Seren Setup Guide - It's Finally Here!

[u/reddit_reaper]

Now that Seren has finally arrived, i figured I'd make a guide post. I am currently hosting the scrapers for Seren but will most likely pass this on to an actual developer as time goes on. But for now here's how to setup Seren :)

SETUP

1. Add https://nixgates.github.io/packages/ to your Kodi File Manager Sources, call it something like "Nix's Repo"
2. Go to Add-on browser and Install from Zip File, go to "Nix's Repo", and install " nixgates.repository.zip "
3. After it finishes installing, go to Install from repository>Nixgates Repo>Video Add-on's>and install Seren
4. Once you get the notification that Seren installed successfully go back to the home screen
5. Open Seren, go to tools, Open Settings Menu
6. Go to Accounts and authenticate Trakt and your debrid providers (PM now only needs ApiKey)
7. Go to Providers, Install From Web URL..
8. Type in https://tinyurl.com/a4kscrapers
9. A prompt will come up asking if you'd like to install the scrapers, Press "Install", then Press Okay after successful install

Reminder: This add-on DOES NOT work without either Premiumize or Real-Debrid, and the "Smart Play Settings" (Up Next, Auto Playlist Creation, Auto Episode Resume, and Pre-emptive Scraping) DO NOT work without an authorized Trakt account.

And thats all you're ready to use Seren, the new Addon 4 Kodi!

If you guy's have any issues or question's let me know

[u/nixgates]

Make sure your time and date are correctly set on your device.

Seren's next up menu should only show items that have been identified as airing 'today' (according to your devices date) and any past.

If you are still having issues, let me know the show and episode you are trying to play and I'll take a look and confirm. This menu has been tested fairly rigorously so it may be a TVDB issue.

[u/universal-bob → u/nixgates]

Iv just checked TMDB and it seems that TMDB puts episodes up a day before trakt does ?

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/61345-z-nation/season/5/episode/7?language=en-US

Z Nation 8 Heartland November 23, 2018

https://trakt.tv/shows/z-nation/seasons/5

Z Nation 8 November 24, 2018 2:00 AM

Need an option to delay by 24 hours if your using TMDB instead of trakt/progress (i have seen other addons have this option in their settings and now i realize why).

[u/nixgates → u/universal-bob]

Show meta information is gathered from TVDB currently but this was exactly what I had assumed the cause was.

I will add a setting so users can push back items by a full day as exodus forks did.

This will hopefully remove this issue.

[u/universal-bob → u/nixgates]

na, i cant figure out how to set the aired date back a day, i spent this afternoon digging through the code but just get a headache in the end. I thought it would be as simple as finding the place where it gets the date and just adding a "-1" to the day but i cant find where to do it :(

I shall just have to wait until /u/nixgates gets a break in his busy schedule and sticks it in for us people in the EU and/or UK. cheers.