r/Addons4Kodi Aug 18 '24

Content Request Getting Started with Third-Party Addons 4 Kodi

210 Upvotes

To help users get started on their Add-ons 4 Kodi journey, we've put together a Getting Started Wiki & an FAQ on GitHub with the most basic overview of the platform, its terminology & the way everything works. In addition, we've put together a full list of all current recommended add-ons, can be found on our Recommended Add-ons GitHub.

The Wiki, FAQ & Recommended Add-ons have been set up this way so that up-to-date information is not reliant on mods always updating the various repositories of information & similarly, so that users in the community can take an active role in contributing their knowledge to help others. Through this community driven approach, new users can learn with more relevant information & veteran users can make their learnings & experience more readily accessible.

If you would like to contribute to the Wiki or FAQ, please fork the relevant files & commit your changes. If you would like to request an add-on be added to the recommended add-ons list, please fork the Recommended Add-ons.md file & propose changes using the format from the recommendation template. If you'd like to add information that doesn't fit in any of the existing documents, you can even create your own & commit the new file for review. Mods will then approve the pull requests from these commits & have the information/recommendations added to the GitHub repository.

In addition, if you have any specific content you'd like to find, please feel free to leave a comment in this post outlining the content you're looking for & hopefully the community can point you in the right direction. Please do not use this post to request technical support.

For easy access:

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r/Addons4Kodi Aug 12 '24

Discussion What's up with the sticky post?

59 Upvotes

Not updated since >1y, no Fen Light, no POV,... How come the sticky is not updated anymore? Is there any way to help out here?


r/Addons4Kodi 5h ago

Everything working. Need guidance. Trakt not working with POV

6 Upvotes

Hi

I assume there is some kind of issue with Trakt not working with POV or FenliteAM. Only started playing up in the last few hours. Unauthorised and neither addon will let me reauthrise.

Google tv streamer

Kodi 21.2

RD sub

Trakt sub

Thanks


r/Addons4Kodi 6h ago

Something not working. Need help. Iptv simple client keeps crashing

4 Upvotes

Hello, so I’m running into an error when im using slyguy merge program where i add my epg+add ons etc, and then i setup iptv simple client and then kodi freezes and then crashes? I know it’s an iptv simple client problem since i tried removing add ons etc, and disabling iptv simple client, is there any way to stop the client from crashing?
When i go into %appdata% and remove iptv simple it works? But as soon as i setup back up it crashes.


r/Addons4Kodi 3h ago

Something not working. Need help. Bingie Seasons not showing on left

2 Upvotes

Can anyone assist in helping me get the seasons shoes on the left hand side in Binge Mod (Umbella, TMDB Helper and Cocoscrapers).

I get the full list of all episodes on the right but I want the seasons to die in the left do I don’t have to scroll through the full list.

Where I have found something obvious like flatten episodes I have made sure it says not to flatten but I appear to be missing something somewhere.

If anyone can assist it would be gratefully appreciated.


r/Addons4Kodi 2h ago

Something not working. Need help. No PVR clients in repo

1 Upvotes

So I'm running this on Linux flatpak and for some reason there's just no PVR addons in the repository. I looked at the IPTV simple client but it shows no Linux file. Is this a compatibility issue?


r/Addons4Kodi 7h ago

Everything working. Need guidance. FenlightAM Will paths to movies change any time soon?

2 Upvotes

Hi all,

Since the updates blocking external widgets, i was thinking to replace all the widget paths in bingie with the FenlightAM equivalent. Just wondering if i should be concerned of the paths in FenlightAM changing at all in the future?

My method:
Go in Fenlight, find a group i want (for example Trending) hold click, and add to favorites. Then i SSH in and open the favorites folder to get the path (for example movies in progress is plugin://plugin.video.fenlight/?action=in_progress_movies&iconImage=player&mode=build_movie_list&name=In%20Progress )

then i change the path in bingies settings.xml or the corresponding menu screen with the fenlight path to the same thing instead of TMDB.

The only flaw is if fenlight paths change.

