[Mungo]

Ok, I need to actually ask for some advice here 'cause I can't seem to figure out how to achieve this:

I need (not want - W.A.F comes into play here) the ability to go directly to the Guide view for Live TV from the main menu.

I did see the_bo answered this same question earlier with a "workaround" to change the ActivateWindow(tvchannels) to (TVGuide) in the settings XML - but further testing revealed for whatever reason - activatewindow(TVGuide) is being used to display the Next Aired script / GUI for TV Series - not Live TV as is intended.

Even with all the logging that's possible to turn on, turned on - be damned if I can figure out what command is calling that MyPVRGuide.xml to launch - but purely for the fact that it IS launchable from SOMEWHERE tells me, it's able to be hacked into a direct link somehow.

lil' help?....

Cheers,

Mungo

[willemd]

I don't know what command the skin is issuing for you, but ActivateWindow(TVGuide) is in fact the right command to launch the on-screen EPG. Do you get the right screen when you press the key E on your keyboard? (That's the same command.)

[Mungo]

Hmm, how frustrating - I'm watching a movie at the moment, and didn't want to stop it and change skins and stuff around, so I decided to replicate it on my laptop, aaaaaaaaaaand it works - of course it works, why wouldn't it after hours of stuffing around. NFI WHY though. HTPC is running Windows 7, and my laptop runs 10 is the only main difference I can see.

When I was checking the settings.xml file on my HTPC though, I noticed Activatewindow(TVGuide) being used for 2 seperate menu items menu0502 (TV Series) AND menu0501 (Live TV <-- the change I made) whereas the settings.xml on my laptop only shows the change I made to the Live TV menu item.

I'll try a skin re-install or something once I'm done watching True Lies

update NFI what it's problem was, as that's the only change I had been making and had 0 luck - but I just copied the settings.xml from my laptop install to the HTPC, fired up the skin again and BAM - straight to the Guide view. Colour me confused/

update again all the fonts and colours are screwy now and I can't set them correctly LOL. Clean re-install may be the go.

Final update Uninstall, cleanup, and re-install of the skin seems to have fixed that issue. Truly frustrating when 99.9% of everything works, and such a tiny little thing doesn't, you assume nuking the entire install wouldn't be required. Oh well. Sorted now. Thanks for the nudge willemd

[mvanraaij]

The Aeon MQ 7 skin looks very great! However I do not like the way it starts scrolling the words of the menu items for some long (Dutch) words. I would prefer to have these menu items stay fixed all the time.
I did not find any option within the settings to change this, so I assume this can only be changed by modifying manually a fixed font size in one of the xml files?

It would be a nice option when the skin itself can prevent scrolling by choosing the correct font size for the highlighted and not highlighted menu items depending on the displayed word size.

[b0g0m0l]

Did smartplaylist with genre animation, added button to display the main menu. How to make to show the most recently added cartoons, not in order.

[Wanilton]

@b0g0m0l, look editor smartplaylist, have option for order by...

[b0g0m0l]

@b0g0m0l, look editor smartplaylist, have option for order by...

Sorting only works when I go to smartplaylist. And I need to display the main menu as done for movies recently added.

[Wanilton]

@b0g0m0l, skin have widgets available for use with smartplaylist.

[scott967]

When I was checking the settings.xml file on my HTPC though, I noticed Activatewindow(TVGuide) being used for 2 seperate menu items menu0502 (TV Series) AND menu0501 (Live TV <-- the change I made) whereas the settings.xml on my laptop only shows the change I made to the Live TV menu item.

I'll try a skin re-install or something once I'm done watching True Lies

There's 2 different "tv guides".

1. Script.tv.show.next.aired is an add-on dependency (that is, auto-installed when you install MQ7) for TV SHOWS. This in default home menu is under main item "TV SHOWS" as submenu 0202 "TV GUIDE" and the action is "RunScript(script.tv.show.next.aired)". When this submenu is clicked, the script launches a custom window script-NextAired-TVGuide.xml.

2. Standard Kodi window "tvguide" is the live tv EPG window with 3 views for LIVE TV. This in the default home menu is under main item "LIVE TV" as submenu 0502 "LIVE TV-GUIDE" and the action is "ActivateWindow(TVGuide)". When this submenu is clicked the tvguide window is launched by Kodi in the current viewmode (timeline, now, next).

You should be able to reset your home window menu actions to default in the skin.

scott s.
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[scott967]

The Aeon MQ 7 skin looks very great! However I do not like the way it starts scrolling the words of the menu items for some long (Dutch) words. I would prefer to have these menu items stay fixed all the time.
I did not find any option within the settings to change this, so I assume this can only be changed by modifying manually a fixed font size in one of the xml files?

It would be a nice option when the skin itself can prevent scrolling by choosing the correct font size for the highlighted and not highlighted menu items depending on the displayed word size.

It might be possible but I haven't given much thought. I suppose for languages like Dutch and German where you often get these longer words it can be an issue. Kodi has default attributes for controls in file "defaults.xml" and it looks like the "scroll" attribute is set to "true". I'm not sure if it is possible to have 2 sets of defaults (in this case second set has "scroll" set to "false") that could be selected in a skin setting. But it is possible to override the default attributes in any control so just changing the defaults does not ensure that the scroll behavior is changed everywhere. You could test by manually text-editing "defaults.xml" to change

Code:

<scroll>true</scroll

to

Code:

<scroll>false</scroll

and see what happens.

scott s.
.

[leejk]

Hi,

Has anyone noticed that in the right list view for movies, switching between titles is jumpy? With MQ 6 on the same machine, scrolling thru the titles with my remote is smooth, but not in MQ 7.

[silverblack]

Beautiful skin mate great work

[Mungo]

There's 2 different "tv guides".

1. Script.tv.show.next.aired is an add-on dependency (that is, auto-installed when you install MQ7) for TV SHOWS. This in default home menu is under main item "TV SHOWS" as submenu 0202 "TV GUIDE" and the action is "RunScript(script.tv.show.next.aired)". When this submenu is clicked, the script launches a custom window script-NextAired-TVGuide.xml.

2. Standard Kodi window "tvguide" is the live tv EPG window with 3 views for LIVE TV. This in the default home menu is under main item "LIVE TV" as submenu 0502 "LIVE TV-GUIDE" and the action is "ActivateWindow(TVGuide)". When this submenu is clicked the tvguide window is launched by Kodi in the current viewmode (timeline, now, next).

You should be able to reset your home window menu actions to default in the skin.

scott s.
.

Yeah, mine definitely didn't have "RunScript(script.tv.show.next.aired)" for that menu item - it was activatewindow(TVGuide), which just confused me. It's ok - something was obviously screwy with my install, as an uninstall, cleanup and re-install of MQ7 has fixed everything up.

Cheers for the explanation though - that's how it LOOKED like it should work, but the xml and actions said otherwise.

[the_bo]

Hi,

Has anyone noticed that in the right list view for movies, switching between titles is jumpy? With MQ 6 on the same machine, scrolling thru the titles with my remote is smooth, but not in MQ 7.

I noticed that when I had animated posters or fanart scrolling through list was jumpy and not smooth. This was using rpi3.

[Wanilton]

@the_bo, animated art in format gif consume a lot of ram memory. In this case is better turn off for fanart animated.