Kodi

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INFO:

Manually Update Library Via Command Line

cat ~/Bin/update_kodi_library.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"VideoLibrary.Scan","id":1}' |telnet localhost 9090

Clear The Cache

Install the Maintenance Tool add-on...

Find What People Have Watched

grep 'DVDPlayer: Opening:' ~/.kodi/temp/kodi.log

http://www.tvaddons.ag/maintenance-tool-kodi/

Send A Message

xbmc-send -a "Notification(Hey, enjoying that TV are you?)"

Switch User Profiles On Idle

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=197888

User Profiles

http://kodi.wiki/view/Profiles

HOWTO: INSTALL:

Exodus Torrent Watching Plugin

https://seo-michael.co.uk/how-to-install-exodus-for-kodi/

https://www.tvaddons.ag/exodus/

HOWTO: FIX:

Missing Season Artwork

Download your season poster to the tvshow folder, and name as follows...

season01-poster.jpg

e.g.

/home/user/Videos/TV/Banshee/season01-poster.jpg

Then, tell Kodi to use your local files for the season artwork...

TV Shows > Banshee > (press i) > navigate to refresh > Choose No > Choose No

Thanks to Kodi.

VAAPI GL Hardware Acceleration Crash On NVIDIA GPU

System > Settings > Videos > (Toggle Settings Level: Advanced) > Acceleration > Untick VAAPI

HOWTO: DISABLE:

RSS Scrolling Feed

System > Settings > Appearance > Skin > Show RSS news feeds

Screensaver

The screensaver is on by default, to disable:

System > Settings > Appearance > Screensaver