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RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - ray2301 - 2022-07-08

(2022-07-08, 13:17)mikeB2210 Wrote: Hi, could someone explain to me how I get the weather integrated into the skin. There are so many settings...

there's no weather widget (yet) if that's what you're looking for. i sure hope there will be, i've always had the weather widget active on kodi Smile
there's a shortcut for weather on the power menu that shows the current weather temperature for your set location and you can enter the weather app through it.
you can customize the power menu to your likings in settings - skin settings - customize power menu
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you could also add a shortcut to your menu via settings - skin settings - menus - customize home menu.
there you add a new menu item with a + and press "choose item for menu" on the right. then choose "common" and the weather shortcut is there.

the third option for weather is showing the current temperature with the clock - that's in settings - skin settings - furniture - weather with clock


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - ray2301 - 2022-07-08

(2022-07-08, 09:50)scr44tch Wrote: is there a way to get a simple background picture instead of fanart / blur ?

thx for this great skin!!

Not yet, see here.


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - Sea Wolfe - 2022-07-08

Jurial has done so much great work with this skin, and TMDBhelper.  The skin and TMBDBhelper fit like hand in glove -- really beautiful.  
From my very limited experience working with anything graphics/design related, I know countless hours have gone into producing this, and the speed of quick improvements every day is just amazing!

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I am experiencing odd/inconsistent results get more than 5/6 widgets in the 2nd position (tab) on the "menu" of homescreen.

With the 1st (which by default Jurial has set to "Movies") I can consistently get 8 Widgets loaded.  On the 2nd, widgets 7 and 8 display their headings, and then never load.  I'm not 100% sure if this is a skin bug, or something on my end with the widgets I am trying to load.  But throwing it out there, before I spend more time fiddling around here on my end...


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - mikeB2210 - 2022-07-08

@ray2301 thank you for your datailed advice about the weather 👍

Maybe you can help me how to to show the rating of th IMDb?


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - Nekromantik - 2022-07-08

latest version does not install as it needs version 4.10.5 of MovieDBHelper which is not in the repo

edit: its now there so working


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - Nekromantik - 2022-07-08

this is error i see in logs after almost every update of the skin when choosing a TV show in home screen
Quote:2022-07-08 21:36:16.634 T:1038    ERROR <general>: Window Translator: Can't find window Bxxxh
2022-07-08 21:36:16.635 T:1038    ERROR <general>: Window Translator: Can't find window Bxxxh/fanart.jpg
2022-07-08 21:36:16.636 T:1038    ERROR <general>: Window Translator: Can't find window Bxxxh/poster.jpg
2022-07-08 21:36:17.942 T:1038     INFO <general>: Loading skin file: MyVideoNav.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2022-07-08 21:36:17.944 T:1038    ERROR <general>: Misplaced |
2022-07-08 21:36:17.944 T:1038    ERROR <general>: Error parsing boolean expression |  |  |



RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - ray2301 - 2022-07-09

(2022-07-08, 22:15)mikeB2210 Wrote: @ray2301 thank you for your datailed advice about the weather 👍

Maybe you can help me how to to show the rating of th IMDb?

skin settings - details - customize ratings
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all of the skin settings are under skin settings, so this one was pretty obvious Smile


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - mikeB2210 - 2022-07-09

ok I had already found and activated the activation in the settings, but still no rating is displayed only -.-


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - jurialmunkey - 2022-07-09

(2022-07-09, 06:42)mikeB2210 Wrote: ok I had already found and activated the activation in the settings, but still no rating is displayed only -.-

You need a personal OMDb api key added in TMDbHelper settings. You can currently get free keys from OMDb.
https://www.omdbapi.com/


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - jurialmunkey - 2022-07-09

(2022-07-08, 19:05)Sea Wolfe Wrote: Jurial has done so much great work with this skin, and TMDBhelper.  The skin and TMBDBhelper fit like hand in glove -- really beautiful.  
From my very limited experience working with anything graphics/design related, I know countless hours have gone into producing this, and the speed of quick improvements every day is just amazing!

-----

I am experiencing odd/inconsistent results get more than 5/6 widgets in the 2nd position (tab) on the "menu" of homescreen.

