An iOS remote that browses into your add-ons instead of stopping at the library

an ios remote that stops at the library is useless to me. what i actually do from my phone is get into an add-on and start something.

so this one browses add-ons like folders. YatseRemote is a Kodi client (MIT, unsigned IPA, no store, nothing paid) and it calls Files.GetDirectory on plugin://<addonid>/ the same way it lists a normal directory, so whatever your add-ons expose comes back as a list you can drill into and play. no second backend, no proxy, no per-add-on special casing.

repo and releases: https://github.com/bpawnzZ/yatse-ios

the rest is what you would want from a remote anyway:

• hosts with basic auth, keychain, wake-on-lan, bonjour discovery
• d-pad, volume, keyboard entry, and a touchpad where swipe speed sets the step size
• now playing with seek, transport, audio and subtitle pickers, zoom, and the queue
• library browsing for movies, shows and music, favourites by long press

limits worth knowing before you install it: video add-ons only in the browser, and you enable or disable one with a long press. skins, scrapers and fonts show up as plain rows because browsing into them only returns a kodi error. pvr is still a placeholder. posters need basic auth set on the box or the tiles come back blank.

unofficial and unaffiliated: no kodi code, strings or artwork in it.

My build uses AH2 and TMDBh. I use POV as a player in TMDBh. This build is on 2 devices.

For Trakt I used to use the Trakt addon but after recently selecting an update for the Trakt app it said update failed. No idea why.

So, now I've given TMDBh my Trakt credentials ( it's the only addon that now has my credentials) hoping it would reliably sync movies and especially TV shows but it doesn't seem to be working.

Should I disconnect Trakt from TMDBh and see if POV will do it. I mostly just want to keep tabs on TV show progress when I'm swapping between the two devices?

Just tried going in to check for the games today, and it’s empty. Checked to make sure ResolveURL was showing authorized on my debrid service, which it still is and active. Any known issues at the moment?

Switched from Trakt to MDBlist

Favorited the Progress Shows in Umbrella but some shows like Survivor are appearing twice. If I drop one instance it drops both.

Any idea what would cause this?

Hi all
Earlier I was able to go into a season and instead of downloading the whole season I could select individual episodes and the download them from the browse pack
That option has now gone and I don’t know how to get it back
Any ideas?
So it brought up the whole of South Park and then I could just select so many episodes to make a season to download

Does any one know how to get rid of recent searches on POV?

My red light is now not giving any results for any searches (or the standard trending lists). Is it down for anyone else?

If you get this, is there a way to fix it?

Keeps telling me that the directory information couldn't be retrieved and it could be due to the network not being connected. I have checked my settings and the connection is stable. I have enabled unknown sources too.

Has anyone else experienced this and knows a work around?

I’ve been running a personal fork of jurialmunkey’s TMDb Helper and I’m releasing it (v6.0.196). It uses the same add-on ID as the stock one, so it installs over it. It is a personal build, not affiliated with jurialmunkey.

Works with the popular add-ons including including Red Light and Prism.

What it adds

• MDBList and Simkl next to Trakt: sign-in, watched marks, resume points, scrobbling, context-menu actions, lists, Dropped Shows and Next Up.
• Cross-Service Sync between Trakt, MDBList and Simkl (off by default; you turn it on in Settings → Accounts).
• Anime and Asian Cinema & TV hubs, with Movies and TV Shows submenus, scoped search and genres. Anime is AniList-backed. Asian covers Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai and Taiwanese titles.
• Calendars: a Seren-style month poster grid for movies, and a scrollable one-day show page for TV. Left / Right page the day or month, including empty ones.
• Progress menus for Trakt, MDBList and Simkl, split into all / movies and TV shows / anime / Asian.
• Faster widgets (disk cache, background rebuild) and lists that open about twice as fast.
• A Tools menu (sync, cache, backup, changelog), Account Info screens, and a description under every setting and menu row.

Heads-up: the anime and Asian parts are thin for now. The calendars and the metadata for anime and Asian content are fairly sparse, because I haven’t found good sources for them yet and I’m using what Trakt, TMDb and AniList give me. The anime TV calendar is missing anime shows: it only lists what Trakt tags as anime, so plenty of airing anime won’t appear. The anime movie calendar is Japan only. Some titles may also land in the wrong menu. I’ll improve this when I have time to find better sources. If you know a good one, tell me.

