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Official ** KODI ** streaming thread (tips, help, add ons, etc) (3 Viewers)

Will the Fire Stick work with HDMI through a AV receiver ?  Running Kodi now directly to the TV with the HDMI adapter and was going to buy an AV receiver to kind of piece together a home theatre

 
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Not sure since I currently don't have a Fire Stick. However, I have an optical cable running from my TV to the receiver. That way the receiver plays whatever is on the TV whether it is the Xbox, Cable box or Netflix, etc.

 
Ive been using Trakt for a while to keep a watchlist of shows, but its buggy to say the least. I recently started right clicking a show, clicking "add to favorites" and then clicking the star in the bottom left of the Kodi home screen...you can even add "search" to favorites and have a search a click away from the home screen. MUCH better than using Trakt, IMO.
Is this 'right click' capability available with the standard fire tv remote?

 
Agreed.  I'm not entirely sure what Trakt does. Not sure if it plays any role in solving this, but the one thing that's sorely missing from exodus or kodi in general is to give you a history of what you've watched so that you can see what you watched last and either continue where you left off or move on to the next episode.   That would be very useful whenever I leave exodus and watch something on smoothstream and then come back.
[SIZE=9pt]I’m not sure what Trakt is supposed to do but I what is does for me is saves me the headache of listening to my wife complain that she can’t find the shows she likes and she doesn’t know how to search in Kodi.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=9pt]It’s 4 clicks for her to find her shows[/SIZE]

[SIZE=9pt]Kodi>Exodus>My Shows>Collections[/SIZE]

 
[SIZE=9pt]I’m not sure what Trakt is supposed to do but I what is does for me is saves me the headache of listening to my wife complain that she can’t find the shows she likes and she doesn’t know how to search in Kodi.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=9pt]It’s 4 clicks for her to find her shows[/SIZE]

[SIZE=9pt]Kodi>Exodus>My Shows>Collections[/SIZE]
I've used it for that, but that seems to be redundant to what the "add to favorites" option does within kodi.  I use the kore kodi phone app as a remote so that's how I get to that feature.

 
I've used it for that, but that seems to be redundant to what the "add to favorites" option does within kodi.  I use the kore kodi phone app as a remote so that's how I get to that feature.
Trakt does more than the generic favorites...it will keep track of episodes you've watched. When you go to a season of a show, there will be a check mark next to episodes youve watched, and you can also use the progress option and it will list all the last episodes of your watchlist shows you've watched. Click one and it takes you to the next episode.

It's been buggy for me lately, with shows disappearing from my watchlist but still in my list on the website...so I have to keep using search to find those shows that disappear. Annoying AF. 

 
Im gonna try putting my shows in Trakt Collection instead of Watchlist and see if they stay in the list.

 
Trakt does more than the generic favorites...it will keep track of episodes you've watched. When you go to a season of a show, there will be a check mark next to episodes youve watched, and you can also use the progress option and it will list all the last episodes of your watchlist shows you've watched. Click one and it takes you to the next episode.

It's been buggy for me lately, with shows disappearing from my watchlist but still in my list on the website...so I have to keep using search to find those shows that disappear. Annoying AF. 
I do get the "check marks" next to each episode so maybe that part of trakt is useful.   

 
Will the Fire Stick work with HDMI through a AV receiver ?  Running Kodi now directly to the TV with the HDMI adapter and was going to buy an AV receiver to kind of piece together a home theatre
Yes, that's the proper way to do it with a sound system.  

ETA: I have a HTPC in my system instead of a fire, but, everything goes into the receiver (except the xbox) and then the receiver passes through the xbox before it finally gets to the tv.  Xbox turns everything on at once.

ETA2: Well, actually the HTPC never turns off because it services 5 video security cameras.