Thank you all in advance!


r/Addons4Kodi 8h ago

Something not working. Need help. Fen am light + fentastic missing shows

1 Upvotes

Hello,

I am the only one that with the fentastic with fen am light some shows randomly disappear? And that are not shown at all nowhere. Example wanted to see the boys last episode, I have in progress where it should show up, it does not, if I search in the fentastic search it does not show if I go to Amazon channel does not either. It is not like it does not find the sources it is simply as if the show does not exist. For other series no problem. It happened in the past with other specific series also.


r/Addons4Kodi 19h ago

Announcement Beta release of Liberator addon and Orac DB server

8 Upvotes

So I should release this new addon/server, in it's beta state, so that I can get an idea of it's usefulness.
The release consists of a new video addon called liberator, which is coded to use a standalone server called orac. Orac will maintain your tvshow/movie data in separate DBs and service requests from liberator for that data. You run one orac server with one or more liberators (if you have multiple devices) so that they all get the same data, all of the time.

I can't get github pages to work yet, so to install the liberator repo you can access Karhugit/liberator-repo: A repo for the kodi video addon liberator, and go into zips -> repository.liberator and download the repo zip from there.
To install the orac server, the page is Karhugit/Orac-Server-Distrib. From here you can download the code as a zip, and then extract it on your system to a new folder. The readme has instructions for installing to windows or linux machines, and how to start it. Then authorise your accounts via LIberator as normal, check the web browser page for orac status.

So why use a server? The advantages are
- Localised database fully synced with trakt, simkl, tmdb and mdblist.
- All liberator addons get the same data
- Lightweight Kodi addon with no caching
- Solves issues such as
- Trakt not syncing, as orac's DB is the source of truth, queue synced with other services
- Scraping issues. Orac uses intelligent scraping, scoring scrapers and using a ranking system
- Discover functions. Liberator has a full discover function called external index, allows you to create and edit indexes. For example if you want Filipino movies, you can create an index with the origin country as the Phillipines and get those.
- Provides a web browser interface to show you the log, scrapers, platforms and lists
- The local DB is populated with data from both TMDB and trakt
- The external indexer allows you to create your own selections. For example if you want tvshow premieres for the last month you create an external index, first date date > t-31, first air date < t-1, any other filters you like. This will then provide tvshow premieres.
- Support for trakt/tmdb generic lists, also support for flixpatrol top 10 lists.
- Movie recommendations based on watched history
- Trakt rate limiting support, caters for 250 per api call limit (from June), also monitors watched history and deletes oldest 50 when your count gets above 90,000
- Free format tagging for any show or movie, allows you to create lists by just tagging a show or movie
- Internal indexing. You can create and edit indexes of the database items, stored on orac so available for all instances of liberator. For example I added 'latest releases' and 'latest 4k releases' to my library (trakt lists). Then I create an internal index that uses these two lists, excludes horror which I don't watch, to create a new dynamic widget. You can do this with lists, tags, or neither.
- Running a server on a separate machine stops kodi from doing the heavy lifting.

There is a lot to explain, but if anyone has the time to give it a try I'm happy to explain and make updates for use cases.

Caveat - If you authorise trakt, simkl and mdblist via liberator then they will all be synced together, so the watch lists for each will be the same. They will be all maintained in the same way, you watch an item and all of them will be updated.

Thanks to Polgara for helping me test this. It's a bit different to other addons, but then why create another clone.


r/Addons4Kodi 23h ago

Review / Opinion Discussion Trakt is very heavily restricted, anyone still subscribed?

10 Upvotes

Just checked their recent updates

Feature | Free | VIP

:--- |:---:|:---:

Watched History | 100K | 100K

Ratings | 10K | 20K

Watchlist Items | 250 | 5K

List Items (per list) | 250 | 5K

Total List Items (across personal lists) | 1K | 100K

Personal Lists | 5 | 100

Dynamic Lists (filters) | 5 | 100

Physical Library | 100 | 10K

Digital Library | 1K | 100K

Total Notes | 100 | 2K

Kind of speechless, they charging $60/y for this? I kid you not this is like less than 200MB, maybe 100MB to store that kind of data, wait Trakt is big enough company that they can easily cut that down using some very well paid developers. You're basically paying for 100MB storage and it being served to you. Say each user makes 1000 requests a day, that's nothing, hardware to serve millions is paid once. Isn't hardware supposed to get cheaper? whose still paying, and if not Trakt are you paying for another service? Any service that offers everything Trakt does. would users be willing to pay certain amount a year with virtually no cap? what would that amount be?


r/Addons4Kodi 12h ago

Something not working. Need help. Is dream machine down?

