(2018-10-24, 11:35)mikeSiLVO Wrote:

(2018-10-22, 21:18)martinconroy Wrote: Hi Mike,
I know you're not in a position to easily test Live TV, but wondering if there's something you could help with (simpler option) and/or implement (more complex option).
I'd really like to have easy access to the different TV groups. Currently I have to launch this window.
so the simple option would be if you know the command I can use to launch this window.

The more complicated option would be to allow easy access to the categories as in the Estuary skin (see below). If you could do this it would be marvellous!

Please test latest from Git. I gave it a go adding the same fixedlist above the EPG that Estuary uses.

Also check the settings page for addons for a fix for the uppercase issue  

(2018-10-24, 11:35)mikeSiLVO Wrote:

(2018-10-22, 21:18)martinconroy Wrote:  

(2018-10-21, 17:03)brazen1 Wrote: I'd like to use TV Show - Next Aired as a widget on the main menu for item TV Shows but nothing appears. Other widgets appear in different categories just fine. During installation, it said Artwork Downloader was needed. I use Artwork Beef and am afraid the two scrapers would conflict and mess up my artwork. Anyone else have success or is this a known problem?

I have auto update selected for this skin. I see 6.1.5 is available but the list of updates only goes as high as 6.1.4. I've never seen it auto update. I have the repo installed, 1.0.5. So I manually d/l 6.1.5 and choose install from zip. The install pops up 'failed'. This has happened in the past too. So I select to reinstall 6.1.4 because the skin is no longer installed and it too fails. I navigate to the userdata folder and unzip 6.1.5 after deleting the old one and all is fine. It appears it doesn't work proper because the name of the two skin versions are the same, and the new one doesn't overwrite the old one or something. This can't be normal and it's probably on my end although v.18 and this skin are fresh installs recently. Just curious if this happens to others?

'Status' is defaulted to 'Disabled' when viewing Movie Sets with the MyFlix and the Shift views. It doesn't seem to Enable? Again, is this true for anyone else?

Aside from these couple minor blips, using KODI with this skin is becoming very appealing. Fwiw to others, I've installed, adjusted and tested MANY other skins that are not in the KODI repo. This is the only one that works properly with KODI v.18 for my obscure demands (as well as all that are in the repo). Of those that work proper, this is by far the best for customization imo. Thank you to Mike Silvo for continuing to maintain and offer it to us creating a pleasurable experience for home theatre use.

The TV Show Next Aired Widget hasn't worked for awhile. I forgot to remove it
There should be no requirement to install Artwork Downloader. The Download "artwork" button in the settings for TV Show Next Aired says it is required but it is not and you shouldn't use it.
You can try Episodes > Next Airing Episodes as a Widget instead.

Updates should work but you can check the log file for errors to find out why it did not update correctly.

Status indicators for Shift and MyFlix when viewing Sets should be fixed on Git.

You're welcome and thanks for the bug report!   

(2018-10-24, 20:28)brazen1 Wrote: Ok.  So, TV Show Next Aired no longer works and I removed that widget.  I won't be trying to use ArtworkDownloader, just ArtworkBeef.  I tried Episodes > Next Airing Episodes instead.  This doesn't work either.  Not many of the other related widgets I tried do anything but some do.  I intend to use this widget in the main menus TV Shows fwiw.  I do notice some slight info is added when viewing the info page, but it's completely void and blank on the main menu.  Thank you for updating status indicators.  I will wait for next release and confirm they apply in those views. 

Fwiw, I have also noticed the status indicators do not work at all when using an external player(s).  In the past it has worked perfectly for me using a different skin if you want to tackle it.  I am using <playcountminimumtime>1140</playcountminimumtime> for all players in my playercorefactory.xml.

(2018-10-24, 16:36)martinconroy Wrote: Thanks so much. The Live TV groups look amazing (thank you). Do you happen to know what command I could use to launch the groups selection dialogue? Not crucial, but could be useful if you know how?

Also, thanks re the uppercase fix. I had most addons installed, but added the others. For reference, which one is key to solving this issue?

Many MANY thanks again,

Martin

(2018-10-24, 15:31)nadkp Wrote: Hello folks, hello @mikeSiLVO

I am a silent participant in this forum but now I have decided to report an issue which has come to my system.

