Recommend a Kodi Box

[Baresi]

Going to install this later on today:

 

http://kodiisengard.com/2015/12/23/install-the-beast-1-5-the-easiest-way-fool-proof-and-repo/

 

Mate has just installed and said it's boss.

[Boss]

Last night I jailbreaked (is that a word?) an old Apple TV 2 and put Kodi 14.2 on it.  Works fine.  What I need from you experts is some decent addons to add on.  

 

Sport - NJM Soccer, Phoenix, Sports Devil

Football reruns - Football today, Football Replays, Sparkys football highlights

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

I have one of these:

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/DroidBOX-T8-Android-Isengard-Airplay/dp/B00OWLS7HG

 

Had it for 9 months and it's still awesome.

[Boss]

There is one called P2P streams that is fantastic but it messed with my other devices, it required you to download an acestream bundle to use it. But all the games were buffer free in 720p or 1080p.

[bossy]

Ive installed the fire stick, downloaded Kodi as per instructions but the channels shown are limited and hardly any sport, tv or movie ones. None of the good footy ones mentioned are there and I feel it's a bit jarg. Have I gone wrong somwhere? Shouting at my telly a lot.

[bossy]

I have metal kettle now so sports are showing. Can't find our game yet.

[Captain Turdseye]

You need to install some add-ons, mate. I get by OK on these two.

 

Genesis - Films and TV - https://seo-michael.co.uk/how-to-manually-install-gotv-for-xbmc/

 

NJMsoccer - Footy and other sport - https://seo-michael.co.uk/tutorial-how-to-install-njm-soccer-kodi-xbmc/

 

There were plenty of links to the game on NJMsoccer today.

[bossy]

Thanks Captain, I found the footy on a Turkish thing. Made up!

[Joe Strummer]

Get Phoenix. Great for live footy or sport and movies.

[Captain Turdseye]

The Phoenix TV section which had all the football has disappeared from mine now.

[Joe Strummer]

It's on Staael2014 under Live TV. Great films and good quality under Rockcrusher.

[cloggypop]

The bloke who made The Beast custom build is currently going mental on Facebook as he thinks somebody has robbed it off him. They have basically made their own version. Just like he did. He is stamping his feet and saying it's over for him. It's pretty funny.

 

[Furmedge]

The Phoenix TV section which had all the football has disappeared from mine now.

Noticed that myself earlier but as Joe says Staael is still there. I use NJM for my football.

 

Have you seen the HD quality on NJM? This is my darts feed from earlier;

 

[Brownie]

I watched the Leicester v City game on NJM before, it was brilliant quality.

[VladimirIlyich]

Couldnt load NJM streams on my firestick. Stael on Phoenix was good though.

[VladimirIlyich]

The bloke who made The Beast custom build is currently going mental on Facebook as he thinks somebody has robbed it off him. They have basically made their own version. Just like he did. He is stamping his feet and saying it's over for him. It's pretty funny.

Nerd fight!

My Spectrum was better than your C64,na,na,na,na,na!

[skend04]

Amazon Fire Stick is £19.99 today in the Amazon Prime sale. The 4K Fire Box is £55. Only one per customer though and for Prime members. Can get a 30 day free trial though.

[Paulie Dangerously]

What sort of internet speeds will I need to get a fire stick up and running effectively for the sports, box sets etc?  I can get fibre optics in my area but speeds of 22-33 estimated through plusnet.  Is this sufficient or will it be choppy as fuck?

[Captain Turdseye]

Mine was working fine at 6-7Mb, mate. It was only when I got more Firesticks for the house that I decided to upgrade the broadband. We're on about 35Mb now and there's no noticeable difference on Kodi. Usually any problems seem to come from the sites that are hosting the streams but there's so many add ons to choose from that it's easy to find a working stream.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Mine was working fine at 6-7Mb, mate. It was only when I got more Firesticks for the house that I decided to upgrade the broadband. We're on about 35Mb now and there's no noticeable difference on Kodi. Usually any problems seem to come from the sites that are hosting the streams but there's so many add ons to choose from that it's easy to find a working stream.

 

Cheers Turdsey, I'm going to be one of those really annoying people now who, rather than read the entire massive thread, will just ask my own questions and hope someone answers them:

 

1. Can you get the standard channels through it? My telly only has one HMDI slot and I couldn't be bothered having to change it all the time (I am aware I can buy a splitter)
2. How easy is it to update/add new programs to it?  
3. Are there sites like wiziwig which would give you the listings for the sport etc 
4. Are the box sets good quality?
5. For the usage we'll have (Box sets, live footy, films, kids shows if possible) is a stick sufficient or is one of these super duper boxes better?

Cheers!

[Captain Turdseye]

Cloggypop is the Kodi king of TLW, he'll be able to answer in greater detail but I'll give it a go.

 

1. You can add Iplayer, ITV player, 4OD and Demand 5 onto the Firestick alongside Kodi. The BBC and ITV ones have a live tv option now anyway. There's also plenty of links available for all the freeview channels and quite a few of the Sky ones in various Kodi add ons. You can even set up a TV guide which looks similar to the set up on Sky, that allows you to set reminders and all that jazz.

 

2. Piece of piss, you'll pick it up in no time at all. Alternatively you can install a 'build' which is just a Kodi set up that someone else has done. Most of these include the TV guide and loads of the add ons ready and waiting to go but they can be a bit overloaded and slow.

 

3. Yeah, SportsDevil, Castaway and probably a few more are set up that way.

 

4. Yeah, all spot on. I was getting GoT at 8am on the day of broadcast in full HD.

 

5. Here's where you'll need Cloggy to chip in. I have no problems at all with the Firestick and don't know about the boxes cos I've never had one. Carvalho Diablo has a box and by the sounds of it he's put a lot more onto it than I've got on the stick. Too much would slow the stick down but you really don't need loads anyway. The add ons come and go so it's worth learning how to install them, it only takes a minute or two once you've got the hang of it.

 

Loads of good advice in the XBMC thread further down. That's how I initially got into it, ended up cancelling my Sky TV virtually straight away.

[Captain Turdseye]

Oh, and it's dead easy to add and remove the porn whilst the missus is out.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Nice one turdseye rep administered. 

[cloggypop]

Just get a Firestick if they are still 20 quid, Paulie. They are fine for what you want.

 

If you have a hard drive already full of downloads you want to play then it might be worth spending a bit more.

[Captain Turdseye]

See, I told you Cloggy was the man for in depth answers.