Quick reference for first time KODI users

Quick reference for first time KODI users.


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Starting KODI for the first time:

Settings:
SettingsAppearance/Settings level/Advanced - Get advanced settings.
Settings/Appearance/International - Set your REGION. (I use UK(24h) gives 24H00 and Celcius)
Video/Acceleration - Un-tick "Allow hardware acceleration - MediaCodec (Surface)"
Weather/General - Enable/Install "OpenWeatherMap Extended" and choose your Location from "Settings"Addons/Install from repository:
Web interface - "Arch" - Give you access to the system from a Web Browser and this one is better.
Video add-ons - "Youtube" - Remember to authenticate.
Subtitles - "Opensubtitles.org" - Give you the best subtitles for foreign and hard of hearing support.
Services - "XBMC Check Previous Episode" - This one give you a popup to go to the first UNWATCHED TV show when you start an episode.
Services - "Watchdog" - This will update your library if a change is seen.
Services - "Unpause Jumpback" - This will jump back 10 seconds when paused for more than 10 seconds. Remember to set the "jumpback" value to 10 seconds...
Services - "Nextup Service Notification" - This will give you a netflix style button you can press to watch the next episode.Other Addons:
Program add-ons/Trakt - This will give your library access to TRAKT.
Music add-ons/Radio - Access to some nice radio-stations. You can also define your own streams.You can share/sync your library between more devices by adding a smb and mysql server into your setup. Refer to the KODI WiKi (http://kodi.wiki/view/Main_Page) for more info.

http://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml:
This is one of the most useful sites if you need to get custom settings into KODI. Refer to site for more info.

In my environment I have the following advancedsettings.xml in place:

<advancedsettings>
<videodatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>{IP}</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>kodi</user>
<pass>kodi</pass>
</videodatabase>

<musicdatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>{IP}</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>kodi</user>
<pass>kodi</pass>
</musicdatabase>

<videolibrary>
<importwatchedstate>true</importwatchedstate>
<importresumepoint>true</importresumepoint>
<dateadded>0</dateadded>
<recentlyaddeditems>400</recentlyaddeditems>
</videolibrary>

<video>
<latency>
<delay>-250</delay>
</latency>
<playcountminimumpercent>90</playcountminimumpercent>
<ignoresecondsatstart>180</ignoresecondsatstart>
<ignorepercentatend>8</ignorepercentatend>
</video>

<network>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<cachemembuffersize>104857600</cachemembuffersize>
<readbufferfactor>4</readbufferfactor>
</network>

<pvr>
<minvideocachelevel>60</minvideocachelevel>
<minaudiocachelevel>60</minaudiocachelevel>
</pvr>

<cputempcommand>echo "$(busybox sed -e 's/current cpu_temp://' /sys/rockchip_thermal/temp) C"</cputempcommand>
</advancedsettings>

So, as you can see the settings can be quite a handful, but it will help and make your life easy to read and understand how it works.