[User 224999]

Thanks zosky but I don't have keyboard on my android box remote. I prefer it to have the button like confluence does. It's a lot of convenience for me if everything can be clicked by the air mouse. Thanks tho.

Enable the touch support in the skin settings should bring you a home button

[User 224999]

OK. Still seeing hangs with both "Disable all widgets" and with "Enable Extra Fanart disabled.
I also tested more with the script moved out of the addons path and am yet to see a hang.

Thanks for testing again. I will provide you with a test version of the skinhelper in a few minutes.

@ everyone experiencing the lockup issue, can we move the discusion to a seperate thread ?
That I have a bit more oversight.

We can use this thread to continue the discussion:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=264308

hopefully today we'll find the cause and fix together

[dorf]

marcelveldt, I am having the same freezing issue on (Shield) AndroidTV.

Also, I have 2 suggestions / feature requests:


REQUEST / SUGGESTION 1:

Currently, the settings for the home screen allow to either have *one* widget per home menu item (that than fills multiple rows) or *multiple* widgets per menu item (each being displayed in one row). Instead of having a global setting, is it possible to decide this for every menu item?

For example:
- For TV Shows, I would like multiple rows of widgets (The first row/widget showing "Next Episodes", the second row/widget showing "Recently added episodes")
- For Live TV, I would like to have only one widget, showing all my TV Channels.

Because I selected "multiple widget rows" in order to display twoh widgets for TV Shows ("Next Episodes" and "Recently added episodes"), when I go to the LiveTV home menu item, the TV Channels widget only fills one single row, leaving lots of space empty: https://goo.gl/nRuZUG It would be great to have the other channels fill that space.

So, for TVShows, I would like to select having "multipe widget rows", while I would like to deselect it, and only have one widget for LiveTV (and for some other menu items, like Favorites, which currently also only fill one row with lots of space below).

REQUEST / SUGGESTION 2:

With the widgets details panel and widget panel backgrounds activated, there is an odd gap between the navigation and the widgets, and the logo vanishes:

Before selecting movie: https://goo.gl/RmG2IA
After selecting movie: https://goo.gl/t2nHEQ

a) Is it possible for the 2 part header (like logo + clock) to keep the left part of the header intact (here: the logo) when displaying widget details on the right part of the header?

b1) Is it possible for the widget details to only have a background in form of a box, like in this screenshot?: https://goo.gl/qI9l8Y ( = ideal solution: logo stays, info in box)

b2) Or as an alternative, to at least fill the gap between the widget background and the navigation background?: https://goo.gl/EocEFp ( = alternative solution: logo stays, entire background filled without gap between widget and navigation)

Thank for considering these changes, and for your great work on this skin (and currently also flix2kodi)!

[User 224999]

marcelveldt, I am having the same freezing issue on (Shield) AndroidTV.

Can you please help me out with debugging the lockup issue ?
See here: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2283529

Also, can you cut/paste your feature requests into the feature requests thread for the skin please ?
That way it won't get lost in the current discussion. I will for sure look at it once the lock issue is resolved.

[oattes]

Making progress, but....(3.6.44/1.0.66)

This really feels like a processing queue is being established for the background handling worker thread (skin helper?). The work queue should only have a single artist in it any any time -- if the artist selection changes while the worker queue is finding and (eventually) displaying (extra) fanart the work queue should be reset and the newly selected artist provided to the worker thread. Forgive me for speculating as to how the background processing is handled, of course, but this might explain what I am seeing.

Well the processing queue was built exactly as you described, however there was a typo in there :-)
Will be fixed in next beta

Just reporting back that this one is definitely fixed!

Could the date provided for pvr recordings in a widget be (optionally) full rather than just the time of day? It's pretty hard to distinguish recordings made daily with only a time of day (which stays constant).

Good suggestion. Changed it. Fixed in next beta.

I'm not sure if this change made it into the latest release so if not, this is just a reminder. However, I'm not seeing a full date string (date and time) for pvr recent recording widgets.



Also, I note that sometimes a graphic for the station shows up and other times it does not. (c.f. above and below)



But all station graphics appear in the guide:



These log messages may be related?

12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: Skin Helper Service --> ERROR in searchChannelLogo ! --> Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: File "C:\Users\oattes\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.skin.helper.service\resources\lib\ArtworkUtils.py", line 647, in searchChannelLogo
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: data = json.loads(response.content.decode('utf-8','replace'))
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: File "C:\Users\oattes\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\__init__.py", line 488, in loads
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: return _default_decoder.decode(s)
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: File "C:\Users\oattes\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\decoder.py", line 370, in decode
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: obj, end = self.raw_decode(s)
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: File "C:\Users\oattes\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\decoder.py", line 389, in raw_decode
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: return self.scan_once(s, idx=_w(s, idx).end())
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: File "C:\Users\oattes\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\scanner.py", line 119, in scan_once
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: return _scan_once(string, idx)
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: File "C:\Users\oattes\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.module.simplejson\lib\simplejson\scanner.py", line 115, in _scan_once
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: raise JSONDecodeError(errmsg, string, idx)
12:16:07 T:22624 ERROR: JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

I'm not seeing this problem generally, but what I am seeing is that once I move into a music library based widget, the background fanart freezes on the image for the widget selection. When you leave the widget an return to the home screen menu the background stays frozen even when you move to another tile -- unless that tile has a set of (non music library based) widgets in which case the fanart background starts cycling again. If further information or illustration is required, let me know and I can provide it.

Should be fixed in next beta.

