I dare to ask... How much was 'the fee'?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'?Just got the fee to pay card from Royal Mail.
All paid.
It says it should be delivered on Wednesday 19th
£23.89....including the Royal Mails handling fee of £8.I dare to ask... How much was 'the fee'?
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!£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!
With the first day of spring just around the corner, I figure I’ll understand my Kodi NUC sometime this summer.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!
You are not alone....this 70 yr old will take it in baby steps.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.
Lol... Given I'm only 63 I should have no problems thenYou are not alone....this 70 yr old will take it in baby steps.
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.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![]()
YepThat 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?
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!Its nowhere near as hard as you guys are fearing it to be
If i had known all that i probably could have saved UK, EU, and Canadian buyers a bit of money.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.
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:
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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
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[
The £39.00 limit has been around for years and is criminally low. Yet another way we get shat on!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 .
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.