====== Kodi NUC main setup ====== ===== BIOS SETTINGS ===== Enter bios: systemctl reboot --firmware-setup Set SGX to Enabled in BIOS to avoid boot message relating to it. (can possibly be set by software https://github.com/intel/sgx-software-enable ) Set Fan control to custom with fanless at 48C, min 75, 30% at 1C, min 65 for RAM. Suggested Custom Fan Control Mode: Primary Temperature Sensor to Processor, Fan Off Capability - enabled at 48C, Minimum Temperature to 85, Minimum Duty Cycle to 40, Duty Cycle Increment to 6 Secondary Temperature Sensor to Memory, Minimum Temperature to 60, Minimum Duty Cycle to 40, Duty Cycle Increment to 6. Set CEC to desired settings ===== KODI INSTALL ===== Base OS install of Ubuntu server LTS 22.04.3 (orig notes from 20.04.1) - [[https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/|Old Ubuntu server releases]] [[https://releases.ubuntu.com/|Current Ubuntu server releases]] - install default server (not minimized) - Do not use lvm and/or encryption. - setup default user 'kodi' with password kodi (or setup your own user and add the kodi user later) - install no snap packages - install openssh - trigger reboot copy ssh-keys manually to /home/kodi/.ssh/authorized_keys or use ssh-copy-id kodi@ip-address then proceed with configuration through remote ssh terminal. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install software-properties-common xorg xserver-xorg-legacy alsa-utils mesa-utils git-core librtmp1 libmad0 lm-sensors libmpeg2-4 avahi-daemon libnfs13 libva2 vainfo i965-va-driver linux-firmware dbus-x11 openbox pastebinit xserver-xorg-video-intel alsa sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Support NFS mounts on system level: sudo apt-get install nfs-common Some house-cleaning to begin with: #remove snapd sudo apt purge snapd ubuntu-core-launcher squashfs-tools #remove lvm2 (unless system uses LVM) Note: may remove ubuntu-server package for cleanup sudo apt remove lvm2 --purge #remove raid support sudo apt-get purge mdadm #remove iscsi (IP based scsi support for remote storage) sudo apt-get purge open-iscsi #Remove udisks2: desktop environment option to mount/umount sudo apt-get purge udisks2 #remove btrfs packages sudo apt-get purge btrfs-progs #remove iptables sudo apt-get purge iptables #remove wireless support sudo apt-get purge wpasupplicant #remove Open VM tools as not running in a VM sudo apt-get purge open-vm-tools sudo apt-get purge cloud-init* cloud-guest-utils sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-advantage-tools sudo apt-get purge cryptsetup* #install zip and unzip sudo apt-get install zip unzip samba-libs # if the latest kernel is required or desired, install the hardware enablement kernel (currently 5.11.x) #sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-20.04 Disable IPv6 support unless required: echo "# Disable IPv6" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.conf echo "net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.conf echo "#" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.conf sysctl -p Remove the Ubuntu MOTD text on login and it's auto update sed -i "s/ENABLED=1/ENABLED=0/" /etc/default/motd-news # run as root sudo systemctl disable motd-news sudo systemctl disable motd-news.timer sudo apt-get remove --purge landscape-common sudo chmod -R 0644 /etc/update-motd.d/ sudo vi /etc/default/motd-news #set enabled=0 sudo vi /etc/pam.d/login sudo vi /etc/pam.d/sshd #comment out these lines: #session optional pam_motd.so motd=/run/motd.dynamic #session optional pam_motd.so noupdate # extreme version doesn't even show last login info #sudo touch ~/.hushlogin Allow "everyone" to start the x server sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-legacy echo "needs_root_rights=yes" | sudo tee /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config Create the kodi user and it add it the relevant groups. If you have created the kodi user during installation only do the usermod part. sudo adduser kodi sudo usermod -a -G cdrom,audio,video,plugdev,users,dialout,dip,input kodi Permission to shutdown, suspend the computer, therefore create the file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/custom-actions.pkla with the following content: [Actions for kodi user] Identity=unix-user:kodi Action=org.freedesktop.login1.*;org.freedesktop.udisks2.* ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes [Untrusted Upgrade] Identity=unix-user:kodi Action=org.debian.apt.upgrade-packages;org.debian.apt.update-cache ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes We need a simple systemd service file (this one actively waits on network connection, see: network-online.target remove that if you don't need to wait) Create the following file and put the listing into it: /etc/systemd/system/kodi.service [Unit] Description = kodi-standalone using xinit Requires = dbus.service After = systemd-user-sessions.service sound.target network-online.target mysql.service Wants = mysql.service [Service] User = kodi Group = kodi Type = simple PAMName=login ExecStart = /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/kodi-standalone -- :0 -nolisten tcp vt7 Restart = always RestartSec = 5 #ExecStart = /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/openbox-session -- :0 -nolisten tcp vt7 #Restart = on-abort [Install] WantedBy = multi-user.target edit /etc/security/limits.conf and add before the end. remember kodi is the username, not the application. This will allow your user to get the audio thread a bit more priority. echo "kodi - nice -1" | sudo tee /etc/security/limits.conf Fake display-manager.service to not make plymouth or something else complain. sudo ln -s /etc/systemd/system/kodi.service /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service #check ubuntu version lsb_release -a Add the stable or nightly repository and install kodi: #stable 20 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install kodi kodi-x11 kodi-inputstream-adaptive kodi-vfs-libarchive kodi-vfs-rar #nightly 21 - combined x11/wayland/gbm version as of nightly 28/Oct/2020 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install kodi kodi-bin kodi-inputstream-adaptive kodi-vfs-libarchive kodi-vfs-rar #remove joystick support unless desired for retro-gaming sudo apt-get purge kodi-peripheral-joystick As we use openbox as our display manager, we need to auto start kodi, therefore create: sudo mkdir -p /home/kodi/.config/openbox sudo touch /home/kodi/.config/openbox/autostart sudo chown kodi:kodi /home/kodi/.config -R now we write the following into the created /home/kodi/.config/openbox/autostart file, this will automatically switch your TV to full range (please copy the lines, don't try to type the '` and so on, this code only works for one (1) connected TV, if you have multiple devices extend it to a loop): OUTPUT=`xrandr -display :0 -q | sed '/ connected/!d;s/ .*//;q'` xrandr -display :0 --output $OUTPUT --set "Broadcast RGB" "Full" xsetroot #000000 xset s off -dpms exec /usr/bin/kodi --standalone while [ $? -ne 0 ]; do exec /usr/bin/kodi --standalone done openbox --exit Tweak the config further as per descriptions below depending on requirements (bluetooth, sound, boot logo, mysql database connection etc), otherwise start kodi: sudo systemctl start kodi ===== Kodi Settings for Hardware decoding (VAAPI) ===== System ->Player->Processing: Enable HQ Scalers for scaling above: 20% Allow hardware acceleration - VAAPI: on Use Mpeg-2 VAAPI: Yes Use Mpeg-4 VAAPI: if you like UseVC-1 VAAPI: on Use VP8 VAAPI: on (if your device supports it) Use VP9 VAAPI: on (if your device supports it) Use HEVC VAAPI: on (if your device supports it) System -> Player -> Playback Adjust Refreshrate to match video: On start / stop Sync Playback to Display: On if you don't use passthrough and Off if passthrough enabled (* This makes no sense when you want to use passthrough, why? Read: 2107461 (post)). In current versions (Jarvis) passthrough is disabled by us if users wants to Sync Playback to Display to care for people that refuse to read. Adjust display refresh rate to match video: On Start / Stop While watching a SD(!) video, that is accelerated by VAAPI, e.g. mpeg-2 or h264, click the film role and choose: Deinterlacing-Method: VAAPI-MCDI or VAAPI-MADI (Sandybridge) and VAAPI-BOB (BYT), Scaling Method: Lanczos3 Optimized and choose save for all files. Remember to do this only in combination with the above "scaling above" for 20%. This Lanczos3 Optimized filter is too heavy for BYTs, here you might - depending on the file - choose Bilinear. (Hint the Deinterlace: Auto setting was removed some years ago - we can now properly detect interlace / non interlaced content). It is obviously clear, that you won't see the VAAPI-MCDI settings when you play a video that is software accelerated only. Possible ~/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml file for special needs: You might need to create and advancedsettings.xml file as follows if you have special needs: 0 sensors|sed -ne "s/Core 0: \+[-+]\([0-9]\+\).*/\1 C/p" 3 0 Color Management (only correct with above xrandr forced to FULL) If your TV is limited range. Go to System -> Video Output and choose "Use Limited Range", disable Dithering. If your TV is full range. Go to System -> Video Output and unselect "Use Limited Range" and enable Dithering with 8 bits. If your projector is of low quality, use a dithering setting of 6 or 7 bits. Remember the above settings only make sense, when you output in Full Range. With the default xrandr setting of Limited 16:235 - those settings would be totally wrong. ===== Disable output during boot ===== sudo vi /etc/default/grub adjust the ''GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX'' line to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" commit the change using sudo update-grub Install animated kodi logo bootup theme: git clone https://github.com/solbero/plymouth-theme-kodi-animated-logo cd plymouth-theme-kodi-animated-logo sudo apt-get install fakeroot fonts-ubuntu plymouth-label ./build.sh sudo dpkg -i plymouth-theme-kodi-animated-logo.deb Enable graphical grub and store debug log as /var/log/plymouth-debug.log: sudo vi /etc/default/grub GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=auto GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash plymouth:debug=file:/var/log/plymouth-debug.log" # plymouth:force-drm echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/framebuffer && sudo update-initramfs -u commit the change using sudo update-grub prevent update-grub from scanning all drives other than the boot drive for linux installations including usb sticks sudo vi /etc/default/grub GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true commit the change using sudo update-grub ===== Boot without connected TV / AVR ===== The Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) is data that describes the capabilities of a digital display (DVI,HDMI, Displayport, etc) and E-EDID contains the audio capabilities as well. NOTE: Kernel 4.4+ is required or audio EDID information won't be copied. Verify with uname -a First find the connected port (HDMI/Displayport): ls -la /sys/class/drm cat /sys/class/drm/card0-DP-1/status connected edit /etc/default/grub and adjust the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT with your port details and desired display resolution and refresh rate. Add D directly after the refresh rate for Digital output! Note the port info here does not start with "card0-" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080@50D drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=HDMI-A-1:edid/edid.bin" Make sure the system was booted connected to the AVR/TV and everything is working. Then proceed to copy the EDID: sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware/edid sudo cp /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid /lib/firmware/edid/edid.bin Now we need to make a little hack and also convince ubuntu to load this edid.bin in initramfs. Create /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/include-edid-data file and write into it: #!/bin/sh PREREQ="udev" prereqs() { echo "$PREREQ" } case $1 in prereqs) prereqs exit 0 ;; esac . /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions # Begin real processing below this line if [ ! -e "${DESTDIR}/lib/firmware/edid" ]; then mkdir -p "${DESTDIR}/lib/firmware/edid" fi if [ -r "/lib/firmware/edid/edid.bin" ]; then cp "/lib/firmware/edid/edid.bin" "${DESTDIR}/lib/firmware/edid/" fi manual_add_modules i915 radeon exit 0 Make it executable sudo chmod +x /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/include-edid-data Finish with sudo update-initramfs -u sudo update-grub sudo reboot ===== ALSA SOUND ===== First make sure Pulseaudio is not installed or if it is, uninstall it. If there's a reference to ''snd_hda_intel'' in the output, then the kernel module has already been loaded as the driver: sudo lsmod | grep snd_hda_intel This command will list all sound devices. You'll need this to identify which sound device you wish to use later and to determine if there are multiple devices or just one. sudo aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC283 Analog [ALC283 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC283 Digital [ALC283 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 This command will show your model and codec chip to get further help via google in case of issues. cat /proc/asound/card*/codec* | grep Codec These two commands will show the current driver options for the sound models: zless /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/HD-Audio-Models.txt.gz zless /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ALSA-Configuration.txt.gz echo "options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 