I dare to ask... How much was 'the fee'?
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£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!
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)
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)
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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
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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.
Lol... Given I'm only 63 I should have no problems then
Its nowhere near as hard as you guys are fearing it to be
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
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
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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!
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.
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.
I'm trying to go thru your guide here to add my drive with all my music and can't get anywhere.
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.
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The £39.00 limit has been around for years and is criminally low, especially if the cost of postage is factored in too. Yet another way we get shat on!
EDIT: It's the main reason directly importing disc media in any quantity is so off-putting for us in the UK!
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I will add this to the How to: How to Share a Windows folder
Thanks for sharing how to share
In my experience over the years looking for an answer via Google, I just hate to see someone ask a question that I want answered, only to find at the end of a long read the person asking posts: “It’s OK, I resolved the problem”. Without telling anyone how to resolve the problem!
Please, everyone. Share your questions AND your solutions, tips etc.
For AU it was anything under $1000AUD was tax free. Now it’s only ‘private’ or ‘small’ vendor shipments.
It’s about not waisting resources at the border collecting bugger all (10% GST on a $100 import). It costs more to collect the $10 tax revenue than it’s worth (a gaggle of tax agents, IT equipment and managers etc is big $$$)
Now all overseas ‘major vendors’ (EBay, Amazon, AlExpress, etc) must collect AU GST (10%) at the checkout for AU shipments, and those vendors pay the AU government direct. So a small business or friend, sending a NUC for example, escapes taxes, it just sent on to the delivery address. If the value > 1000 AUD (including shipping) then it’s stopped and receiver gets a bill for 10% of the value.
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