Since Kanzi was archived, there hasn't been a maintained way to control Kodi with an Echo, so I've built one. Encore is a self-hosted Alexa skill server for Kodi. It runs on your own network, talks to Kodi over JSON-RPC, and deploys a private Alexa skill into your own Amazon developer account, so nothing goes through anyone else's servers. A big thank you to m0ngr31 for Kanzi, which this picks up from: Encore keeps its voice commands and replaces the setup.

Say "Alexa, ask encore to play the next episode of Severance" and Alexa sends the request to Encore, which finds the episode in your library and tells the right Kodi to play it.

What's different from Kanzi

• Set up in a web interface. A first-run wizard walks through the admin account, the public address, Kodi, your Amazon developer account and the first deploy. No hand-made skill in the developer console, no pasting interaction models, no Lambda or Heroku.
• One-click skill deploys through Amazon's Skill Management API.
• Your library in the skill. Titles, rooms and playlists become slot values when you deploy, and Encore's own matcher finds the ones Alexa mishears ("rocky two", "endgame"). When two titles are close, it asks which one you meant.
• New titles are findable straight away. Kodi's live notifications keep Encore's index up to date, so no redeploy is needed.
• Rooms and several Kodi instances. Link each Echo to a Kodi instance, or name a room: "play Dune in the bedroom". Instances sharing a MySQL/MariaDB library are detected automatically.
• Wake-on-LAN for a sleeping Kodi.
• A live request log and match tester, showing what Alexa heard, how it was matched and which Kodi calls were made.
• Nine locales in five languages: English (AU, CA, IN, UK, US), German, French, Spanish and Italian.

What you can say

Everything Kanzi understood, and a few more: movies, specific or next episodes, music by song/album/artist/genre, playlists (including smart playlists), random picks and recommendations, playback and volume control, subtitles and audio tracks, navigating Kodi like a remote, "what's playing?", "how long is left?", add-ons, library updates, and shutdown/reboot with a confirmation. The full list is in the voice commands reference.

The screenshots above show the web interface; there's a tour of the whole thing in the docs.

What you need

• Kodi 21 (Omega) or 22 (Piers) with remote control via HTTP and from other systems turned on (Settings → Services → Control)
• A free Amazon developer account, the same account your Echo uses. The skill stays private and never needs certifying.
• A public HTTPS address for Alexa. Only /api/v1/alexa has to be exposed, through a reverse proxy or a tunnel (Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale Funnel).
• A container image (amd64, arm64, armv7) or a single binary for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Getting started

docker run -d --name encore \
  -e PUID=1000 -e PGID=1000 \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -v /path/to/encore:/config \
  ghcr.io/nightah/encore

Then open http://<your-server>:8080, paste the setup token from the log and follow the wizard. The first run guide covers each step.

Status

It's early (v0.1.2), so expect rough edges until 1.0. Everything works end to end with a real Echo in English (Australia); the other locales haven't been tried on real devices yet, so if you use German, French, Spanish, Italian or another English locale, I'd love to hear how it goes. Translations are on Crowdin.

Happy to answer questions here; bugs are best as GitHub issues. It's open source (Apache-2.0), and donations are gratefully accepted.

GitHub · Docs

Hi all, I've been using POV for a while now and have noticed that on some smaller shows the up next notification seems to show at the start of the video rather than at the end. Then because of the way I have it setup it will automatically skip to the next episode. I've seen this most recently with Carmen Sandiego. Is there a different setting for shorter videos?

I made a theme for Seren inspired by the look of Nuvio Arc V2 (Cinematic Glass): big backdrops, glass panels, rounded cards and a white glow on the focused item.

Works with these Kodi skins

The theme only uses font names that every skin has (or that Kodi falls back on), and keeps all its own images in a separate Lucent/ folder, so they never clash with your skin's images. I checked it against the font files of these skins:

• ✅ Estuary (Kodi default)
• ✅ Lucent (in-progress)
• ✅ Confluence
• ✅ Arctic: Zephyr - Reloaded
• ✅ Aeon Nox: SiLVO
• ✅ Eminence
• ✅ Eminence 2
• ✅ Arctic Horizon
• ✅ Arctic Horizon 2
• ✅ Arctic Fuse
• ✅ Arctic Fuse 2
• ✅ Arctic Fuse 3
• ✅ Bingie
• ✅ FENtastic
• ✅ Mimic-LR
• ✅ Amber
• ✅ Quartz

In some skins the big titles are a bit smaller (only when there's no logo), because those skins don't have a large font with a standard name.✅

