r/Addons4Kodi Aug 18 '24

Content Request Getting Started with Third-Party Addons 4 Kodi

224 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:

Our GitHub Repository

Our Wiki

Our FAQ

Our Recommended Add-ons


r/Addons4Kodi Aug 12 '24

Discussion What's up with the sticky post?

61 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 14h ago

Announcement Trakt now only allow 1 addon to be authorised.

40 Upvotes

Trakt are slowly (quickly,) destroying themselves.

Just be aware people,

https://www.reddit.com/r/trakt/s/HStD02OirH


r/Addons4Kodi 6h ago

Everything working. Need guidance. SIMLK Tracking in Kodi

5 Upvotes

I'm using the Umbrella, POV and Red Light addons synced with Trakt. In my favorites folder I use the info wall view and I have the poster of the TV series I'm watching and above it I have what I refer to as the "episode counter" which displays episodes watched/remaining. For example, 11/20. My question is is this "episode counter" coming from Kodi or Trakt? I ask because I just read Trakt is going to restrict users to authorizing to 1 addon unless you pay for the VIP subscription. I'm currently using 4 addons on my account and I'm not sure if I'll be grandfathered in or if I have to change to 1 in the near future. Anyway, I'm wondering if I use SIMKL only will I still have this "episode counter"? I don't want to unauthorize Trakt to test it out for fear of not being able to reauthorize it again. Thank in advance.


r/Addons4Kodi 15h ago

Something not working. Need help. How do I get Kodi to grab and display artwork for external drive files?

2 Upvotes

I'm grabbing movies and placing them on an external drive. Every few months I clear some files and add some more. To watch content, I typically just open Kodi (on a Shield TV), navigate to Videos and then Files, to view what's on the drive. Currently, this is just a list view. How do I get Kodi to grab artwork and display a more aesthetic view?


r/Addons4Kodi 22h ago

Something not working. Need help. Umbrella returning zero results

7 Upvotes

Umbrella is not returning any results all of a sudden. I'm using torbox for my debrid services.

POV still working fine, just umbrella that's stopped working.

Any idea what might be up? Uninstall/reinstall? ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Kodi 21.3 on shield Pro running v6.7.81​​​​​ of umbrella. ​​


r/Addons4Kodi 1d ago

Looking for content / addon Real Debrid addon suggestions

10 Upvotes

What premium addons are people using with RD right now that’s not POV? I know a lot of people have good luck with POV but all I get are bootleg streams that look like they were shot from a Nokia brick phone, keep getting a RD removed something error message of the crew, haven’t found a good substitute since fenlight am went down


r/Addons4Kodi 22h ago

Everything working. Need guidance. Arctic Fuse 3 Poster Wall Metadata/media info

3 Upvotes

Is there any possible way that I can edit or create new viewtypes in Arctic Fuse 3 skin as I want to use the poster wall for my movies hub and ideally have a text box to the top right showing a description of the content, run-time and ideally ratings but mostly for the former 2 items. I've scrolled through every available option in POV, TMDBHelper and the skin settings and had no luck so far


r/Addons4Kodi 22h ago

Something not working. Need help. The Crew downloads... please help!

2 Upvotes

I have an Nvidia Shield Pro and I use Kodi with The Crew add-on and Real Debrid.

I discovered today that RD is playing up so I signed up with Torbox.

I decided to try downloading a couple of movies instead of streaming them. I've got an old 4TB WD Passport HDD that I thought I'd use. I hooked it up to my Shield and the drive got formatted and I downloaded a file explorer in readiness.

So, I got the links for the movies in The Crew and clicked on download. I got a notification every 10% until the movies had got to 100% and the downloads were complete.

But... I can't find the movies ANYWHERE?

In the download settings of The Crew the destination is shown as WD USB drive then special//storage/4030-BCA3. But I have absolutely no idea where this location is?

I've used a file explorer on my Shield and cannot find the two movies I downloaded. On the file explorer and in the Shield settings it still says I have 4.0TB available but in File Manager the WD USB drive is showing as 3.64TB. But that would mean I've used 360GB, but both movies I downloaded were about 20GB?

I have looked EVERYWHERE to find the movies but I can't and it's driving me NUTS.

I found something regarding Torbox that said The Crew shows a file has downloaded but it actually hasn't?

I've tried everything and have no idea?

