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Export data from NOW PLAYING in KODI and upload it via FTP to web
Description
Creates XML file with data from NOW PLAYING in KODI - music and video, also includes link to artwork or poster in XML file. This XML is then copied to the web via FTP and can be parsed via JavaScript on webpage to display what KODI is playing. For HTML-JavaScript or PHP example, see html_demo subfolder in plugin folder, or NOW PLAYING page on my web (visualx.lanik.org).
News
v3.1
- Language file format related changes
How To Install
Direct installation
Via Repository
Via Directory
- Download the addon.
- Open up Kodi and navigate into Add-ons.
- Click the open box icon (above the side-menu).
- Select Install from zip file.
- If this is the first addon you install, Kodi will warn you about installing addons from "unknown sources" for security reasons - it's your call.
- In any case, Kodi will warn you, you may not get auto-updates for this addon.
- Navigate into the location where you've downloaded the addon to and select it to Install.
- First make sure you have the repository installed
- Open up Kodi and navigate into Add-ons.
- Click the open box icon (above the side-menu).
- Select Install from repository.
- If you have at least one repository (besides the default) installed:
Select the repository you wish to install from.
- Select the category the addon belongs to, in this case it should be service.
- Select KODI Visual Now Playing.
- Click Install.
Installing via directory means you connect to a Web server directly using Kodi.
It also means that the addon is found under a repositry or a sub-repository you install from that directory (check out which repositories host
KODI Visual Now Playing addon
below).
- Open up Kodi and navigate into the System settings screen by selecting the cogwheel button (above the side-menu inside Kodi's home-screen).
- Select File manager.
- Select Add source from the left pane (the right pane is in case you want to move files from one folder to another, if you're using a mouse you may need to double click it).
- Click the line where it says <None> and enter the following url:
https://jewbmx.github.io/
Note: some servers may be case-sensitive.
click OK after you are done typing. - Below that, if there isn't already, enter a name for the source which will be easy for you to recognize in the future. Click OK
- Now press the return button twice to return to home-screen.
Navigate into Add-ons.
- Click the open box icon (above the side-menu).
- Select Install from zip file.
- If this is the first addon you install, Kodi will warn you about installing addons from "unknown sources" for security reasons - it's your call.
- In any case, Kodi will warn you, you may not get auto-updates for this addon.
- Look for the name of the source as it was entered in step 5, select the repository zip file you see inside it.
That's it. The rest of the instructions are as detailed in installing Via Repository, use the repository you've just installed.
For a full installation guide please click here.
Additional Information
| Updated: | April 17, 2022 |
In Repositories: | |
| Platform: | all |
| License: | GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. Version 2, June 1991 |
Depends On: | |
