[MOD] Adding Plugins to Home for LiveTV

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[MOD] Adding Plugins to Home for LiveTV - danz0l - 2012-11-17

OK i'm playing around with confluence as part of learning to skin and have managed to get selectable plugins to display on the home screen under LiveTV in Frodo Beta 1.

I thought i'd document the changes here so others can do this if they so wish.

Preamble
I'm using notepad++ to make these changes and i must stress that i am new to this so there could be mistakes. If you follow this tutorial PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE backup before doing so. Also i'm not localizing here as I only speak English, you can hard code your language specific text yourself (Just replace mine) or add a label number and localize yourself.

OK we are going to edit the following files IncludesHomeMenuItems.xml, Home.xml and SkinSettings.xml

I'll provide what were current line numbers in notepad++ for where i inserted the modifications but i'll also try and list a defined search string so you can be assured your in the right place. I prefer this approach to hard coded xmls as frodo is constantly updating and you may find the need to use a more recent version of confluence in the future.

Modifications

includesHomeMenuItems.xml

on or around lines 318 find:

Code:
        <control type="image" id="90146">

            <width>35</width>

            <height>35</height>

            <texture border="0,0,0,3">HomeSubEnd.png</texture>

        </control>

    </include>

and directly underneath add the following

Code:
    <!-- Live TV PLugins Addon -->

        <include name="HomeAddonItemsLiveTV">

        <item>

            <label>$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton1))]</label>

            <onclick>RunAddon($INFO[Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton1)])</onclick>

            <icon>$INFO[system.addonicon(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton1))]</icon>

            <thumb>-</thumb>

            <visible>!IsEmpty(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton1))</visible>

        </item>

        <item>

            <label>$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton2))]</label>

            <onclick>RunAddon($INFO[Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton2)])</onclick>

            <icon>$INFO[system.addonicon(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton2))]</icon>

            <thumb>-</thumb>

            <visible>!IsEmpty(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton2))</visible>

        </item>

        <item>

            <label>$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton3))]</label>

            <onclick>RunAddon($INFO[Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton3)])</onclick>

            <icon>$INFO[system.addonicon(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton3))]</icon>

            <thumb>-</thumb>

            <visible>!IsEmpty(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton3))</visible>

        </item>

        <item>

            <label>$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton4))]</label>

            <onclick>RunAddon($INFO[Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton4)])</onclick>

            <icon>$INFO[system.addonicon(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton4))]</icon>

            <thumb>-</thumb>

            <visible>!IsEmpty(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton4))</visible>

        </item>

        <item>

            <label>$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton5))]</label>

            <onclick>RunAddon($INFO[Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton5)])</onclick>

            <icon>$INFO[system.addonicon(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton5))]</icon>

            <thumb>-</thumb>

            <visible>!IsEmpty(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton5))</visible>

        </item>

    </include>    

    <!-- -->

Home.xml

on or around lines 1015 find:

Code:
            <control type="fixedlist" id="705">

                <animation effect="slide" start="0,0" end="-91,0" time="0" condition="StringCompare(Container(705).NumItems,2) | StringCompare(Container(705).NumItems,4)">conditional</animation>

                <visible>Container(9000).HasFocus(1)</visible>

                <onleft>705</onleft>

                <onright>705</onright>

                <onup>9001</onup>

                <ondown>20</ondown>

                <include>HomeAddonsCommonLayout</include>

                <content>

                    <include>HomeAddonItemsPrograms</include>

                </content>

            </control>

Directly underneath this add the following

Code:
            <!-- Live TV Plugins Addon -->

            <control type="fixedlist" id="706">

                <animation effect="slide" start="0,0" end="-91,0" time="0" condition="StringCompare(Container(706).NumItems,2) | StringCompare(Container(706).NumItems,4)">conditional</animation>

                <visible>Container(9000).HasFocus(12)</visible>  <!-- Live TV -->

                <onleft>706</onleft>

                <onright>706</onright>

                <onup>9001</onup>

                <ondown>20</ondown>

                <include>HomeAddonsCommonLayout</include>

                <content>

                    <include>HomeAddonItemsLiveTV</include>

                </content>

            </control>

            <!-- -->

SkinSettings.xml

On or around line 828 find:

Code:
                        <control type="button" id="415">

                            <width>750</width>

                            <height>40</height>

                            <font>font13</font>

                            <label>$LOCALIZE[24000] [B]5[/B]</label>

                            <label2>[COLOR=selected]$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeVideosButton5))][/COLOR]</label2>

