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I'm sure this has been answered somewhere but I looked on the thread and couldn't find out if there was some way to beta test the iPhone app? I love Kyra on my iPad and can't wait for an iPhone version!!
(2015-11-22, 02:26)Slack8182 Wrote: [ -> ]I'm sure this has been answered somewhere but I looked on the thread and couldn't find out if there was some way to beta test the iPhone app? I love Kyra on my iPad and can't wait for an iPhone version!!

It will still take a while before it's worthy to call it a beta, but when it's time I will ask here. Is that ok?
(2015-11-21, 23:36)rschiks Wrote: [ -> ]2. No, didn't forget that. I was thinking that you don't need both buttons at the same time. When you set the option replace series in menu with Series XL the button Series will change too and starts Series XL.

Thank you. Very hidden for me....
Yea that's great!! I have every Kodi remote on the App Store downloaded to my phone because I'm always looking for the best. Kyra is by far the best but iPad is too big to be a remote. I'd be more than happy to test it out. I can sideload apps on my iPhone through Xcode very easily
rschiks there is no workaround for the black background that I have?
(2015-11-22, 16:47)Slack8182 Wrote: [ -> ]Yea that's great!! I have every Kodi remote on the App Store downloaded to my phone because I'm always looking for the best. Kyra is by far the best but iPad is too big to be a remote. I'd be more than happy to test it out. I can sideload apps on my iPhone through Xcode very easily

I will use Apple's testflight to distribute beta's. Works great.
(2015-11-22, 19:15)Goliath2000 Wrote: [ -> ]rschiks there is no workaround for the black background that I have?

No, not really...something with your local fanart is going wrong. I have checked the code with previous versions and I haven't changed anything concerning retrieving images from Kodi.

There's a check around Kodi versions, so if it detects an older version of Kodi (before helix) is use another method to contruct the url.

What I did change was the url constructing code for cdart and theme.mp3. That's why it's now working with folders with beyoncé. The problems mentioned in previous posts around the theme.mps and cdart subject is the way I internally construct the final url.

So are you sure nothing changed on your side, concerning Kodi, in the last few weeks?
(2015-11-22, 21:04)rschiks Wrote: [ -> ]
(2015-11-22, 19:15)Goliath2000 Wrote: [ -> ]rschiks there is no workaround for the black background that I have?

No, not really...something with your local fanart is going wrong. I have checked the code with previous versions and I haven't changed anything concerning retrieving images from Kodi.

There's a check around Kodi versions, so if it detects an older version of Kodi (before helix) is use another method to contruct the url.

What I did change was the url constructing code for cdart and theme.mp3. That's why it's now working with folders with beyoncé. The problems mentioned in previous posts around the theme.mps and cdart subject is the way I internally construct the final url.

So are you sure nothing changed on your side, concerning Kodi, in the last few weeks?

Yes I'm sure that nothing was changed! But however I have now reinstalled kodi 15.2 from scratch and rebuild again my entire collection and also re-downloaded Kyra app, but still I have same problem as before with black background! I didn't have this issue with version 1.8.

You are right cdart for beyoncé is in the other hand working fine now with 1.9.
(2015-11-22, 21:32)Goliath2000 Wrote: [ -> ]
(2015-11-22, 21:04)rschiks Wrote: [ -> ]
(2015-11-22, 19:15)Goliath2000 Wrote: [ -> ]rschiks there is no workaround for the black background that I have?

No, not really...something with your local fanart is going wrong. I have checked the code with previous versions and I haven't changed anything concerning retrieving images from Kodi.

There's a check around Kodi versions, so if it detects an older version of Kodi (before helix) is use another method to contruct the url.

What I did change was the url constructing code for cdart and theme.mp3. That's why it's now working with folders with beyoncé. The problems mentioned in previous posts around the theme.mps and cdart subject is the way I internally construct the final url.

So are you sure nothing changed on your side, concerning Kodi, in the last few weeks?

Yes I'm sure that nothing was changed! But however I have now reinstalled kodi 15.2 from scratch and rebuild again my entire collection and also re-downloaded Kyra app, but still I have same problem as before with black background! I didn't have this issue with version 1.8.

You are right cdart for beyoncé is in the other hand working fine now with 1.9.

