Kodi News: Names Have Power
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Grab the popcorn. Dim the lights. The first teaser for the all-new PreShow Experience 1.0 has arrived. The teaser is a screen recording shown at 3× speed to provide a quick look at what the new PreShow can create. PreShow Experience has been rebuilt from the ground up with one main goal: make it easier to create and enjoy a personalized theater experience while improving the advanced capabilities longtime users want. This is more than a visual refresh. The new version introduces: A guided setup
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Bug Report preShow Experience Version: 0.3.2.1 Module: Trivia Severity: High — potential loss of unsaved sequence changes Summary The Preview feature is very useful because it allows individual modules to be tested without having to run through the entire sequence. For most modules, pressing ESC while previewing exits the preview and returns to the Sequencer as expected. However, the Trivia module behaves differently. When Trivia is launched using Preview and ESC is pressed to exit, preShow Expe
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Curious if there’s a way to program a sequence action or other method to advance to the next item based on a specific clock time. Here’s the scenario I run into: we program outdoor movies in our park, and the schedule needs to be pretty precise. We typically run a 30-minute block of trivia while people get situated, followed by a 9-minute theater intro, with the feature film starting right at 8:00 PM. That means I need to start the sequence at exactly 7:21 PM to keep everything on schedule. The
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IMAX Countdown RGB Laser Edition I color graded the IMAX Sonic Anthem Countdown and IMAX Enhanced Bumper in DaVinci Resolve and added a few new VFX to spice it up as a showcase for RGB Triple Laser Projectors. File Information Submitter badpuppy3 Submitted 08/06/2026 Category Countdown View File
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Hello, I recently updated my Hue Bridge to the Bridge Pro and now the lights won't work with PreShow Experience. This is all due to the Bridge Pro dropping HTTP support in favor of HTTPS with a self signed certificate (uses its' SN as the Common Name in the certificate). Basically anytime you try to access the Bridge Pro's API, it will fail SSL verification. A quick, but insecure, way to fix this would be to turn off SSL verification when making URL calls. Any way to make that an option in
This is a little later in the development cycle than would normally be the case, but I'm sure you'll understand why.
It's traditional, as we move towards the release of a new version of Kodi, to begin the process of naming what will become its successor. In recent years, "Leia" gave way to "Matrix", which moved aside for "Nexus", and then on to our current version, "Omega". There's a clue there to the pattern, so P-something it is.
Our normal process would be to ask the forums and team for suggestions, edit these down to a shortlist, and then run an internal poll and choose a winner. However, the shortlisting was done a little quickly this time, and we ended up picking a P-name that was already in use for a problematic add-on (arrr, shiver me timbers, and all that - absolutely not a connection we'd wish to make). The obvious solution was to skip that one, then, and move to the second choice - except that turned out to be the name of a legitimate streaming service. And the third? Another problematic add-on.
As the team deliberated the need for another poll, we heard sad news about a colleague and team member whose contributions to Kodi have been so immensely valuable. His death at such a young age gave everyone pause, and with his name just-so-happening to begin with exactly the right letter, it seemed fitting to mark his passing with more than just a blog post.
So with muted fanfare, we memorialise our good friend, and continue development towards Kodi v22, "Piers".
You will, of course, hear more about this as the development branch takes shape, and you can follow development on GitHub as you wish.
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