Screenshots

• Source select – all streams as glass cards with quality badges
• Scraping – live counts per quality and source type
• Playing next – glass card over the video with a countdown bar

What's themed

• Source select – logo, info and plot on the left, all streams as glass cards on the right
• Scraping – progress bar with counts per quality (4K / 1080p / 720p / SD)
• Resolving – glass card with a loading bar
• Playing next / Still watching? – card in the bottom right over the video, with countdown
• Manual caching and Download Manager in the same style

Badges instead of text

Instead of DV | HDR | ATMOS you get coloured badges for Dolby Vision, HDR, HEVC, REMUX, Atmos, TrueHD, DTS:X, 5.1/7.1 and more (40 in total). CAM/SCR releases show up in red, so you spot them instantly. The badges are my own designs, not official logos.

Install (Web Location)

Seren → Tools → Open Settings Menu → Interface → Install Theme → Web Location, and enter:

https://github.com/djdirty60/Seren-Thema/releases/download/1.4.0/seren.theme.lucent.zip

More screenshots and full instructions: https://github.com/djdirty60/Seren-Thema

Made for Seren 3.x at 1080p. Fonts follow your Kodi skin, so it can look slightly different per skin. Feedback and bug reports are welcome, just open an issue on GitHub or reply here.

Screenshots use placeholder artwork. In Kodi you'll see the real backdrops and logos.

Not affiliated with Nuvio or Seren, just a fan project.

## Features

- **One source for everything:** every add-on, debrid service and Easynews account you set up in AIOStreams comes into Seren through a single provider.

- **Keeps the AIOStreams order:** each title gets a number (`01.`, `02.`, …), so Seren lists streams in exactly the order AIOStreams sorted them. For example, 4K REMUX with Dolby Vision and Atmos stays on top.

- **Full stream details:** resolution, Dolby Vision, HDR, HYBRID, REMUX, BluRay, WEB, Atmos, TrueHD, DTS:X, DTS-HD MA, DD+, 7.1/5.1 and codec (HEVC/AVC/AV1) come straight from AIOStreams. Seren can filter and sort on them too.

- **File size included:** Seren's size filter works as normal.

- **Only playable streams:** uncached streams are hidden by default. You can turn them on in the settings.

- **Clear source labels:** for example `AIO|TORBOX` or `AIO|EASYNEWS`.

- **Movies and TV shows:** uses IMDb IDs, with TMDB IDs as a fallback.

- **Fails safely:** if AIOStreams can't be reached, Seren carries on with your other providers.

Seren Aiostreams Provider

My IPTV client works!! But im using a playlist that also works great but isnt listing the right program (eg. It says big city greens is playing but is actually playing a different show.) how do I fix this?

I run a lot of internet radio on my Kodi box and got fed up with the blank grey squares where artwork should be. Fixing them by hand was an evening's work and it broke again every time a station redesigned its site.

So I wrote this.

It looks up your stations in the free Radio Browser database, finds every logo it can (from the database and from the station's own website), and shows them all to you as pictures so you pick the one you want. The artwork gets saved to your own drive, so it keeps working after the station changes things.

It also lets you browse 72 genres or search by name, listen to a station before you add it, and see alternative streams when one is down.

It never changes anything without asking, and it backs up your playlist before every write.

Free, GPL-3.0, no accounts, no trackers, nothing to buy.

https://github.com/avidus7/dial411

First release, so if it breaks on your setup I'd like to hear about it.

Hello everyone...

I'm experiencing a sporadic error playing streams with Umbrella! The error is always "One or more items failed to play - check the log for more information"

Following that error I have to force close Kodi and delete the cache in order to get it working again! In Kodis log-file there is a general error opening the stream with a Torbox source.

As this only happens with Umbrella ☔ and only sporadically I need some guidance how to provide additional information especially to the u/umbrella_dev

Thanks in advance for your insights!

Technical Infos:

Kodi 21.3 on AndroidTV 14

Umbrella ☔ v6.7.97

Torbox with active subscription

Trakt free user

Location Germany

I'm using Kodi with POV and TorBox. I had no issues until this morning where I was trying to watch a show, the sources loaded and clicked on a link but the video never plays.

After some messing around including uninstalling and reinstalling Kodi and POV the only thing I found that works was installing Proton VPN and using Netherlands as the location. Once I did this all videos have now loaded.

Not sure why this happened but it may help people in the UK.

Edit: Last night after changing my TV DNS to Googles and also changing Torbox CDN I managed to get it working full speed without VPN.

