[tripkip]

My favourite skin in absolute for Kodi, thanks a lot!!!

I have just a question cause I'm really noob on Kodi, how can I set the services in the attachment like this?
Many thanks in advance 

Add your OMDb and Fanart.tv keys in TheMovieDb Helper's settings.

It would be better if the OP put this info very visible on the first post and in the description of the skin add-on.

[blackfromabove]

Many thanks guys. works great!!!

[hacky4real]

Hi jurialmunkey, would it be possible to display program image/poster of the selected channel in the "PVR Guide Info" alongside the plot and title. 
Thanks

[Palm93]

Hi Jurial,
I am trying to utilize some pictures for Icons in AW across multiple devices using Special://home, but it seems it's not working.  Is this something that can be implemented in the skin?

[drinfernoo]

Hi Jurial,
I am trying to utilize some pictures for Icons in AW across multiple devices using Special://home, but it seems it's not working.  Is this something that can be implemented in the skin?

Managed to solve this outside of the forum

[jurialmunkey]

Hi jurialmunkey, would it be possible to display program image/poster of the selected channel in the "PVR Guide Info" alongside the plot and title. 
Thanks

Already planned:
https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arc...issues/157

[eateasily]

Hi jurial, so first of all I would like to say I really enjoy your skin and really appreciate all of the effort put forth into it so far.

Secondly, I have a quick question regarding how your widgets work. I have a large collection of movies and would like them to be displayed randomly when I open up kodi. So when I goto setup my widget, I navigate the the directory and click on it. When choosing "Use as widget" within the folder that I want, it will usually not display any artwork or information of the items within that folder. Exception to this are trakt lists I belive. I only mention that because I think It might be some insight into the problem. Anyways, after I choose the location of the widget, I want to choose the sort method. I choose random because I want it to show all titles in equal frequency.  Now this is where the problem comes in. So the widget gets displays and the random sort does in fact work, but it only randomizes the first page. For instance, If I go into TMDB Helper and set the movies> popular folder as a widget, it will only scramble up the first page. When I go into the TMDB addon itself, or click "Next page", there are infinitly many titles that I never see. I think I can understand this feature to prevent  super obscure titles from showing up in near-infinite list, but for some of my trakt lists, It only shows the first page of this list, which obviosly isn't ideal. One work-around I could do is seperate each list into chunks of 10-20 and have auto widget do the randomizing, but obviously this is less then ideal. Anyway, thank you for reading this far and any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for all your hard work once again.

[jurialmunkey]

@eateasily

I have a large collection of movies and would like them to be displayed randomly when I open up kodi.

Widgets > Default Widgets > Movies > Random Movies
That will show random movies from your library.

Why are you using plugins if the items are already in your library? Just use the default widgets.

Anyways, after I choose the location of the widget, I want to choose the sort method. I choose random because I want it to show all titles in equal frequency. Now this is where the problem comes in. So the widget gets displays and the random sort does in fact work, but it only randomizes the first page.

Sort methods are applied by Kodi to the items "on screen" in the list after the plugin has generated them. The "next page" is actually an entirely separate list of items that involves a separate API lookup. At the point Kodi applies sorting the plugin instance no longer even exists.

For instance, If I go into TMDB Helper and set the movies> popular folder as a widget, it will only scramble up the first page.

Why would you want to sort this list randomly? Popular movies is just ALL movies that exist on TMDb sorted by popularity. The only thing that makes it "popular" movies is the sorting method. If you want random popular/trending/most-played/anticipated movies/show, then use the randomised lists specifically for this purpose in the "Randomised" section of TMDbHelper.

When I go into the TMDB addon itself, or click "Next page", there are infinitly many titles that I never see. I think I can understand this feature to prevent super obscure titles from showing up in near-infinite list,

No. It is a performance issue. The more pages of items that the plugin retrieves, the longer the loading time... You want to randomise 2000 movies? Well be prepared to also wait a 100x longer than you currently do for that list to load...

