QQ Media Player NUC Buyers Club - Discussion

[SeeMoreDigital]

Just got the fee to pay card from Royal Mail.
All paid.
It says it should be delivered on Wednesday 19th

I dare to ask... How much was 'the fee'?

 

[beerking]

I dare to ask... How much was 'the fee'?

£23.89....including the Royal Mails handling fee of £8.

If didn't show how it was made up but I know there is an extra fee.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

Wow... So £15.89 plus an £8.00 Royal Mail handling fee. I wonder why Royal Mail are delivering in the UK and not UPS!

 

[MikeKL]

For those of you that may not yet be aware, in addition to Kodi's Android and Apple remote apps. Kodi/Libreelec also provide access to a web interface called "Chorus2"

Example Viewing Music Albums (Access to Chorus2 is via IP of your device)

Should you wish to use Chorus from a webrowser, You need to ensure that "Allow remote control via HTTP" is enabled under Settings -> Services -> Control. I seem to recollect that username and password is required to be setup in the control settings, in order to access your device using Chorus2

View of Web Server Control Settings (Estuary Skin)

I find it useful occasionally to control what is being played by Kodi whilst I am working on the PC.
(where our Music/Videos accessible by Kodi can also be played/listened to locally on PC if desired)

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

£23.89....including the Royal Mails handling fee of £8.

If didn't show how it was made up but I know there is an extra fee.

Wow... So £15.89 plus an £8.00 Royal Mail handling fee. I wonder why Royal Mail are delivering in the UK and not UPS!

Mr mail man (it was a bloke in dark blue shorts) has just delivered my 'fee to pay' card (Reason: There is a customs charge). Bloody taxes!

Payment of £23.89 paid via PayPal. Delivery date: Wednesday 19th

 

[barfle]

I have three easy (I hope) questions this morning.

[1] I can turn off the unit with the remote, but I cannot turn it on. I remember reading that the remote needs to wake up, so I tried pushing random buttons and then the power buttons (tried them both) and nothing. What am I missing? (Of course, I probably need the steps to walk across the room to press the power button on the unit.)
[2] How can I get the menu on the top of the screen? I have accidentally gotten it throughout my goofing, but I can't recreate what I did when I want it.
[3] Related to Q2, how can I Stop music? I can use the pause/play button, but the only Stop command I have found is on the mysterious top menu that I can't locate reliably.

I added the unit to my Logitech Harmony remote today, but used the Intel setting, so the Harmony says it has no control capabilities (I have the 950 without the Hub, which I don't think has Bluetooth). I'll be curious to see if the Microsoft Kodi setting (that I saw referenced after I redid my Harmony) is any different. But first I had to crawl...I'm getting closer to getting on my own two feet!

With the first day of spring just around the corner, I figure I’ll understand my Kodi NUC sometime this summer.

Serious learning curve for an old dog like me. What I see is really cool, but simple it ain’t.

 

[beerking]

With the first day of spring just around the corner, I figure I’ll understand my Kodi NUC sometime this summer.

Serious learning curve for an old dog like me. What I see is really cool, but simple it ain’t.

You are not alone....this 70 yr old will take it in baby steps.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

You are not alone....this 70 yr old will take it in baby steps.

Lol... Given I'm only 63 I should have no problems then

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Its nowhere near as hard as you guys are fearing it to be

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Mr mail man (it was a bloke in dark blue shorts) has just delivered my 'fee to pay' card (Reason: There is a customs charge). Bloody taxes!

Payment of £23.89 paid via PayPal. Delivery date: Wednesday 19th

That really does seem excessive. On the customs declaration i said it was a gift worth $100. I didnt want to say it was worth less in the event it was lost.

They make you pay charges on gifts?

 

[beerking]

That really does seem excessive. On the customs declaration i said it was a gift worth $100. I didnt want to say it was worth less in the event it was lost.

They make you pay charges on gifts?

Yep
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/import-vat-and-customs-duty-on-gifts#:~:text=When you send gifts to,the value of the items.

So $100 equals approximately £80
Times 20 % equals £16

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Baastads

 

[reedfoot]

Its nowhere near as hard as you guys are fearing it to be

The hardest part I have found (at my ripe old age of 60) is just working out how to navigate through the system. I stumble upon things, and then when I need to use these things I have to rediscover my steps. Like anything else, I expect after a few days of goofing around it will finally click in my brain and I will be able to do things on first attempt instead of meandering through menus or reading pages of posts first. You'll get there, too...maybe faster than me!

 

[steelydave]

The £8 handling feet that Royal Mail charges is a customs brokerage fee - UPS, FedEx, DHL etc. would charge the same, if not more. They're passing on a charge that the government levies to have the package inspected/valued/levied by UK customs.

