diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/kodi-100.70-fix-json.patch b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/kodi-100.70-fix-json.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3411ba32a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/kodi-100.70-fix-json.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+diff --git a/cmake/scripts/common/GenerateVersionedFiles.cmake b/cmake/scripts/common/GenerateVersionedFiles.cmake
+index 90b2173..2819371 100644
+--- a/cmake/scripts/common/GenerateVersionedFiles.cmake
++++ b/cmake/scripts/common/GenerateVersionedFiles.cmake
+@@ -11,14 +11,12 @@ function(generate_versioned_file _SRC _DEST)
+   file(WRITE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${_DEST} "${file_content}")
+ endfunction()
+ 
++# workaround for xbmc.json
++file(STRINGS ${CORE_SOURCE_DIR}/xbmc/interfaces/json-rpc/schema/version.txt jsonrpc_version)
++
+ # add-on xml's
+ file(GLOB ADDON_XML_IN_FILE ${CORE_SOURCE_DIR}/addons/*/addon.xml.in)
+ foreach(loop_var ${ADDON_XML_IN_FILE})
+-  # prevent 'xbmc.json'; will be obtained from 'xbmc/interfaces/json-rpc/schema/CMakeLists.txt'.
+-  if(loop_var MATCHES "xbmc.json")
+-    continue()
+-  endif()
+-
+   list(GET loop_var 0 xml_name)
+ 
+   string(REPLACE "/addon.xml.in" "" source_dir ${xml_name})
+diff --git a/xbmc/interfaces/json-rpc/schema/CMakeLists.txt b/xbmc/interfaces/json-rpc/schema/CMakeLists.txt
+index aa6142b..550c73b 100644
+--- a/xbmc/interfaces/json-rpc/schema/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/xbmc/interfaces/json-rpc/schema/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -10,18 +10,8 @@ add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${CORE_BUILD_DIR}/ServiceDescripti
+                    DEPENDS ${JSON_SRCS}
+                    COMMENT "Generating ServiceDescription.h")
+ 
+-add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/addons/xbmc.json/addon.xml
+-                   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
+-                           -DCMAKE_SOURCE_DIR=${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
+-                           -DCORE_BINARY_DIR=${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
+-                           -P ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/GenerateAddonXml.cmake
+-                   WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}
+-                   DEPENDS ${JSON_SRCS} ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/addons/xbmc.json/addon.xml.in
+-                   COMMENT "Generating xbmc.json/addon.xml")
+-
+ add_custom_target(generate_json_header ALL
+-                  DEPENDS ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${CORE_BUILD_DIR}/ServiceDescription.h
+-                          ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/addons/xbmc.json/addon.xml)
++                  DEPENDS ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${CORE_BUILD_DIR}/ServiceDescription.h)
+ set_target_properties(generate_json_header PROPERTIES FOLDER "Build Utilities")
+ 
+ if(BOOTSTRAP_IN_TREE)
+diff --git a/xbmc/interfaces/json-rpc/schema/GenerateAddonXml.cmake b/xbmc/interfaces/json-rpc/schema/GenerateAddonXml.cmake
+deleted file mode 100644
+index 53afaf8..0000000
+--- a/xbmc/interfaces/json-rpc/schema/GenerateAddonXml.cmake
++++ /dev/null
+@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
+-file(STRINGS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/xbmc/interfaces/json-rpc/schema/version.txt jsonrpc_version)
+-
+-execute_process(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E remove ${CORE_BINARY_DIR}/addons/xbmc.json/addon.xml)
+-configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/addons/xbmc.json/addon.xml.in
+-               ${CORE_BINARY_DIR}/addons/xbmc.json/addon.xml @ONLY)
+