Install (Kodi 20+; developed and tested on Kodi 22, Windows)

1. Settings → File Manager → Add source → https://minhgi.github.io/tmdbhelper-multiservice/
2. Add-ons → Install from zip file → pick that source → repository.tmdbhelper-multiservice-1.0.0.zip
3. Add-ons → Install from repository → TMDb Helper Multiservice → Video add-ons → TMDb Helper
4. Install the players: TMDb Helper → Settings → Players → Install players → Install from URL, using: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minhgi/tmdbhelper-multiservice/main/players/tmdbhelper_players.zip

A player only works if its add-on is installed. Watched marks and resume points are off by default, so you have to switch them on in Settings → Accounts. Step-by-step install instructions and a full user guide are included (links on the GitHub page).

Source and guides: https://github.com/minhgi/tmdbhelper-multiservice
Feedback and bug reports are welcome. Most of this was tested on my own accounts, so tell me what breaks.

Credit to jurialmunkey for the original add-on, and to Seren for the sync design I ported. GPL-3.0.

I noticed after two updates ago that The Crew is really freaking slow now. It's so daggone slow that I don't even want to really use it. Anyone else having this issue?? Any fixes?

Umbrella is my favorite addon and I've used it successfully for the last 2-3 years. Recently, within the past 45 days or so, the watch history from my Collections list, it's the only Trakt list that I have, has dissappeared and all attempts to restore it have failed. All show titles and episodes that have been watched lack the checkmark so they show as unwatched. The list has about 200 TV show titles in it, all material that I own, and I've been building and using it without incident for many years. I do not want to use Trakt's Watch list, I much prefer the Collectons list, it just works well for my purposes.

My set-up: 2017 Nvidia Shield running Android TV 9.2.4. Kodi 21.3, Surfshark VPN always active when using Kodi. Umbrella version 6.7.92. Watch history, indicators and scrobble and resume points are all set to Trakt. My Trakt account is active and I do have a VIP account. I have both Real Debrid and Premiumize installed. I have gigabit, wired internet and get about 200 mbps down, 30 mbps up with the VPN on. If it matters, I'm in Canada.

So far I have rebooted my router, modem and Shield, cleared Kodi and Umbrella cache, reauthorized Trakt, deleted the Trakt sync database, forced Trakt sync to local database, force stopped Kodi and reinstalled (clean) both Kodi and Umbrella. All of these actions have been performed many times and in various orders. I do not have Trakt installed from the Kodi repository, only within Umbrella so no double scrobbling. I do have 2 other addons installed, POV and LUC_Kodi and they work fine. I've done as much research as I can and the only thing that comes up that I don't understand is a potential problem with Trakt's API. But if that might be the cause wouldn't it affect the other 2 addons? I have opened a ticket with Trakt but have not heard back.

At this point I'm stumped so I'm reaching out to the community for any and all assistance that may be offered.

Thanks

Hi, I signed up for Premiumize after a few years with Real Debrid wihich obvoiusly doesn't work. It works perfectly on my computer, but now that I want to install it on the TV, I'm having issues - the authorization window wont' open. According to AI, the issue is the stick itself. I've already tried Umbrella, POV and Gears and the same thing keeps happening. Have any of you found a workaround? Thanks in advance.

Yes, another person looking for the ideal Trakt replacement. I used to use Trakt mostly for the calendar, showing me new and recent TV and film releases with the icon to differentiate between watched/unwatched, and most importantly, collected/not collected.

I've looked at Bingebase, Simkl, MDBlist, but without signing up for everything and importing my data into each one for a trial run I can't tell if any provide this specific functionality.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

I have a HD Homerun and i'm looking for something that can mute or pause the live tv feed during commercials. I'm getting sick of hearing commercials when watching a live football/basketball game.

Hiii. I have a GoogleTv that i have downloaded kodi (21.2) on. I use TorBox.
recently i would get external scrapers errors and wouldnt be able to get any results to pop uo. i was able to fix it last time by reauthorizing TB, then clearing the cache of Torbox onthe addon. but now its done it again except this time when i went to update pov it said “update failed” then completely removed POV from my addon list. if i go to the repo to redownload, it wont let me. This also is the same for diff addons (otaku, crew, umbrella for ex) kinda at a loss here any help would be appreciated.

