# Profile Pseudo-Support for Kodi

**URL:** <https://community.yatse.tv/t/profile-pseudo-support-for-kodi/4673>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [July 18, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.yatse.tv/t/profile-pseudo-support-for-kodi/4673 "2024-07-18T13:40:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![annomatik](https://community.yatse.tv/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@annomatik](https://community.yatse.tv/u/annomatik)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.yatse.tv/t/profile-pseudo-support-for-kodi/4673/1 "2024-07-18T13:40:13Z")

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Hi! I know that Profiles in Kodi are a bit of a step-child, have been watching the situation for years now. One or two ideas for better profile support in Yatse…

I have about five different Kodi installations, with five different Profiles on each (Kids, Fitness, etc.). Each Kodi installation has its own, static hostname / ip address. Each Kodi profile has its own name and port number. So for example, Master profile on PC 1 has hostname pc1 and port 8080, Master profile on PC 2 has hostname pc2 and port 8080, Fitness on PC 1 has hostname pc 1 and port 8070, etc. etc.

So… 1) What, if “host pc 1 (master)” goes offline and yatse would automatically check, if any of the other hosts with the other port numbers on the same ip / hostname would respond and automatically switch to that? Doesn’t need to check that forever, maybe for a minute or two.

Or, more elaborate… 2) how about a Kodi compagnion app that works similar to a lighthouse. As soon as someone logs in to a certain host with a certain profile, that Kodi instance would broadcast that information, so Yatse could automatically switch? Customizable for example to only switch, if previously connected to the same host but with a different profile?

Does that make sense? Would that be complicated?

Right now, Yatse is very useful. Unfortunatelly, the Kodi profile support is lacking.

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**Author:** ![Tolriq](https://community.yatse.tv/user_avatar/community.yatse.tv/tolriq/32/12_2.png) [@Tolriq](https://community.yatse.tv/u/Tolriq)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.yatse.tv/t/profile-pseudo-support-for-kodi/4673/2 "2024-07-18T14:26:52Z")

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This is a duplicate and there’s already tons of explanation of why I won’t add that.

But the good news is that you can use tasker and automate to do whatever checks you want when you want and change the active connection in Yatse.

> **[Yatse Tasker Plugin](https://yatse.tv/wiki/yatse-tasker-plugin)**
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> Yatse include a complete Tasker plugin allowing to access most of it's functions from other applications.