2018-09-13, 14:18
I have a nice Kodi setup on Android and one of the things I've done is integrate the Netflix and Amazon Prime Video apps into my setup by customising my Mimic skin's home menu to add entries for those apps with the actions implemented via StartAndroidActivity, e.g. the menu action for Netflix is simply...
StartAndroidActivity(<Netflix-App-ID>)
For various reasons I'm considering switching my Kodi box to a Windows Mini PC, mainly because I have a TV tuner and would like to run a PVR backend to get live pause and rewind and I'd prefer the elegance of it all running on the same system. I also know Windows better so it will be easier to do some other stuff.
My problem is that in Windows 10 there isn't really any supported living room ("lean back") interface so I want Kodi to do that for me and be able to launch all the Windows apps that I care about from Kodi menu or submenu items hence my search for a Windows equivalent of StartAndroidActivity().
I have found other threads talking about the now-defunct but still out there Advanced Launcher and also "Advanced Emulator Launcher" but I quite like elegant simplicity and the Mimic skin allows the user to edit whatever they want into the action field for a menu item which is why I am hoping there might be some equivalent to StartAndroidActivity() that would allow me to do the callouts and presumably get control returned to Kodi afterwards very simply.
My maybe crazy Plan B is to run an instance of Android using virtualbox(https://www.howtogeek.com/164570/how-to-...irtualbox/) to host my Kodi, Netflix and Amazon Prime apps (those are the only 2 external apps that I really care about) and run the PVR backend and offer NAS services to the rest of my network from the base Windows OS. (Yes, I know that Plex on Android can now advertise NAS folders but it assigns the password and for various reasons I want to be able to assign the password so it's not ideal and is my second reason for considering a switch to Windows.)
Any thoughts, suggestions, experiences or ideally a pointer to the built-in function I am hoping to find (which I fear might not exist since my googling didn't find it) would be much appreciated. Thanks.
- Julian
StartAndroidActivity(<Netflix-App-ID>)
For various reasons I'm considering switching my Kodi box to a Windows Mini PC, mainly because I have a TV tuner and would like to run a PVR backend to get live pause and rewind and I'd prefer the elegance of it all running on the same system. I also know Windows better so it will be easier to do some other stuff.
My problem is that in Windows 10 there isn't really any supported living room ("lean back") interface so I want Kodi to do that for me and be able to launch all the Windows apps that I care about from Kodi menu or submenu items hence my search for a Windows equivalent of StartAndroidActivity().
I have found other threads talking about the now-defunct but still out there Advanced Launcher and also "Advanced Emulator Launcher" but I quite like elegant simplicity and the Mimic skin allows the user to edit whatever they want into the action field for a menu item which is why I am hoping there might be some equivalent to StartAndroidActivity() that would allow me to do the callouts and presumably get control returned to Kodi afterwards very simply.
My maybe crazy Plan B is to run an instance of Android using virtualbox(https://www.howtogeek.com/164570/how-to-...irtualbox/) to host my Kodi, Netflix and Amazon Prime apps (those are the only 2 external apps that I really care about) and run the PVR backend and offer NAS services to the rest of my network from the base Windows OS. (Yes, I know that Plex on Android can now advertise NAS folders but it assigns the password and for various reasons I want to be able to assign the password so it's not ideal and is my second reason for considering a switch to Windows.)
Any thoughts, suggestions, experiences or ideally a pointer to the built-in function I am hoping to find (which I fear might not exist since my googling didn't find it) would be much appreciated. Thanks.
- Julian