Custom Home/Discover/Search UI
Home, Discover, Search, Detail and Streams screens built for the couch — no dropping to Kodi's classic directory for the parts that matter most.
Kodi × Stremio protocol
Rivulet
A Kodi video add-on that reimplements the Stremio client experience — discover and search catalogs, manage add-ons, resolve streams, and play, all from a custom, couch-first UI.
Rivulet does not host, index or provide any media content — it's a client for third-party Stremio add-ons you install yourself.
Why Rivulet
Everything Stremio, at home in Kodi
Add-on manager
Install Stremio add-ons straight from a manifest URL, and remove them again, without ever leaving Kodi.
Parallel catalog & stream lookups
A slow or unavailable add-on no longer stalls the rest — catalogs and sources are queried in parallel.
Stremio account sync
Log in to keep your add-on collection in sync both ways between Kodi and Stremio.
Subtitles out of the box
Pulled from your installed Stremio subtitle add-ons at playback time, OpenSubtitles v3 preinstalled, sorted by your preferred language.
One-click streaming server
Download the right stremio-server-go build for your platform and run it embedded, or point at a server you already run.
Get started
Install once, pick your update path
Manual
Quick install
- Grab
plugin.video.rivulet-<version>.zipfrom the latest release. - In Kodi: Settings → Add-ons → Install from zip file and pick the zip.
- Open Rivulet from the Videos section of the home screen.
You'll need to repeat this for every future release.
Recommended — auto-updates
Install the repository
- Grab
repository.rivulet-<version>.zipfrom the latest release — just once. - Settings → Add-ons → Install from zip file, same as the plugin itself.
- Settings → Add-ons → Install from repository → Rivulet Repository → Rivulet.
- Kodi checks for and installs future Rivulet updates automatically, like any other repository.
Playback
Streaming server
All playback resolves through a server speaking the same enginefs HTTP API as Stremio's own server.js — stremio-server-go is a pure-Go, drop-in implementation. Configure it under Settings → Streaming server.
| Setting | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Server URL | Where the streaming server listens. Defaults to http://127.0.0.1:11470 — point it at any local or remote stremio-server-go (or official Stremio server) instance. |
| Run embedded server | The background service spawns and supervises a local stremio-server-go process for the Kodi session, and stops it on shutdown. |
| Server binary path | The executable to run when embedded. Leave empty to auto-detect from the add-on's bin/ folder, then PATH. |
No manual binary install needed — use Download stremio-server binary under Settings → Streaming server to fetch and integrity-check the right build straight from the stremio-server-go releases.
Good to know
FAQ & disclaimer
Rivulet does not host, index or provide any media content. It's a client for third-party Stremio add-ons that you install yourself, including catalogs, streams and subtitles.
Do I need a Stremio account?
No — Rivulet works fully anonymously. Logging in is optional and only syncs your installed add-ons with your Stremio account.
Which Kodi versions are supported?
Tested across Python 3.8 through 3.13 — Kodi 19 "Matrix" through current releases.
How do updates work?
Install the Rivulet Repository once and Kodi handles future updates itself, checking a repo published from every tagged release.
Where do subtitles come from?
From your installed Stremio subtitle add-ons at playback time — OpenSubtitles v3 comes preinstalled.