Hi

Update shows but when i try to do the update i get the following message

"Red Light update failed"

Google tv streamer

Kodi 21.2

RD sub

Red Light addon

Thanks

Question on PunchPlay with Kodi : PunchPlay tracks movies and TV episodes watched in Kodi and syncs progress, watched history, and ratings. Does tracking and syncing only works for items which are in the Kodi library or does it works also for items which are not in the Kodi library (played with third-party addons) ? Tnx.

Over the past week I have been working on Rotary. I have always felt that Kodi needed a good touch based skin but all options available seemed lacking. I set out to try and solve a couple of the core issues with kodi on touch devices and I think I have solved them pretty well in this skin.

-Focus: Touch skins have an issue with focus.. many rely on a long press to gain focus of an item.. this is a bit clunky for a touch device. I designed Rotary to function more like a Dial. The item on the arrow dial will be the focused item so with simple swipes a user can focus the item they want. Its fun to play with in person. The main take away here is that with simple swipes you can navigate movies and other items and as you swipe the Artwork, Meta Data and plot will update for the current item touching the dial arrow. It also has a fun bounce back animation.

-Home Screen I designed the home screen to be more like that of a phone or tablet. Round Icons that you can long press to move around directly from the home screen. Also editable and delete from long press. Want a new shortcut long press an empty area on home and add one.

-OSD: has been completely designed with touch in mind. Easy touch access to all needed controls are available a tap away. The seek bar is also touch friendly for dragging and touch to get to a desired point.

You will find customizable options in the skin settings to change how things behave and how things look on screen.

This is the initial Release of this skin and any feedback or suggestions are welcome. Grab your favorite video addon and give it a spin! I suggest Red Light, but any should work just fine.

The skin can be obtained from my repo which you can install from Kodi Source:
https://adamsbuilds.github.io/repo

any bugs or issues please feel free to report and I will try and fix them in a timely fashion.

The skin is very small in size and utilizes no helper.. also no surprise dependencies! :P (since thats a thing of late)

[pictures in comments below]

Initial Release Version: 0.0.1

I don’t get it. I’ll watch like 2-3 episodes of a show, but then the next episode is blocked. Searched online and results just said links are being blocked for copyright infringement (lol). Is that the case though - is real debrid blocking copyrighted media? Isn’t it all copyrighted?
Is this a known issue? What’s the point of real debrid if they block all content worth watching?

Specifically, I was trying to watch What We Do In The Shadows and Slow Horses (tv shows). On The Crew.

Had a good play with the new trakt auth and app requirements over the last couple days since KFW pointed it out. You do need to link your app to a github for any new apps, or for it to be maintained after January. They have also moved to PKCE authorisation as shown below.

PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange, pronounced "pixy") is the recommended way to sign users in to your app. It adds a one-time secret to every sign-in, so an authorization code is useless to anyone except the app that started the request. Your app never needs a client_secret.

Use PKCE for every app that signs users in: websites, single-page apps, mobile apps, desktop apps, and CLI tools that use the Authorization Code Flow.

While there still seem to be some questions around things like the redirect URL, the authorisation does work properly. I've tested it, and it provides both a popup web page authorisation that simply asks you to comfirm and the previous activation page where you enter the device ID.

To stay ahead of trakt changes and avoid sudden trakt de-auths, orac has been upgraded to use the new PKCE authorisation. If you are a user of orac, you will see a prompt on the dashboard to upgrade to 1.5.4, as always this is automatically done when you click it. After that please go to the 'services' tab (if you are a trakt user) and you will be prompted to re-authorise trakt to use the new method. The auth popup will offer both auth via webpage which will simply prompt you to allow orac to access your trakt account, or via the activate page which will ask you for the device ID. If you are already logged into trakt on your browser, the first option is easier.

Let me know if you see any issues.

Follow-up to my original post. Thanks for the feedback and bug reports. Most of what’s below came from your comments. The fork is now at v7.0.7. It’s still a personal build, not affiliated with jurialmunkey, and still the same add-on ID, so it installs over the stock one.

Things people asked about

• Trakt rows you don’t use. Switch a service off and it disappears from the menus and settings. With Trakt off, the “In Trakt Lists” row is gone too. The Movies, TV Shows, Anime and Asian Cinema & TV rows also each have an on/off switch in the main menu. If you still see Trakt errors with Trakt off, send me a log.
• Arctic Fuse 3 / signde repo. The version now starts at 7.0.0, above signde’s 6.17.9. Kodi no longer swaps this fork for the other build, and AF3’s “TMDb Helper 6.17.9 or newer” check passes. The Cast and Crew rows fill in. The watch-history stats widgets stay blank because this fork doesn’t keep per-day history.
• MDBList. The Watchlist TV shows / Movies lists show only their own kind again (6.0.203). MDBList Next Up no longer treats every started show as finished (7.0.1, 7.0.2).