Still seeing this problem:

Eg. music tile selected, background: Moby (I think!)


widget (random albums) selected: item is by Manhattan Transfer and background matches (so, far so good).


back to main music tile: background changes, but it's still Manhattan Transfer (and it will stick here!).


move to next tile over (photos) and the background stays stuck.


Also, after Kodi is (re)started, it still takes a few minutes (2-5?) for backgrounds to appear on the home screen for music and photo tile selections.




I know you are working on the freeze problem, and that should be the priority, but when you have time....

[oattes]

And there is always one more: I've seen this for a while now and I think it's been mentioned previously. When using the custom colour options for the EPG, there is a problem when you use the genre name for the colour key. Some genre's have illegal characters from the file systems perspective. In my case the genres (from schedules direct) 'Bus./Financial' and 'Arts/Crafts' will always fail to match a colour file as the '/' character is illegal in a WinDoze filename. Frankly, this is only a gentle problem, but would a solution be to translate '/' characters into '_' characters when making a lookup? I realize the problem may be more broader than this when you look at all possible illegal characters over all possible platforms. However, I haven't seem any genre data (from schedules direct) that uses anything possibly illegal save '/', ' ', '.' and most Windows, Android(linux), and Linux systems are OK will all of these save the '/' character.

[Saed]

Hi. I'm trying to change the color of these two panels are blue (surrounded by a red ellipse). I can not find the option. I've tried all the colors within the skin options "custom color settings" and nothing.

I am using the theme "classic theme mediaportal"





Thank you very much

[Bbold]

Hey great work on the skin.I am having one problem my widgets keep rebuilding everytime I leave the home screen and I dont know why. Im using the vertical modern look, It takes a couple minutes for the widget to rebuild. Is there a fix or anything I can do for this. I really like this skin so if anyone could help would appreciate it...

[BobCratchett]

Hey great work on the skin.I am having one problem my widgets keep rebuilding everytime I leave the home screen and I dont know why. Im using the vertical modern look, It takes a couple minutes for the widget to rebuild. Is there a fix or anything I can do for this. I really like this skin so if anyone could help would appreciate it...

First of all enable Skin Shortcuts own debug logging - Settings/System > Add-ons > Decencies > Skin Shortcuts (making sure to click 'OK' to save the changes, then follow the instructions at debug log (wiki) to enable Kodi's own debug logging and provide a debug log. Please ensure the log shows the menu being built at least twice - the debug log will show why Skin Shortcuts is rebuilding the menu.

[oattes]

3) The video title still does not appear for online Movies even when video codec info is set to 'disabled'. So, this is more than an 'overlap' issue.

Will be fixed in next version. If there are no flags available, or the flags are disabled or the flags-style is set to classic the title will be displayed.

I'm still seeing this problem in the latest release (3.6.44/1.0.66). With media flags disabled only offline movies show the title in the footer.

[Simograndi]

I've been working on code optimizations last couple of days and it's all solved now. Thanks for the log.
Fix will be in next beta. Will also bring a speed boost for widgets in general.

Great work thanks! There is an indeed improvement, but music widgets and backgrounds still takes a couple of minutes for me to load... Anyway I think it would be related to NAS reading from net (gigabit anyway) a large amount of files required for the widgets... The only fast ones are the confluence ones, which aren't real widgets anyway.

I still have the "AC/DC" issue with no logo showing up... can you check it again?

one last thing: I've seen since 2-3 betas that on startup the PVR channel loading starts very late, exactly as soon as the weather is loaded, which takes longer than usual. It seems to work fine with other skins, what could it be?

Thank you as always

[Syon25]

Think I picked the false Beta


Installed jarvis over 15.2 and afterwards Titan doesn't Shows any Fonts.

After deleting guisettings i was able to choose the right one. Thanks

[JasonMonette]

Hello, I just starting using your skin. I like it quite a bit. But something very strange happened when Tried to change the color scheme. The Rss feed has disappeared. Now no matter what menu or color setting i choose, the rss feed doesn't show up anywhere. If I switch back to the default skin, the feed is there. It just isn't showing up in titan. Any ideas?

Kodi 16
Titan 3.6.43

[JasonMonette]

Ok, I have noticed when I use widgets, the rss doesn't show up....if don't use any widgets, it does. How do I get the rss feed to show up with widgets?

Thanks

Hello, I just starting using your skin. I like it quite a bit. But something very strange happened when Tried to change the color scheme. The Rss feed has disappeared. Now no matter what menu or color setting i choose, the rss feed doesn't show up anywhere. If I switch back to the default skin, the feed is there. It just isn't showing up in titan. Any ideas?

Kodi 16
Titan 3.6.43

[boro boy]

Right found my probllem I did have must up-to-date version of Skin Helper but for some reason in my addons folder I had 2 files for skin helper one named script.skin.helper.service and one named script.skin.helper.service.master. So I deleated bot and let the skin install the Skin Helper again and now it seems all is fine, though not sure how I got 2 Skin Helper files!!! Cheers for your help, was appricated.

In that case you have once installed the addon directly from the github zip file. Never do that ;-)
If you want to install an addon directly from Git you must Always manually unpack the files to the correct directory otherwise you'll end up with 2 version of the addon (one with -master and one without)...

Hi again Marcelveldt,

Just a quick question as you are busy trying to fix the freeze bug in the skin, but still seem to have issues with the Skin Helper.Service not picking up certain cdarts from the music collection and can't quite seem to figure out why, as the file structure is the same for all my music. For example it won't pick Adele up for some reason but the next artist along which is Aerosmith it picks up the disc art. Have tried refreshing the the artwork through the context menu then artwork setting but does not seem to update, so just a heads up for when you get chance to have a look at this or waether this has already been raised by anyone else and been fixed.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers