Tag: kodi
All the articles with the tag "kodi".
The TV Remote I Needed Was an Air Mouse
Updated:The Home Assistant pages replaced my Harmony, but not the feel of a hardware remote. I searched for a TV remote and found Zigbee buttons, ESP32 touchscreens and e-ink. What worked was a 2.4GHz air mouse that Home Assistant sees as a keyboard. Here is the search, the wrinkles, and why the TV's own on-screen toasts made it usable.
Replacing My Harmony Remote: HDMI-CEC, Home Assistant and Claude Code
A Logitech Harmony only knows what it last told each device to do, never what's actually happening. Over two days, Claude Code and I built something that listens to the HDMI-CEC bus and each device's own API instead, then wrapped it in a phone remote in Home Assistant, with no IR at all. Here is what we built, why, and every wrong turn on the way.
Google Home and Kodi
Updated:I thought I'd take the opportunity to add a Google Home to my gadget collection. After all it's on a £50 off same this week, so comes in at £79 delivered.
Trakt.tv
Updated:Trakt.tv is a very helpful little plugin for Kodi. What makes it so helpful is that it acts as a backup of what I've watched and how far through a series I
Home Media Client/Server
Updated:A couple of years ago I decided to get the TV connected to something other than satellite and cable. It seems that in this environment XMBC was the daddy of all things media and a few generations on it's now called Kodi and is truly an awesome media player.
Build a Raspberry Pi Media Centre
Updated:Following on from the previous post about setting up a Home Media Client/Server setup I thought I'd put together a "how to" for building your own Raspberry Pi Media Centre with Kodi and a list of ingredients.