bdl_pos_adj=1,48" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf Apply the changes and reload alsa by rebooting or using: sudo alsa force-reload Monitor issues in dmesg sudo dmesg Further references:\\ https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=83614 \\ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ALSA#A.2F52.2C_AC3.2C_Dolby.2C_DTS \\ https://forum.voidlinux.eu/t/solved-setting-up-alsa-sound-how-to/1416/20 \\ ===== WIFI ===== dmesg | grep iwl if firmware is not loaded at all, go to:\\ https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/network-and-i-o/wireless-networking/000005511.html copy the link of the relevant firmware to clipboard, download it with wget, untar , copy to /lib/firmware ===== Bluetooth ===== Apparently 2nd generation AFTV remotes use wifi instead of bluetooth.\\ The 1st gen AFTV remotes use bluetooth. They identify as v1949:0401 "[CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Modalias: bluetooth:v1949p0401d0112" Fire TV stick remotes are from a different vendor and use v1949:0404\\ workarounds in this thread: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=208890&page=7 sudo apt-get install bluez bluetooth sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth start Add bluetooth device using command line: hciconfig sudo bluetoothctl [NEW] Controller 30:E3:7A:D3:50:A3 nuc-kodi [default] [bluetooth]# power on Changing power on succeeded [bluetooth]# devices [bluetooth]# scan on Discovery started [CHG] Controller 30:E3:7A:D3:50:A3 Discovering: yes [NEW] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Amazon Fire TV Remote [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 TxPower: 4 [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Alias: 5C-31-3E-80-FD-48 [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Name is nil [bluetooth]# agent on Agent registered [bluetooth]# pair 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Attempting to pair with 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Connected: yes [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Name: Amazon Fire TV Remote [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Alias: Amazon Fire TV Remote [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Modalias: bluetooth:v1949p0401d0112 [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 ServicesResolved: yes [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Paired: yes Pairing successful [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 ServicesResolved: no [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Connected: no [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Alias: 5C-31-3E-80-FD-48 [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Name is nil [bluetooth]# trust 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Trusted: yes Changing 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 trust succeeded [bluetooth]# pair 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Attempting to pair with 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Failed to pair: org.bluez.Error.AlreadyExists [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 RSSI: -75 [bluetooth]# devices Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 5C-31-3E-80-FD-48 [bluetooth]# exit Agent unregistered [DEL] Controller 30:E3:7A:D3:50:A3 nuc-kodi [default] sudo hcitool con Connections: sudo bluetoothctl -a [NEW] Controller 30:E3:7A:D3:50:A3 nuc-kodi [default] [NEW] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 5C-31-3E-80-FD-48 Agent registered [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Connected: yes [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Name: Amazon Fire TV Remote [CHG] Device 5C:31:3E:80:FD:48 Alias: Amazon Fire TV Remote [5C-31-3E-80-FD-48]# exit ===== CEC Configuration ===== BIOS Config:\\ https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000023500/mini-pcs/intel-nuc-kits.html Possibly required: sudo apt-get install cec-utils ===== Copy kodi configuration from Amazon Fire ===== wuff@gondor ~/Downloads/AFTV Kodi Backup $ adb connect 192.168.1.10 * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 * * daemon started successfully * connected to 192.168.1.10:5555 wuff@gondor ~/Downloads/AFTV Kodi Backup $ adb pull /sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi . pull: building file list... [.....] 31017 files pulled. 0 files skipped. 