With the 1st (which by default Jurial has set to "Movies") I can consistently get 8 Widgets loaded.  On the 2nd, widgets 7 and 8 display their headings, and then never load.  I'm not 100% sure if this is a skin bug, or something on my end with the widgets I am trying to load.  But throwing it out there, before I spend more time fiddling around here on my end...


Are you on Nexus? It sounds like this bug on Nexus:
https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arctic.horizon.2/issues/225

The skin is currently broken on Nexus nightlies due to an issue with a new Kodi rendering feature which is currently in process of being fixed. To use the skin on Nexus you will need to either use a nightly version from before June 5th or wait for this PR to be merged https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/21645


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - Sea Wolfe - 2022-07-09

(2022-07-09, 10:39)jurialmunkey Wrote: Are you on Nexus? It sounds like this bug on Nexus:
https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arctic.horizon.2/issues/225

The skin is currently broken on Nexus nightlies due to an issue with a new Kodi rendering feature which is currently in process of being fixed. To use the skin on Nexus you will need to either use a nightly version from before June 5th or wait for this PR to be merged https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/21645
Thanks for replying!

No, I am not on Nexus, I am on Matrix 19.4

The reason, I said inconsistent behavior, is because I was actually able to get 11 widget rows displayed on that 2nd tab.  And then sometimes only 5 or 6 of them load. 

I need to look into if it's the specific widgets I am trying to load that are the problem (They are from TMDBHelper -> Trakt -> My Lists -> Couchmoney.tv generated Recommendations).  

I'll play around a little more, and try other widgets. 

If I discover anything relevant/useful that could indicate the source of the issue, I will post a follow-up/update.

Thanks again, and for sharing this incredible piece of work!


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - jamesdm - 2022-07-09

Jurial... When i want to continue to see a video the focus is not in continue "bar" and is on the firts element on the top.


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - jurialmunkey - 2022-07-10

(2022-07-09, 15:47)jamesdm Wrote: Jurial... When i want to continue to see a video the focus is not in continue "bar" and is on the firts element on the top.
I don't understand what this means sorry


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - jurialmunkey - 2022-07-10

(2022-07-09, 14:59)Sea Wolfe Wrote:
(2022-07-09, 10:39)jurialmunkey Wrote: Are you on Nexus? It sounds like this bug on Nexus:
https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arctic.horizon.2/issues/225

The skin is currently broken on Nexus nightlies due to an issue with a new Kodi rendering feature which is currently in process of being fixed. To use the skin on Nexus you will need to either use a nightly version from before June 5th or wait for this PR to be merged https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/21645
Thanks for replying!

No, I am not on Nexus, I am on Matrix 19.4

The reason, I said inconsistent behavior, is because I was actually able to get 11 widget rows displayed on that 2nd tab.  And then sometimes only 5 or 6 of them load. 

I need to look into if it's the specific widgets I am trying to load that are the problem (They are from TMDBHelper -> Trakt -> My Lists -> Couchmoney.tv generated Recommendations).  

I'll play around a little more, and try other widgets. 

If I discover anything relevant/useful that could indicate the source of the issue, I will post a follow-up/update.

Thanks again, and for sharing this incredible piece of work!
Ah on Matrix things should be fine so definitely a different issue.

Theres no real limit to widgets (well technically it is 99 per menu due to id availability but that's a ridiculous setup if you're getting anywhere near that!). So no issues with id conflicts.

Only reason a widget wouldnt load is if the plugin doesn't return any items. Could be a connection error or simply empty lists etc.

Widget visibility becomes false if the container has 0 items and has finished loading. Due to the way kodi handles reloading widgets, if the container isn't visible the container won't update even if its path changes - so once it is hidden then it is hidden forever (until forced to reload by stopping a video or reloading the skin).

So if you have widgets that are sometimes empty, they will remain empty and won't reload until forced. There's not much the skin can do about that (alternative is leaving massive gaps of empty widgets everywhere which would be worse).

EDIT: Updated for clarity.


RE: Arctic Horizon 2 - roidy - 2022-07-10

(2022-07-10, 04:23)jurialmunkey Wrote: Due to the way kodi handles reloading widgets, if the container isn't visible and the path is the same as before then the container won't update - so once it is hidden then it is hidden forever (until skin reload).

An empty (hidden) Widget should reload after playing a video.... Shouldn't itHuh They do in my skin.