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I'm sorry it didn't work. I hope that I can find a solution, I'm still working on it...
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2016-01-18, 19:56
(This post was last modified: 2016-01-18, 20:35 by Borg-101.)
So my initial impression was that I didn't really care for Revolve. I was looking for a skin that suited all my needs, mainly having a low profile menu, that was extremely customizable, while still looking top notch and it just wasn't happening. I decided to give Revolve a second try.....this time I dug deeper. Holy heck.....I absolutely love almost everything about this skin! Excellent job.....KUDOS to the dev!
I'm only having a minor "problem" and I think it has more to my noobness with Kodi than the skin. How do I make my cloud storage pictures folder open when I click the pictures option? When I click pictures, I have to navigate to the addon (gdrive in this case), then the account in the addon, then the folder in the account. I want that folder to be what opens when I click on pictures, or click pictures, then click the corresponding folder i.e. each family member's cloud folder show up when clicking Pictures from the main menu. Am I making sense? The same would apply to cloud music as well.
If anyone can provide me with a solution or guide me to a resource, I'd be very appreciative.
*edit* I did find one other tiny issue and that is if I set a view for one media type (shows, movie collections, addon browsing, etc, it doesn't lock as the view type for that media type. For example, I went into my movie collections and back to the future collection was changed to "landscape list", then I moved to the captain america collection and it was set to "circle list", then checked my batman collection and it was set to "thumbnail list". Once I change them, they have yet to revert back, but in other skins I've used I have noticed whenever you select a view type for one menu, it becomes to default view type for all menus. I've also noticed this is the case with addon views. Each one seems to have a randomly different view. Not a big deal for me. I just wanted to make you aware.
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I don't think it's possible to directly open the folder in an addon from a Home Menu option. You can add sources, but I don't think that a folder within an addon can be a source.
Alternatives:
1. You can probably add the folders as favourites. Although it is not listed under 'Pictures', you can easily access your pictures via the Favourites-option.
To add a folder to your Favourites, browse to this folder and open the context menu. Choose the 'Add to Favourites' option.
2. You can probably add a custom option, and let this custom option point to the folder in the addon (or even use a submenu, and add all folders to this submenu). It is probably addon-dependent whether this works or not.
To add a custom option, go to the Settings > Revolve > Home Menu Items > select a custom option. Fill the name of the option, add a background, choose 'Custom Command' and press 'Create Command'. Choose 'Picture Relaed Actions', choose 'Open the Pictures window in a specific path' and enter the complete path to the folder in your addon* > Ok > Ok.
* Entering this path is not easy and error-prone. You can add the folder to your Favourites and copy the path from the favourites.xml file in your Kodi userdata folder. Or you can wait for the next Revolve version that will probably feature a 'Copy Path to Clipboard' option in the context menu.
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I opted for option 2 as I am currently using option 1 for my favorite apps. Unless there's an addon to hide specific addons without disabling them (I've looked to no avail), this is my only work around.
So far, I'm getting further than I have been able to with any other interface while keeping it super simple for the wife and kiddos.
Thank you for the tips.....worked like a charm! Keep up the good work!
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Here's another question. I created a custom submenu for Games. I want to add RCB and Steam BPM there. I don't see anyway of adding those addons to the menu identifier. How do I go about doing that?
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Thanks. I'll look into it and see if I can find anything more. Like I said....best skin so far that can do what I want AND be attractive AND easy to use. I don't use addons terribly much with the exception of pictures and music. So it's not a big deal. Most of those addons have view options baked in. Many of the video options such as youtube do not. I previously was using my chromecast for youtube, hulu, netflix, amazon, etc, and just using kodi for livetv and my library. However I am becoming more adept at searching for as well as creating my own solutions to many of these problems. i.e. I can now launch the windows 10 netflix app and control it with my tv remote, force close it and be right back in Kodi.
Side note.....is there something going on with Kodi atm? I did a fresh install of windows 10 and I could not download a copy from kodi.tv. I kept getting 502 bad gateway errors. I used a 15.2 file I have on another drive and for some reason it can't connect to the servers to view official addons. The "get more" option was also missing from the select skin option. I manually installed some repos and I managed to get the "get more" option to appear after a manual aeon nox installation. But almost every addon I try to install from a repo just says "installation failed" as soon as I click install. If I download and install manually...it's fine. Any ideas?? I fresh installed it on one of my laptops a few weeks ago with the exact same file and it was fine.
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2016-02-25, 10:18
(This post was last modified: 2016-02-25, 10:31 by Juansif.)
Okay so I have been using Kodi for awhile now, however I just found this skin. I really like it, but I think a found a strange bug. Under Revolve Settings in Circle Items I turned on the Movie and TV Show Source, which I have set for Latest Movies and TV Shows (Provided By Kodi). Which is suppose to show all the new Movies and TV Show that I add to Kodi. It did not work at first, however I decided to change the skin color from default to a different color. I then went back to the home page and to my surprise it showed all of the newest videos that I put up. I thought it was fixed. Later I added a few more movies but this time it did not update. Again I decided to change my skin color and again it worked I saw my newest videos in the circle menu. So whatever happens during a skin color change will pick up new videos but I will have to change the color every time I add a new video. I am using Kodi 16.0 Jarvis and Revolve 4.0.1 beta1 (I update to this version hoping it would fix, but it did not) I also installed Revolve Script 1.1.0