This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". ![]() These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. The main view is shown below.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Moving forward though, the skin used as of Kodi 19 and now Kodi 20 is called Aeon Nox SiLVO. More about the Aeon MQ 8 skin can be viewed on its dedicate forum site here. Basically every player enjoys the exact same views, and when highlighting a menu item, it will cycle through a set number of images complimenting the menu item. The nice thing with this skin is you can utilize backdrop compilations, so I've combined backdrops in their own directories on my server, and setup each media player using this skin to pull the backdrops from that common location. I did download the Aeon theme pack which includes a slew of backdrops depending on what menu item is highlighted. There is so much in this skin that can be customized, and it is just magnificent to view on a large screen. The backdrops are standard, but can be customized for your favorites. The main menu is in a horizontal setup with basic weather information down in the bottom right corner. The Aeon MQ skin is an absolute brilliantly designed skin. I will just discuss the skin I ended up using, and a list of the common addons that I use more frequently. Also not going to dive to much into installing addons, again I think there are plenty of instruction already available in how to do this. Though Aeon MQ is under developement to use in the later versions of Kodi, I've moved to the Aeon Nox SilVO skin, as it has been quickly developed for Kodi 19, and now 20.Īnyways, I won't go into how to download and install Kodi, as I think there are already excellent tutorials developed that can explain things much better than I could. It gave the whole large screen viewing a beautiful GUI to navigate. The skin choice was also a holdback, as with Kodi 18 I really liked using the Aeon MQ skin. That isn't the case anymore, and I've refined the number of addons I install now. The one opposition a while back from updating from even 18 Leia to 19 Matrix was at the time, python 3 broke alot of the addons that worked so successfully. The setup and skin is common across all media machines now. I feel that the project has matured far enough now as to not totally corrupt the skin I use, nor the addons. After reverting back to Kodi 19, that problem appears to be gone (but further testing will be required). The second major issue was that streaming addons seemed to randomly fill the buffer to 100%, and wouldn't continue playback.but exit back out to the stream selection page. So I reverted back to Kodi 19 and a previous version of the PKC addon that worked. The second more severe issue was some media wouldn't playback. The PlexKodiConnect addon had issues, first by not providing a database on one machine, until I did a manual fixup. ![]() ![]() I had tried Kodi 20.0 Nexus, but ran into two glaring issues. ![]() I chose Kodi, especially once version 18 became available as that version took advantage of the 64-bit CPU and more RAM.įor my live machines I've now using Kodi 19.5 Matrix. It wasn't until I ended up moving and couldn't use MediaPortals TV capture (very little ATSC signals where I live now), that I ended up looking for an updated GUI. Around August 2014, XBMC officially changed its name to Kodi (as of release 14). XBMC was also actively developed and started to get ported over to other devices besides the Xbox. My early HTPC setups ended up using Xlobby, and then transferred to MediaPortal to take advantage of the TV capturing capabilities. It only was ported to a modified Gen1 Xbox machine back then so had limited use. Kodi at the time was in its infancy and called Xbox Media Center or XBMC for short. When I first designed up my media players, I looked around for a great frontend GUI.
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