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Choosing Settings from the Home Screen opens the Settings Window. In this window, you are able to configure XBMC's options:
Choosing Settings from the Home Screen opens the Settings Window. In this window, you are able to configure XBMC's options:
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| {{big|'''[[Weather]]'''}}<br />Select which weather add-on to use, and a short cut to that add-on's configuration. Weather display options are found under [[Settings/Appearance|Appearance]] and sometimes under the individual skin options, depending on the skin you use.
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| {{big|'''[[Add-on manager]]'''}}<br />The add-on manager for XBMC. Manage your installed add-ons, browse for and install add-ons from xbmc.org and other locations, modify individual add-on settings, etc. Note that this is not where you go to run add-ons, but only to install and configure them.
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==Additional settings==
==Additional settings==

Revision as of 10:24, 14 April 2014

Home icon grey.png   ▶ General topics ▶ Settings

This section covers XBMC's various settings and where to find them.

New changes in XBMC v13 Gotham

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System settings

System settings.png

Most of XBMC's global settings can be configured via the GUI (Graphical User Interface) under Settings (labeled "System" under the default skin, Confluence).

Choosing Settings from the Home Screen opens the Settings Window. In this window, you are able to configure XBMC's options:

icon Appearance
Settings/Appearance 		icon Videos
Settings/Videos
icon Live TV
 icon Music
Settings/Music
icon Pictures
Settings/Pictures 		icon Weather
icon Add-on manager
The Add-on manager's purpose is to manage the various add-ons to the Kodi application. It can be browsed like any other section and the various installed/uninstalled, enabled/disabled add-ons. In the Add-on manager you can also change the settings for auto update, notifications and search for installed add-ons by bringing up the slide in submenu (press left ← to show/hide). The Add-on manager is not where you go to run add-ons, but only to install and configure them. 		icon Services
icon System

Additional settings

 Video OSD settings
Some video playback settings can (currently) only be accessed while playing a video back and accessing the on-screen-display. For more info see Video playback. These include subtitle and audio track selection, zoom (aspect ratio) options, and more. 		Template:Icon-video management Setting content and Media sources
For settings related to your file sources and library scanning.
Add-on settings
Various add-ons also have settings that can be accessed by going to Settings -> Add-ons -> Enabled add-ons -> the add-on category -> the add-on title -> Configure You can also access add-on settings for some add-ons by bringing up the contextual menu press guide on remote or C or ⊞ Win on a keyboard while using that add-on. 		Gdm.png Profiles
Profiles allows you to save all of your settings as a profile and change them at the touch of a button. It also allows you to grant access to specific folders and network shares based on the profile being used. This is ideal for systems that have multiple users.

Advanced settings

Main page: advancedsettings.xml

The advancedsettings.xml file, which does not exist by default, can be created by a user in their userdata folder.

This file is used for advanced settings and options that do not have GUI controls inside of Kodi. Some settings are experimental or very rarely set, so they can only be used via the advancedsettings.xml file. The file is simply a plain text file and can be edited by various text editors, so long as the name is "advancedsettings.xml". These advanced settings can be used to tweak various things such as episode naming patterns, special network ports, special behaviors, and more.

Resetting XBMC settings to default

See also: userdata

Delete your userdata folder to remove all XBMC settings and library databases. Deleting some individual files/folders in the userdata folder will also selectively reset those settings.

Other settings related pages

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