I'm new to xbmc and haven't had much experience with it so excuse me if I'm about to ask a stupid question. I was interested in creating my own addon and I was wondering if there is a way to auto update my addon so that xbmc automatically installs the newest version. I want to build my kids a video channel addon that gets the videos from various websites. I also wanted to install this at a friends house for his children to watch. I was wondering if there was some way where every time i add more videos or change a link to a video that the addon will update on both boxes. Thank you in advance.
Welcome.
XBMC has a setting on the side left-slide menu, enable auto-updates (radio box) when you are in addons. But its a all or nothing setting. That is when a updated addon has been submitted to a repo. So XBMC will audo-update the addon however the code has to be submited to a repo. (way above my head this)
Not familiar with any other methods.
uNi
If it will be a "private" plugin you can create your own repo which will host that plugin.
Install that on each xbmc install. And then install the plugin from that repo.
If you want to update your plugin simple update your repo and everyone will get the update
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...or_add-ons
If more people could benefit and you want to spread it amongst the public you can also request it to be added to xbmc repo (provided that it's conform our repo rules)
I have one more question. How do you create a MD5 checksum file for the addon.xml
shouldn't the script on that wiki page take care of that?
I tried installing my repo and it was a total bust.I hosted it on a normal http server. I Been trying to read up on github but i cant figure out how to upload my folder.