A massive wave of updates is now available in the Twilight0 Repository for Kodi 20 (Nexus) & 21 (Omega)!

📺 AliveGR (3.0.0~beta1 – 3.0.0~beta3)

The flagship Greek streaming add-on has undergone a major modernization and feature overhaul:

  • IPTV Simple Client Integration: Full automated bridge to configure pvr.iptvsimple with multi-instance support (instance presets), generating an optimized M3U playlist with native inputstream.adaptive manifest and stream headers.
  • Greek XMLTV EPG Integration: Automated setup with Greek EPG guide feed (https://ext.greektv.app/epg/epg.xml.gz) and comprehensive channel mapping.
  • Channel Zapping: Live TV lineup populates into the playlist for seamless previous/next channel switching.
  • Per-Stream DRM & Header Support: Per-stream schema for live TV with individual ClearKey DRM licenses and HTTP header pairs, fixing streams like Mega and others requiring specific user-agents/tokens.
  • Stream Selector & Preferences: “Choose Stream” context menu with persistent stream preferences and silent fallback if a stream fails.
  • Fixed Playback Repeat Issue: Completely removed automatic PlayerControl(RepeatAll) toggles that caused single videos in YouTube and AliveGR series to loop indefinitely; added a dedicated repeat mode toggle in Developer settings with Greek and English translations.
  • Greek-Movies Host Fixes: Resolved parsing errors on grouped episode links.
  • Modernized Core: Dropped obsolete Python 2 compatibility code, removed the localhost proxy in favor of PluginsGR, removed the heavy M3U8 dependency, and streamlined artwork/logos to fetch dynamically with caching.

💬 Subtitles.gr & Global Context Menu (v4.0.0)

The dedicated Greek subtitles provider for Kodi returns completely revamped:

  • Brand New & Restored Providers: Added Subs4Free (with custom user-agent for movies), GreekSubs.net, YIFI, TVsubtitles.net, and Moviesubtitles.org.
  • Cleaned Up Dead Sites: Removed Vipsubs.gr, Xsubs.tv, and Podnapisi.net; disabled unreachable Subtitles.gr domain by default.
  • Accurate Search Matching: IMDb ID integration passed directly to providers that support it, plus fuzzywuzzy title matching and updated layout scrapers.
  • Global Context Menu Companion (context.subtitles.gr): Quick subtitle download directly from any Kodi library item or file listing.
  • Modern Stack: Fully ported to Tulip 4.x, modern parsers, unicache, and native Python 3.

📻 E-Radio.gr (v4.0.0)

The premier Greek radio station add-on is completely modernized compared to older 2.x/3.x versions:

  • HTTPS Migration & Stream Fix: All endpoints, artwork, and station streams migrated to HTTPS, respecting liveProtocol to fix playback failures.
  • Encoding & Display Fixes: Enforced UTF-8 decoding to stop Greek station labels from getting stripped or corrupted.
  • Pruned Broken Feeds: Removed broken “Developer’s picks” feed that was causing listing crashes and search errors.
  • Search & Cache Improvements: Enhanced fuzzy search with duplicate handling and versioned function caches so station lists stay fresh without serving stale data.
  • Modern Stack: Built on Tulip 4.x, urldispatcher, and unicache with Python 3 reuse language invoker for fast loading.

🎵 SomaFM (v4.0.0)

Major leap forward from previous 2.x/3.x releases:

  • Clean JSON API: Replaced legacy, brittle channels.xml parsing with the modern SomaFM HTTPS channels.json API.
  • Robust Stream Resolution: Resolves streams directly by station ID instead of passing serialized Python lists inside URLs; fixed lowest-AAC quality selecting the wrong playlist.
  • Real-time Song History: Localized track history table displaying play times formatted to your local timezone.
  • Instant Cache Invalidation: Refreshing now clears the listing cache first to always show current “Now Playing” tracks.
  • Lightweight: Dropped external html2text dependency in favor of standard library parsing.

All add-ons are available directly from the Twilight0 Repository (repository.twilight0-2.0.2.zip).