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I have searched the forum and can't seem to find an answer to my question. I am wondering if there is a way to enable series recording in the skin in the PVR settings? I'm running ServerWMC as my client and I can find the option in other skins. I love the skin but setting up a series recording is pretty important to me. Does anyone know if there is a way to modify the skin to allow this like I've seen for other skins? Thanks!
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Could you make some screenshots where the option shows up in other skins, and tell me which version of XBMC or Kodi you are running?
I wasn't aware there was series support and without PVR myself it is hard to keep up with changes on the area.
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In the pvr.wmc install directory there are 2 files in the confluence/720p directory, these files need to be edited to work with your skin and put in your skin directory. HTH
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2014-08-22, 09:43
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Ah so this is a PVR.wmc issue, not correctly falling back to a default if you don't use confluence
Please ask the PVR.wmc author to fix this.
I might still have a look, but knowing it is an add-on providing the skin element means the add-on should fix it.
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2014-08-22, 23:34
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The problem is that the pvr.wmc author did not select any of the included skin files to be used in case the skin selected by the user was not provided for.
Eg. there is no fallback.
It has been possible for quite some time now for an addon to load its own skin files. Appareantly they are not choosing for this but opting to let the users manually modify their own skins.
Seems bothersome to me.
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Hi Kib,
I'm the pvr.wmc author. As far as I know (but would love to proven wrong) there is no 'included skin' for enabling series recording, but there is a fallback: if the skin file is not available, series recording is turned off, which is normal xbmc behavior.
Like Dilligaf says, xbmc does not have any ability to setup series recordings, but many of the users of our addons require it (I know I do). So the only way we can give this feature to our users is to provide a custom series-enabling dialog skin. All of the pvr authors who do this just provide a custom confluence skin. If the user wants to use a different skin - and do series recording - they either need to create the xml themselves or come begging to the skin authors to support it. That's how we get to here.
We all hope series recording will be standard in helix, but until then here we are.
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What I don't get is why you don't load the skin files from the add-on itself like lazytv and spotimc do. Is that not possible because of the way PVR works in XBMC?
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There are no skins in the addon to add. Pvr addons are different than normal xbmc addons, they are all compiled c++.
. I would love to check out your live tv changes to the neon skin.