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Add-ons are packages that add features and functions not normally included with XBMC. Add-ons are are developed by persons on the XBMC-team and third-parties. XBMC has a growing list of community driven add-ons/plug-ins/extensions for online content like YouTube, Hulu, Grooveshark, Pandora Radio, as well as themes (skins) and more available from a common official repository, while still enabling third-party developers to also host their own unofficial repositories for add-ons that any user can choose to add themselves if they like.
For additional information about specific add-ons, see Category:All add-ons.
Add-on manager
The Add-on manager is a feature introduced in the XBMC 10.0 "Dharma" release. Its purpose is to manage the various add-ons to the XBMC application. The Add-ons manager can be browsed like any other XBMC section and the various Add-ons installed/uninstalled, enable/disabled etc. The default function is to have the Add-ons manager Auto update all installed Add-ons when new versions are available from a centralized repository. In the official skin Confluence, it is done by executing a "Left" action to bring up a slide in submenu and deselecting "Auto update". There you can also disable to be notified if new versions are available and when they are updated.
As of v12, XBMC has support for filtering add-ons by language.
How to access Add-ons
Step 1: Scroll down to "Settings" and click it.
Step 2: Scroll down to "Add-ons" and click it.
Step 3: XBMC displays three options (explained below)
Enabled add-ons are add-ons that are currently enabled. XBMC comes with certain add-ons already installed and enabled (such as movie scrapers, screen-savers and visualisation)
Get add-ons allows the user to install new add-ons from the repositories installed. XBMC comes with one repository pre-installed (the official repository) others can be added adding a Repository.
Install from Zip file allows the installation of an add-on from a zip file
How to install add-ons from a repo
For this example a skin is being installed, the same method is used for other add-ons.
Step 1: Click "Get add-ons"
Step 2: Click into the repository you want to install from (see adding a Repository for more)
Step 3: Scroll down to "skins" and click it
Step 4: Click the skin you want to install (in this example it is "Night")
Step 5: A summary dialog will be brought up allowing you see various properties of the add-on. Click "install" to begin automatic downloading and installing.
When the add-on has finished downloading XBMC will enable it and depending on the add-on ask if you want to start using it. Add-ons will then appear in their appropriate section (e.g. skins in the appearance section of settings, movie scrapers in the options of scrapers when adding a new movie source)
How to install from zip
In this example the hitcher repository is being installed, but the method is the same for other repositories or add-ons. First download the zip file.
Step 1: Click Install from ZIP file
Step 2: Navigate to the ZIP file (in this example it is in the desktop) and click on it.
Step 3: In the bottom right, XBMC notifies when the add-on is installed and enabled. Click into Get Add-ons.
Step 4: A new repository is listed.
Repositories
Repositories are a place where add-ons can be retrieved from. XBMC comes with one repository installed by default, the Official Add-on Repository. However others can be added
To install a new repository you must first find the zip file to install the repository, a list of 3rd party add-on repositories is semi-maintained on the wiki - other repositories may exist. Then follow the instructions at #How to install from zip
Updating
From the main menu, go to System/Settings -> Add-ons and press ← to open left slide menu.
If auto updates are turned off then you should see a folder that says something like "Available updates" where you can go in and one-by-one update add-ons
If you want to enable/disable auto-updates, while in the Add-on manager bring up the side bar (press left) and enable/disable auto-updates.
Rollback
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See: XBMC Addon Rollbacks
See also
Development: