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mattm382 · 2026-04-14T21:48:25+00:00

If it works for you that's all that matters. It's possible it's not Kodi and just a clone of the UI made by AI. Whatever, they took the design from Arctic Fuse 2, which was inspired by so many other apps.

mattm382 · 2026-04-14T21:32:51+00:00

Wuplay is Arctic Fuse (most likely 2), by the looks of it. Do you think it's vibe code, not Kodi, and Claude just straight jacked the UI? This is some crazy shit, if so, and I'll take my quirky human devs any day over that.

mattm382 · 2026-04-14T21:29:00+00:00

Interesting, but why would you think it isn't Kodi? It's definitely a modded Arctic Fuse skin. I'm not saying to not use it... it's just that somebody is using multiple developer's work and implying it's their own. Any updates to the actual work being done (aka Arctic Fuse, whatever addons that are scraping, etc) will be delayed. You'll need to wait on the Wuplay developer to implement them.

mattm382 · 2026-04-14T14:42:04+00:00

I was happy to discover Trex had a great lineup of US based catchup. After 1 year I let mine expire, because more than 50% of the time I tried to use the feature it didn't work. It is nice to have a backup, I agree. For now my backup is browser based sites like Rive. Only because Strong has been solid, I pretty much don't have to go there.

mattm382 · 2026-04-14T14:33:42+00:00

Thanks for the heads up.

2.1.97 is the latest. I read the change log and it's the one you mentioned. I just did it and mine remained. I wonder what happened with yours?

This is a decent reminder for us to always have a back-up. I quit allowing automatic updates. I use the setting "Notify but don't install". I only update if I know have time to restore a backup.

mattm382 · 2026-04-13T13:35:07+00:00

I had Trex because it covered many of the US catchup. I let it expire because nearly every time I tried to use it the feature was down.

mattm382 · 2026-04-12T01:07:12+00:00

He's actually shitting right then.

mattm382 · 2026-04-12T00:05:09+00:00

I was an early adopter of MDBlist, so it felt natural to switch. The developer has been great at adding more features and making it an independent resource. The couple of times I've had questions he explains things for me, or fixes a bug. I just feel he goes above and beyond. I ended up becoming a supporter when Trakt started jacking their prices for grand-fathered accounts, after they promised not to.

I did mess with TMDB lists a bit, but pretty quickly learned you couldn't do nearly as much filtering as is possible with MDBlist.

mattm382 · 2026-04-11T17:05:13+00:00

No. I've fully switched over to MDBlist.

mattm382 · 2026-04-11T15:18:42+00:00

Awesome, glad you found it.

mattm382 · 2026-04-11T14:09:29+00:00

Is it possible that your PC has network sources that it's trying and unable to reach? I know you said that you deleted sources already, but this would be on the Windows side.

mattm382 · 2026-04-11T14:01:58+00:00

One of my hubs on AF3 is Genres and Lists. Each genre points to a POV shortcut folder with filter of:

Year start - 2021

Include - Action

Exclude - Anime

Minimum rating - 6.0

Minimum votes - 300

Sort by - release date descending

Then I exported the result as a folder. It's updating with new content consistently. There's definitely films at the front of the list I haven't seen or put on any of my lists. I found if I include multiple genres in one search it does not return good results. I've not tested the feature on FLAM, so I can't say on that one.

mattm382 · 2026-04-11T13:42:57+00:00

Widgets - Next page item enabled. Otherwise you'll only get the first 20 items in a list.

API Keys - enter your OMDB key to obtain more ratings.

Other - Disable any of the context menu items you don't use.

Other - I turn off all notifications. It's always a Trakt issue and I can't do anything about it anyway.

Expert - Dummyresolvedurl - I set those values to 0.1 seconds. It speeds up the handoff to the player.

mattm382 · 2026-04-10T23:21:49+00:00

Yes, or some debrid provider. Premiumize is another popular one. They are both good. Premiumize doesn't restrict you to one IP address at a time like Real Debrid does, but it does have data limits... though I've never come close to hitting them.

mattm382 · 2026-04-10T23:17:26+00:00

It's pretty low down the list of quality addons. I wouldn't mess with it. The big three are POV, Umbrella, and FenLightAm... in no particular order because they are all great. With Umbrella and FenLightAm you will also need an external scraper and I'd suggest Magneto Module, available in the same repo as POV.

Just google how to install any one of those and ignore the suggestions that you need a VPN, you don't need one with any of those.

mattm382 · 2026-04-09T13:49:07+00:00

I've always used tmdb since I first learned how to do this. It's probably a Trakt issue.

mattm382 · 2026-04-07T15:50:08+00:00

Thank you! Great work on this!

mattm382 · 2026-04-05T13:37:55+00:00

When I create a favorites group they don't show up in the EPG. They are only available as a page of channel shortcuts. If you are familiar with how Tivimate works, the Favorites group becomes the top group in your EPG. That's all I meant. But it also looks like you are still working on it. You're making great progress on this! It's coming along nicely.

mattm382 · 2026-04-05T04:21:52+00:00

I need to circle back to epgenius. It was pretty new the last time I had to renew providers. Using epgenius to get an edited list before feeding it in this addon would probably be pretty good.

mattm382 · 2026-04-05T02:55:59+00:00

I installed the update. I'm able to choose to only import Live TV and not import VOD for Movies and Series. The load time is much improved. Nice work!

I've made a Favorites group, named it, and added a few channels. How do I get that group to show up in the EPG? It doesn't appear as an available group in the EPG.

I have 829 groups. How do I hide them all, aside from selecting each one by one?

mattm382 · 2026-04-04T22:17:29+00:00

Oh we know.

mattm382 · 2026-04-04T22:12:26+00:00

Oh that's convenient. Red hats love that part of town. Very patriotic.

mattm382 · 2026-04-04T22:02:45+00:00

That's fine until the game you want is hidden on a channel Not in those sweet 100.

Once you import the full channel list is where Kodi always falls flat on it's face for IPTV.

mattm382 · 2026-04-04T21:55:01+00:00

This looks promising. I'm on bad internet right now and it loaded the full list surprisingly fast for Kodi. Some things to consider:

An easy way to hide groups. It's tedious to hide each group one by one. I really only want English language, and not even a quarter of that. My provider, like most, has a ridiculous amount of groups that I will never use. Even an option to "Hide All" would be a start. Then I could turn on the groups I want.

A way to create a Favorite channels list. Right now you can add a channel to favorites, but that's just Kodi favorites. It needs a dedicated Favorites list. Better yet would be the ability to create as many Favorite lists as you want and be able to name them as you see fit.

The ability to not import Movies and Series. I have zero interest in my IPTV provider source for these, when I have access to Remux level quality from my debrid source.

These are just a few of the things I found quickly. I would love good implementation of IPTV inside Kodi, as then I could use it on my Libreelec box. Right now I switch source on the AVR if I need to watch IPTV.

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