*** Official Kodi (née XBMC) Thread ***

I have just installed the latest version of Kodi.

However, I have a major issue when using Aeon Nox. Basically my keyboard does not appear properly. The letters don't show and I can't type anything in.

Anyone had that problem and found a solution. I used the version of Aeon Nox that came with it, so I assume that's the latest as well.

EDIT: found a fix.
 
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robfosters said:
I have just installed the latest version of Kodi.

However, I have a major issue when using Aeon Nox. Basically my keyboard does not appear properly. The letters don't show and I can't type anything in.

Anyone had that problem and found a solution. I used the version of Aeon Nox that came with it, so I assume that's the latest as well.

EDIT: found a fix.
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can you share the fix please as I have this.
 
My Aeon MQ5 has lost all it's settings and I'm buggered if I can find out how to change the movie views to showcase etc. There's nothing on the drop down menus that allows me to pick any other view option apart from the standard list view. It's been ages sine I set it up and I'm sure it's easy to do but can anyone refresh my memory?

EDIT: Sussed it! You have to press the up arrow on keyboard/remote to access the menu where you can choose which views to use.
 
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String said:
I turn my Windows PC on and it boots to XBMC. After pressing the power button, I don't need to access the keyboard or mouse unless I want to shut down. Everything is controlled by PS3 controller. I even flip between Steam and XBMC using only the controller.
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How do you get around XBMC minimising on start up in Windows? I have still to this day never found a way of getting it to stop doing that.
 
I'm sure if you full screen it, there's a key combination like shift + / or something like that that will lock it at full screen from then on.

Actually it could just be backslash.
 
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I use XBMC Launcher.

I don't have XBMC fire up automatically on Windows startup (in case I have an issue with it, or want to do something else on the machine immediately after boot), but I do have my "green button" on my remote launch it, which I do a few seconds after Windows loads (and the hard drive activity light stops). My HTPC goes into standby most of the time, and I set XBMCLauncher to close and re-open automatically on resume, with about a 5 second delay.

I was having issues with the responsiveness of XBMC slowing down after it had been running for a few days, needing the app to be closed and re-launched, so by changing it to do this whenever I go in/out of Standby has removed this issue.
 
Confused said:
I use XBMC Launcher.

I don't have XBMC fire up automatically on Windows startup (in case I have an issue with it, or want to do something else on the machine immediately after boot), but I do have my "green button" on my remote launch it, which I do a few seconds after Windows loads (and the hard drive activity light stops). My HTPC goes into standby most of the time, and I set XBMCLauncher to close and re-open automatically on resume, with about a 5 second delay.

I was having issues with the responsiveness of XBMC slowing down after it had been running for a few days, needing the app to be closed and re-launched, so by changing it to do this whenever I go in/out of Standby has removed this issue.
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Will check it out thanks.
 
Does anyone know of a way to get the recently added widget on the TV Shows section of the main screen to show only a single cover for a series instead of listing every single episode?

This part :

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Using Aeon MQ5 skin and had a gander through the settings but found nothing.
 
Dunno how you would fix that. Mine has shows added to it most days so keeps a good selection but still has multiples of the same show if im not totally up to date with watching the latest episode.
 
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The new official Kodi logo!

http://kodi.tv/introducing-the-kodi-logo/ said:
After many weeks of designing, deliberation, and a few beers, we are pleased to present the official logo of Kodi!

Logo Design History
It has been several months now since we introduced the new name for the software that we all love so much. In that time, the feedback we took most to heart was the fact that the community wanted to have a voice in major changes like this in the future.

So with that in mind, we went to the community for ideas and opinions on what might make the best kind of logo for our new name. The feedback we got was phenomenal, to the extent that we had a whole new problem: there were too many great ideas. Well over a hundred at last count.

thumbnail-lightWith that in mind, we did a few things to narrow down the results. First, we had a user vote to get an idea of which ideas were more popular, and where some commonalities might lay.

It became clear fairly quickly that users prefered a logo that was more design mark than wordmark. Which is to say, most votes tilted towards single really cool designs, like play symbols, highly stylized versions of the letter K, and navigation buttons, rather than highly stylized versions of the entire word. The only stylized word that got many votes was the one for which there was a nifty animation. Beyond leaning towards design marks, there was a clear preference for stylized Ks and navigation arrows.

The user designs and results of the user poll were provided to doghouse media, the design firm we determined to work with from the start. Our directive to the firm was fairly simple: try to keep it simple, try to incorporate as many ideas as possible without making it ugly, and make sure it works everywhere.

Over the next several days, dhm provided us with about a dozen ideas. A few of the problems encountered in attempting to pull in user submitted ideas included converting 3D images into flat ones that are more easily printed, making logo ideas work on a variety of backgrounds, both light and dark, and even Team Kodi disagreement about which ideas should be given more or less focus in a final design.

Ultimately, a team vote was held over seven of the submitted designs to get the views of everyone inside Team Kodi. Of the top two vote getters, doghouse media, all the designers on the team, and even a number of outside designers all agreed that the second place vote getter was infinitely better than first place.

And thus, as required by the by-laws of the Foundation, the Foundation board held a vote to determine the final logo. It was unanimously agreed to follow with the universal opinions of a half dozen designers from both inside and outside the team.

Which gets us to this logo we are pleased to present today.

Logo Usage
For users interested in using the logo for business, fansite, or other purposes, we’ve put together a fairly simple Logo Usage page for you to browse. All usage rules are designed entirely to avoid confusion or associating Kodi with something that it isn’t and should mostly be common sense. If you do have a question though, feel free to ask in the forums.

A Challenge
Because the logo idea thread worked so well, we’ve got one last request. As previously mentioned, one of the most popular logos that we weren’t able to go with owed a great deal of its popularity to a REALLY cool animation associated with it. It was so popular internally that it reignited the idea of eventually animating the Kodi start screen. And so our request, our challenge to you all is this: animate the official Kodi logo. Make it look awesome. While it’s far too late for an animation to make it as the boot image for Kodi 14, there’s a very real chance that your work could be the first thing all of our over two million users see in Kodi 15 or sometime in the future.

To submit your animation, save it as an animated gif to imgur or your preferred image sharing site. Then post it here in the forum. We look forward to seeing what you come up with. Additionally, you can pull from a number of other official logo variations from this page, though we’ll probably prefer a dark or black background for any final animation.

And thanks again to all of our thousands of users who helped us move forward with this logo. We could not have done it without you.
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In other news, my old Yamaha DSP-AX757SE has bitten the dust - won't power on, and it's not the C406 capacitor which was the resolution to every other thread I've found on the internet with the same issue on similar models.

So, I popped down to my local Richer Sounds yesterday, and picked up a clearance Yamaha RX-V575 for just £180 (down from £300) - granted it had no accessories...

I'm now working on a plugin for Kodi so that I can have the receiver automatically switch on/off with Kodi, as well as intercepting the volume buttons on the PC remote to change the volume on the receiver itself.

Once I've got a working version done I'll put some more details up. So far I've got it detecting the receiver, connecting and sending a volume down command.
 
Quick question. Say my TV library is mostly built out of streams but I was to add a actual saved version of one of the episodes. Would xbmc default to play the saved version over a stream?
 
You'd probably find that it was listed twice. You'd then need to check the filenames and play the local one.

The same occurs if you have say an SD and an HD copy of a film.
 
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