849 KB/s (2722037503 bytes in 3129.565s) ===== Setting up Kodi MySQL Database ===== http://kodi.wiki/view/MySQL/Setting_up_MySQL:\\ sudo apt-get install mysql-server #create password when asked sudo vi /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf #change bind-address from 127.0.0.1 to actual IP (when used by others only) or to 0.0.0.0 when used both internally and externally sudo service mysql restart mysql -u root -p #enter password, then enter the following four commands in the console: CREATE USER 'kodi' IDENTIFIED BY 'kodi'; GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'kodi'; flush privileges; exit Setting up Kodi for use with MySQL (http://kodi.wiki/view/MySQL/Setting_up_Kodi): do NOT use locally mapped network shares for kodi as otherwise the db entries will refer to localhost which won't work on other devices. Use generic smb or nfs paths instead. Ideally using fixed IP addresses for the NAS and not hostnames. If you use passwords on your network shares then you will need to copy (or sync) your passwords.xml file from the userdata folder to each Kodi device. Export the video and music library as nfo files to export an existing library from a device. If it's a new setup, ignore this. edit or add to /home/kodi/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml\\ mysql ***.***.***.*** 3306 kodi kodi mysql ***.***.***.*** 3306 kodi kodi true true transfer userdata/addon_data and /addons from old to new server. transfer Thumbnails if desired. transfer: /home/kodi/.kodi/userdata/passwords.xml /home/kodi/.kodi/userdata/sources.xml /home/kodi/.kodi/userdata/mediasources.xml sudo chown kodi:kodi /home/kodi/.kodi/addons/* -R sudo chown kodi:kodi /home/kodi/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/* -R if amazon fire tv remote doesn't work properly - especially context menu key, create a custom keymap: sudo vi /home/kodi/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/gen.xml contextmenu then reboot on kodi, go to the video sources and for each define the content and update the library. This will take a while. ===== Share Thumbnails on NAS drive ===== If multiple Kodi instances should share video/music thumbnails, the following lines need to be added to the advancedsettings.xml to redirect Kodi's special folders to a NAS drive: edit or add to /home/kodi/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml\\ special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Video/ smb://192.168.1.10/xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails/Video special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Music/ smb://192.168.1.10/xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails/Video ===== Increase TV TTY font size ===== sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup set to highest font-size in 4th step ===== Boblight / Arduino ===== On main linux pc: sudo apt-get install arduino start arduino, connect arduino via usb, select version and port in the IDE, upload desired sketch (program). cd /tmp wget https://www.tweaking4all.com/?wpfb_dl=78 -O t4a_boblight.ino wget https://www.tweaking4all.com/?wpfb_dl=53 -O Adafruit_NeoPixel.zip via sketch import library, import the Adafruit zip file\\ open the ino sketch, adjust to amount of leds, compile and upload it to the arduino On KODI box: sudo apt-get install build-essential libusb-1.0-0-dev libxrender-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libavdevice-dev NOTE: original repository on google code doesn't seem to work any longer. use: https://github.com/bobo1on1/boblight cd /tmp git clone https://github.com/bobo1on1/boblight cd boblight sudo ./configure --without-portaudio --without-ffmpeg --without-x11 --prefix=/usr sudo ./configure --without-portaudio --without-opengl --without-x11 --prefix=/usr make && sudo make install sudo cp arduino/duemilanove.conf /etc/boblight.conf sudo boblightd to install boblight config maker linux version, the following i386 libraries are required: sudo apt-get install libatk1.0-0:i386 libcairo2:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 libpango-1.0-0:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 using ''ldd Boblight\ Config\ Maker\ Linux'' will show any other libraries that might be missing. ===== Bluray playback using MakeMKV ===== sudo apt-get install libaacs0 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libbluray-bdj libbluray-bin sudo add-apt-repository ppa:heyarje/makemkv-beta sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install makemkv-bin makemkv-oss cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ sudo rm libaacs.so* libbdplus.so* sudo ln -s libmmbd.so.0 libaacs.so.0 sudo ln -s libmmbd.so.0 libbdplus.so.0 sudo vi /etc/apt/preferences.d/libbdplus Package: libbdplus* Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 sudo vi /etc/apt/preferences.d/libaacs Package: libaacs* Pin: version * Pin-Priority: -1 #as kodi user paste beta key from http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1053 mkdir ~/.MakeMKV vi ~/.MakeMKV/settings.conf app_Key="xxx" Bash script for automated key update for cron: #!