 
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ETA: I have a HTPC in my system instead of a fire, but, everything goes into the receiver (except the xbox) and then the receiver passes through the xbox before it finally gets to the tv.  Xbox turns everything on at once.
Tony, I may have a very technical question that maybe you can help me with.  I'm in the process of updating my HTPC.  I want to keep windows 7 because of Media center, and I got one of these new super fast m.2 hard drives to install it on.  Apparently you can't do that (windows 7 doesn't know what an m.2 drive is) - so you have to embed the drivers for it, as well as usb 3.0 drivers, into the windows 7 install.  I have no idea how to do that.  Any ideas, or just scrap the m.2 drive and install it on a ssd and call it a day?

 
Tony, I may have a very technical question that maybe you can help me with.  I'm in the process of updating my HTPC.  I want to keep windows 7 because of Media center, and I got one of these new super fast m.2 hard drives to install it on.  Apparently you can't do that (windows 7 doesn't know what an m.2 drive is) - so you have to embed the drivers for it, as well as usb 3.0 drivers, into the windows 7 install.  I have no idea how to do that.  Any ideas, or just scrap the m.2 drive and install it on a ssd and call it a day?
I don't have any experience with the M.2.  Does Windows 8.1 know what a M.2 is because WMC didn't get phased out until Windows 10?  Just googling around you'd have to try something like this and it has to be done with a bootable USB, not from the windows disc.  Otherwise yeah, I'd just go with a SSD.  My HTPC is Windows 8, so I could keep WMC, and SSD.  

P.S. We're going to have to find an alternative to WMC someday.

 
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Okay I have a thousand add ons now... 
Any tips on which are the best add ons for stuff? 
If you choose any of the 40 popular shows or movies that populate in the panes above the horizontal scroll bar they will open in Exodus.  Otherwise scroll the horizontal scroll bar to movies or tv shows then go down to exodus which is 3rd or 4th on the horizontal list just below the scrollbar.  Once that opens I usually choose "People watching" to randomly find a movie/tv show or go all the way to the bottom to find "search".  Type in whatever you're looking for.  Note it doesn't spell check so you have to get it just right and if you have an apostrophe or dash in the title you might have to try a couple different combinations to find it.

 
After that just go try out everything else to get an idea of what is there.

Then......paypal me $20 and I'll tell you how to get to the adult section.

 
Main Menu, go all the way to the right to "change profile".  That's where you change from regular Titanium to adult Titanium.  The default password will be one of these 3: 1111, 0000, or 1234.

 
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I don't have any experience with the M.2.  Does Windows 8.1 know what a M.2 is because WMC didn't get phased out until Windows 10?  Just googling around you'd have to try something like this and it has to be done with a bootable USB, not from the windows disc.  Otherwise yeah, I'd just go with a SSD.  My HTPC is Windows 8, so I could keep WMC, and SSD.  

P.S. We're going to have to find an alternative to WMC someday.


Tony, I may have a very technical question that maybe you can help me with.  I'm in the process of updating my HTPC.  I want to keep windows 7 because of Media center, and I got one of these new super fast m.2 hard drives to install it on.  Apparently you can't do that (windows 7 doesn't know what an m.2 drive is) - so you have to embed the drivers for it, as well as usb 3.0 drivers, into the windows 7 install.  I have no idea how to do that.  Any ideas, or just scrap the m.2 drive and install it on a ssd and call it a day?
WTF are you using WMC? So many better alternatives to it, I use JRiver Media Center but there are others out there including Kodi and Plex.

 
What's the blue circle icon on the right side and how do I kill it? 

Edit: appears to be ES File Explorer issue. gonna ininstall 

 
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Okay I have a thousand add ons now... 
Any tips on which are the best add ons for stuff? 
One add-on that's important to me, but not many others, is USTVNow.  It's intended for overseas military, and you have to sign up for it.  It's basically all the networks, plus a couple more channels.  I can't get antenna reception at my house, so this is ideal for me.  It's also more legal and reliable than the other streams if you just want to watch national sports.  I'm not a picky sports-watcher, so I'll just watch whatever NFL game is on rather than having to see all Colts games or something.  

