Weather FanArt Pack (Backdrops with different weather conditions)
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Nazgulled Wrote:I fixed my problem, not sure if it helps others or not but let us recapitulate what to do to make this work:

1) Place your weather fanart folders (00, 01, 02...) somewhere you like, ie: D:\Backdrops\Weather.

2) Open PM3.HD Home.xml and search for the "Skin.HasSetting(Home_Enable_Custom_Back_Weather)" string inside a "multiimage" control.

3) Add an <imagepath> tag with "D:\Backdrops\Weather\$INFO[Weather.FanartCode]" (without the quotes). And comment the <info> tag, this is what solved it for me. Save the file.

4) Open XBMC, go to skin settings and enable the custom weather backgrounds. There's not need to sepecify a folder here.

As an example, here's the default "multiimage" control on the PM3.HD default Home.xml file:
And here's the changes as explained above:
Note the bold lines...

This has worked for me Big Grin I tried to understand what the <info> label does exactly but was not able too, but without it, it solved the problem for me.

Hopefully, this will help others having the same problem... What would be nice is to have proper support for this on the PM3.HD skin, without having the need to do manual changes to .xml files. This sucks because when we update XBMC, these changes will be overwritten No

Hey y'all, looking for a little support here, I have been racking my brain all day with this (first off my SVN is 17784 - I apologize if this is the issue but I have been having a hard time getting the SVN to update as of late)

Running PM3HD, and I tried the imagepath tag above with no luck, just no pictures at all when I scroll over the Weather button on the Home page.
I have tried numerous imagepaths within the tag and I have moved my Weather fanart folder around to try to find the correct path.
I am running Linux 7.10 Gutsy.

Examples of what I have tried (Home.xml file editing):
*placed the Weather folder in my generic Fanart folder
<imagepath>/home/xbmc/Fanart/Weather/$INFO[Weather.FanartCode]</imagepath>

*placed the Weather folder in my .xbmc folder
<imagepath>special://home/Weather/$INFO[Weather.FanartCode]</imagepath>

*placed the Weather folder in my skin/skin/media folder
<imagepath>Weather/$INFO[Weather.FanartCode]</imagepath>

I am using only one picture (that i know works) in all of the 40 directories (00,01,02, etc) within the Weather folder.

*And I have the enable Weather custom background checked off in the skin config menu

Thanks for any guidance that you can offer
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