I've covered this point many many many times before. If you want more information about it, read this comment from a currently active issue on my github:
https://github.com/jurialmunkey/plugin.v...-635009028

[lightsout]

So I have a pop up sub menu for movies as I have various sources over SMB such as "4K" "Kids" etc. When I go to configure the action of the sub menu what is the best way to do this?

If I select: video library>sources>4K>create menu here that works, but I then have an issue. If I select "movies" as the view, and then save. When I then select the 4k menu item it doesn't take me straight to the movies but to a page that I have to click through before that. Which is annoying, I am including a screen shot.

If I do the same but select files view it does that thing where when you selelct the movie it doesn't play but it shows all the stuff in the movie folder and you have to then select the mkv, both of these are not ideal I feel like I am doing something wrong.

Any help, also am I crazy, where we always able to get a wall view of all movies by pushing down, I love that!

https://imgur.com/a/0l0Dbl1

[jurialmunkey]

So I have a pop up sub menu for movies as I have various sources over SMB such as "4K" "Kids" etc. When I go to configure the action of the sub menu what is the best way to do this?

If I select: video library>sources>4K>create menu here that works, but I then have an issue. If I select "movies" as the view, and then save. When I then select the 4k menu item it doesn't take me straight to the movies but to a page that I have to click through before that. Which is annoying, I am including a screen shot.

If I do the same but select files view it does that thing where when you selelct the movie it doesn't play but it shows all the stuff in the movie folder and you have to then select the mkv, both of these are not ideal I feel like I am doing something wrong.

Any help, also am I crazy, where we always able to get a wall view of all movies by pushing down, I love that!

https://imgur.com/a/0l0Dbl1

Scan all the items to the library and then either create Library Nodes or Smart Playlists to separate your items into different sections.

Smart Playlist is simple. Go to Videos > Playlists > New Smart Playlist...

Use the following rules:
Type: Movies
Order by: Sort Title
New Rule: Path starts with /path/to/your/source/folder



When you create the path rule, you can browse to the folder by clicking on the folder with the search icon:




Save your playlist with a recognisable name and then add that playlist as the submenu item - et voila!


Obviously all the items will show together in your main library "titles" - However, the Smart Playlist separation might be enough for you, particularly since you can always create widgets and other sections by duplicating the smart playlist and adding additional rules.

However, the really great organisation options are via library nodes and will allow truly separated libraries -- library nodes are the same principles as smart playlists but used as actual sections of the library (e.g. you can split your library just like a smart playlist and then have separate "Recently Added" and "Genres" and "Years" etc. sections).

Use the Library Node Editor addon if you want to go down that route - it's easy to use and well worth the initial setup effort. Once you get used to using it, you'll be surprised at just how powerful it is -- I'm surprised more Kodi users with big libraries don't use nodes and smart playlists, because the level of customisation available is really what sets Kodi apart from the alternatives.

[lightsout]

That's great man thank you very much for the write up. Kodi had always been a bit of an enigma for me.

I'll regret back to this tomorrow and do some better customizing.

[drinfernoo]

So I have a pop up sub menu for movies as I have various sources over SMB such as "4K" "Kids" etc. When I go to configure the action of the sub menu what is the best way to do this?

If I select: video library>sources>4K>create menu here that works, but I then have an issue. If I select "movies" as the view, and then save. When I then select the 4k menu item it doesn't take me straight to the movies but to a page that I have to click through before that. Which is annoying, I am including a screen shot.

If I do the same but select files view it does that thing where when you selelct the movie it doesn't play but it shows all the stuff in the movie folder and you have to then select the mkv, both of these are not ideal I feel like I am doing something wrong.

Any help, also am I crazy, where we always able to get a wall view of all movies by pushing down, I love that!

https://imgur.com/a/0l0Dbl1

Scan all the items to the library and then either create Library Nodes or Smart Playlists to separate your items into different sections.

Smart Playlist is simple. Go to Videos > Playlists > New Smart Playlist...

Use the following rules:
Type: Movies
Order by: Sort Title
New Rule: Path starts with /path/to/your/source/folder



When you create the path rule, you can browse to the folder by clicking on the folder with the search icon:




Save your playlist with a recognisable name and then add that playlist as the submenu item - et voila!