Anime and Asian

• Anime TV calendar. It now reads Simkl’s public calendar files and places episodes in TMDb’s numbering by air date. It no longer depends on Trakt’s anime tag. Chinese animation is included.
• More anime and dramas now show up: the Anime TV calendar (about 4x as many episodes) and the Asian Drama calendars (about 10x as many dramas, including Chinese, Thai and Japanese ones Trakt didn’t list) now read Simkl’s public calendar files instead of Trakt.
• Anime matching. AniList entries are mapped to TMDb through a saved table filled from the ARM id service. Simkl Next Up places far more anime.
• Asian Movies. Trending leaves out concert films and needs 50 votes per rating. The calendars use TMDb release dates. Asian Progress no longer needs the Drama genre.
• New pieces. MyAnimeList and AniList rank / score properties for skins, and an Anime Recommendations row (from AniList) in the details menu of Japanese animation.

Calendars: “All movie calendars” is no longer limited by your region. TV calendar now has air times, a Today button, premiere / finale / new-show badges, a watched tick, and a daylight-saving fix.

Speed

• Lists open faster, mostly on Android: no wasted TMDb ID lookup, and Python’s own library is searched first.
• Titan Bingie Mod’s hub rows and banners are cached on disk, with an optional background page build while Kodi is idle.
• 7.0.7 fixes a leak that made Kodi slower the longer a widget stayed selected. I measured it on Windows only. I haven’t confirmed it on the Shield.
• There’s also a Re-Use Language Invoker switch (Settings → Expert → Other, off by default). It crashed Kodi 22 RC1 in some of my runs, so leave it off unless you want to test it.

Not done / known gaps

• Self-hosted trackers (Floppy etc.) are still out; I can’t test them.

I am running Kodi on a NVIDIA Shield Pro. Kodi itself works very smooth but the posters take forever to load on a gigabit connection. I am using Umbrella and loading my MDBlist catalogs. Is there a way to change where the posters load from?

Hello, just looking for some guidance. Kind of new to Kodi. I mostly use the crew for sports and on every link it says stream not found, same for mad titan, and the loop. I’m running a vpn with everything as well. I’ve cleared the cache on Kodi and force stopped the app. Any suggestions will help thank you.

Help please on this issue: Im running Kodi 21.3 on NVIDIA Shield 2019, with AF3 as skin and RedLight with Torbox , aiostreams Viren and real Debrid accounts.

Last friday everything was working smoothly. Today upon the new updates, every single title I try to play displays a message that my Debrid service doesn t have that file( I vê tried on old shows akready seen by me). What is hapenning and how to solve this. Many thanks

Hey guys 👋… what is the best of the best skins for (POV) WITHOUT SLOWING IT DOWN.. i still have the basic skin…Many Thanks In Advance 🙈

Buffering on Cloud Sources

Hello everyone!

For a few days now I'm experiencing buffering/stops of mainly Cloud-Streams on both latest Versions of Umbrella ☔ and POV on Kodi.

Can anyone confirm this?

To verify this I have configured Umbrella ☔ to not scrape Cloud-Sources and so far the issue is gone!

Thanks in advance for your insights!

Technical Infos:

Kodi 21.3 on AndroidTV 14

Umbrella ☔ v6.7.97 and POV v6.10.22

Torbox with active subscription

Trakt free user

Location Germany

Kodi Omega. AH2 POV torbox trakt

Seems like lately every day I try and stream something there's a problem where no streams are found or after selecting an episode, and source select option, it seems like POV is about to present me with some results, then goes back to the widget and has a never ending egg timer for PoV in top right.

I check for addon updates and there's another for TMDBh or POV. That's often fixed it, but earlier today had to get POV to clear cache. It worked.

Coming back to Kodi later in the day and it's falling over again. It's frustrating.

Pov isn't linking to my torbox account even when torbox itself says it is linked.

It linked with crew ok so seams to be a pov issue

So when I choose a movie....it fails to play...tells me there is no Debrid account...I use RD....when I go to tools choose Accounts Debrid...I get a blank screen without any choices...won't allow me to do anything...is this something new...is Umbrella not working..I did upgrade to version 6.7.97

Hi all,

I am currently using PM4K in Kodi for my Plex server and it works good, but can’t be customized or library integrated.

I tried plexkodiconnect, but it hasn’t been updated in a while and doesn’t play nicely with Corelec.

Are there any scrapper addons out there that have a Plex integration as well, that I can use for library integration. I prefer to host my own content instead of using debrid support.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.