Kodi4Seniors

Deutsch: README.DE.md

Kodi4Seniors is a senior-household Kodi skin package. It keeps Kodi powerful enough for a caregiver or technician, but presents a calm daily interface for TV, public broadcaster catch-up services, and a prepared video library.

Target use

• Primary audience: senior household
• Primary language: German, with English documentation maintained alongside it
• Target device: Fire TV running Kodi
• Control: normal TV remote via HDMI-CEC or Fire TV remote
• Daily operation: arrow keys, OK, Back, Home/Power

Daily home areas

Area	Purpose
Live TV	TV, channel list, and EPG
Mediatheken	ARD and ZDF as first-class catch-up entries
Library	Prepared local video content
Care / Technician	Protected setup and maintenance area

The technician PIN is an accident-prevention guard, not a security boundary.

Repository structure

• skin.kodi4seniors/: installable Kodi skin payload
• skin.kodi4seniors/1080i/: skin windows and include definitions
• scripts/build_release.py: builds the release ZIP
• scripts/publish_to_repo.py: publishes the skin to mildman1848.github.io
• scripts/validate_repo.py: validates XML, versions, required assets, and release ZIP contents
• docs/: product, setup, remote-control, recovery, and roadmap documentation

Documentation

• Product vision
• Setup playbook
• Remote control and navigation
• Recovery and maintenance
• Roadmap
• Implementation plan

Local validation

npm ci
npm run validate

Validation checks:

• Python helper syntax
• all skin XML files
• version consistency between addon.xml, package.json, and VERSION
• required skin assets
• release ZIP contents

Release build

npm run build

The ZIP is written to dist/ and can be installed as a Kodi skin add-on.