[beeswax]

Can someone tell me if I've set up the TV Shows widget wrong or if it's running a different query than the skin does when you view "In Progress" there? If I go into the "In Progress" view of Silvo, it works beautifully. All the shows I've started are displayed, with the shows watched most recently at the top. I'm trying to get the same ordering in the TV Shows widget and have set it like so:

Widget: In Progress
Sort by: Date
Order: Decending

But the ordering is really strange, shows I've watched most recently are not listed first so the widget looks pretty much the same all the time.

[irn|bru]

Can someone tell me if I've set up the TV Shows widget wrong or if it's running a different query than the skin does when you view "In Progress" there? If I go into the "In Progress" view of Silvo, it works beautifully. All the shows I've started are displayed, with the shows watched most recently at the top. I'm trying to get the same ordering in the TV Shows widget and have set it like so:

Widget: In Progress
Sort by: Date
Order: Decending

But the ordering is really strange, shows I've watched most recently are not listed first so the widget looks pretty much the same all the time.

I had a similar problem and a workaround was kindly posted here by Mr. V. I'm not sure if it's (the widget) getting looked at but I've been using the smart playlist method since and it's working fine.

EDIT: The smart playlist has an 'In Progress' option. You'll just have to set it to how you want it to display/populate.

[beeswax]

Thanks irn|bru, that was very helpful. I've got it working now, here's the smart playlist (save as .xsp in your userdata\playlists\video directory):

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="tvshows">
    <name>In progress shows</name>
    <match>all</match>
    <rule field="inprogress" operator="true" />
    <order direction="descending">lastplayed</order>
</smartplaylist>

Then in the widget settings:

Widget: In Progress (point it at Playlists -> [name of your playlist as in the <name> tag above])
Sort by: Date Added
Order: Descending

Sweet! Also, that post you linked to suggests this will be fixed in the upcoming new widget release so hopefully this won't be needed for long.

[Shampra]

Hi,
In main menu, I've :
- Movies, with Playlist filtered by path -> my movies
- Children, with Playlist filtered by path -> movies and tv show for childrens
- Anime, with Playlist filtered by path
- TV show, with Playlist filtered by path again
Each have is own path, of course.
It works fine!

But I use widget... Recommanded Episodes and Recent Movies.
Recommanded Episodes on TV show displays Anime aslo, and child tv show also (and vice versa.
Recent Movies on Movies Show Child movies too...

So : can we filter by path? Or associate this widget with the playlist's items?
For movies, we can create a specific playlist.
I've not found for Recommande Episodes (for each tv shows, display the first unplayed episode if tv shows have at least 1 episode played)

If it's possible with Sivlo mod, it's a great new .
Otherwise, thank you for any help, link,...
And it would be a good improvement ;-).

[jjmucker]

Hello all.
Loving this skin. Is there a way to have the sub menu a solid colour? Sometimes it's hard to make out text with the transparent background so figured a solid colour would do the trick.

Thanks all.

[Trickeym]

Hi Mike,

Can you enable showcase view for TV show specials too please, (Jarvis)...? I've tried altering the Showcase view 53 xml file by copying and adding specials wherever I saw seasons, but don't really know what I'm doing and looks like there'll be other xml files to change too since that didn't work for me.... Or can someone direct me to a thread that shows what and how to change the xml files please?

Edit - Just realized it's because Specials are actually like episodes... Problem is that a lot of specials are DVD type compliations, so it'd be great to display them in a nicer showcase format like seasons, but not sure if this is possible?

I am not sure what you mean by compilations I do not have any specials for my shows but they should be classified as episodes. Episodes don't usually have posters or discart available. Not sure what exactly you're looking to achieve

Thanks for replying Mike....

The best example of tv show specials from tvdb is the kids DVD Collection collection of Wiggles or Hi-5. The scraper will add to the library with format of s00e01, and the episode image can be the front cover or poster. Currently the icon episode view looks as below for my specials so would be good to have a showcase view as an option and I can change the poster to the locally stored image if required. Does that make sense?

[ilovemymac]

How would you add the white mod to the AEON NOX for 16? I dont see the same folders as i do for aeon silvo for 15

[BobCratchett]

Hi,
In main menu, I've :
- Movies, with Playlist filtered by path -> my movies
- Children, with Playlist filtered by path -> movies and tv show for childrens
- Anime, with Playlist filtered by path
- TV show, with Playlist filtered by path again
Each have is own path, of course.
It works fine!

