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Kodi now has TVmaze as a TV information provider.

Hi everyone,

We're happy to announce that Kodi, now has TVmaze as an official TV information provider option.

What is Kodi?

Kodi is one of the biggest media centers. It's an open source application for streaming media content and completely free. 
It can play various types of media such as videos and music. The service doesn’t provide any of its own media. Instead, it catalogs locally saved files, dvds, cd's and other sources from the internet. More detailed info here (wikipedia).

Much like TVmaze, there is a large community of people contributing to the project. If you're a developer definitely check out what they are up to. Who knows, maybe you can help.

If you're not familiar with Kodi and would like to try it out, go to https://kodi.tv/

Once you have Kodi installed, you'll have to select TVmaze as the TV data provider.
You can do that by following these steps:

  1. The home screen
  2. Add-ons
  3. Download
  4. Information providers (v16 and higher)
  5. TV information
  6. TV Maze
  7. Install
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A big thanks goes out to Roman V.M. from Kodi for collaborating with us on this.

During the development it also became clear that we should expand on show image types. So we're now also providing show background images/banners and logo's/typography. More info on the guidelines can be found in the FAQ.

Let us know your thoughts in the comments and how we can continue to improve.

P.S: Bonus Desktop Background

Written by Jan at Oct 31, 2019

Comments

heyted posted 4 years ago

Great news! Nice desktop background image.

SeanMichael posted 4 years ago

tnt: A TVMAZE plugin for Plex is available.

alexx posted 4 years ago

Kodi, (is amazing) and unlike certain "lesser forks" this integration with TVmaze is the sort of thing that highlights the power and versatility of Kodi and collaboration. Thank you.

LadyCuddles posted 4 years ago

I'm kinda new on TVMaze, found it a couple years back when another TV provider went dark. I'm not only impressed with TVMaze, but can't live without it now. Good to see open source in the Main Stream as well. TVMaze has been my "go to" for anything TV, and if it isn't on here, it is usually added within a month or two (for those really hard to find shows). It's really great to see others recognize TVMaze as an excellent source for anything TV :D

Alastor posted 4 years ago

Oh no

Jan posted 4 years ago

@tnt feel free to ask them. If not, the only obvious choice is to switch to Kodi.

Also: https://www.tvmaze.com/threads/935/plex-media-server-tvmaze-metadata-agent

MrCorleone posted 4 years ago

Nice one. This is really good news. I use Kodi on daily base ;)

kathy posted 4 years ago

Been waiting a long time for this. Lovely news.

tnt posted 4 years ago

Any hope for Plex?

JuanArango posted 4 years ago

Very nice, I am using Kodi like forever, TVMAZE is growing :)

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