[SUPPORT] My Cinema - An Alexa Skill to control fenlight running on your Kodi Shield Based Media Center

Hello everyone! 👋

I'm happy to introduce My Cinema, a dockerized application that acts as an Amazon Alexa Skill webhook. It allows you to seamlessly control your Kodi media center via voice commands, using the Fen Light add-on (or standard TMDBHelper players) as an abstraction layer.

This project was built from the ground up to handle the specific needs of Android TV / Nvidia Shield users, including smart power management and dynamic source selection.

✨ Key Features

• 🗣️ Multi-Language Voice Control: Supports English and French natively. The skill detects the language of the request and responds accordingly.

• ⚡ Smart Power Management: Automatically wakes up the Nvidia Shield (WoL) and launches the Kodi app (ADB) before executing commands.

• 🧠 Trakt.tv Integration: Smart resume features. Ask to "Resume [Show]" and it plays the specific Next Up episode from your Trakt history.

• 🔍 TMDB Search: Accurate identification of media content (Movies vs Shows) with multi-language metadata support.

• 🛠️ Fen Light Auto-Patcher: Includes a background scheduler that automatically patches the Fen Light addon to allow external calls (via TMDB Helper), ensuring playback works even after addon updates.

• 🎛️ Dual Playback Modes: Choose between Auto-Play (instant launch) or Source Select (manual quality selection) via voice commands.

🔗 Links

• GitHub Repository & Full Documentation: https://github.com/ripleyxlr8/my-cinema-amazon-skill-for-kodi

• Docker Image: ghcr.io/ripleyxlr8/my-cinema-amazon-skill-for-kodi:latest

⚙️ Quick Setup Guide

1. Alexa Skill: You will need to create a Custom Skill in the Alexa Developer Console and point the endpoint to your Unraid server (exposed via a reverse proxy like Nginx Proxy Manager or Cloudflare Tunnels). The interaction models (JSON) are available on my GitHub.

2. Kodi Addons: Ensure you have plugin.video.themoviedb.helper installed on Kodi.

3. API Keys: You will need your own TMDB API Key and a Trakt.tv Client ID/Secret.

Detailed instructions for Kodi configuration and Alexa Skill setup are available in the README.

Feel free to ask any questions, report bugs, or suggest features in this thread!

Edited March 29Mar 29 by ripleyxlr8
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