Skip homescreen and start/ boot into Kodi at once?

[insomniac]

Hi there

I dont know about you guys but most of the time whenever i use my Q10 Pro i immediately switch to KODI. My music and video collection is on the internal harddrive of the Q10 and i use Kodi to play it. Movies and TV series, everything is streamed by Kodi.

So if i use Kodi in 99 percent of the time it would be great if the Q10pro could skip the homescreen and start up with Kodi as soon as it is powered on.
And whenever i want the homescreen or apps i could just push the home button on remote and then get to the home menu

Is there a way to do this ?

Kind regards M

[stl]

Hi,

The answer is in the Kodi general section in the FAQs:
http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=1517.0

[insomniac]

Hi stl

Thx for your quick reply.  I think you are refering to :

"Kodi - General

* How to make Kodi (or other app) launch on startup? Go to 'My Apps' from home screen, navigate to the app you want to auto-start, and press menu button on remote. The option to 'Default start' will appear over app icon."

Sad to say, but this doesnt work.....or i am doing something wrong.
 I think this section is in the general kodi section because you can choose an addon or app in Kodi to autostart. Not bypassing start/boot screen of himedia player and boot directly into kodi.

[stl]

Hi stl

Thx for your quick reply.  I think you are refering to :

"Kodi - General

* How to make Kodi (or other app) launch on startup? Go to 'My Apps' from home screen, navigate to the app you want to auto-start, and press menu button on remote. The option to 'Default start' will appear over app icon."

Sad to say, but this doesnt work.....or i am doing something wrong.
 I think this section is in the general kodi section because you can choose an addon or app in Kodi to autostart. Not bypassing start/boot screen of himedia player and boot directly into kodi.

That's what I was referring to and no it doesn't have anything to do with the ad-dons. As far as I know you can't bypass the launcher... It should work, you can't do it from the Kodi icon on the main menu (launcher) you have to go into My apps.

[Phil181]

It will work this way (boots then immediately loads into Kodi) but I would not recommend it. 
When Kodi releases a dud update it can put the player into a boot loop that is very hard to stop without re-installing firmware (as has occurred at least 3 times since Kodi 16).  By not having it boot into Kodi, you can install an earlier working version or use Media Center player until they issue a fix (like happened with 17.5 until 17.5.1 came out a day later).  For the same reason, I no longer allow Kodi to auto-update itself (or add-ons).

[Mount81]

Hi stl

Thx for your quick reply.  I think you are refering to :

"Kodi - General

* How to make Kodi (or other app) launch on startup? Go to 'My Apps' from home screen, navigate to the app you want to auto-start, and press menu button on remote. The option to 'Default start' will appear over app icon."

Sad to say, but this doesnt work.....or i am doing something wrong.
 I think this section is in the general kodi section because you can choose an addon or app in Kodi to autostart. Not bypassing start/boot screen of himedia player and boot directly into kodi.

With the stock HiMedia Launcher it should work. If you've changed the launcher to something else, than it won't. And than you would need another application for this.  (I'm still looking forward for suggestions myself...)