[pvagner]

Hello,

I have not posted here for a long while. Since that time I have updated my setup to Kodi 17, I'm using it with new estuary skin and I must say I quite like it.
The major disadvantage is that OSD menus are not readable with this addon. To those of you using Kodi 17 can you describe this screen? Is it controllable from the keyboard alone? Are there some texts on the controls or is this pure graphic only?
I am not sure it's doable but I would like to tinker with this a bit to make it more accessible.

There is other thing that significantly affects us relying on this addon since Kodi 17. Service addons are not started automagically after install and they have to be enabled.
I have found a way how to hack around this. I am running Kodi on linux and openelec and I can do the following:
- Install Kodi using the distro package manager
- If you are running Kodi from a desktop session create a ~/.kodi/addons folder structure in your home directory. If your Kodi runs standalone you have to find out where its stores its files and tweak the path accordingly.
- Unzip the zip file with the addon into the addons folder you have just created.
- Start kodi and arrow around the home screen. Make sure you can hear clicking sound as you are navigating on the Kodi home screen.
- Now close kodi by pressing letter s followed by the enter key or if you are on the desktop you can also press alt+F4.
- Now use sqlite3 through the terminal to poke at the database file ~/.kodi/userdata/Database/Addons27.db
- When you can see sqlite prompt type in the following:
UPDATE installed SET enabled=1 WHERE addonID='service.xbmc.tts';
- Now you are done editing sqlite database just exit out of sqlite by typing in
.q
- On the Kodi launch Screen reader can start talking assuming at least one supported tts engine is installed.

I think these steps might apply to other platforms mainly Windows and mac with some minor variations.

Greetings

Peter