Can anyone help...???


r/Addons4Kodi 1d ago

Everything working. Need guidance. Source Filters Options

4 Upvotes

I'm using Umbrella, POV and the Red Light addons. I also switch up between Coco Scrapers, Magneto and Gears as external scrapers. Is it possible in any of those addons to add filters to one debrid service and not another? I still have 4 months remaining with RD. I also use Torbox, but it still has some things to work out. Is there a way have filters on RD such as web dl, but not on Torbox links when I scrape sources? Thanks in advance.


r/Addons4Kodi 1d ago

Something not working. Need help. Fentastic+ display profile name in header, option missing?

2 Upvotes

My main KODI box has two profiles. When I added the second profile a few weeks ago, I enabled the active profile name to be displayed in the header.

I'm setting up a KODI box for my friend who has a family, and I'm setting up multiple profiles and I can't for the life of me find the option to display the active profile's name in the header on either box.

Was the option for this feature removed or dissabled in an update or am I just blind?


r/Addons4Kodi 2d ago

Everything working. Need guidance. Nimbus + POV + Magneto

7 Upvotes

I use Nimbus and love the skin. Looks amazing and easy to setup. I notice that my widgets take quite a while to populate. I use Trakt lists some POV directories for my widgets. I authorized my Trakt but should I be using my API keys as well? for TMDB and Trakt.


r/Addons4Kodi 2d ago

Review / Opinion Discussion Arctic Fuse 3 question - preload hub

4 Upvotes

Good evening could someone please tell me if it's recommended to have "preload hubs during start up initialisation" on or off, I've already got the hide widget one enabled but I'm not sure what hubs are exactly or if I'm even using them, I've just got a side menu with movie, show, trakt sections pointing at widgets.

Many thanks


r/Addons4Kodi 2d ago

Looking for content / addon Skin that balances features with speed/weight?

4 Upvotes

What do you all think is a skin that strikes that balance well?

A customizable home menu would be the primary feature I care about.


r/Addons4Kodi 2d ago

Looking for content / addon Bingie - Can I use multiple/random artwork images?

2 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I'm brand new to Kodi so sorry for any ignorance. I'm running Bingie using local files only (scraping with tiny media manager). I'd really like to add these features:

  1. A rotation of posters for each movie selected randomly from my folder
  2. Two fanart images for each movie - fanart 1 shows up while browsing, fanart 2 appears on the details screen when you select a movie

Are these possible within Kodi/Bingie or with other addons? Thank you


r/Addons4Kodi 2d ago

Review / Opinion Discussion Arctic Fuse 3 - Turn off discover

2 Upvotes

Can anyone please tell me by telling me how i disable the discover function when using the search tab, it's something I'm personally not a fan of. Many thanks


r/Addons4Kodi 3d ago

Everything working. Need guidance. POV Custom Search Strings in Arctic Fuse 3

11 Upvotes

Looking for the remaining POV search strings to use in Arctic Fuse 3 home screen search. The ones I need are people search and MDBlist list search.

To use these, replace the path entry in the search widget settings.

TV Shows

plugin://plugin.video.pov/?mode=build_tvshow_list&action=tmdb_tv_search&query=

Movies

plugin://plugin.video.pov/?mode=build_movie_list&action=tmdb_movies_search&query=

Movie Collections

plugin://plugin.video.pov/?mode=build_movie_list&action=tmdb_movies_search_collections&query=

Trakt Lists

plugin://plugin.video.pov/?mode=build_trakt_list.search_trakt_lists&search_title=

MDBlist Lists

plugin://plugin.video.pov/?mode=build_mdbl_list.search_mdbl_lists&search_title=

People

plugin://plugin.video.pov/?mode=person_search&query=

** Thank you for the help kodifitzwell **


r/Addons4Kodi 3d ago

Review / Opinion Discussion Prism Addon, Opinions?

13 Upvotes

I appreciate that it's still very early days for this fork of Seren by Goldenfreddy, but I have to say, it looks very promising. I have it set up with Torbox, and I'd signed up to Simkl many months ago, so I'd already imported all my Trakt and Anime watch lists over to that, so the initial set-up of Prism was pretty painless. Anyone who's used the Seren Addon in the past will find the process very familiar.

The updated a4kScrapers worked well (the a4k URL can be found at Goldenfreddy's GitHub), and searches pulled many results. Prism has categories for Movies, TV shows, and Anime, so there's something for everyone in it.

The only thing that I feel needs a bit more work are the lists that appear in categories like 'new releases' etc, because the lists that appear within the category don't seem to be relevant to the category title. For example, under new releases in the movies section, there was only one new release and the rest of the list contained much older movies. I'm not sure if this is a Simkl issue or a Prism issue.

