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Trusted
Staying in Wellington. Check out my AirBnB in the Wellington CBD. https://www.airbnb.co.nz/rooms/32019730 Mention GZ to get a 10% discount
System One: Popcorn Hour A200, PS3 SuperSlim, NPVR and Plex Server running on Gigabyte Brix (Windows 10 Pro), Sony BDP-S390 BD player, Pioneer AVR, Raspberry Pi running Kodi and Plex, Panasonic 60" 3D plasma, Google Chromecast
System Two: Popcorn Hour A200 , Oppo BDP-80 BluRay Player with hardware mode to be region free, Vivitek HD1080P 1080P DLP projector with 100" screen, Denon AVRS730H 7.2 Channel Dolby Atmos/DTS-X AV Receiver, Samsung 4K player, Google Chromecast, Odroid C2 running Kodi and Plex
My HTPC runs Kodi with PlexKodiConnect for seamless integration into the Kodi library, obviously Plex as the Backend and NextPVR as the backend for livetv.
Streaming services are all handled with the Chrome launcher addon which launches the website in kiosk mode of all major streaming services in NZ (Netflix, TVNZ, TV3, Lightbox, Neon etc) and is controlled with a wireless keyboard/mouse combo (The v nice Logitech one, also very expensive!).
Along with all that I have Kodi modified to use MadVR, a directshow player for lots of playback control (gotta get the best picture) and SVP for smooth 60fps playback.
Other programs running include CouchPotato for movies, Sonarr for TV Shows and a couple of other things I can't remember. Everything is stored on a NAS, however I would like to upgrade to a rack server in the future for local storage and running all the behind the scenes components and have the NAS as a backup.
Here's a link to a youtube video showing my setup starting up, may be a bit shaky it was very early in the morning 
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Kodi Startup
Hope you like!
Also everyone who wants to play blurays directly in kodi, I'm pretty sure you can setup an external player (PowerDVD for example) to play the content within kodi, I haven't tried it myself as I rip any blurays to MKV and place it on my NAS. also my HTPC doesn't have Disc drive support haha.
Here's a few links for anyone interested. I find that people give up on the one system for all with one remote idea when it gets too complicated, don't forget you have a whole community to help you!
Scripts for External Players
PowerDVD in Kodi
One more thing, if it's too much, set powerdvd to launch via Advanced Launcher in Kodi, set it as a home button (such as a replacement button for New TV Shows in the video of my previous post) and have it as a Disc icon. This seems almost like how the Xbox 360 does it and I feel that's a very clean way of doing it. Obviously haven't tried it though! (There are some real smart people over in the Kodi forums, along with a lot of new people who don't know they're using the program in the worst way possible).
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