                            <textcolor>grey2</textcolor>

                            <focusedcolor>white</focusedcolor>

                            <texturefocus>MenuItemFO.png</texturefocus>

                            <texturenofocus>MenuItemNF.png</texturenofocus>

                            <onclick>Skin.SetAddon(HomeVideosButton5,xbmc.addon.video,xbmc.addon.executable)</onclick>

                        </control>

Directly underneath this add the following code

Code:
                        <!-- Live TV settings addon -->

                        <control type="label" id="520">

                            <width>750</width>

                            <height>45</height>

                            <font>font13_title</font>

                            <label>Home Page LiveTV Submenu</label>

                            <textcolor>blue</textcolor>

                            <shadowcolor>black</shadowcolor>

                            <align>left</align>

                            <aligny>center</aligny>

                        </control>

                        <control type="button" id="521">

                            <width>750</width>

                            <height>40</height>

                            <font>font13</font>

                            <label>$LOCALIZE[24000] [B]1[/B]</label>

                            <label2>[COLOR=selected]$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton1))][/COLOR]</label2>

                            <textcolor>grey2</textcolor>

                            <focusedcolor>white</focusedcolor>

                            <texturefocus>MenuItemFO.png</texturefocus>

                            <texturenofocus>MenuItemNF.png</texturenofocus>

                            <onclick>Skin.SetAddon(HomeLiveTVButton1,xbmc.addon.video,xbmc.addon.executable)</onclick>

                        </control>

                        <control type="button" id="522">

                            <width>750</width>

                            <height>40</height>

                            <font>font13</font>

                            <label>$LOCALIZE[24000] [B]2[/B]</label>

                            <label2>[COLOR=selected]$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton2))][/COLOR]</label2>

                            <textcolor>grey2</textcolor>

                            <focusedcolor>white</focusedcolor>

                            <texturefocus>MenuItemFO.png</texturefocus>

                            <texturenofocus>MenuItemNF.png</texturenofocus>

                            <onclick>Skin.SetAddon(HomeLiveTVButton2,xbmc.addon.video,xbmc.addon.executable)</onclick>

                        </control>

                        <control type="button" id="523">

                            <width>750</width>

                            <height>40</height>

                            <font>font13</font>

                            <label>$LOCALIZE[24000] [B]3[/B]</label>

                            <label2>[COLOR=selected]$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton3))][/COLOR]</label2>

                            <textcolor>grey2</textcolor>

                            <focusedcolor>white</focusedcolor>

                            <texturefocus>MenuItemFO.png</texturefocus>

                            <texturenofocus>MenuItemNF.png</texturenofocus>

                            <onclick>Skin.SetAddon(HomeLiveTVButton3,xbmc.addon.video,xbmc.addon.executable)</onclick>

                        </control>

                        <control type="button" id="524">

                            <width>750</width>

                            <height>40</height>

                            <font>font13</font>

                            <label>$LOCALIZE[24000] [B]4[/B]</label>

                            <label2>[COLOR=selected]$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton4))][/COLOR]</label2>

                            <textcolor>grey2</textcolor>

                            <focusedcolor>white</focusedcolor>

                            <texturefocus>MenuItemFO.png</texturefocus>

                            <texturenofocus>MenuItemNF.png</texturenofocus>

                            <onclick>Skin.SetAddon(HomeLiveTVButton4,xbmc.addon.video,xbmc.addon.executable)</onclick>

                        </control>

                        <control type="button" id="525">

                            <width>750</width>

                            <height>40</height>

                            <font>font13</font>

                            <label>$LOCALIZE[24000] [B]5[/B]</label>

                            <label2>[COLOR=selected]$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeLiveTVButton5))][/COLOR]</label2>

                            <textcolor>grey2</textcolor>

                            <focusedcolor>white</focusedcolor>

                            <texturefocus>MenuItemFO.png</texturefocus>

                            <texturenofocus>MenuItemNF.png</texturenofocus>

                            <onclick>Skin.SetAddon(HomeLiveTVButton5,xbmc.addon.video,xbmc.addon.executable)</onclick>

                        </control>

                        <!-- -->

Conclusion

You can change the plugins and positions by going to settings / Appearance / Skin / Settings / Add-on Shortcuts

I hope its useful for some people. I know we love having the catchup plugins there with youtube plugins etc on TV and Movies screens.

RE: [MOD] Adding Plugins to Home for LiveTV - Majster - 2012-11-18

Great mod! Smile

RE: [MOD] Adding Plugins to Home for LiveTV - schumi2004 - 2012-11-19

Thanks for this mod! Wink

RE: [MOD] Adding Plugins to Home for LiveTV - natdeamer - 2012-12-07

Thanks! Just what I wanted!

RE: [MOD] Adding Plugins to Home for LiveTV - TurboDiesel - 2013-02-02

Thank you .. exactly what I was looking for Smile