Kodi shouldn't need VNC for remote access. Various things (not everything..) can already be done/changed via for example Webchorus2, other stuff should be added/included into Webchorus3, if that ever starts up via GSOC.
I personally have not used VNC for more than a decade and had even forgotten the thing even exists until I accidentally found it browsing Kodi addons. Since then, VNC my new best friend. Let me try to explain how it works when you try to help someone not very tech-savvy solve Kodi issues.
During the busiest time of the day, an incoming call from mom.
- Hi, are you very busy?
- Well....... I guess not
- Can you help me? We want to watch a movie, but it doesn't work.
- What doesn't work?
- The movies
- Why doesn't it work?
- I can't see them
- Why not?
- They are all gone
- So you can't find the movies? What do you see?
- Nothing
- You see a blank screen?
- No
- What do you see then?
- I dunno, a table
- What kind of table? What does it say
- I don't know, it's blue
- Press return button a few times
pause
- Did it help?
pause
- mom?
- Where is the return button?
- The one that has a backward arrow
pause
- it doesn't work
- did you press the button?
- I am pressing it now
- did it help?
- I see a different table
- but no movies?
- no
- Did you try to reboot the player?
- What do you mean reboot?
- restart it
- How do I reboot it?
- ........ you unplug the cable, wait a few seconds, then plug back in
- OK, wait......
5 mins later
- Did it boot already?
- (no answer)
- mom?
- no
- why not?
- I don't know which cable to unplug
- the white one
- there is no white cable
- yes there is and it has a strawberry logo on the adapter
- OK! found it
5 more mins later
- I see the screen
- Do you see the movies?
- No
- Why not?
- I see the same table
- What does the table say?
- Kodi
- and below Kodi
- Movies
- You see no movies?
- no
- You see empty directory?
- What is a directory
- a list
- I don't see the movies
- What buttons did you press earlier?
- I didn't touch it!
- Someone had to touch it
- Maybe your father did. I don't know. Never mind, maybe you fix it when you come next weekend
- Call me on facetime and show me what your screen looks like
Then we call on facetime, I check the screen, have to tell her which buttons to press one by one, takes another 15 minutes until the problem is solved.
---- same conversation with VNC on ----
- hi, are you busy?
- you can't see the movies again?
- ... yes
- ok, wait a sec sec
10 seconds later
- Can you see them now?
- yes, how did you do it??
- magic, mom
- you're a genius, thank you!
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The problem is...... there is no VNC on Matrix, so I have to stick with Leia. But IPTV Simple Client no longer works on Leia / rpi4 rev 1.4. So I have to choose between IPTV and VNC, or I have to search for older hardware that still runs both VNC and IPTV on Leia. I would gladly buy such a device, but most of the shops just sell rpi 4 without mentioning which revision it is. Last week I bought 2 rpis for this, and both of them are crashing since they are rev 1.4.
