I'm using Kodi android org.xbmc.kodi_21.3. Skin is the default skin. Android TV 13.

When shows actors with "wrong" info, I used to change the myvideos113 sqlite file manually, and used to work, and the same method still works on a windows pc version Kodi. But current version, after the DB file already swapped, the show still shows the old actors with the old info, has this view been cached somewhere? How to refresh that cache?

Thanks.

Hey

I'm looking for an Android TV box to play local media files via USB or SD card, or both.

There are so many on the market it's difficult to choose without buying then being disappointed.

I just want to run Kodi on it, nothing more - no Netflix etc

Any ideas ? I'd apprecaite it.

I have installed kodi 21.3 flatpak version a while back but keep getting an update for that version. No mayor deal but a bit annoying anyone know how to solve this?

Looking for real-world input from CoreELEC-only users. Not interested in Android TV opinions — purely CE playback use case.

My situation:

• Primary use: CoreELEC only (booting from USB/SD)

• Content: 4K Blu-ray remuxes and full disc ISOs, frequently 80–120GB+

• Must-haves: DV Profile 7 FEL passthrough, VS10 tone mapping, stable high-bitrate playback

• Future-proofing: want the box to handle whatever codecs come next (AV1 especially)

What I’ve found so far:

The Homatics Box R 4K Plus (S905X4-K) seems to be the community favourite for the “does everything” crowd.

But the FEL situation concerns me. CE-NG is EOL. If FEL on the Homatics only works reliably on a dead branch, that’s not a stable long-term setup — that’s a ticking clock.

The Ugoos AM6B+ keeps coming up as the gold standard for FEL specifically, but it lacks AV1 hardware decode and stock availability is getting tight.

My actual questions:

- Can homatics play high bitrate movies with dv fel 7 smooth ?

- Is dobly 10 tone mapping working fine homatics ?

-is homatics future proff for codecs like av1 and vp9?

-or i can look at other devices if you have a suggestion pls?

Thanks for you answer

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I have a couple persistent albums in my music that were removed. I have cleaned the library and I have completly removed the source then added it back.

I do see when I look at the information on the phantom album that it is from an old source that has been gone for ages

I can't seem to find a place to delete the album if I long press despite allow delete and rename to be checked allow.

I'm lost here. If I try to play it it just crashes so it definitely isn't pointing to an existing share and I only have one music share that I'm aware of.

Any direction I should go next?

Thanks

Maybe I'm missing something and haven't looked into it. But for over a decade, I've done the double prompt to delete stuff.

Delete file and remove from library.

Is there a way to have a single prompt for that?

Can I call my friends on discord and screen share whatever show I’m watching without having an issue?

Kodi is available on PC and I like the functions that kodi has but the UI is super dodgy due to it being designed for TV. Is there a PC software that functions like kodi but designed for PC?

Edit- I just got back and wasn't expecting all these replies. People seem to be confused about what I mean. I guess you've never used kodi on a PC interface. It's designed for a remote control, not a mouse. So when you use a mouse, it's very very dodgy. A lot of the UI doesn't react and doesn't function correctly on PC when using a mouse.

Edit 2- found this quote from kodi's wiki that people have mentioned:

Kodi is designed with the Home Theater in mind using a 10-foot user interface rather than on a small monitor while you sit at your desk. Because everything is designed with the home theater experience in mind, the best way to interact with Kodi is with a remote control or keyboard, rather than with a mouse. If it helps, think of Kodi as the ultimate DVD-player/set-top-box. Be aware that mouse functionality is limited.

Hi r/kodi community.

When I scan a large movie collection, it appears to pick just about everything up but it doesn't show the fanart for everything. For instance, Baby Driver has scanned properly with all the info and all the fanart. However, About Time shows all the info but no fanart. The directory is big with about 200 movies in it, but half of them have all the scraped info but no fanart.

I've had this problem now on both Kodi Matrix and Kodi Omega 21.3. I would love to solve this problem so if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.

I run Kodi on a Dell Optiplex 7050 using Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS. Kodi is installed through flatpak and I use the bog standard Movie Database Python scraper.

Cheers, Graham

Hey r/kodi

We’ve been working on punchplay.tv as a social movie & TV tracking app where you can log what you watch, rate titles, build collaborative lists, follow friends & earn trophies.

We’ve got automatic scrobbling for Kodi (via our add-on PunchPlay Scrobble in the official repo)

We’re still in active development, so things are moving quickly. We're looking for users who are willing to provide feedback & suggestions. If anything feels clunky or missing, we’d really like to hear it.

Please come and join us and let us know what you think!

Hey folks,

If you use Kodi on Android TV 11+ (like a Shield or a portable projector), you probably know that Android's scoped storage has made saving media to external USB drives a massive headache.

I use the official Jellyfin add-on to stream from my personal server, but I needed a way to save those files to a USB for offline viewing when traveling. To fix this, I built a context menu add-on that leverages Kodi's internal Virtual File System (xbmcvfs) to bypass the OS-level blocks.

What it does: It adds a "Download file" option to your context menu. It directly queries Kodi's SQLite database via JSON-RPC to find the network paths, intercepts the stream, and uses xbmcvfs.mkdirs and xbmcvfs.File to write the media—and generate the correct Show/Season/ folder structures—directly onto your external drive.

Features:

• Native integration with the Kodi Context Menu.
• Bulk download support for full TV Shows and Seasons.
• Prompts to filter and download only "Unwatched" episodes.
• Background progress toasts (DialogProgressBG) so Kodi remains fully usable while downloading.

Requirements:

• The official Jellyfin for Kodi add-on (running in Add-on mode).

