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Kodi addon for LaunchBox 1.6.0

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Launches LaunchBox in Big Box mode from within Kodi - It will close or minimize Kodi, launch LaunchBox in Big Box mode and when Big Box is exited Kodi will restart or maximize, with the option to run programs pre/post LaunchBox. It works with Windows only.

Features:
BigBox Startup video and splash screen support
LaunchBox and BigBox Updater support
LaunchBox (Free or Premium) and BigBox mode selection
Multiple Monitor detection and handling
Pre/Post scripts
Minimize or close Kodi option
Launcher Helper script version check
Supports Kodi 19, 20 and Kodi Windows Store versions.

Requirements:
Windows PC
LaunchBox (Premium or Free)
Kodi 19, 20 or Windows Store for Windows
Kodi 16, 17, 18, 19 for Windows (Up to version 1.5.9, BigBox only)

Known Issues:
Due to Windows Store's UWA security restrictions, user must set a save directory under the plugin's Advanced Settings to a directory of the user choice where the plugin's ahk helper script and icon file can be saved.
Taskbar will flash on Kodi Windows Store version (UWA) using 1.5.4+. Current workaround is to switch to Kodi non-UWA or to minimize effects, enable hide taskbar in advance options, remove Cortana search bar and change taskbar to black.
Starting with version 1.5.6, due to windows security restriction on SMB shares over IP  (eg. \\192.168.1.1\shared-folder\), the addon will produce an error saying it is not supported. Current workaround is to enable SMB fix in Advance settings to replace IP with supplied server name or enable SMBv1 on server and computer to allow NetBIOS name resolutions in Kodi.
Kodi-six package is now required with 1.5.6-1.5.9, addon will fail if after first installation of Kodi-six package dependency, Kodi was not restarted.

Install instructions:
Use 'Install from Zip' in Kodi and browse to the directory the plugin's zip was downloaded to and select it.

Configuration:
This plugin requires the user to set the location of their LaunchBox directory in the addon settings before first use. eg. C:\Users\<username>\LaunchBox\

PLEASE NOTE:
     THIS PLUGIN WILL PRODUCE AN ERROR DURING INSTALL IN KODI ON ANY OPERATING SYSTEM THAT CANNOT RUN LAUNCHBOX.
     SINCE LAUNCHBOX IS CURRENTLY WINDOWS ONLY THAT IS THE ONLY OPERATING SYSTEM THE PLUGIN CURRENTLY SUPPORTS.

ATTENTION: WILL NOT WORK ON ANDROID (BOX, SMART TV, ETC.), IOS or MAC AND LINUX.

Edited by CoinTos


What's New in Version 1.6.0   See changelog

Released

CHANGES in 1.5.9:
Add support for LaunchBox and BigBox modes
- Kodi 19+ support only
- Detect which monitor has Kodi on it and moves LaunchBox to it
- A ton of bug fixes

KNOWN ISSUES:
- The upgrade support in this addon's Autohotkey script will not work properly with the auto download background option for LaunchBox enabled. Current workaround is to remove the check mark from the "Automatically Download Updates in the Background" box in LaunchBox's Options under the Updates section.
- Taskbar will flash on Kodi Windows Store version (UWA). Current workaround is to switch to Kodi non-UWA or to minimize effects, enable hide task bar in advance options, remove Cortana search bar and change taskbar to black.
- Due to windows security restriction on SMB shares over IP  (eg. \\192.168.1.1\shared-folder\), the addon will produce an error saying it is not supported. Current workaround is to enable SMB fix in Advance settings to replace IP with supplied server name or enable SMBv1 on server and computer to allow NetBIOS name resolutions in Kodi.

RELEASE NOTICE:
This release moves the addon to only Kodi 19+ and dropping support for all previous Kodi versions. It also adds support for LaunchBox (Free or Premium) and BigBox modes as well as multi monitor detection.

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Fantastic addon this, thanks for the hard work CoinTos.

I updated to Kodi 20.0 this morning which stopped this addon working though. Upon checking the Kodi logs was getting the error:  "AttributeError: module 'xbmc' has no attribute 'translatePath'"

Was able to fix this by amending the main.py script for this addon as below:

added: 'import xbmcvfs' underneath Ln8

amended Ln63 to be: ' path = xbmcvfs.translatePath('special://profile/addon_data/%s' % scriptid)'

Hope that helps someone. Cheers.

 

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4 hours ago, hellgate24 said:

Fantastic addon this, thanks for the hard work CoinTos.