Obviously all the items will show together in your main library "titles" - However, the Smart Playlist separation might be enough for you, particularly since you can always create widgets and other sections by duplicating the smart playlist and adding additional rules.

However, the really great organisation options are via library nodes and will allow truly separated libraries -- library nodes are the same principles as smart playlists but used as actual sections of the library (e.g. you can split your library just like a smart playlist and then have separate "Recently Added" and "Genres" and "Years" etc. sections).

Use the Library Node Editor addon if you want to go down that route - it's easy to use and well worth the initial setup effort. Once you get used to using it, you'll be surprised at just how powerful it is -- I'm surprised more Kodi users with big libraries don't use nodes and smart playlists, because the level of customisation available is really what sets Kodi apart from the alternatives.

Also library nodes work with AutoWidget

[NotYourAverageAl]

@jurialmunkey possible bug with the banner view type; the filter card disappears behind banners.
1 - Bug does not show when filtering on the 1st banner column; shows on the 2nd, 3rd column etc.

2 - Noticed the banner view does not respect(have a) wallscroll skin setting. Is that by design?

The big banner is fine from what I can tell.


Not sure if this is my rpi3 spacing out but my library items have a noticeable lag when coming from the main menu. Thought maybe it needed to cache after a reboot let's say but it happens even if the pi has been on a while
Could tmdb ratings fetching be the cause. I'll turn that off and see

[jurialmunkey]

@jurialmunkey possible bug with the banner view type; the filter card disappears behind banners.
1 - Bug does not show when filtering on the 1st banner column; shows on the 2nd, 3rd column etc.

2 - Noticed the banner view does not respect(have a) wallscroll skin setting. Is that by design?

1. Oops! I fixed this bug but I forgot to push the fix to github. Should be there now.
2. Yeah intentional. For the small banners, I didn't think it made much sense to have a wall view for what is already a wall view - and for the big banners I thought a wall would look weird (plus you'd only see one extra banner...)

Not sure if this is my rpi3 spacing out but my library items have a noticeable lag when coming from the main menu. Thought maybe it needed to cache after a reboot let's say but it happens even if the pi has been on a while
Could tmdb ratings fetching be the cause. I'll turn that off and see

Are you talking about the delay in the showcase hub where you get the busy spinner on recently added movies below? Because I just did a test on my laptop and got the same load delay -- and this is on an 8th gen i7 with 16gb ram, so definitely not a performance issue. Unlikely to be anything related to TMDbHelper.

I also noticed the same momentary delay when loading the library the first time (like half a second before everything shows on screen - the background and clock load, but there's a moments delay for the view to display) -- only first time though - if you back out and then re-enter, it loads straight away. If this is happening on my laptop, then it is definitely some weird skin interaction rather than a performance issue -- I'll have to have a dig around in the skin code and see if I can find what is causing it -- it's not bad, but now that you've mentioned it, I definitely notice it.

Also, note that changing views reloads the skin, so that will also cause lists/library to need to reload.

[NotYourAverageAl]

 
Are you talking about the delay in the showcase hub where you get the busy spinner on recently added movies below? Because I just did a test on my laptop and got the same load delay -- and this is on an 8th gen i7 with 16gb ram, so definitely not a performance issue. Unlikely to be anything related to TMDbHelper.

I also noticed the same momentary delay when loading the library the first time (like half a second before everything shows on screen - the background and clock load, but there's a moments delay for the view to display) -- only first time though - if you back out and then re-enter, it loads straight away. If this is happening on my laptop, then it is definitely some weird skin interaction rather than a performance issue -- I'll have to have a dig around in the skin code and see if I can find what is causing it -- it's not bad, but now that you've mentioned it, I definitely notice it.

Also, note that changing views reloads the skin, so that will also cause lists/library to need to reload.

Yep, the delay is in the showcase hub and the 1st load of the library. I dont remember which version exactly caused it; I was gonna raise it, but your updates are too quick mate.