Closed ghost closed 5 months ago
henryjfry
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5 months ago If you want me to give you a little overview on what you would need to do to start using this yourself and watching stuff I can do. Its not a 1 app install like it would be on android.
There are a couple of steps to get stuff up and running but its pretty straightforward after that.
henryjfry
commented
5 months ago There are tonnes of addons, I suggest you browse the stickies here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/comments/z7y0za/a4k_recommended_addons/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kodi_Helpers/comments/uma3yn/extensive_media_scrapers/
But if you are interested in my addon I suggest you try it. If you have any questions I'd be more than willing to answer them But I don't know what the point of your questions are and unless you are actually going to try my addon I don't really want to explain the whole Kodi addon ecosystem
henryjfry
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5 months ago Like what's all this about?? Did you ask chat gpt to summarise this, why?
Also the way you are asking about my repo is wrong, like my repo just has enough addons in it to make extendedinfo installable The entirety of everything else in the repo is therefore basically unimportant and I'll likely never change or update as they just support the main addon extendedinfo (and it's clone with a different name diamondinfo which only exists because extendedinfo is an official Kodi addon and you may want both installed at the same time)
repository.thenewdiamond
This is at its core an information provider/browser for kodi which provides a nice and very usable interface to browse and discover tv shows/movies and can be used to play them back with tmdbhelper.
thenewdiamond is a video manager for kodi which provides an easy to use, fast and beautiful interface to discover, organize and view your favorite tv shows and movies.
This repo is a replacement for the original extendedinfo addon for kodi, thats its in one sentence. But if you dont know kodi that wont mean a lot. https://kodi.tv/addons/nexus/script.extendedinfo/
=> extendedinfo based (ui-less utility script for kodi) => repo contains much more, "kodi video heaven"
Extendedinfo
Extendedinfo is used by a number of skins to provide special information screens. (see the TL/DR at the bottom) However in addition to fixing the addon when it stopped working after the change to python3 in kodi 19 I have added a lot of additional functionailty. So the way I use the addon, I have it set to load straight into my Trakt Recently watched tv list (which is a setting you can enable in the settings to autoload any of the addons paths) on startup. This loads in a nice UI which shows posters and information. This can be done with many addons but the kodi screens are often pretty slow (if you arent running it on a pc youll notice pretty quickly) and even with cached data the screens are slow to progress, reload etc.
background scripts
So this loads its own XML screens which dont stop and have persistent python running to do things (which basically any other kodi screen wont unless you are running a big fancy skin). Therefore the screens never really close and the cached information which loads is the absolute minimum and therefore browsing/reloading is a lot faster after the initial information lookup.
ui
The extendedinfo UI therfore provides a quick and nice looking interface which alows you to browse TMDB your Trakt lists/trending/popular/collection/watched list/in progress/next episode plus a couple of pages I cooked up myself based on your trakt data. Also IMDB lists and a youtube browser.
tmdb based
So in one place you can browse a tonne of nice looking screens for basically any lists you might have setup and do searches for people/shows/movies and discover from TMDB with a bunch of filters and sorting options. From there you can then play via tmdbhelper to any addon you have installed. And it will play, trakt scrobble and reopen the addon on finish. It also provides tmdbhelper based trakt collection library integration (a lot of skins work better with library files). But this is not really necessarry if you use trakt and RD through my addon.
RD RSS integration
It also offers RD RSS integration and a number of other "hidden" features, which I use and im not sure anyone else does.
status: Works, hobby, fuzzy
I would document them but i get next to no help testing anything so i generally dont feel like writing up docs if no one in the community is willing to provide any assistance. Also I'd have to make sure the stuff actually worked properly if I advertised and im quite happy with the halfbaked stuff ive bolted on. But I can point you in the direction of the one file where you can basically find everything usable i've implemented and you can play about with it yourself.
henryjfry
commented
5 months ago Yeah I thought you were asking me Kodi related questions and you were going to be starting to use it and potentially wanted to try my addon too Not that you were prodding to document my repo.
Which really isn't a thing. I might document the addon better. But it's a Kodi repository in a git hub repository
They are both called the same thing but you don't "use my repo". You install the stuff from my repo and then you use the addon from my repo.
The questions you were asking made it clear you haven't actually used Kodi. There is literally loads of information on how to get started. Until you had a look at that there's no point you trying to decide why you should use my addon and I can't really explain why until you've tried some of the others.
ghost
commented
5 months ago You can delete the issue.
This repo is a replacement for the original extendedinfo addon for kodi, thats its in one sentence. But if you dont know kodi that wont mean a lot.
https://kodi.tv/addons/nexus/script.extendedinfo/
Extendedinfo is used by a number of skins to provide special information screens. (see the TL/DR at the bottom)
However in addition to fixing the addon when it stopped working after the change to python3 in kodi 19 I have added a lot of additional functionailty.
So the way I use the addon, I have it set to load straight into my Trakt Recently watched tv list (which is a setting you can enable in the settings to autoload any of the addons paths) on startup. This loads in a nice UI which shows posters and information. This can be done with many addons but the kodi screens are often pretty slow (if you arent running it on a pc youll notice pretty quickly) and even with cached data the screens are slow to progress, reload etc.
So this loads its own XML screens which dont stop and have persistent python running to do things (which basically any other kodi screen wont unless you are running a big fancy skin). Therefore the screens never really close and the cached information which loads is the absolute minimum and therefore browsing/reloading is a lot faster after the initial information lookup.
The extendedinfo UI therfore provides a quick and nice looking interface which alows you to browse TMDB your Trakt lists/trending/popular/collection/watched list/in progress/next episode plus a couple of pages I cooked up myself based on your trakt data. Also IMDB lists and a youtube browser.
So in one place you can browse a tonne of nice looking screens for basically any lists you might have setup and do searches for people/shows/movies and discover from TMDB with a bunch of filters and sorting options. From there you can then play via tmdbhelper to any addon you have installed. And it will play, trakt scrobble and reopen the addon on finish.
It also provides tmdbhelper based trakt collection library integration (a lot of skins work better with library files). But this is not really necessarry if you use trakt and RD through my addon.
It also offers RD RSS integration and a number of other "hidden" features, which I use and im not sure anyone else does. I would document them but i get next to no help testing anything so i generally dont feel like writing up docs if no one in the community is willing to provide any assistance. Also I'd have to make sure the stuff actually worked properly if I advertised and im quite happy with the halfbaked stuff ive bolted on. But I can point you in the direction of the one file where you can basically find everything usable i've implemented and you can play about with it yourself.
tl/dr This is at its core an information provider/browser for kodi which provides a nice and very usable interface to browse and discover tv shows/movies and can be used to play them back with tmdbhelper.