Till 2 weeks ago I used an intel nuc with the libreelec fork of the 17.6 Krypton Kodi with your amazing skin. And I was totally happy about it. But than I had to update to the Leia Beta because I want to watch DAZN over Kodi which only works with Kodi 18.
My problem is, that your skin isn't fully loaded I guess. Everytime i start my htpc an log in as master user (i have 2 profiles - master user and kids) the skin appears to be loaded but there are missing text entries (just blank)

I have to log out and reenter again. The second login takes more time (about 10-13 seconds) than the first login, which takes just a second. In both cases the skin needs the same time to load the widgets and menu. But every second login the problem is gone.

Because of that i formatted the harddrive, reinstalled libreelec and only your repository with your skin and the problem reappears.

So my question is: Is that a known skin issue or is it a kodi/libreelec issue? Since every other skin I have tested (estuary/horizonV/aeon nox) was ok, I came here to ask for advice.

I did make a logfile just in case

(2018-10-11, 07:25)mikeSiLVO Wrote: You need Artwork Beef to add the images to Kodi. The old way worked most of the time but not for artists like AC/DC and other examples with invalid characters in their names. The default is to use local art so if you have setup Artwork Beef correctly it will add all the images you enabled for all artists regardless of compatibility issues.

If you are having issues with Artwork Beef then I suggest you read the Wiki for it and ask in the thread for that add-on.

Auto fullscreen for PartyMode should be working again using latest skin from Git.

(2018-10-27, 07:30)mikeSiLVO Wrote: I'd like to narrow this down and fix it, if I can, but I cannot find a trustworthy source stating that this addon is legal or not.

xml:
<value condition="Integer.IsGreater(PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(mins),60)">$INFO[PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(h),,h]$INFO[PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(m),,m]</value>

<value condition="Integer.IsLess(PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(m),1)">$INFO[PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(ss)]s</value>

<value>$INFO[PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(mins),,m]</value>

(2018-10-28, 15:23)akarpych Wrote: Hello to all. Tell me how to do that in LiveTV put a widget with recently watched channels?

(2018-10-28, 12:02)Solo0815 Wrote: @mikeSiLVO :
I tested your latest changes for LiveTV:
Here are a few suggestions/bugs:
- Please move the codeblock for "progress" with height 24 above the other progress-codeblocks. So the progressbar with $VAR[ColorThemelabelColor] is always on top of the timeshift-progress bar in GUI. That looks better IMHO.
- change variable "PlayerTimeRemainingAltVar" to

xml:
<value condition="Integer.IsGreater(PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(mins),60)">$INFO[PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(h),,h]$INFO[PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(m),,m]</value>

<value condition="Integer.IsLess(PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(m),1)">$INFO[PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(ss)]s</value>

<value>$INFO[PVR.EpgEventRemainingTime(mins),,m]</value>

- In Estuary there is a string 31026 with "Timeshift". It is "Different options" in your skin. Can you please add a string with "Timeshift"? I added Timeshift Info: https://imgur.com/a/naR5gNq
- The channel groups are above the EPG now, so no need to display "Channel group" selection in the sideblade menu, if EPG is open. -> add visible tag for this
- There are many warnings like this in kodi.log:

Code:

10:46:00.004 T:1938460688 WARNING: Label Formating: $VAR[VideoLibraryScanLabel] is not defined
10:46:00.005 T:1938460688 WARNING: Label Formating: $VAR[VideoLibraryScanIcon] is not defined
10:46:00.006 T:1938460688 WARNING: Label Formating: $VAR[VideoLibraryScanLabel] is not defined
10:46:00.006 T:1938460688 WARNING: Label Formating: $VAR[VideoLibraryScanIcon] is not defined
10:46:00.008 T:1938460688 WARNING: Label Formating: $VAR[MusicLibraryScanIcon] is not defined
10:46:00.010 T:1938460688 WARNING: Label Formating: $VAR[MusicLibraryScanLabel] is not defined
10:46:00.010 T:1938460688 WARNING: Label Formating: $VAR[MusicLibraryScanIcon] is not defined
10:46:00.013 T:1938460688 WARNING: Label Formating: $VAR[MusicLibraryScanLabel] is not defined
10:46:00.013 T:1938460688 WARNING: Label Formating: $VAR[MusicLibraryScanIcon] is not defined

Maybe we can discuss more improvements here or via pm if you want to ...