But I use widget... Recommanded Episodes and Recent Movies.
Recommanded Episodes on TV show displays Anime aslo, and child tv show also (and vice versa.
Recent Movies on Movies Show Child movies too...

So : can we filter by path? Or associate this widget with the playlist's items?
For movies, we can create a specific playlist.
I've not found for Recommande Episodes (for each tv shows, display the first unplayed episode if tv shows have at least 1 episode played)

If it's possible with Sivlo mod, it's a great new .
Otherwise, thank you for any help, link,...
And it would be a good improvement ;-).

The recommended episode widgets are generally powered by either the Library Data Provider script or the Skin Helper Service script. Neither has the ability to limit the contents by path. Unfortunately they're not easy to replicate with a playlist, as they're both doing a fair bit of processing on your library to determine what episodes to display (they have to determine what the last episode was that you played, then find the next unwatched one or just the next episode if they're all watched), so I don't believe there's an easy solution to this at present. I suspect it would need some clever python scripting to extend one or the other scripts.

[Blue-Dragon]

hello mikesilvo164, great skin been using your mods for a while, now im running jarvis on pc using version 5.8.4-3.0.2 of your skin, im having problems setting backgrounds for each catagory (movies,music etc) when i click select background the usual box pops up with lots of choices but when selecting single background it points to a repo i have installed? Do you have a workaround for this please?

Thanks in advance

[Mario S.]

hello mikesilvo164, great skin been using your mods for a while, now im running jarvis on pc using version 5.8.4-3.0.2 of your skin, im having problems setting backgrounds for each catagory (movies,music etc) when i click select background the usual box pops up with lots of choices but when selecting single background it points to a repo i have installed? Do you have a workaround for this please?

Thanks in advance

You must ad your source where your backgrounds stored in the file manager!

[Blue-Dragon]

hello mikesilvo164, great skin been using your mods for a while, now im running jarvis on pc using version 5.8.4-3.0.2 of your skin, im having problems setting backgrounds for each catagory (movies,music etc) when i click select background the usual box pops up with lots of choices but when selecting single background it points to a repo i have installed? Do you have a workaround for this please?

Thanks in advance

You must ad your source where your backgrounds stored in the file manager!

Strange that, the backgrounds are stored in the home folder as usual however when clicking the select background/single image it shouldnt point only to an installed repo

[BobCratchett]

hello mikesilvo164, great skin been using your mods for a while, now im running jarvis on pc using version 5.8.4-3.0.2 of your skin, im having problems setting backgrounds for each catagory (movies,music etc) when i click select background the usual box pops up with lots of choices but when selecting single background it points to a repo i have installed? Do you have a workaround for this please?

Thanks in advance

You must ad your source where your backgrounds stored in the file manager!

Strange that, the backgrounds are stored in the home folder as usual however when clicking the select background/single image it shouldnt point only to an installed repo

It's a limitation of the python api that Kodi provides - the home folder will only show up by default if you haven't added any sources to the file manager. Once sources have been added there, they are all that show up.

[reksp13]

I think I might of asked for this before or maybe I asked in BigNoid's thread. Can you please add an option for "Season Banners" in Show Case view for TV Shows? I had first requested it in warlion's Aeon Nox 4.1.9 MOD and after some testing it was later added. And when Mike_Doc released Aeon Madnox he used it in his skin. This is what it looks like:


And here is the menu option:

If their is a season banner on thetvdb.com or a local file named season01-banner, it displays the banner, if not it defaults to the TV Shows main banner or you can choose an image the same you would choose art for season posters and fanart. Like this:

I really hope you consider adding this to your already great skin. I have spent so much time making Season Banners for TV Shows that were missing them on thetvdb.com and fanart.tv I don't want it to have been a wast of time. If you want, I can send you some of the original files that were modded by "warlion" and "mikebzh44" from 4.1.9 when it was still being tested. Let me know. And thank you in advance for any consideration you might have on this subject.

[Blue-Dragon]

You must ad your source where your backgrounds stored in the file manager!

Strange that, the backgrounds are stored in the home folder as usual however when clicking the select background/single image it shouldnt point only to an installed repo

It's a limitation of the python api that Kodi provides - the home folder will only show up by default if you haven't added any sources to the file manager. Once sources have been added there, they are all that show up.

ok but on other silvo mods and other skins i have use i never had this issue ater adding any sources

[jjmucker]

Hi there. Is there a way to either change the font colour of the sub menu fonts or change the transparent background to a solid colour?
Thanks