2015-11-11, 01:43
The time has come to refresh all the t1m addons to take advantage of some new features in Helix/Isengard.
I will be discontinuing support for the t1m addons in the kodi.org Gotham repo over time as they break, in favor of the new V2 ones.
http://addons.kodi.tv/author/t1m/
I will add the new addons as they are finished and user tested to the Helix/Isengard/Jarvis kodi.org repo.
There are a few reasons why I'm doing this:
- I have more 40 addons in the kodi.org repo which I've written over a 2 year time span starting with zero knowledge of python and without bothering to read any of the xbmc/kodi documentation. Now that I know python a bit better and have actually read some of kodi documentation, I realize that I've been doing a lot of things wrong and I want to clean up my act a bit.
- I want to leave the current Gotham addons in place for a long as I can
- many of my addons need https support in ffmpeg, which is reliably available on all platforms starting with Helix
- I want to use listitem.setSubtitles() to get rid of timer delays when setting subtitles and individual addon settings to enable/disable subtitles.
- I have moved a bunch of common routines back into a common script module for all addons to make maintenance a lot easier.
- as part of the common routines, addon metadata url caching will greatly improve the performance of some of the addons which need to scrape a bunch of pages to get their metadata
Don't expect rocket science or miracles in this re-write, just an easier to maintain and hopefully faster user experience.
For those who are brave enough to try, test and can provide feedback I have made a test repo available. I believe that these addons can co-reside with the ones in the kodi.org repo, but they are for test and mistakes may happen.
Test repo addon for v2 addons zip download:
https://github.com/learningit/repository...V1.0.1.zip
Source for the test repo is here:
https://github.com/learningit/repository...odi_addons
I will be discontinuing support for the t1m addons in the kodi.org Gotham repo over time as they break, in favor of the new V2 ones.
http://addons.kodi.tv/author/t1m/
I will add the new addons as they are finished and user tested to the Helix/Isengard/Jarvis kodi.org repo.
There are a few reasons why I'm doing this:
- I have more 40 addons in the kodi.org repo which I've written over a 2 year time span starting with zero knowledge of python and without bothering to read any of the xbmc/kodi documentation. Now that I know python a bit better and have actually read some of kodi documentation, I realize that I've been doing a lot of things wrong and I want to clean up my act a bit.
- I want to leave the current Gotham addons in place for a long as I can
- many of my addons need https support in ffmpeg, which is reliably available on all platforms starting with Helix
- I want to use listitem.setSubtitles() to get rid of timer delays when setting subtitles and individual addon settings to enable/disable subtitles.
- I have moved a bunch of common routines back into a common script module for all addons to make maintenance a lot easier.
- as part of the common routines, addon metadata url caching will greatly improve the performance of some of the addons which need to scrape a bunch of pages to get their metadata
Don't expect rocket science or miracles in this re-write, just an easier to maintain and hopefully faster user experience.
For those who are brave enough to try, test and can provide feedback I have made a test repo available. I believe that these addons can co-reside with the ones in the kodi.org repo, but they are for test and mistakes may happen.
Test repo addon for v2 addons zip download:
https://github.com/learningit/repository...V1.0.1.zip
Source for the test repo is here:
https://github.com/learningit/repository...odi_addons