A few years back I migrated from Windows Media Centre to Kodi (thanks to Microsoft for ending support and development of MC). Kodi is widely used and very versatile, however it has never worked quite flawlessly and I continue to come across a range of annoying issues. Where I have found a solution I will document it below
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Posts Categorised: Kodi
2Connect SmartThings to Windows PC’s and Kodi
I have several windows PCs in my house that run Kodi. I wanted to connect them to SmartThings for a range of purposes. There are various things that can be done depending on the functionality you want.
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0How to move recorded TV from Media Center to Kodi
A few months ago I finally gave up on Windows Media Center and switched my home media setup to Kodi. After some early challenges I am now mostly happy with my new setup, and today I finally decided to migrate a large collection of old recorded TV from MCE to Kodi.
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0Kodi keymap for miniguide on arrow keys in livetv
What a horrible title that is, but I didn’t know how else to describe this. Since switching from Media Center to Kodi I’ve mostly been very pleased, but a few small niggles have remained where for some reason Kodi just doesn’t default to “nice” behaviour in the same way that Media Center did. I long ago managed to get the “Live TV” link from the main menu to point to the guide view instead of a channel list, but once a channel is being displayed I couldn’t find a neat way to describe a mini-guide like Media Center would do.
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0Display photo info in Kodi slideshow screensaver
I have a large photo collection with lots of metadata that I wanted the kodi slideshow screensaver to display. With lots reading, experimenting, and trial-and-error, I’ve finally got a reasonable system that shows what I was hoping for.
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0Tips for new Kodi users
I’ve recently started the migration from 7MC to Kodi now that Media Center is no longer supported, and consequently many plugins for it are no longer being actively developed.
“Hi James I realise it has been a long while, but I just checked this on windows 11 (build 23H2)…”