I have Kodi installed on my Amazon Firestick, and I have a local server that is responsible for grabbing episodes of TV shows and storing them on the network.
Kodi then knows about the network folder and checks it on start up for new episodes.
This all worked fine for many years, but a month or so ago, it appears Kodi no longer sees new files as new TV episodes.
I first noticed it stopped finding new episodes of a show I was catching up on, but yesterday I added a new TV show, and it isn’t seeing that at all.
I was using KODI 18 (maybe 17), but I updated to the latest today (20), and it migrated my settings.
Alas that doesn’t seem to help.
If i go into files, I can see the episodes and shows, they just don’t appear in the TV Show section.
It looks like Kodi has found the folder for the new show, and knows it is a TV show, but has a tick to say I have seen all episodes (because the TV show section has no episodes in, despite them being on the file system)
I can watch the shows via the file option, and that works, but is far from ideal.
I tried:
Installing all the TV info addons (e.g. TVDB, etc)
Clearing the app cache on Firestick setting
Clearing the cache in the Addons of Kodi
Rebooting the firestick
Allowed ADB on firestick in developer options
Various other things that I can no longer remember
At this point I am stumped. It’s hard to find details online about this exact issue, as most websites assume Kodi is streaming the shows, but I have them on my network already, so a lot of the issues people have are not relevant to me.
Any possible suggestions on what I can do to fix it would help.
This is a common complaint and I’d like to get a bunch more info from you if you don’t mind. Your post has been by far the most detailed with what is happening, and I appreciate that.
When you say “grabbed” and stored on your local network, how exactly is that set up? If I’m understanding correctly, you have it setup to automatically find and download new episodes from a selected source to your local network storage. This is usually what gets people in trouble; the downloading part. Most people on here just use add-ons to stream directly from the sources.
Based on what you’re describing, I am assuming your issue has to do with the way Kodi is set up to mark episodes as watched and decide whether to show them in the directory or not. I would do a deep dive into the settings and see if there is a way to show all episodes and not just the ones that are unwatched. Also, check your Kodi settings for updating the directory upon startup and at certain intervals. If you set it to update at intervals then you also might want to hide the notifications for that. Otherwise while you are watching something Kodi might give you a popup notification that says it is updating your library.
I’m not sure why you’ve chosen to go with this setup unless you constantly travel with a storage device so you can watch things on the go. I can see where RV’ers might find this very useful when they don’t have stable Internet. But otherwise, I would consider joining the crowd and streaming through add-ons with a multihoster such as Real Debrid. There’s hardly ever a show or movie I cannot find links to unless it’s extremely old or really obscure. Chances are you wouldn’t find those links elsewhere anyway.
I still get a lot of “No providers available” on Seren and Cinema. Frustrating when you’re half way thru a season and are left hanging but alas I’m not paying big cable so I just live with it and find something else.
When you say “grabbed” and stored on your local network, how exactly is that set up?
I use Sickbeard and SABNZBD to download from news groups, to a media server on my network
see if there is a way to show all episodes
There is an option to show all episodes, but it isn’t finding the episodes at all, they just don’t appear even in ‘All’ rather than just ‘Unwatched’.
It does appear to have found the Series folder though.
And if I go into the file browser section and into the folder, the files are there, and I can watch them. For some reason Kodi has just stopped recognising them as episodes.
I have Sickbeard tidy up and standise the file names, and all this worked for about 10 years, until recently.
I’m not sure why you’ve chosen to go with this setup
When I first set all this up, streaming was very unreliable, so I just set this up, and it has worked since, so I had no reason to change it.
Maybe streaming is more reliable now. I might investigate changing to that.
Definitely look into the mainstream addon way now with Real Debrid. I haven’t had any issues. I play 4K streams all the time and haven’t had any of the issues like this where I can’t find new stuff. Search for my Kodi Start2Finish video on here.
Check your Kodi permissions. There have been OS changes with Google. Go into apps, Kodi, permissions, and allow access to data and media at all times (not just when open). Then manually update your library again and see what happens.
For anyone else with the issue, I had to download another Information Provider
And then change the mount to use it, as it was using a provider that no longer worked.