex setup for my kodi so i can only imagine that it is due to the power of projector, ram/processor or something on those lines.

the thing is that with prime offers i thought that maybe i could buy a firestick and boot to a kodi installed directly there. would this improve the performance? is it possible to set so i not only boot to the firestick directly but to the kodi on the firestick? would like some advice, i dont have much experience in android in general. and I really like the quality of the image of the projector but kodi and its interface it is laggy... and i imagine for the community behind that this is not the 'normal' behavior.

I have a NextPVR server running in a container on Raspberry Pi 5. I also have a Raspberry Pi 4 client and an Nvidia shield client.

The Nvidia shield client runs fine. When I start the client, I see iptv and iptvmerge processes getting guide data from pbs and the nextpvr.

The Raspberry Pi 4 (log link above) shows channels and lists scheduled recordings, but doesn't show any guide data.

Also, I attempted to install Plex from the addons repository and it simply fails to start saying I should check the logs.

Hi everyone,

I've been building a Kodi add-on called Dragoman and it's ready for other people to try. It's free and open source (GPL).

What it does

When you load a subtitle during playback (picked in Kodi's subtitle dialog, downloaded by a subtitle add-on, or sitting next to a local video), Dragoman translates it into your language with Google Gemini and switches to the translation when it's ready. Playback never pauses.

• Kodi 19 or newer, any device (I test on an Android TV)
• SRT and WebVTT subtitles
• Skips subtitles already in your language, plus any languages you choose to leave alone
• Sends the title, plot and previous lines along as context, so the translation reads naturally
• Saves finished translations, so the same subtitle loads instantly next time
• Optional "ask before translating" mode

What you need

A free Gemini API key from aistudio.google.com/apikey. You can type it in, or put it in an unlisted Pastebin paste and import it from that address, so you don't have to type it with a TV remote.

Good to know

• An episode takes about 1–2 minutes to translate, a film 2–3. Showing the part you're watching first is next on my list.
• Only subtitle text, the title and the plot are sent to Google. Timings stay on your device. On Gemini's free tier, Google may use that text to improve its products.
• It's machine translation, so expect the odd awkward line.

Install

1. Settings > System > Add-ons > turn on Unknown sources
2. File manager > Add source > https://aiemediaseo-cmyk.github.io/dragoman/
3. Add-ons > Install from zip file > that source > repository.dragoman-1.0.0.zip
4. Add-ons > Install from repository > Dragoman Repository > Services > Dragoman

Source code and issues: https://github.com/aiemediaseo-cmyk/dragoman

Feedback and bug reports are very welcome. The add-on has a "Send log" button that uploads a log with your API key removed.

Dragoman is free and will stay free. If it's useful to you and you'd like to support further development, you can buy me a coffee here: https://buymeacoffee.com/rsamed. Thanks for trying it!

Hello,

I installed Kodi on my new Thomson 55MG7C15 smart TV with the intention to watch my film/series collection that is hosted on a local OpenBSD server.

Unfortunately, Kodi seems unable to connect to my server. I have first tried to connect via SFTP (add-on), then via NFS (natively supported), with the same error : Unable to connect : “The connection to the network location couldn't be established This could be due to the network not being connected. Would you like to add it anyway?” Yes/No.

The only reason I can think of for this is that I would not use an address of the correct format. What else could it be ? And how can I be sure that the address I enter is in the correct format for either SFTP or NFS ?

Cheers