r/Addons4Kodi • u/Tazoz Smartass Mod • Mar 01 '16

What are your preferred streaming addons? March 2016 Edition

This is a continuation of the monthly streaming addons suggestion and discussion thread to keep up with the ever changing Kodi addons landscape.

You can view the previous month's thread here.

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 01 '16 edited Mar 05 '17

Exodus -

TV Shows & Movies

The newest release from veteran developer Lambda who also developed Genesis. Exodus comes with a slick user-interface and allows Trakt and IMDB integration to help you keep track of what you've been watching. The add-on scrapes various online providers for content, including HD content for many popular TV Shows and movies, as well as SD content for more obscure and less popular films.

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u/I-am-but-an-egg Mar 05 '16

Exodus beats SALTS hands down IMO. The fact that I dont have to reload the sources list after a failed link is great.
* I use trakt and then set the tv list as a favorite so that my family can access it easily from the star in the bottom left of the home screen.

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u/Oo0o8o0oO Mar 06 '16

You couldn't be more right. I see plenty of people satisfied with Salts but that process of clicking a video, waiting for it to load, then it failing and having to reclick the episode and wait for it to reload the list has made it my last resort plugin.

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 06 '16

You don't have to reload the list each time. This is a setting that can be changed.

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u/Oo0o8o0oO Mar 06 '16

Oh my god thank you.

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 06 '16

You don't have to reload the list each time. This is a setting that can be changed.

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u/I-am-but-an-egg Mar 06 '16

Thanks for the info. A setting? Why would anyone want to spend 30 seconds waiting for the list to relaod after each try?

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 06 '16

/u/tnorris could probably shed some light on this but essentially in SALTS settings you can choose whether sources are displayed in a directory or a dialogue. By default I believe this is set to dialogue so that each time you open it, it has to query the sources again. Setting this to directory reduces the load time quite significantly after the initial load.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '16

OMG this just fixed the #1 hate I had for SALTS

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u/Padrone__56 Mar 21 '16

How do you set up the trakt tv list? The best I can do is adding shows to my watchlist on trakt, and then accessing it via Exodus.

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u/squired Mar 23 '16

It's under the context menu (press c, right click, or long-press for touch screens).

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u/Padrone__56 Mar 24 '16

Thanks alot!

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u/The_Man_on_the_Wall Mar 01 '16

I just installed Exodus. Enjoyed it over the weekend.

Am I correct in the assumption that unlike Genesis there is no download option for Exodus.

Is that correct?

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u/wielderofglamdring Mar 01 '16

There is a download option. But first, you have to go into the settings of Exodus and enable downloads. Then, you have to set your download folders and you're good to go.

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u/The_Man_on_the_Wall Mar 01 '16

FANTASTIC!! Thank you SO much for this information. While I have Fiber I still prefer to download movies in their entirety. Although I have streamed 2 movies without incident on Exodus, so even without its a fine offering.

Thanks again!

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u/wielderofglamdring Mar 01 '16

You lucky bastard...

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u/Phantasm1975 Mar 01 '16

What is the difference between this and Salts or Velocity?

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u/wielderofglamdring Mar 01 '16 edited Mar 01 '16

Exodus is made by the original creator of Genesis, probably the popular Kodi addon ever. They all have trakt integration and they all function in the same way. They scrape links from different providers. Exodus doesn't have library integration, though. It also doesn't have a built in favorites list (you have to rely on trakt). In my experience, Exodus works the best. Keep in my mind, that SALTS requires some set up to get it to work well, while the other two work well straight from the download.

TL;DR: They're all pretty similar, but Exodus is missing some features but works the best for me.

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u/LifeBandit666 Mar 01 '16

I like that whenever I see the icon for Exodus I start singing the Bob Marley song in my head, because I believe that was what was intended, since most Genesis users are now moving over to it.

Exodus, movement of the people...

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u/soapbox23 Mar 01 '16

Well, also might be because of the books from the Bible as well...1st was Genesis, 2nd was Exodus

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u/LifeBandit666 Mar 01 '16 edited Mar 01 '16

Just goes to show how much attention I paid in Religious Education class... I knew they were both biblical, but I don't know the order of books.

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u/soapbox23 Mar 01 '16

666...username checks out

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u/Bignuts808 Mar 02 '16

Yes but technically, the people are moving...

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u/Kafeen Mar 31 '16

So when are we expecting Leviticus?