(2018-10-27, 20:46)jrod10133 Wrote: hey i want to start by sayin this is my top 3 skin in kodi and i love this skin but i have a question is there away i could mod the skin for the favorites not to be the list view and icon view instead? because i got really bad eyes and it hurts my eyes using the favorites

(2018-10-27, 18:15)brazen1 Wrote: 'Hide widgets when not focused' is NOT enabled and I waited ample time for something to appear. I moved the mouse around just in case that might make a difference. Nothing happens for me but I'm glad to hear it works for you so maybe it can work for me too. Fwiw, I have dummy folders for some of my TV shows. They are scanned in and display metadata. I just want to use this add-on to remind me if something is on TV tonight but I don't have all actual files of all TV shows in my collection. But then I don't have any actual files OR folders for widgets like 'TV Shows Airing Today' and this widget appears and works fine. One thing I did notice, widgets relying on 'Skin Helper' don't seem to work. Those using 'TVDB' do. I see these icons next to the various widgets that can be selected. This leads me to believe the Skin Helper add-on is at fault but I'm ignorant and seek your opinion.

I am not nor ever have used any altered KODI. I only use official versions.

I used TITAN skin for years with 17.6. Others too. When I used external players, the watched status was always updated without fail. This is important to me. Now that I am using v.18, TITAN no longer fulfills my requirements. Your skin does and I'm migrating to it happily. I just notice a few quirks and I'm reporting them to you. Thank you for your willingness to digest my KODI and my SKIN debugs. I should note that not only does your skin fail to update the watched status when using an external player(s), so does Estuary. Once again, I am too ignorant to understand if this is related to skins and/or KODI core now that v.18 is in play and seek your opinion.

(2018-10-27, 12:56)nadkp Wrote: Thanks for the reply. As I mentioned, the problem was still there after I formatted the hard drive and installed just libreelec and your repository and your skin, with all skin helpers and add-ons which are needed to give your skin the ideal performance and features.
The DAZN Addon isn't the problem. Maybe it isn't 100% legal, because they aren't supporting kodi directly. I will research about it and maybe I will invest some money for a nvidia shield, where I can use the standard android app for DAZN and other "semi legal" add-ons for kodi.

The main problem is the startup of your skin at the first login. If it is more helpful, I will do another format and install a clean libreelec with only your skin and repository and post another log file. Since your skin works perfectly on kodi 17.6 (libreelec 8.2.5), I never would have thougt off any problem like this. Maybe some adjustment or add-on support issues with the new Kodi Leia but nothing like this.

Have you ever heard about a probleme like mine before? Not completely loading at first login, but fully working at second login?

(2018-10-27, 08:25)VelvetKevorkian Wrote: Since beta 4 fixed some issues for my device, i gave Leia another try - this time, it works.
I also managed to get artwork to be functional.

There's just some small cosmetic stuff now:

Running latest Leia beta4 with ANS latest Git master

edit:
i just noticed that if you have turned on music fanart on home screen during playback,
it will rotate fanart every second.

Quote:It would be helpful in knowing what, exactly, is the difference between the two.

xml:
<control type="grouplist">

                        <left>330</left>

                        <top>965</top>

                        <width>1000</width>

                        <itemgap>20</itemgap>

                        <orientation>horizontal</orientation>

                        <visible>!PVR.IsTimeshift</visible>

                        <control type="label">

                            <width>auto</width>

                            <height>38</height>

                            <font>font16</font>

                            <textcolor>grey</textcolor>

                            <label>$INFO[VideoPlayer.NextStartTime]</label>

                            <visible>!String.IsEmpty(VideoPlayer.NextStartTime)</visible>

                        </control>

                        <control type="label">

                            <width>auto</width>

                            <height>38</height>

                            <font>font16</font>

                            <scroll>true</scroll>

                            <textcolor>grey</textcolor>

                            <label>$INFO[VideoPlayer.NextTitle]</label>

                            <visible>!String.IsEmpty(VideoPlayer.NextTitle)</visible>

                        </control>

                    </control>

                    <control type="label">

                        <left>1288</left>

                        <top>965</top>

                        <width>250</width>

                        <height>38</height>

                        <font>font16</font>

                        <align>right</align>

                        <textcolor>grey</textcolor>

                        <label>$INFO[VideoPlayer.NextEndTime]</label>

                        <visible>!PVR.IsTimeshift + !String.IsEmpty(VideoPlayer.NextEndTime)</visible>

                    </control>

                    

