
New arrivals such as Subsonic ( installation tutorial) and Sonerezh provide their own take on online media content.

As additional media centers or servers develop, the home media center/server space becomes more congested. While Plex provides remote access and sharing to other Plex users, Kodi provides flexibility with more plugins to stream online content. Kodi is a very different media center than Plex ( installation tutorial). The advantage of the add-on installer is to also provide an area to explore what plugins are available and popular. Simply download the zip file first, go to the System settings, and install from zip in the Add-ons section. If it fails, simply search for the zip file and install the zip directly using these instructions. NOTE: The add-on installer may not always install zip files correctly. Once the add-on is installed, launch it from the Programs category in the main menu.Select the media location previously added (fusion in this example).Click on the “Add-ons” section in the sidebar.In the “System” category, click on the “Settings” option.

Click on the path field or the “Browse” button.Click on “Add source” in the left column.In the “System” category, select the “File manager” option.These instructions combine the fusion installer and add-on installer instructions from tv-addons. The add-on installer plugin provides an appstore like interface to view available plugins and install them into Kodi. NOTE: If you are already running a web application on port 8080, change the port to an unused port.įor more information regarding Kodi’s web interface, check out their wiki pages. Select the “Web server” section in the sidebar and click the radio button to “Allow remote control via HTTP”.Click on the “Services” section in the sidebar.In Kodi, scroll to the “System” category and select “Settings” option.New videos will appear in this section.music videos, movies, or TV shows), then click the “OK” button. Select the type of content that will be in this folder (i.e.In the file explorer, select the video location. Use these instructions to add music locations as well. NOTE: If you would like to install pvr add-ons, refer to additional download instructions in the Kodi documentation. In the Ubuntu start menu, launch Kodi Media Center.NOTE: You will have to confirm this installation.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa Add the Kodi repository to Ubuntu software center.sudo apt-get install software-properties-common Open Terminal and use the following command to install background programs to install Kodi.The original instructions can be found in the Linux Guide. This tutorial takes some of the commands and modifies some of the instructions. Online instructions can be found at Kodi’s download page. 2.4 Install the Add-on Installer Plugin.