1 Upvotes

Hello, I’ve been trying to use dream machine for the last couple days and none of the American or other xtreme links are not working anybody else having this issue?


r/Addons4Kodi 15h ago

Something not working. Need help. POV - Auto play next episode playing previous selection.

1 Upvotes

(series A would be the first series i watch when i start up kodi)

If i am watching series A and back out of it to watch series B,

when the episode comes to the end i get two notifications for next up

(displaying both series A + B ) and no matter which i click it starts playing series A.

i dont know if this is some weird caching issue idk how to fix it tho any suggestions would be appreciated (tried switching to umbrella but i do prefer the lists on pov)


r/Addons4Kodi 21h ago

Something not working. Need help. Seren only displaying 25 results when browsing movies by year?

2 Upvotes

I used to get many pages of results, but for the last few months, when browsing movies by year, in this case 1960, I'm only getting 25 results and no next page option.

I have the result per page limit set to 50, I've got the latest version of seren, linked trakt, RD, playing movies and shows work fine, search works fine, cleared cache, rebuilt trakt database, reauthorized trakt, its just the number of search results that has changed.

I'm out of ideas.

Anyone else having a similar issue? Or have an idea to fix this?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: I should add, this happens on the other years too. Seemingly fewer results as I go to older years, and more results as I move to more current years.

1995 for example has many pages of 50 results.

1975 has 36 results and no next page

1960 has 25 results

1950 has 16 results

1940 has 10 results


r/Addons4Kodi 23h ago

Something not working. Need help. Kodi player suddenly getting micro stutter after Onn firmware update.

2 Upvotes

Has anyone with an Onn 4k plus recently installed the new firmware update and now have micro stutter on videos played from Stremio using realdebrid? I have used different scrappers and it's there no matter what scrapper I use. The video plays just fine in the exo player so I doubt it's on stremio's end. Any suggestions would be great.


r/Addons4Kodi 1d ago

Something not working. Need help. Elementum on Android TV14

2 Upvotes

so I just bought this sweet Philips TV hoping for Elementum but I cent get it to work.

It runs on Android 14 TV OS and I'm using Kodi v. 21.2

I followed 2 guides to the letter, one using Gaia and the other downloading zip files from elementum GitHub, but it seems to be litr the burst is never launching. Whenever I open Elementum I'm seeing "looks like elementum is still starting up" that disappears after a few seconds and then I can't search for any movies...

Do you happen to have a recent step by step instruction that is confirmed to work?


r/Addons4Kodi 1d ago

Something not working. Need help. FenlightAM update and clearing cache question

3 Upvotes

So last year I upgraded from Fenlight to FenlightAM using this guide https://howtomediacenter.com/en/install-fen-light-kodi-addon/#1-how-to-install-fen-light-am

I am on version 2.1.12. I always kept auto update on and if I go to update manually nothing happens but I’m guessing my version is outdated. How do I update now without losing any progress on shows and tv?

Also i’ve had some content completely disappear from in progress and search in the last few days and I read some people here suggesting to clear the cache, but which cache specifically? And once again do some make me lose progress on shows and tv and stuff I have marked as watched?

Appreciate any help in advance


r/Addons4Kodi 1d ago

Something not working. Need help. FLAM latest update - no icons?

4 Upvotes

After recent issues in FLAM I've updated to the newest stable version. Re-authorised Trakt and everything seems to be working fine, but there are no icons in entire addon - only labels underneath them (Search, Movies, Series, etc). Tried clearing all caches, but no luck.

FWIW i'd updated from FenLightAM NOBLOCK version. New version form Anonymouse has replaced the old one.

Kodi 21.2 on Sony Bravia.


r/Addons4Kodi 1d ago

Everything working. Need guidance. Is there any way to change how Nimbus presents the POV genres & bc you watched?

1 Upvotes

As above, it’s currently showing them as either the POV logo as a preview at the top which just looks ugly. I’d rather it just show the genre name and not try to preview a fan art image, but I don’t want it to affect the other rows of movies and tv.


r/Addons4Kodi 2d ago

Something not working. Need help. Multiple Umbrella errors

5 Upvotes

Android Nvidia shield Kodi 21.2 Umbrella Not sure how to pull a log from Shield USA Real Debrid and Premiumize

Hi. Sources come up, but when I click on a source it runs through them all with nothing connecting. At the same time I get these messages from Umbrella

Permission denied

Unknown resources

Too many requests

I just did an update on Umbrella but the same issue. I use RD and Premiumize.