You could set a background with the options button -> select fan art in the movie information screen.
This writes a local fan art database entry and updates the Kodi database. When set you can clear the local fan art database again (available in the maintenance menu).
The end result would be an updated entry in the Kodi database.

I can honestly say that no code is modified for displaying images. I think a lot of users would already have complained, and I would have noticed myself. I test the app with Helix 14.2 and Isengard 15.2.
(2015-11-22, 21:46)rschiks Wrote: [ -> ]
(2015-11-22, 21:32)Goliath2000 Wrote: [ -> ]
(2015-11-22, 21:04)rschiks Wrote: [ -> ]No, not really...something with your local fanart is going wrong. I have checked the code with previous versions and I haven't changed anything concerning retrieving images from Kodi.

There's a check around Kodi versions, so if it detects an older version of Kodi (before helix) is use another method to contruct the url.

What I did change was the url constructing code for cdart and theme.mp3. That's why it's now working with folders with beyoncé. The problems mentioned in previous posts around the theme.mps and cdart subject is the way I internally construct the final url.

So are you sure nothing changed on your side, concerning Kodi, in the last few weeks?

Yes I'm sure that nothing was changed! But however I have now reinstalled kodi 15.2 from scratch and rebuild again my entire collection and also re-downloaded Kyra app, but still I have same problem as before with black background! I didn't have this issue with version 1.8.

You are right cdart for beyoncé is in the other hand working fine now with 1.9.

You could set a background with the options button -> select fan art in the movie information screen.
This writes a local fan art database entry and updates the Kodi database. When set you can clear the local fan art database again (available in the maintenance menu).
The end result would be an updated entry in the Kodi database.

I can honestly say that no code is modified for displaying images. I think a lot of users would already have complained, and I would have noticed myself. I test the app with Helix 14.2 and Isengard 15.2.

Very strange, now that I did exactly as you said " You could set a background with the options button -> select fan art in the movie information screen."
I did this to one of my movies but nothing happened then I went to the options where I can remove the blur option, suddenly all background was there again. If I enable blur it goes then back to black screen again.
(2015-11-22, 22:52)Goliath2000 Wrote: [ -> ]Very strange, now that I did exactly as you said " You could set a background with the options button -> select fan art in the movie information screen."
I did this to one of my movies but nothing happened then I went to the options where I can remove the blur option, suddenly all background was there again. If I enable blur it goes then back to black screen again.

As you can see in post #2041 (a screen shot from someone else :-) ) the blur effect can make it very dark:

Image

And when setting the slider of transparency higher it will be even darker (when a movies screen is put over it):

Image

And if the light settings of iPad is also set to dark.....I can imagine you won't see the background at all.
rschiks hmm I changed the back light of my iPad to max and then tried this, still it was completely black! I tried also to reduce the transparency from 40% to 5% didn't help!
(2015-11-22, 23:26)Goliath2000 Wrote: [ -> ]rschiks hmm I changed the back light of my iPad to max and then tried this, still it was completely black! I tried also to reduce the transparency from 40% to 5% didn't help!

Hmmmm....

No "Blur"-Effect on the iPad 3

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/532...5&tstart=0
(2015-11-22, 23:33)rschiks Wrote: [ -> ]
(2015-11-22, 23:26)Goliath2000 Wrote: [ -> ]rschiks hmm I changed the back light of my iPad to max and then tried this, still it was completely black! I tried also to reduce the transparency from 40% to 5% didn't help!

Hmmmm....

No "Blur"-Effect on the iPad 3

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/532...5&tstart=0

Oh! That's why!!! thanks for finding this!
Damn now I have one more reason to buy a new iPad....
(2015-11-22, 23:37)Goliath2000 Wrote: [ -> ]
(2015-11-22, 23:33)rschiks Wrote: [ -> ]
(2015-11-22, 23:26)Goliath2000 Wrote: [ -> ]rschiks hmm I changed the back light of my iPad to max and then tried this, still it was completely black! I tried also to reduce the transparency from 40% to 5% didn't help!

Hmmmm....

No "Blur"-Effect on the iPad 3

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/532...5&tstart=0

Oh! That's why!!! thanks for finding this!
Damn now I have one more reason to buy a new iPad....

I have tested it on an iPad 4 and an iPad Air.....it never crossed my mind this effect is not available for some devices.