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2013-12-31, 17:36
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-31, 17:38 by TechLife.)
As many posts as I see about this, I don't understand why timeline isn't the default. It's what people are used to when switching over from a cable or sat stb. I know once I had the basics up and going, it was the first thing I started looking to see if I could change.
I have tried changing the focus from 32 to 31 on Nox and it works. It seems to be universal as it's telling the skin to open pvr window 31 (the timeline) instead of 32 (channel list) when live tv is selected from the main menu.
I haven't tried reordering but it does interest me so I may give it shot and see what happens.
If we confirm these tweaks are working on a variety of skins, I may add a general guide to the advanced section of the wiki.
The XBMC team, plug-in devs, skinners, etc. do this for us for FREE in their spare time because they want to. Think about that for a second before you start bitching...
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So, just for shits and giggles I tried this in Amber as well (which is what I run on a Raspi). I think a quick a dirty way of accomplishing this mod on many skins in Linux would be something like this:
1. cd into the skin directory containing the xml files (for example, in Amber Openelec this is: ~/.xbmc/addons/skin.amber/1080i/)
2. locate the string that activates the PVR window with this command: grep -nH -e "ActivateWindowAndFocus(PVR" *
3. assuming only one match is returned, backup that file and then edit the original file and locate the line returned in step 2
4. edit the command in the line returned from step 2 to be this: <onclick>ActivateWindowAndFocus(PVR, 31,0, 10,0)</onclick>
5. save the file and refresh the skin
If more than one match is returned then you may need to edit more than one file. However I don't know for sure. Just make sure to back up any original files.
I honestly don't know if this would do the trick for all skins. It seems to work for Amber and Bello. Also, importantly, you may have to reimplement this each time the skin is updated to a new version.
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Fixed thread title, had a brain fart. Is this something that can be put in advanced. xml or not. I've never used it so I don't know but I thought that's what it was for, making edits that stick across updates?
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In gotham, I am just happy that EPG now shows up in the confluence sub-menu. FWIW, my family would prefer the default Live-TV view be the 'recordings' list.
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2014-05-14, 02:05
(This post was last modified: 2014-05-14, 02:12 by ouija.)
Note that I also did this for Aeon Nox in Frodo 12.3 by the following steps:
-Edit /addons/skin.aeon.nox/1080i/Includes_MainMenu.xml and replace the SECOND occurrence [line 1024] of ActivateWindowAndFocus(PVR, 32,0, 11,0) with ActivateWindowAndFocus(PVR, 31,0, 10,0)
-Add the following to /userdata/advancedsettings.xml to prevent the confirmation window from appearing when selecting a channel in the EPG timeline view (Note that this is NOT needed for Gotham as a GUI setting for this has been introduced):
<pvr>
<showepginfoonselect>false</showepginfoonselect>
</pvr>
That's it! Enjoy!
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Awesome! Thanks for posting this.