This is something that happens in most countries of the world - the only reason that Americans aren't as familiar with it is the "de minimis" exemption in the US, which allows non-commercial goods under $800 per shipment to enter the country without having customs duty or taxes applied. Not sure how much longer that one is going to last given the way things are going down there.

A word to the wise for people shipping stuff to the us, from HMRC (UK Revenue and Customs):

Goods that have a value below £39 will be duty and tax free. Goods between £40 and £135 will be duty free but subject to VAT @ 29% for most goods. Goods over £135 will be charged duty and VAT .

Basically if you're sending anything small to the UK, mark it as a gift with the value as being less than 39 pounds, or your local equivalent. Canada has similar regulations - the package has to be marked as a gift and can't exceed $60 CAD. I presume OZ/NZ probably have a similar system too.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

The £8 handling feet that Royal Mail charges is a customs brokerage fee - UPS, FedEx, DHL etc. would charge the same, if not more. They're passing on a charge that the government levies to have the package inspected/valued/levied by UK customs.

This is something that happens in most countries of the world - the only reason that Americans aren't as familiar with it is the "de minimis" exemption in the US, which allows non-commercial goods under $800 per shipment to enter the country without having customs duty or taxes applied. Not sure how much longer that one is going to last given the way things are going down there.

A word to the wise for people shipping stuff to the us, from HMRC (UK Revenue and Customs):

Goods that have a value below £39 will be duty and tax free. Goods between £40 and £135 will be duty free but subject to VAT @ 29% for most goods. Goods over £135 will be charged duty and VAT .

Basically if you're sending anything small to the UK, mark it as a gift with the value as being less than 39 pounds, or your local equivalent. Canada has similar regulations - the package has to be marked as a gift and can't exceed $60 CAD. I presume OZ/NZ probably have a similar system too.

If i had known all that i probably could have saved UK, EU, and Canadian buyers a bit of money.

 

[kvsawilson]

OK. I just went through the process. Its a Kodi Settings that needs to be changed:

Go to the Kodi System-> Services window:
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Scroll down to: SMB client on left

Find the Setting: Enable WS-Discovery Service

Enable that setting (as shown above)


With that enabled:

TO ADD A SHARED FOLDER OR DRIVE ON A WINDOWS PC:

Go to MEDIA Settings, MUSIC

and add a new Kodi MUSIC source:

Add Music
then: Browse
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Then select: Windows Ntwork (SMB)
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then: Select your PC (by name)
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Then: Enter your PC's share Username & Password:
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And: Enable: Remember for this path

To Save you must navigate to the small 'Tick' icon/button at top right and Click on it to Save

Now you will see all the Shared folders on your PC:
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Select the one to your want (see above):

Save again navigating to the top right 'TICK' and CLICK to save

Now Kodi will ask if you want to Scan the folders into your Koi Music Library

(This is already documented in the NUC docs)

CLICK: YES

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And YES, I agree that horrible SAVE icon on these dialogs is terrible. I do not know why they do not have big SAVE buttons

I'm trying to go thru your guide here to add my drive with all my music and can't get anywhere.

OK. I just went through the process. Its a Kodi Settings that needs to be changed:

Go to the Kodi System-> Services window:
View attachment 114888


Scroll down to: SMB client on left

Find the Setting: Enable WS-Discovery Service

Enable that setting (as shown above)


With that enabled:

TO ADD A SHARED FOLDER OR DRIVE ON A WINDOWS PC:

Go to MEDIA Settings, MUSIC

and add a new Kodi MUSIC source:

Add Music
then: Browse
View attachment 114889
Then select: Windows Ntwork (SMB)
View attachment 114890

then: Select your PC (by name)
View attachment 114891

Then: Enter your PC's share Username & Password:
View attachment 114893


And: Enable: Remember for this path

To Save you must navigate to the small 'Tick' icon/button at top right and Click on it to Save[

I'm trying to get my drive on my windows pc added and can't get it done. I have been able to see my pc and it's other shared folders and can even access those folders. But whenever I try to access the drive with my music and add it to the music library it asks for a id/password even though I don't have password protection set. I assume that the password would be my windows pw and tried turning it on and using it but it won't accept that either. I don't have a login pw set either.
If I go to the file manager and look at that drive, it says it can't connect to network server. But, again, I can access the other shared folders on my pc. Something different about sharing folders or drives? I did try sharing a folder on that drive but it still insists on a username and password.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
OK. Just after hitting send I went back to my shared folder on that drive and realized that I hadn't added permission for everyone to access and after changing that, it appears to be cataloging all the music in that folder. So, in the words of Emily Patella, never mind! Needed to share the folder, not the drive.
.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

Goods that have a value below £39 will be duty and tax free. Goods between £40 and £135 will be duty free but subject to VAT @ 29% for most goods. Goods over £135 will be charged duty and VAT .

The £39.00 limit has been around for years and is criminally low. Yet another way we get shat on!