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1 year ago The new version 7.3.0 of Cast Kodi (requires Firefox 112 or Chromium 112) supports SendToKodi.
For YouTube links:
- If the
YouTubeextension is installed in Kodi: the link is sent to this extension; - If the
Tubedextension is installed in Kodi : the link is sent to this extension; - If the
SendToKodiextension is installed in Kodi : the link is sent to this extension; - If none of the three extensions is installed in Kodi : the link is sent to the
YouTubeextension (Kodi will propose to install the extension).
For the links that Cast Kodi does not know how to handle:
- If the
SendToKodiextension is installed in Kodi: the link is sent to this extension; - Otherwise: the link is sent directly to Kodi (because it may be a link from a video file like mp4, mkv).
Describe the problem
This add-on does "only" support a dozen websites to stream videos from, and also, at least for YouTube, requires the Kodi YouTube add-on to be installed (which is just another thing to setup). For casting videos from my phone to Kodi I use Kore & SendToKodi, which uses yt-dlp in the background and does support a dozen more websites.
Describe the solution you'd like
Implement the API of SendToKodi. You can make it, like Kore, an option for the user to choose what method to use.
To implement it, see this documentation for other add-on developers
Environment
Additional context
I really like this add-on and I used the cast part often while the YouTube Kodi add-on was working fine for me. But when YouTube makes changes, I saw that this add-on wasn't updated fast enough and continued to lose features (like 4K playback). yt-dlp on the other hand can keep up with the changes (mostly because of more users using it directly & indirectly, more people are behind to fix it way faster). And I think this add-on would benefit from implementing the API, especially because it should be quite easy to implement.