v18 [MOD] Aeon MQ5 for Kodi 18 Leia
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For anyone still using Aeon MQ5, I have a new mod version that works in Leia.

Update 2019 12 20

New version 10.6.3 is available for use in Kodi Leia 18+
10.6.3

The primary reason for the release is support for the new TvTunes addon and Artist Slideshow v3.x Note that Artist Slideshow 2.x will also work if you don't want to update it.
I added the Skin Info Service addon as an optional dependency. It's now in the Kodi repo and actively maintained. To install navigate to settings/addons/my addons and select Aeon MQ5 Leiamod. Open the dependencies and you will see Skin Info Service listed there. Selecting it will allow it to be installed. Skin Info Service is used to provide extra info about Sets/Collections (note that Kodi Matrix will provide more info for Sets was well).

Update 2019 05 08

New version 10.6.2 is available for use in Kodi Leia 18+
10.6.2
This release features a number of new features and many, many tweaks. 
  • New:  Showcase view for music
  • New:  Show user rating stars for now-playing media on home window
  • New:  New option in General Skin Settings to force the music full-screen visualisation window when play starts
  • New:  Skin settings option to show audio/subtitle languages as flags instead of 3-letter text
  • New:  Option in music visualisation window to show artist sortname in a fade label with the regular name
  • Improved:  Display of background extrafanarts
  • Improved:  Mid-list view has many improvements and enhancements
  • Improved:  When media is playing, the video and music playlists show details on playing media (not focused)
  • Improved:  Current sortmethod and direction are shown on certain top multi-info panels
  • Improved:  When media is playing the current playlist settings (random/repeat) are shown as icons on multi-info panels
  • Improved:  In Skin settings the discart rotation options now show speed
  • Fixes:  Many layout and navigation tweaks for a better experience

Update 2019 03 20

New version 10.6.1 is available for use in Kodi Leia 18+
10.6.1
The main thing is some bug fixes or layout improvements.  I did do some fixes for LiveTV PVR window so that the channels and EPG windows work a bit better.

Update 2019 01 16

New version 10.6.0 is available and can be downloaded from the Github release page here:
Aeon MQ5 Leiamod 10.6.0

This version is for use in Kodi Leia v18 Release Candidate 5 and will be the first release for Kodi 18.0 Final/release.

Leiamod 10.6 provides the new features included in Leia, plus many fixes and improvements to Aeon MQ5.

New Leia features:

Game library.  MQ5 supports the new game library and playing of games via the available emulators.  ROM Collection Browser is still supported as an option within the Game menu.

PVR.  Some changes have been made to support the new PVR functions.  Unfortunately, my PVR client doesn't include all the new features (yet) so some things may not be complete.  I hope to update this is the client gets updated (mostly related to how the EPG is used).

Addon management.  Added ability to display only the disabled addons (that are installed) to make it easier to find and enable them

Library artwork.  MQ5 can retrieve extended artwork that has been saved to the library (for example, discart).  The addon Artwork Beef is supported (Movie Set Artwork Automator can still be used).  Artwork Downloader is no longer supported.  Currently, Extrafanart is still supported via folders (not library).  I might add library support (eg fanart1, fanart2, etc) in the future.

Music Library.  New "multi-list" view.  In this view you can show artists in a left-side list and the selected artist's albums in a right-side list, or you can show albums in a left-side list and the selected album's tracks in a right-side list.

Music info dialog.  Many updates to the music info dialog.  If a track has a genre containing "classical" (english only) it will show the contributors / roles (as retrieved from the library).

Of course, all the various Leia UI changes have been incorporated.

In addition, much work has been done to make better use of the "massive" font option (massive provides larger point-size font for labels and text boxes).  The fonts themselves have been updated to include script support for Arabic, Devanagari, and Thai languages.  (the fonts continue to support Latin-1, Latin-2, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Hawaiian, and CJK - Chinese (trad/simplified), Japanese (kana/kanji), and Korean (hangul/hanji).

New media case "stickers" / icons are provided for 4K, HDR, and UHD media.

Support for weatherbit.io as weather service.

Recommended addons with support in skin:

resource.images.skinstyles.aeonmq5
resource.images.skinthemes.aeonmq
script.artistslideshow
script.artworkbeef
script.cimema.experience
script.cinemavision
script.cu.lrclyrics
script.extendedinfo (as of release, there is a bug in the youtube search dialog that crashes Kodi).
script.favourites
script.games.rom.collection.browser
script.globalsearch
script.libraryeditor
script.moviesetart
script.playalbum
script.skin.info.service (used for displaying movie set/collection info)
script.toolbox (used for backing up skin settings)
script.tv.show.next.aired


scott s.
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maintainer of skin  Aeon MQ5 mods for post-Gotham Kodi releases:
Matrix see: Aeon MQ5 Mod Matrix release thread
Nexus see: Aeon MQ5 Mod Nexus release thread
Aeon MQ 5 skin and addon repo 11.1.0
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[MOD] Aeon MQ5 for Kodi 18 Leia - by scott967 - 2017-01-19, 00:51
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