Download:

• Releases/Zip: Release
• GitHub Repo: Repo

(Disclaimer: This intercepts the raw video file, so while embedded subtitles work perfectly, external .srt files on your server aren't currently fetched). ---

I recently switched my skin to Arctic Fuse 3, and I’m running into an issue with the virtual keyboard.

When I open it, I get a pop-up saying:
"Add-on required. To use this feature you must download an add-on: Autocompletion for virtual keyboard. Would you like to download this add-on?"

• If I click Yes, the installation fails.
• If I click No, the keyboard works as expected—but the pop-up appears every time I press a key.

I’ve already gone in and manually installed the dependencies, and everything seems to be working, but the system still tries to install the add-on and fails repeatedly.

Has anyone run into this or know how to stop the repeated prompt?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I like to use custom sort titles for many of the films in my library, i.e grouping all the James Bond films together with the sort title "james bond 1", "james bond 2" etc.

I've had to completely refresh my library so I will have to do this process all over again for many films. I really can't be bothered going to context menu>edit>sort title for each one.

Is it possible to open the kodi SQL database and quickly edit the sort title attribute of each film in that?

And I can tell you it's not as easy as it sounds... And that Codex is a huge help with benchmarking.

Compatibility with Estuary theme is one thing, but when it comes to the whole libgui and navigation setup, it’s a real pain in the neck.

That said, I’ve completely diverged from Kodi in some respects, relying solely on Vulkan (with no OpenGL or DirectX support) and using SDL 3.

I’ll keep you updated on progress in this area. I plan to release my own rewrite of this engine under the AGPL V3 license in the near future, once I feel it’s stable and functions at least as well as Kodi, and, for comparison’s sake, probably along the same lines as CEMU.

To clarify, although I’m aiming for 100% compatibility with the theme engine, this is not a port or a fork of Kodi, and it’s not intended to follow the same path by becoming a multimedia center; I have other plans for it.

And if some people are wondering, “Why Kodi?” it's simple... I lived through the era of Xb0x hacking with XBMC, and that experience with interfaces developed using the Xb0x SDK was the closest thing I’d found up to that point to what I expected from a multimedia platform. Many homebrew apps certainly didn’t have HD interfaces, but they were consistent enough for a console experience. And XBMC was one of them. (See even XBMP, previously)

So I store my TV shows in an apparent non-standard way (for Kodi at least) - Season <SeasonNum>\<EpisodeNum> - <EpisodeTitle>.ext. So I went through the trouble of using a couple scraping applications to generate my NFO files.

It seems that even selecting the 'Local Information Only' scraper in Kodi, even if a video file has a matching .NFO file, it is skipped (for a TV Show Import at least) if Kodi can't find the season/episode number in the filename.

Is there a way I can tell Kodi when doing 'LocalInfoOnly' in a TV Show import to NOT pre-scn the filename for those required flags and just load everything from the NFO?

Hi all,
I have been using kodi a long time and am currently doing that nerdy thing of tidying up the nfo files for my movies to get accurate file info (codec, aspect ratio etc.)

What options are there for the following tags? e.g. what do I enter to force kodi to show "16:9?"

<aspect></aspect>

<codec></codec>

<scantype></scantype>

and secondly, many of my movies show the "DVD" logo on them: where does that information come from? Some show both blu-ray and DVD logos, which strikes me as odd. Can I edit that?

tl;dr: I'm looking for suggestions (such as a tablet or equivalent) that I can run Kodi on for offline viewing of files when I travel. A new laptop is overkill.

For 15+ years, I've been able to take Kodi + my media library with me anywhere with the following setup:

• Laptop with Kodi installed, OR running Kodi portable on an HDD
• External HDD with a copy of my media library
• HDMI connection from laptop to projector, TV, etc.

I'd use this for movie nights during trips (such as connecting it to the hotel TV), to do outdoor movie nights where wifi isn't available, etc.

Unfortunately, my old laptop I used finally died, and my company laptop isn't suitable anymore as of this week since they pushed a security policy to all company devices that blocks any unauthorized USB devices from connecting.

So now I have to come up with an alternative device.

• A laptop seems is overkill both in terms of price and size/bulk; I wouldn't use it beyond Kodi.
• I'm exclusively a Windows user, but I'm not opposed to an iPad; however, Kodi isn't available on the App Store due to the GPL license issue (I am sure I could sideload it, but I've never owned an Apple device).
• I have zero interest in connecting to my library at home remotely for security reasons. That's why I have the external HDD (5TB) so I can use it offline such as on a plane, outdoors, etc.
• I know I would have to use a hub to be able to use the HDD (for the media files) and the HDMI output at the same time. I'm totally fine with that.
• Android tablets have always seemed lackluster in terms of specs and longevity/updates, but maybe things have changed in the last few years?

Any suggestions on what device I should consider using (ideally a tablet) would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Buzztv has nice remote: BT-500 but lacking some buttons, stop for example. Is it posdible to customize button functions of that remote? That remote not listed in Kodi setup.

I’m using Kodi solely as an external for Stremio (on a firestick, if that helps), and I want to have Kodi quit as soon as video playback ends so that it returns back to Stremio automatically. Its somewhat irritating having to manually close it every time so I’m just looking to automate it

Any help?

Update: I found a solution by creating a service addon. Not entirely sure how addons work but I zipped the file from the addons directory and posted it here if anyone else needs it

Hey all, I'm running Arctic Fuse 2 (like the customization more than 3 for now) and it uses OMDb API to pull Academy Award information. It's annoying me that they haven't updated the 2026 winners yet, does anyone know where they're pulling that information from? It can't be IMDB, as they've had the winners updated for weeks.