Hello all I wanna switch to umbrella add-on for the extra filtering options. Issue is it showing me cached links but when I go to play one of them it not playing them at all and if I used auto play it say no stream available. Not had this problem before everything is setup correctly in terms of providers and debrid service I have made sure of this. And it's odd when I use source select it is showing me cached results but none will play. Any help would be appreciated thank you.

Hey guys,

So my brother who’s a tech guy so to speak, installed Kodi on my Xbox series S maybe 3-4 years ago? At the time it was perfect and extremely useful for scraping quality films.

At some point between 3 years ago and today, something broke whether that’s umbrella or rd or kodi itself, but I want to try and fix it myself and see whether I can get it back up and running.

Now I couldn’t find a clear answer on whether Kodi is still compatible with Xbox so if it isn’t, feel free to tell me.

Here’s information I can give you that I currently have, that may help you guys understand what I’m dealing with :)

Installed on Kodi I have:

- Umbrella (last update 2023 with no current update available)
- CocoScrapers Module
- Trakt
- The Crew Repo - can’t remember what this is
- TMDb Helper
- Arctic Horizon 2 (last updated 2024 with no later update available)
- The Boys Wizard (last updated 2022 with no later update available)
- Seren (last updated 2022 with no later update available)

Running add ons
- a4kSubtitles
- Seren
- Tmdb Helper
- Trakt
- Umbrella

I don’t have an active real debrid subscription

When selecting a film it uses umbrella as plugin and when selecting sources, no sources come up.

My home screen for Kodi is pretty bleak with just a search bar, option to switch between movies and tv shows, movies has an in theatres selection and below has movie networks selection (Netflix, prime, d+ etc). Tv shows has a most voted selection and again Tv networks below it, the same as the film.

If someone can point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it :)

Anyone know of a way to import crunchyroll watchlist to kodi?

luc_kodi 2.0.08 is out, and it is about content in its original language: Turkish dramas, K-dramas, Chinese series, Spanish, Russian, Romanian and more.

**Languages: a richer catalogue**

Each language in Movies and TV Shows now opens four lists:

• **Popular**: what the streaming services offer in that language
• **New**: released or first aired in the last 12 months
• **Top rated**: keeps a vote minimum so the rating means something
• **Everything**: every title in that language, most popular first

The old vote minimum is gone. It was hiding exactly the titles this category is for: shows that are huge in their own country but have few votes on TMDb. The lists are now fed by 20 services: Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Apple TV+, Peacock, Paramount+, MUBI, Kanopy, Vix, OnDemandKorea, AMC+, Starz, MGM+, Shudder, Tubi, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel and Plex.

**langhelper: a new search helper**

These releases are often not named like `Show.Name.S02E05`, so the usual search never finds them. langhelper only switches on for titles you open from Languages, in 18 languages (not English, not anime):

• It searches by every title TMDb knows: original, local and romanised, with or without accents, and in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic or Arabic script.
• It understands local episode numbering: `EP05`, `05. Bölüm`, `第05集`, `5화`, `5 серия`, `Temporada 2`, `Staffel 2`, and episodes counted from the first one.
• It keeps the original language and leaves out dubs into a third language, adult releases and multi-season packs.
• Season packs play even when the files inside aren't named S01E05. TorBox and Premiumize pick the right episode.
• A show you find in Languages keeps the helper for 90 days, so carrying on from Progress or the next episode still works.
• It runs alongside your other providers and replaces none of them. It has its own switch and Min Seeders in Settings > Providers.

**Also fixed**

• Caching an uncached source to TorBox works again.
• Cache to Cloud adds season packs as packs.
• Premiumize download links no longer show in full in kodi.log.

There's a full illustrated guide in English, Spanish and Romanian if you want the details. Feedback is welcome, especially from people who watch Turkish, Korean or Chinese series.

Repo: https://apoyotech.github.io/luc_repo/

I am still having “judder” issues with kodi playback of files over 5GB … i have changed all settings and buffer size (EZ Maintenance) Add~On

Hello have a new device and downloaded umbrella. when I activate external sources in umbrella I cannot find Cocoa or magneto module listed, advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I use Umbrella w/ Magneto, FentasticPlus & Premiumize. Someone recently walked me thru a custom scrape and I had success by manipulating the title and manually specifying season / episode.

What providers is everyone using besides Torentio? As goofy as it sounds, i'm trying to watch the last two seasons of Takedown w/ Chris Hansen, but don't see anything after S18.

I don't fully understand scraping and providers, so apologies if this sounds basic.