Matt

It looks like Kodi 22 recognizes Atmos and DTS:X. I'll see what I can update when it is official.

Atmos is a subset of TrueHD. When FFMPEG analyzes the audio, it can only report TrueHD. There are 3 audio formats that can't be recognized. They are Dolby Atmos, DTS-X & Auro-3D. Right now, if you want PreShow to recognize them, you need to add atmos, dtsx, or auro3d to the filename to get them to display properly.

The folder for local trailer files does not scan nfo files. The genre match is only for online or kodi trailers. It's been a while since I've done anything with it, but I think it is set up to use genres for local trailers that are set with tinyMediaManager. It seemed at the time that people that used static local trailers all used that to integrate their files in kodi and it was a better solution that having them set it up again in PreShow. I think that most people that use the PreShow trailers folder have some other method for maintaining their files and don't leave them in there forever. The beta versions of PreShow have more dynamic content options, and while there isn't currently an option for the trailers folder, there could be a simple workaround for it. The current, and complicated, way to do it entirely inside of PreShow would be to set up folders for the ratings and then set multiple sequences with conditions for the ratings. Let me know if that makes sense and if I can do anything to explain further or help you out with your current configuration.

Hi @amilino , You need to add files to those folders, depending on what you want to have in your PreShow. Here are some links to files that can be downloaded from here: https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/12-preshow-bumper-sets/ https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/4-countdown/ https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/14-courtesy-bumpers/ https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/5-audio-format/ https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/6-trivia-facts/ PreShow can be configured a lot of different ways. If you envision a specific things, let me know what you want and I'll help walk you through setting it up. If you aren't sure what to do and are just testing it out, my suggestion is to start with a theater intro bumper, a trailer and a courtesy bumper. Make sure you rescan your content after adding files to the folder. You can test out your sequence inside of PreShow and then you can play it before your movie by using the context menu, or some skins have ah PreShow or Cinema button. Let me know if you have any questions after you get some content added to your folders and I'll be happy to help you out.

Let me know if you use audio format bumpers? And if so, do you rename your movies with Atmos to enable the Atmos bumpers?

I have a friend that wants to watch the "scariest movie." I think scary is very subjective, so I figured I'd ask it here. What do you think is the scariest movie?

I don't know anything at all about WLED and have no way to test it, but looking at the api I think the following may work. "http://IP LED/win&A=0&TT=30000"

The trailers will work on the latest versions of PreShow without an update. Trailers used to require updates every time they broke, so I added a website middleware to do the scraping portion of it and PreShow now just looks at that link. That being said, PreShow doesn't delete all your current trailer records and install the new ones. You can reset your content database and scan your content to make sure that you are getting the latest content, if you want to see the new trailers immediately. Also, the trailers can only be scraped a max of 1 time a day.

I just fixed the IMDB trailers yesterday, so you should be able to use it. It included yet to be released movies up to 2 months prior to the day. The current TMDB trailer scraper api used by PreShow includes some movies that have already been released. I don't know if I'd recommend using both. Most people seem to prefer 1 or the other. TMDB used youtube. It has more reliable trailers, but you have to deal with it being youtube. I'm going to be overhauling the trailer system in PreShow to hopefully make it where you are just picking what format of trailers that you want to use and the content is more consistent regardless of which format you use.

Here's a page on using Govee lights in Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/govee_light_local/ And here's a page about LAN API control: https://app-h5.govee.com/user-manual/wlan-guide

Yes, I think. They both work with Home Assistant, and PreShow can send commands to Home Assistant. That being said, I've only set up HA for some testing and don't think I still have it set up. I have some Nanoleaf lights, but they aren't in my theater, and I don't own any Govee lights. In other words, I don't really have much info that I can share on how to actually set them up with PreShow. I'm going to be working on the guides later this year and may be able to offer more insight then.

We don't do this very often, but, sometimes, life happens, and it's only fair to forewarn you. We've been notified by one of our hosting providers of scheduled maintenance that will take our mirror servers off air for a while. During this window, you will not have access to downloads of anything we host - so, basically any new downloads of the Kodi application and add-ons. Kodi itself will remain available where it's hosted in a third-party repository (e.g. an app store). The window for this maintenance is: Monday, January 12 2026, between 10AM and 6PM PST - so 18:00 12 January to 06:00 13 January UTC. We'll obviously bring everything back on line as soon as we can, but assume no access within these hours. If you have to try installing anything, be aware that it will error and none of the admins will be able to check what's happening either. Please, just ignore any errors on launch for now, and wait until the mirrors all come back and synchronise. View the full article

I didn’t get to see many new releases this year, and I’m sure I missed some great ones along the way. So I’d love to hear from the community: What were your favorite movies of the year? Any hidden gems that flew under the radar? Looking forward to seeing what everyone recommends!

I am only loading trivia on here from the old site for people that have explicitly given me permission to do so. You may be able to get someone to share stuff with you on the discord. There is a link to it on the bottom right on the home page. I hope to do a lot more with trivia in PreShow in 2026, so hopefully that will help to take care of anything you may not get.

Using the context menu as you are doing is how you have to do it if your skin doesn't have a PreShow button. Some skins have a separate button that launches PreShow and also hides the loading. Here are 2 skins that have been modified to work with PreShow: https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/7-skins/ I need to make a guide on how to do this, but it is a skin issue that I can't change from within PreShow. Kodi doesn't allow the play button to be modified.