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title: Kodi
---

Player software for Media Centre nodes.

# Hardware

*   [Xios DS][1]
*   [Archos 80 Cobalt][2]
*   [RaspBMC][3] [OSMC][4]
*   [Tesco Hudl 2][5]
*   [Kindle Fire 7][6]

# Configuration

## Remote Config

Set in `.kodi/remote.conf`.

This is a **non-userdata setting** so must be restored after upgrades.

[AppleTV][7] remote.conf:

# Apple TV  remote
    factory_code	= 0x87ee0001
    work_mode  	= 1
    repeat_enable 	= 1
    release_delay	= 150
    debug_enable 	= 1
    reg_control	= 0xfbe40

key_begin
    	0x0b 103	;UP
    	0x0d 108	;DOWN
    	0x08 105	;LEFT
    	0x07 106	;RIGHT
    	0x04  28	;OK
    	0x02  14	;MENU
    key_end

## Disable Logging

## Buffer Media

Kodi does not buffer local media (including `smb://` and `nfs://`) by default.

Set [advancedsettings/network/buffermode][9] (v17 Krypton: [advancedsettings/cache/buffermode][10]) to 1 (cache all):

## Shared Database

<advancedsettings>
      <musicdatabase>
        <type>mysql</type>
        <host>${MYSQL_IP}</host>
        <port>3306</port>
        <user>${USER}</user>
        <pass>${PASSWORD}</pass>
      </musicdatabase>
      <videodatabase>
        <type>mysql</type>
        <host>${MYSQL_IP}</host>
        <port>3306</port>
        <user>${USER}</user>
        <pass>${PASSWORD}</pass>
      </videodatabase>
      <videolibrary>
        <importwatchedstate>true</importwatchedstate>
        <importresumepoint>true</importresumepoint>
      </videolibrary>
    </advancedsettings>

`${MYSQL_IP}`
:   Hostname or IP address of MySQL server.

`${USER}`
:   MySQL username

`${PASSWORD}`
:   MySQL password

### Server permissions

Give user permission to use and create new Kodi databases.

grant all privileges on `MyMusic%`.* to ${USER};
    grant all privileges on `MyVideos%`.* to ${USER};

## Services

Enables Airplay, [UPnP][14], web interface (no username or password)

<settings>
        <services>
            <airplay>true</airplay>
            <airplaypassword default="true"></airplaypassword>
            <airplayvolumecontrol default="true">true</airplayvolumecontrol>
            <devicename>${LOCATION}</devicename>
            <esallinterfaces>true</esallinterfaces>
            <escontinuousdelay default="true">25</escontinuousdelay>
            <esenabled default="true">true</esenabled>
            <esinitialdelay default="true">750</esinitialdelay>
            <esmaxclients default="true">20</esmaxclients>
            <esport default="true">9777</esport>
            <esportrange default="true">10</esportrange>
            <upnpannounce default="true">true</upnpannounce>
            <upnpcontroller default="true">false</upnpcontroller>
            <upnprenderer>true</upnprenderer>
            <upnpserver default="true">false</upnpserver>
            <useairplaypassword default="true">false</useairplaypassword>
            <webserver>true</webserver>
            <webserverpassword></webserverpassword>
            <webserverport default="true">80</webserverport>
            <webserverusername default="true"></webserverusername>
            <webskin default="true">${WEB_INTERFACE}</webskin>
            <zeroconf default="true">true</zeroconf>
        </services>
    </settings>

`${LOCATION}`
:   the name of the room the player is in.

`${WEB_INTERFACE}`
:   `webinterface.chorus` if it is installed, otherwise `webinterface.default`

## Multi Room Audio

Add-on
:   <http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:XSqueeze>

# Troubleshooting

## Migrating database paths

```
use MyVideos119;
update path set strPath = REPLACE(strPath, 'smb://MEDIA/', '/auto/');
```

## Fixing broken databases

*   Enable loglevel=0 in advancedsettings.xml Check for log messages about upgrade failures

NOTICE: Attempting to update the database MyVideos99 from version 93 to 99
        ERROR: SQL: [MyVideos99] Undefined MySQL error: Code (1060)
               Query: ALTER TABLE movie ADD userrating integer

*   Stop media nodes

rake HOSTS="lounge ballroom bedroom-mark" media_stop

*   Login to Hastur mysql
*   Drop old database

drop database MyVideos99

*   Start master media node

rake HOSTS="lounge" media_restart

*   Check logs for successful upgrade
*   Restart other media nodes

rake HOSTS="lounge ballroom bedroom-mark" media_restart

[1]: XiosDS
 [2]: Archos80Cobalt
 [3]: RaspBMC
 [4]: OSMC
 [5]: TescoHudl2
 [6]: KindleFire7
 [7]: /AppleTV/AppleTV
 [8]: Kodi?action=sourceblock&num=1
 [9]: http://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml#network
 [10]: http://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml#cache
 [11]: Kodi?action=sourceblock&num=2
 [12]: Kodi?action=sourceblock&num=3
 [14]: UPnP
 [15]: Kodi?action=sourceblock&num=4

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