Fire TV Stick

donnajunkie

AndyPix wrote: »

Donna, 17.4 IS the latest build of Kodi.


A build is the definition given to a compiled piece of source code.

But it is not helping those not clued up by referring to kodi by itself as a build. This is because installing kodi by itself won't give you anything. To get tv, movies etc you need to add what they call a build. The one I have has a website with step by step instructions describing how to add their build which has 5 or 6 variations depending on what content is best for you.

debitcardmayhem

donnajunkie wrote: »

But it is not helping those not clued up by referring to kodi by itself as a build. This is because installing kodi by itself won't give you anything. To get tv, movies etc you need to add what they call a build. The one I have has a website with step by step instructions describing how to add their build which has 5 or 6 variations depending on what content is best for you.

Sounds like addons for a build to me , c.f. Firefox addons not working when mozilla release a new build... and that is going imminent:cool:

glentoran99

donnajunkie wrote: »

But it is not helping those not clued up by referring to kodi by itself as a build. This is because installing kodi by itself won't give you anything. To get tv, movies etc you need to add what they call a build. The one I have has a website with step by step instructions describing how to add their build which has 5 or 6 variations depending on what content is best for you.

no you don't




You can have Addons without a build full of c*** you will never use


I use 3 addons, the rest don't even get opened

donnajunkie

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Sounds like addons for a build to me , c.f. Firefox addons not working when mozilla release a new build... and that is going imminent:cool:

The build I use regularly gets updates.

donnajunkie

glentoran99 wrote: »

no you don't




You can have Addons without a build full of c*** you will never use


I use 3 addons, the rest don't even get opened

Well that's upto you but you can disable and even uninstall add ons if you feel there's a need in the build. The one I use has no adverts at all. I believe there are some builds that are full of ads. The version of the build I choose takes up around 500mb roughly.

glentoran99

donnajunkie wrote: »

Well that's upto you but you can disable and even uninstall add ons if you feel there's a need in the build. The one I use has no adverts at all. I believe there are some builds that are full of ads. The version of the build I choose takes up around 500mb roughly.

You don't need a build though that's the point, its addons are whats needed, builds are just a collection of addons

donnajunkie

glentoran99 wrote: »

You don't need a build though that's the point, its addons are whats needed, builds are just a collection of addons

Yeah true but recently my dad lost his build on his tablet but the add ons were still there. He found it annoying. The build makes it more user friendly I think. Plus if you just get add ons you need to know what add ons do what, how good they are and where to find them. Some builds are better than others. We used to use a different one which was ok, we are very happy with the current build which is much better.

glentoran99

donnajunkie wrote: »

Yeah true but recently my dad lost his build on his tablet but the add ons were still there. He found it annoying. The build makes it more user friendly I think. Plus if you just get add ons you need to know what add ons do what, how good they are and where to find them. Some builds are better than others. We used to use a different one which was ok, we are very happy with the current build which is much better.

How many of the Addons would you actually use? 500mb is a big build for a firestick and chances are its slowing it down.


that said if your happy and it works why change it


I think my kodi is about 3 versions ago,

donnajunkie

glentoran99 wrote: »

How many of the Addons would you actually use? 500mb is a big build for a firestick and chances are its slowing it down.


that said if your happy and it works why change it


I think my kodi is about 3 versions ago,

Quite a few actually. For example if a movie doesnt work or cant be found on one you can sometimes have joy on another. Same goes for trying to find a particular footie match. A popular movie addon ended recently and has been replaced. If I had just had the original add on I wouldn't have known that.
Edit.
On the size, I have heard of builds that are as much as 1gb. So 500mb isn't too bad. It runs well enough on the firestick. Not as good as on a mobile device but still good enough. You can watch a movie without buffering the majority of the time.

donnajunkie

glentoran99 wrote: »

I think my kodi is about 3 versions ago,

We still have 16.1 on a couple of devices and the build we use is still supporting it. They think add ons will start to stop supporting it and force us over to 17.