Ideas

We welcome others to contribute or help out with any of the below ideas. If you have more ideas, feel free to add them here, or discuss them in a GitHub issue.

Visual improvements

• Add logo/description for the main menu items (A-Z, Categories, Live TV, Most recent) #73
• Keep static order in main menu (not sorted alphabetically) #80
• Set correct Menu listing/Directory content type (so context menu fits content) #81
• Show Menu listing/Directory fanart #82
  • Use TV show group thumbnail as background and fanart for season listing #115
  • Show a different thumbnail (background) and fanart for episodes #115
  • Use Category fanart for program listing (confusing)
• Indicate in plot geo-blocked content #86
• Indicate in plot when content is disappearing the next 3 months #86
• When Live TV channel is added to favourites, use text-logo (instead of screenshot) #84
• Go back to using VRT channel logos for live streams #106
• Add plugin screenshots #108
• Reload TV guide page after watching episode from TV guide (so it updates with newer episodes)
• Include Kodi White Studio Icons as dependency #171
• Multi-page in Recent listing #177
• Include TV-Gids information into the Live stream listing #234
• Add Live TV channels directly to TV menu using an IPTV PVR add-on #209
  • https://tutorial-iptv-xbmc.blogspot.com/2015/07/how-to-add-ij0rd8n-iptv-list-for-kodi.html

New menu items

• Add a TV-Gids menu item (like on VRT NU website) #142
  • Create permanent links for 'yesterday', 'today' and 'tomorrow' in the tvguide listing #233
• Add a Channels menu item (with all channels/brands, incl Sporza, Ketnet Junior, etc.) #178
• Add a Search menu item #206
  • Highlight keywords (see &highlight=true) and support <em> #229
• Add a My programs menu item #181 #213
  • Allow the user to follow and unfollow programs using a context-menu
  • Synchronize the VRT NU follow list with our own cached copy
  • Add A-Z, Recent and Last chance submenu item
• Add a Last chance watching/Soon to disappear menu item #252 #253
• Add Featured content menu item (like on VRT NU website) #305 #322

Settings

• Add a Video setting to influence the stream bandwidth (inputstream.adaptive) for this plugin #172
• Add a Troubleshooting option to install or go to the inputstream.adaptive settings #190
• Add a Troubleshooting option to clear tokens #190
• Add a Troubleshooting log level option #199
• Add a Troubleshooting option to disable inputstream.adaptive #255
• Add a Troubleshooting option to install Widevine #256
• Add an Interface option to influence HTTP caching (Favorites, AZ-listing, Categories) #241 #258
• Add Interface option to disable fanart/thumbnail #262
• Add Interface option to select brands/channels for Recent/Offline items #242 #265
• Add an option to have the movies in the main or favorites menu #325
• Add an Info tab with valuable information (inputstream.adaptive version, Widevine, Kodi, plugin, etc...)

Features

• Do not rely on web scraping only #57
  • For categories listings we implemented a hard-coded list as a fallback #161
  • For live stream support we implemented a hard-coded fallback mechanism #168
• Add full proxy support #87
• Add radio channels #162
  • See plugin.audio.vrt.radio
• Add Studio Brussel and MNM live stream #166
• Add Sporza live stream (No longer works, maybe only when sport events like WK, EK or Olympics?) #170
  • See this comment
• Add support for bandwidth-based stream selection (inputstream.adaptive) #172
• Add Ketnet Junior live stream #208
• Cache AZ-listing and Category-listing intelligently (like Favorites) #241 #258
• Add additional content from VRT website Unwanted #127
• Add a 'Refresh' context menu item to refresh without using cache #302 #317
• Sort search results by score
  • Kodi does not allow this at the moment
• Store previous search queries #301
  • This would allow to also bookmark search queries !
• Allow to 'follow' categories
  • So if you would click 'Follow' on the category 'Documentaries' the add-on would automatically add all programs that you did not already follow from this category
• Create automated repositories for our plugins #183
• Add official VRT Youtube channels for VRT, VRTNWS, Ketnet, etc. (like the SRF.ch add-on)
• Integrate with IMDB or TVDB data to augment existing metadata
• List 'Soon offline' for yesterday, 2 days ago, etc...
• Add a VRTNWS Live TV channel (which would loop through recent VRTNWS content) #303

Documentation

• Document how to automatically start VRT NU add-on when Kodi starts (see #38)
• Document how to troubleshoot issues
• Document how to get Widevine working for 720p live streams
• Document proxy caching for schools
• Document stream selection (see #255 comment)

Refactor codebase

• Restructure source tree to be used as an add-on #102
• Add more unit tests #217
  • Test everything (that doesn't require credentials) automatically
  • Test with credentials (either from Kodi, or stored in a private file)
    • See ./test/userdata/credentials.json
• Improve logging messages #199
• Restructure codebase
  • Get rid of the directory structure #269
  • Move some classes together in a single module #269
  • Add docstrings to all functions/classes #297
  • Better separate generic functions and class methods
  • Only import the stuff we are actually using from modules.
• Use script.module.routing to make code easier to navigate #103 #318