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Race Conditions in Kodi

Race Conditions in Kodi

I tag and rate my movies quite a bit, which allows me to organize and sort my movies by tags and user ratings. I find the built-in mechanism for tagging or rating a movie cumbersome, so I wrote a small addon called "My Rating & Tags" for Kodi, which exposes a

Centralize Kodi Management (Part 2)

Centralize Kodi Management (Part 2)

In Part 1 we moved our Kodi database to the central file server. Now we want to move user files to the central file server as well. There are generally three types of user files in Kodi: 1. configuration files such as passwords.xml or sources.xml 2. other user

Centralize Kodi Management (Part 1)

Centralize Kodi Management (Part 1)

I have a few Fire TV Sticks (aka Firesticks), each serving a different TV in the house. They all consume content from a home-networked file server. It would be nice if these devices can be managed centrally. I tried Plex for a while, but came back to Kodi because I

Blogging Kodi Addon Development

Blogging Kodi Addon Development

I have always been interested in writing my Kodi addons, especially context menu based addons. Now I've finally decided to do it. I soon realized that API documentation for Kodi is quite sparse, and it's difficult to find more information online. I learn by reading code from other Kodi addons.