/bin/sh url=$(curl -s "https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1053" | grep "current beta key.*<\/code>" ) key=$(echo "$url" | sed -n 's/.*\(T-[0-9a-zA-Z]*\).*/\1/p') echo "app_Key=\"$key\"" > ~/.MakeMKV/settings.conf ===== Python script for remote edit/update of DB entries ===== ##https://github.com/MilhouseVH/texturecache.py wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MilhouseVH/texturecache.py/master/texturecache.py -O texturecache.py chmod +x ./texturecache.py examples: ./texturecache.py stats video #shows stats ./texturecache.py remove movie 123 #removes movie 123 ./texturecache.py J movies "Lion King" #queries movies for entries 'Lion King' ./texturecache.py missing movies "movies" #Lists missing movies from the source 'movies' ./texturecache.py duplicates #List dulicate movies with the same IMDb number ./texturecache.py watched "mywatchlistbackup.txt" #Backup or restore movies and tvshows watched status and restore points, to/from the specified text file ascan Scan entire audio library, or specific path vscan Scan entire video library, or specific path aclean Clean audio library vclean Clean video library set Set values on objects (movie, tvshow, episode, musicvideo, album, artist, song) eg. "set movie 312 art.fanart 'http://assets.fanart.tv/fanart/movies/19908/hdmovielogo/zombieland-5145e97ed73a4.png'" p Display files present in texture cache that don't exist in the media library P Prune (automatically remove) cached items that don't exist in the media library qa Run QA check on movies, tags and tvshows, identifying media with missing artwork or plots qax Same as qa, but remove and rescan those media items with missing details. Configure with qa.zero.*, qa.blank.* and qa.art.* properties. Prefix field with ? to render warning only. sources List all sources, or sources for specific media type (video, music, pictures, files, programs) or label (eg. "My Movies") ===== Boblight settings via keyboard shortcut ===== https://github.com/bobo1on1/script.xbmc.boblight \\ put the file script.xbmc.boblight.keymap.xml into your "userdata/keymaps" folder. \\ You can access the settings during playback by hitting the key "b" or "B". (Note: a former keymapping to that key will be overwritten by this keymap file. If there is a conflict you just can change the mapped key to something else). script.xbmc.boblight.keymap.xml: Addon.OpenSettings(script.xbmc.boblight) Addon.OpenSettings(script.xbmc.boblight) ===== Sources ===== This article is based on the main instructions from [[https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=231955|here]]\\ Refresh Kodi skin: \\ reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/4ml9ll/refresh_skin_command/ \\ forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=76233 scantokodi.sh command (to let transmission notify kodi of a finishe download so that it will scan that particular file to the library without doing a full library scan) \\ https://gist.github.com/zilexa/e82211bbfe41de4274b44d0b48b14642 \\ #led \\ lifehacker.com/5433355/build-a-color-aware-backlight-for-your-hdtv-setup \\ www.tweaking4all.com/home-theatre/xbmc/xbmc-boblight-openelex-ws2811-ws2812/ \\ www.tweaking4all.com/hardware/arduino/first-arduino-project \\ lektiondestages.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/setting-up-arduino-ldp8806-ambilight.html?m=1 \\ https://github.com/arduino/arduino-builder/blob/master/README.md \\ https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/master/build/shared/manpage.adoc \\ https://kodi.tv/addon/services/kodi-boblight \\ github.com/bobo1on1/boblight \\ kodi.tv/addon-author/bobo1on1 \\ forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=116331 \\ github.com/bobo1on1/script.xbmc.boblight/ \\ memphiz.f00-bar.net/dl/boblight \\ forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=101406 \\ learn.adafruit.com/adalight-diy-ambient-tv-lighting/troubleshooting \\ #wifi direct \\ thangamaniarun.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/how-to-use-wi-fi-direct-on-androidubuntu-part1/ \\ thangamaniarun.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/how-to-setup-wi-fi-direct-on-androidubuntu-terminal-part2/ \\ thangamaniarun.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/how-to-setup-wi-fi-direct-on-androidubuntu-terminal-part3/ \\