I updated to Kodi 20.0 this morning which stopped this addon working though. Upon checking the Kodi logs was getting the error:  "AttributeError: module 'xbmc' has no attribute 'translatePath'"

Was able to fix this by amending the main.py script for this addon as below:

added: 'import xbmcvfs' underneath Ln8

amended Ln63 to be: ' path = xbmcvfs.translatePath('special://profile/addon_data/%s' % scriptid)'

Hope that helps someone. Cheers.

 

Maybe use clean install kodi with English Language. Because addon can't install with my Language. Maybe other languages not work too. 

And tried to changing language after install ıt's work properly. Only updates install etc need English. 

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4 minutes ago, eonder87 said:

Maybe use clean install kodi with English Language. Because addon can't install with my Language. Maybe other languages not work too. 

And tried to changing language after install ıt's work properly. Only updates install etc need English. 

His error has to do with a change in the xbmc function structure (see here for changes in Kodi 20) but as for the language issue, a po file would need to be created for the language in question and the english version translated. There is support for that already but I am english only (sorry and I don't trust google translate) so I would need someone to provide the translation for wanted languages and I can include them. If you are interested the po file in the latest beta post on my testing thread is in resources\languages\resource.languages.en_gb folder, translate it and post and attach the po in the testing thread and I will include it in the next release.

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6 minutes ago, CoinTos said:

His error has to do with a change in the xbmc function structure (see here for changes in Kodi 20) but as for the language issue, a po file would need to be created for the language in question and the english version translated. There is support for that already but I am english only (sorry and I don't trust google translate) so I would need someone to provide the translation for wanted languages and I can include them. If you are interested the po file in the latest beta post on my testing thread is in resources\languages\resource.languages.en_gb folder, translate it and post and attach the po in the testing thread and I will include it in the next release.

Yeah I will do that translation. Py3 version iş working without any problem. Your kodi extension is perfect. Using kodi for movies TV shows and music. And one single click and reach games iş awesome. 

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It doesn't appear to be working in Kodi v21 RC2  (Alpha 2). I am getting this:

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Any ideas or suggestions I can try?

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10 hours ago, The Papaw said:

It doesn't appear to be working in Kodi v21 RC2  (Alpha 2). I am getting this:

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Any ideas or suggestions I can try?

It doesn't like the window size parameters it was given, which implies something in Kodi has changed and AutoHotkey isn't detecting what it needs to detect to get size and position information, I am guessing you have a multi monitor setup. If you check the logs in Kodi's userdata/addon_data/script.launchbox.launcher/scripts folder it will show either invalid or blank where numbers should be for "Loading blank gui" info. If post a sanitized launcher log it will give me more information. I will try and take a look at it more this weekend.

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13 hours ago, CoinTos said:

It doesn't like the window size parameters it was given, which implies something in Kodi has changed and AutoHotkey isn't detecting what it needs to detect to get size and position information, I am guessing you have a multi monitor setup. If you check the logs in Kodi's userdata/addon_data/script.launchbox.launcher/scripts folder it will show either invalid or blank where numbers should be for "Loading blank gui" info. If post a sanitized launcher log it will give me more information. I will try and take a look at it more this weekend.

Thanks for getting back. I do have multi monitor setup  (4k monitor + 4k TV, with monitor as primary). It works great when using kodi v20.1, so I went back to it. It may be an issue in the kodi 21.0.2 as it is a release candidate. If I get some free time I will test again or maybe when they they have another update. I will make sure to check the log. Thanks 

 

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On 6/23/2023 at 8:00 AM, The Papaw said:

Thanks for getting back. I do have multi monitor setup  (4k monitor + 4k TV, with monitor as primary). It works great when using kodi v20.1, so I went back to it. It may be an issue in the kodi 21.0.2 as it is a release candidate. If I get some free time I will test again or maybe when they they have another update. I will make sure to check the log. Thanks 

 

So I downloaded Kodi Prerelease 21 Alpha2 this morning and could not recreate the problem so I believe it was an isolated issue with their release candidate. If you do get an issue again post in the Kodi addon for LaunchBox - Testing thread with sanitized logs and I will try to look into it.

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7 minutes ago, CoinTos said:

So I downloaded Kodi Prerelease 21 Alpha2 this morning and could not recreate the problem so I believe it was an isolated issue with their release candidate. If you do get an issue again post in the Kodi addon for LaunchBox - Testing thread with sanitized logs and I will try to look into it.

I will do. Thank you very much!

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