                    <control type="grouplist">

                        <!-- Timeshift Info -->

                        <left>330</left>

                        <top>965</top>

                        <width>1208</width>

                        <itemgap>20</itemgap>

                        <orientation>horizontal</orientation>

                        <visible>PVR.IsTimeshift</visible>

                        <control type="label">

                            <width>auto</width>

                            <height>38</height>

                            <font>font14</font>

                            <textcolor>grey</textcolor>

                            <label>[COLOR $VAR[ThemeLabelColor]]Timeshift:[/COLOR] $INFO[PVR.TimeshiftCur(hh:mm)] (-$INFO[PVR.TimeshiftOffset])</label>

                        </control>

                        <control type="label">

                            <width>auto</width>

                            <height>38</height>

                            <font>font14</font>

                            <textcolor>grey</textcolor>

                            <label>[COLOR $VAR[ThemeLabelColor]]$LOCALIZE[19031]:[/COLOR] $INFO[VideoPlayer.NextStartTime]</label>

                            <visible>!String.IsEmpty(VideoPlayer.NextStartTime)</visible>

                        </control>

                        <control type="label">

                            <width>auto</width>

                            <height>38</height>

                            <font>font14</font>

                            <scroll>true</scroll>

                            <textcolor>grey</textcolor>

                            <label>$INFO[VideoPlayer.NextTitle]</label>

                            <visible>!String.IsEmpty(VideoPlayer.NextTitle)</visible>

                        </control>

                    </control>

xml:
<control type="progress">

                        <left>10</left>

                        <top>83</top>

                        <width>120</width>

                        <height>15</height>

                        <visible>ListItem.HasEpg</visible>

                        <info>ListItem.Progress</info>

                        <texturebg colordiffuse="$VAR[ThemeLabelColor]" border="3,0,3,0">new_pvr/texturebg_border_white.png</texturebg>

                        <midtexture colordiffuse="$VAR[ThemeLabelColor]" border="0">new_pvr/texturebg_white.png</midtexture>

                    </control>

xml:
<control type="progress">

                                <left>90</left>

                                <top>24</top>

                                <width>80</width>

                                <height>14</height>

                                <info>ListItem.Progress</info>

                                <texturebg colordiffuse="$VAR[ThemeLabelColor]" border="3,0,3,0">new_pvr/texturebg_border_white.png</texturebg>

                                <midtexture colordiffuse="$VAR[ThemeLabelColor]" border="0">new_pvr/texturebg_white.png</midtexture>

                                <visible>!String.IsEmpty(ListItem.Title)</visible>

                            </control>

xml:
<item id="13">

    <property name="id">$NUMBER[13]</property>

    <property name="mainmenuid">14</property>

    <label>$VAR[VideoLibraryScanLabel]</label>

    <label2>Common Shortcut</label2>

    <icon>$VAR[VideoLibraryScanIcon]</icon>

    ...

</item>

xml:
<variable name="VideoLibraryScanLabel">

       <value condition="Library.IsScanningVideo">$LOCALIZE[13353]</value>

      <value>$LOCALIZE[653]</value>

</variable>

<variable name="VideoLibraryScanIcon">

      <value condition="Library.IsScanningVideo">Quit.png</value>

      <value>UpdateLibrary.png</value>

</variable>

<variable name="MusicLibraryScanLabel">

      <value condition="Library.IsScanningMusic">$LOCALIZE[13353]</value>

      <value>$LOCALIZE[653]</value>

</variable>

<variable name="MusicLibraryScanIcon">

      <value condition="Library.IsScanningMusic">Quit.png</value>

      <value>UpdateLibrary.png</value>

</variable>

(2018-11-02, 18:38)otarie Wrote: On the shift view for seasons, i get the same season poster for all the seasons. Is someone else experiencing this?

Was also wondering how to make the info bar that popups from time to time more transparent. Maybe someone knows where to change the xmls

Thank you!