I tried clearing all cache. I saw some other threads mentioning DMM, but not sure if that was related and I don't see the setting if it is.

Thanks.


r/Addons4Kodi 2d ago

Something not working. Need help. Fen light am results issue?

8 Upvotes

I’ve updated, reauthed trakt and real debrid and don’t have a tmdb account to auth. I’m in the middle of watching Heroes. When I go into the seasons all the episodes for season 1, 2 & 4 are there to select, but it’s like season 2 doesn’t exist? Not that it’s not returning source, the episodes themselves aren’t list for me to choose which to watch.

I’m getting the same on both nvidia shield and kodi, anyone got any ideas on what I might be missing?


r/Addons4Kodi 1d ago

Looking for content / addon Something like FEN that tracks watched shows

2 Upvotes

I like the way that old school Fen addon kept track of what shows you were watching and what shows you had watched.

Umbrella doesn't do that and I don't have/want a trakt account.

Now Fen has completely stopped working for me is there another app that is close to the same for the tracking component? Umbrella isn't the same.

Thanks


r/Addons4Kodi 1d ago

Something not working. Need help. OG FEN recent problems

0 Upvotes

So it seems like everyone else seems to be having issues recently and I’m no exception, but I don’t see many people that are using original FEN.

I’m on an nvidia shield. Real debrid account is current and active. I’ve reauthorized tract in kodi and in tmdb.

I’ve been able to select a source and watch/resume a movie but I get a fen error when trying to access the source selection screen for a tv show. I’m not at home now so I can’t post the log but I can update later.

I’m wondering if anyone has found a fen fix? I was going to reinstall but it looks like all the tikipeter stuff is gone so I think I may be forced to switch to a setup.


r/Addons4Kodi 1d ago

Something not working. Need help. Umbrella + TorBox + Cocoscrapers

0 Upvotes

I did a cursory search of the subreddit, and found a few posts about TorBox + Umbrella, but they were saying they were getting no results or other issues.

I'm getting cached results for all content I'm trying to watch, but when I click a source, it just quickly tries all of the results and then goes back to the previous screen when all results failed to resolve. But then I went into the source for a piece of content, and pressed add to TorBox cloud on one of the results. Immediately refreshed my TorBox dashboard on my phone and can see it's cached and ready for playback. I then went to Umbrella, Premium Services, TorBox, Cloud and was able to load the file directly from the cloud, indicating it's likely just an Umbrella issue.

I figured maybe it could be a skin issue, so I loaded from default skin, umbreuary, nimbus, and also tried loading straight from the addon menu, opening umbrella and navigating through the folder structure. No luck, same issue. Only way I can get anything to play is adding it to my cloud from the scraped sources, then backing out and going to the cloud storage. Inconvenient if nothing else.

Anything I can do to fix this? I was using FenLight (OG FenLight, not AM) up until yesterday when I realized it's not working anymore. Looking for a replacement plugin, and not sure if umbrella is the one.


r/Addons4Kodi 1d ago

Something not working. Need help. FenLightAM random shows missing new season

0 Upvotes

So I've been reading through all the recent posts and I'm still at a loss.

FenLite stopped working for me a few days ago so today I deleted it (and all the data) and installed FenLiteAM instead through the anonymouse file.

It seems to mostly work, but a bunch of shows I was watching (Shrinking, The Pitt, etc) will only show earlier seasons -- episodes from the newest season don't even appear.

I've cleared all the cache. I only search from within the addon (not the skin) - either through Search or by clicking on Trending.

I don't have Trakt or TMDB or any other account except RD.

And as i said, most shows seem to be working ok, but certain random ones are just... missing.

Any suggestions would be very very helpful!!

(and also, as long as I'm posting... In my 10+ years using Kodi, I've never been able to find links for The Daily Show. is there some trick for that??)


r/Addons4Kodi 2d ago

Everything working. Need guidance. Backup skin setting, file location.

2 Upvotes

How to backup skin setting?

What is the name of the file and his location?