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Hiding the mouse cursor in Kodi

I use Kodi with a touchscreen and wanted to hide the mouse cursor, but NOT disable mouse input. This can be done by using a 1×1 transparent PNG file as the mouse cursor. Find out what skin you’re using and where your skin directory is. For me this is “estouchy” and its directory is /usr/share/kodi/addons/skin.estouchy.Continue reading “Hiding the mouse cursor in Kodi”

Properly setting up a 5″ HDMI touchscreen for Kodi on Raspbian

Wow. This was a royal pita. I wanted to build this wake-up-light-alarm-clock-media-thingy for my girlfriend. Well, I got my hands on a RPi Zero and needed an LCD display. I found this nice-looking “WaveShare 4″ IPS display” on Ebay and spent days trying to get it to work properly. You want a hint? DONT DOContinue reading “Properly setting up a 5″ HDMI touchscreen for Kodi on Raspbian”

Adding backlight control to a 5″ HDMI screen (and Kodi)

So the screen from here is working in Kodi now (LCD datasheet / pinout), but it draws a lot of power when the backlight is on (~200mA extra). We want to turn at least the backlight off, leaving the touchscreen active so we can interact and wake it up again. Buuut the LCD has noContinue reading “Adding backlight control to a 5″ HDMI screen (and Kodi)”

Building a mobile magnet lamp / flashlight from repurposed parts

I needed a mobile “flashlight” in my car you could simple attach somewhere to the chassis where you’d need it. The are plenty of offers on the interwebs, so could have simply bought one, but I (as usual) had some parts lying around…I had: A spare 12Wh Li-Ion battery left over from my Kodi carContinue reading “Building a mobile magnet lamp / flashlight from repurposed parts”

Building a Kodi in-car entertainment system using a Motorola Atrix Lapdock and an Odroid C0

Watching movies in the car is great fun. It is even better when you have a camper and lie in your comfy sleeping bag – I needed an in-car entertainment system.I have a stereo in the car already that can even play videos, but the screen is small, codec support is limited and it isContinue reading “Building a Kodi in-car entertainment system using a Motorola Atrix Lapdock and an Odroid C0”

Using an USB joystick or gamepad in XBMC on Ubuntu

Now I have those cheap USB gamepads, XBMC running, the ROM collection browser addon and MAME all set up. Awesome! But why can’t I navigate XBMC with my joystick to select games and adjust the volume etc?! Here’s how to solve that problem… 1. Prequisites First of all you need joystick support and some tools.Continue reading “Using an USB joystick or gamepad in XBMC on Ubuntu”

Setting up an Arduino + LPD8806 ambilight using boblight with XBMC on Ubuntu

An Ambilight is a great thing – if it works. I want to write about some of the hoops I had to jump through to make it work. This is very Linux-specific, but you might take away something for other configurations too… Here is the original adalight tutorial, which I used to get this workingContinue reading “Setting up an Arduino + LPD8806 ambilight using boblight with XBMC on Ubuntu”