I could see myself undoing Titanium sometime - I mostly just use USTVNow, Exodus, and 1Channel (like Exodus, slightly worse).  Occasionally I'll hunt around for a specific college football game or USMNT game, but that's a maddening thing to do.  I might be better off with no chance of finding a crappy stream that cuts out frequently.

 
Do you guys use a VPN?
Most don't, but some do.  It can be useful to buy Sunday Ticket, and it can hide your streaming, but as tonydead always says, nobody has ever been nailed for streaming.  It's possibly legal - if not, it's at least ignored.

 
WTF are you using WMC? So many better alternatives to it, I use JRiver Media Center but there are others out there including Kodi and Plex.
I have a networked tv tuner that works seamlessly with Wmc.  It's built into windows, easy to use, and just works.

 
Main Menu, go all the way to the right to "change profile".  That's where you change from regular Titanium to adult Titanium.  The default password will be one of these 3: 1111, 0000, or 1234.
So: my bar reads pictures / videos / music / programs / system. 

Under system > profiles I have login (disabled) and "profiles". My two options under profiles is "master user" and "add profile"

What am I missing? :(

 
Okay sometimes I click on something (example sportsdevil>ESPN right now) it says "working" in corner then does nothing? 

 
Up super early this morning and so far using Kodi I've watched:

Nocturnal Animals 4/5 - Good quality stream but Chinese subtitles

Girl on a Train 4/5 - Good quality

The Accountant 4/5 - Good quality 

 
So know some have registered and payed for sports services. But for those who haven't curios what add on/stream people are using forthe nfl playoff games? Sports devil? Other?

 
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So: my bar reads pictures / videos / music / programs / system. 

Under system > profiles I have login (disabled) and "profiles". My two options under profiles is "master user" and "add profile"

What am I missing? :(
If you add a new profile, you get the goods for Titanium (although you can add these to your default profile as well).  I didn't use a code or anything.  Here is a screenshot (iPhone). Unless I am missing something.

 
So: my bar reads pictures / videos / music / programs / system. 

Under system > profiles I have login (disabled) and "profiles". My two options under profiles is "master user" and "add profile"

What am I missing? :(
Doesn't sound like you have titanium installed, I thought you said that you did. Should have much more on the scroll bar. 

 
Okay sometimes I click on something (example sportsdevil>ESPN right now) it says "working" in corner then does nothing? 
Should do something, even if it times out or doesn't find a stream. Firesticks are slow give it a couple minutes. Otherwise it might be weak WiFi. If it blinks and just goes back to the previous that means the stream is bad not working. 

 
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Should do something, even if it times out or doesn't find a stream. Firesticks are slow give it a couple minutes. Otherwise it might be weak WiFi. If it blinks and just goes back to the previous that means the stream is bad not working. 
This is a Fire TV box... not sure what's up but it's getting annoying. Had to **** around for a long time sunday to watch the 4th episode of a popular show that we had no issues with the first 3. Hoping this isn't an issue tonight .

Is there an easy/convenient place to stream ESPN for tonight's game? 

 
i got a firestick from a client.  he said to jailbreak it and put kodi onto it.  does this work?  is it hard to do?  i am both lazy and ignorant.  tia

probably won't answer yours.

 
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This is a Fire TV box... not sure what's up but it's getting annoying. Had to **** around for a long time sunday to watch the 4th episode of a popular show that we had no issues with the first 3. Hoping this isn't an issue tonight .

Is there an easy/convenient place to stream ESPN for tonight's game? 
you never pulled the trigger on mystreams?

 
i got a firestick from a client.  he said to jailbreak it and put kodi onto it.  does this work?  is it hard to do?  i am both lazy and ignorant.  tia

probably won't answer yours.
No such thing as jailbreaking a fire stick. Just install Kodi onto it. Several posts in this thread with various ways you can do it. Takes about 15 minutes or so. You can use a computer or do it wirelessly from your phone (easiest way, IMO). Heres a video tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPIzIbLpa5w

 
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