Ah wait, maybe I can help!
When you tried it, were you using the Default Kodi skin? Because if so, the list view it uses by default does indeed look crappy, but it’s customizable!
When you open the Movies or TV list, look at the bottom left, you should see a icon that looks like this:
What this means is, you can press the direction listed to open a options menu. So for example pressing Left when this is shown opens this sidebar:
Try changing the display mode from “List” to something like “Poster” and you get this:
The movies you see on this screenshot are all coming from my Jellyfin server, not too bad eh?
And this is just the beginning, if you look into the built-in Add-ons store in Kodi, there’s tons of third-party skins you can install, and thanks to the “Playlists” and “Widgets” system in Kodi, you can really fine tune your setup!
This is what my Kodi homescreen looks like with the Arctic: Zephyr Reloaded skin and a bunch of tweaking. It’s setup to show the next episodes of what I’m watching right away:
It’s all still coming down from my Jellyfin server.
The icons on the left are shortcuts to open the full library view of the server instead of the local media, allowing me easy access to my library instead of having to navigate a bunch to reach the Jellycon Lists. You can customize these views too:
Now, setting this up can get pretty annoying, specially as all these settings seem to be 15 menus deep into Kodi and the skin settings and you might find yourself going back and forth quite a bit, but I think the end result is well worth it.
If you ever fancy giving it a try again, I’d recommend installing Kodi on your computer and playing with it there. When you got something you’re happy with, transferring the settings over Raspberry shouldn’t be too hard. Hope this helps!
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