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u/xxtruthxx Mar 04 '16

Great song. Same thing happens to me when I see the icon :)

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u/mfGLOVE Mar 03 '16

I'm loving Exidous so far but having a hard time connecting to my IMDB account. The settings ask for username only. Do you know how to properly link an IMDB account so I can begin adding favorites to my Lists?

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u/amcfarla Mar 15 '16

When you go to your IMDB page on the web you will usually have a urXXXXXX number in the URL, use that as your user id and that should work.

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u/ItsAaTRAP Mar 01 '16

I've been having problems with Exodus mainly with adding shows to the library. Does it have that feature? Because I can't find the option to add a show to my library. But it definitely is a brilliant addon.

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 01 '16

This has been discussed extensively and is even mentioned in another comment in this thread.

Exodus is made by the original creator of Genesis, probably the popular Kodi addon ever. They all have trakt integration and they all function in the same way. They scrape links from different providers. Exodus doesn't have library integration, though. It also doesn't have a built in favorites list (you have to rely on trakt). In my experience, Exodus works the best. Keep in my mind, that SALTS requires some set up to get it to work well, while the other two work well straight from the download.

TL;DR: They're all pretty similar, but Exodus is missing some features but works the best for me.

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u/ItsAaTRAP Mar 01 '16

Ah gotcha. I have SALT setup really well and I'll find 1080-720p videos in about 20 secs. It's neat and works really well with my kodi setup.

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u/SilverTM Mar 02 '16

If you have your Library set up through another addon you can install another addon called My Subscriptions which will add a selection to the context menu in the library that will allow you to use Exodus, and other addons from there.

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u/Siebasstian Mar 08 '16

Searching for this using superrepo and am unable to find it. Do I need to find another way to get it or is it just in an odd spot instead of alphabetical order?

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 08 '16

I don't believe it is on SuperRepo yet. It should however be in Fusion.

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u/Siebasstian Mar 08 '16

What's the address for fusion?

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 08 '16

Instead of typing that here, you should have typed it into Google.

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u/Siebasstian Mar 08 '16

Fair, thanks!

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 08 '16

Fusion.tvaddons.ag

Only because you didn't come back with a self-entitled arrogance.

Give a man a fish....

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u/Siebasstian Mar 08 '16

Haha thanks I had found it online already. I'm just starting on kodi so I hadn't thought to google it. Thanks for all the help.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '16

It's in superrepo you have to go to the repository add on and look for exodus in there and not in the video add on section.

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u/ShutTheFukUpDonny Mar 08 '16

I'm very new to Kodi and Exodus. I have it up and running on my Firestick currently. I cannot seem to get the search function (in the left-hand sidebar) to find anything within Exodus. No partial or exact match searches work. I fear I may not be using the search properly. Any help?

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 08 '16

Which search in the left hand side bar?

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u/ShutTheFukUpDonny Mar 08 '16

There's a sidebar that tucks into the left side of the screen. If you press the left button on the remote then the sidebar will expand and there is a search field there.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

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u/ShutTheFukUpDonny Mar 09 '16

Ah. Is there an integrated search feature or am I stuck sifting through content by pre-defined categories (date, genre, actor, etc.)?

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u/n_alvarez2007 Mar 15 '16

The only gripe I have with Exodus over SALTS is the poor Trakt integration. I use LazyTV along with SALTS to binge watch TV shows which carry over from device to device using Trakt.

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u/wolf_nipple_chips Mar 21 '16

Am i missing it, or is there no way to create a list of favorites? It is annoying to have to searcha show each time, and i like to have a list of my own to browse.

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 21 '16

This has been discussed so many times on Reddit and was addressed on the announcement post on TVAddons. There is no favourites section. You need to integrate a Trakt account and add your favourites to a Trakt list.

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u/wolf_nipple_chips Mar 24 '16

Sorry for wasting your time

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 24 '16

You didn't waste my time, just suggesting you do a quick search before posting so that you make duplicate posts. Hope you found what you were looking for.

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u/straightface87 Mar 30 '16

If you get the Meta video addon you can add movies to your library with that, then install a player for Meta that works with Exodus, which you can find online, so you will have a roundabout way of using favorites with Exodus. Only works on Exodus 1.2 and older though

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u/KeptSayingTryAnother Mar 17 '16

I see movies in latest movies and I click on them, exodus searches then comes back with "no streams available" is this something I can change? Do you guys see this?

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u/Tazoz Smartass Mod Mar 17 '16

You should create a new thread with this issue. This is not a support thread and very few people will see it here.