Other than that I have no complaints and I'm looking forward to watching this addons development.

Many thanks to Goldenfreddy


r/Addons4Kodi 2d ago

Something not working. Need help. Premiumize with Kodi

2 Upvotes

With all the content that got removed from RD, I decided to try premiumize. I authorized it in The Crew but my searches still only return RD links. Am I missing something??


r/Addons4Kodi 3d ago

Looking for content / addon Best Debrid service for older classic content?

9 Upvotes

I still currently have a short subscription to Real Debrid. I always thought RD was great for classic films and the more obscure 1930s - 1950s films - including Film Noir

I know this is a niche question but is there an alternative to RD which has good links to cater for this content? I suspect RD might have been the best but the link options have been limited.


r/Addons4Kodi 3d ago

Looking for content / addon Keep the same audio/sub track between episodes

5 Upvotes

I currently use the "up next" plugin to go to the next episode which shows a netflix style "next episode in x seconds" pop up at the top which is very useful. However, when I go to the next episode, the next one will switch back to the default subtitle/audio language of that file. I can fix this by changing the default in the mkv itself which works but it's still a little annoying. Is there a plugin that allows you to set a default audio/sub for an individual show? I know you can set it for all shows but some shows I like to watch in the original language and some in english.

Also, is there one that adds a button to just skip to the next episode? It seems like it should be a feature by default. I've heard there's a playlist feature but is there a way to automatically queue up the following episodes when you click on an episode?

Thanks so much for any responses


r/Addons4Kodi 3d ago

Something not working. Need help. Red Light Autoplay Season pack?

2 Upvotes

Is there a way for Red Light to autoplay the files from the same series season pack?

It seems to me that the final file it grabs is quite random.

I've checked that the season pack is complete.


r/Addons4Kodi 3d ago

Announcement Nimbus Plus - Released

18 Upvotes

I started working on the Nimbus skin to breathe a little life into it. I implemented some quality of life features you all may enjoy if you are Nimbus fans.

-Global Per Widget Item Limit Setting Added

- Per Widget Item Limit Setting added (can be found when you select a widget in settings alongside the display type ect)

- Redlight added as a search provider - Gears added as a search provider.

- Widget toggles for the Addon menu item added so you an disable the ones you don't want to appear as widgets (pictures, games, music, ect)

-Addon categories in the addon browser changed so that categories with no addons will not be visible (example: if you have no picture addons, it wont appear as a item in the list)

- skin missing icons corrected

- Sub Menus implemented into skin. Toggled on via settings and can be manually set. left on menu item opens sub menu for that menu item

Nimbus Plus can be obtained on my repo

Kodi Source:

https://adamsbuilds.github.io/repo

Feel free to check out my build wizard while your there if you want.

I am only capable of modifying things not creating them so thanks Ivar Brandt for the work on the skin.


r/Addons4Kodi 3d ago

Something not working. Need help. Has anyone managed to get a torrent streaming working with torrentleach?

2 Upvotes

I'm trying to get torrent streaming working with torrentleach as my provider. The caveat is that we need to keep seeding so preferably the torrent library runs off the kodi device.

I've tried Jacktook with electrum running in client mode with burst/prowlarr connecting to Torrentleach but they are not correctly passing the .torrent file to the electrum daemon as Torrentleach doesn't support magnet links.

Does anyone know a working setup for this?


r/Addons4Kodi 4d ago

Something not working. Need help. Post-RD mess, weeks later. Where's everyone at?

49 Upvotes

Posting this a good few weeks after the whole Real-Debrid thing that hit everyone, because honestly things still aren't as it used to be for me.

I jumped to TorBox like a lot of people did, but the buffering is doing my head in. And to be clear I'm comparing it to back when RD was running buttery smooth, not to some rough baseline. It used to just work.

Bad timing too because it all fell apart at once. FenLight just stopped working. The Crew started acting weird around the same time and I still can't tell if that's the recent Crew updates or something on my end. And my Firestick grabbed a big update right in the middle of it all, so who knows what actually broke what.

Loads of people said to try Gears and Umbrella, so I installed both, and they were playing up too (excessive buffering far too often, crash etc). At that point I'm starting to wonder if it's just TorBox that's the problem, but I genuinely don't know.

Point is I went from FenLight + The Crew + RD, which was honestly perfect and rock solid, to everything being a mess.

So just trying to figure out where everyone else landed. Is FenLight coming back or has everyone moved on? Is The Crew behaving for you on the latest version? And for anyone on TorBox, did you sort the buffering or just crawl back to RD?

Cheers.