In order to follow this tutorial, first fork this repository, and then clone your newly forked copy locally.
First, you'll need to edit the addon.xml file within the /repository.example folder with your chosen add-on ID, a version number, and your username (or whatever you'd like) for provider, as seen on line 2:
<addon id="ADDON_ID_HERE" name="REPO_NAME_HERE" version="VERSION_NUMBER_HERE" provider-name="YOUR_USERNAME_HERE">You also need to replace YOUR_USERNAME_HERE and REPOSITORY_NAME_HERE with your GitHub username and this repository's name, respectively, as seen on lines 5-7:
<info compressed="false">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/REPOSITORY_NAME_HERE/master/zips/addons.xml</info>
<checksum>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/REPOSITORY_NAME_HERE/master/zips/addons.xml.md5</checksum>
<datadir zip="true">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/REPOSITORY_NAME_HERE/master/zips/</datadir>You should also change the summary and description of your repository, as seen on lines 11-12:
<summary>REPO_NAME_HERE</summary>
<description>DESCRIPTION OF YOUR REPO HERE</description>While not required, it is also recommended to replace icon.png and fanart.jpg in the /repository.example folder with art relevant to your repository or the add-ons contained within. icon.png should be 512x512 px, and fanart.jpg should be 1920x1080 px, or a similar ratio.
To build the repository, first rename the /repository.example folder to match whatever add-on ID you chose earlier. Place the add-on source folders for whichever add-ons you'd like to be contained in your Kodi repo in the main folder of this repository, and run _repo_xml_generator.py.
This will create zips of all of the desired add-ons, and place them in the zips folder, along with a generated addons.xml and addons.xml.md5. Copy the zip file of your repository, located at /zips/ADDON_ID_HERE/ADDON_ID_HERE-VERSION_NUMBER_HERE.zip,
and paste it into the /repo folder.
Inside the /repo folder, edit the link inside index.html to reflect your add-on's filename, as seen on line 1:
<a href="ADDON_ID_HERE-VERSION_NUMBER_HERE.zip">ADDON_ID_HERE-VERSION_NUMBER_HERE.zip</a>After committing and pushing these changes to your repo, go to the "Settings" section for this repository on GitHub. In the first box, labeled "Repository name", change your repository's name. Generally, GitHub Pages repositories are named YOUR_USERNAME_HERE.github.io, but it can be whatever you'd like.
Next, scroll down to the "GitHub Pages" section, choose the master branch as the source, and click "Save".
After that, you should be all done!
If you named this repository YOUR_USERNAME_HERE.github.io, your file manager source will be:
https://YOUR_USERNAME_HERE.github.io/repo/
And if you named it something else, it will be:
https://YOUR_USERNAME_HERE.github.io/REPOSITORY_NAME_HERE/repo/
If you want to host your Kodi repo on a different host besides GitHub Pages, simply download this repository as a .zip, and unzip it , rather than forking and cloning it. Continue to follow the rest of the setup procedure, except for the setting up of GitHub Pages. The only differences will be in your addon.xml file (lines 5-7), as it will need to reference yourhost, rather than GitHub:
<info compressed="false">https://YOUR_HOST_URL_HERE/zips/addons.xml</info>
<checksum>https://YOUR_HOST_URL_HERE/zips/addons.xml.md5</checksum>
<datadir zip="true">https://YOUR_HOST_URL_HERE/zips/</datadir>And upload the contents of this repository to your host. It is very important that YOUR_HOST_URL_HERE is the URL to this folder.
After doing so, your file manager source will be:
https://YOUR_HOST_URL_HERE/repo/