[Wintermute0110]

As i said, i tried 0.9.7 before, but ok. I uninstalled 0.10.0 and then installed 0.9.7 again.
Now things gone worse ..... i can't even start AEL now. If i try, i get an error.

Here is the complete debug log, starting kodi, installing 0.9.7 and trying to start it:  ufageciyod.kodi (paste) 

The log suggest you are using an old database with AEL 0.9.7. Open the addon settings, go to the I/O tab, and click on "Check/Update all databases". That should make AEL working again. Every time AEL is upgraded you have to do this step manually to update the databases to the current version.

If trouble persists after you have done this, please post another debug log. 

 This worked, thanks. I have now added my games and they can be started without problems. But ....
I don't get any artwork. It also does not work by "Edit Rom" and choose any scrapers for metadata or artwork.
For me it looks like a problem with firewall or antivirus, but i deactivated everything and it did not help. Using a browser I have access to the scraper websites without problem.
So here is another debug log, trying different things in AEL with one game: udupijovov.kodi (paste)

I have also tried different games, same result ...

Please read this post.

I will change the first post in the thread to notify that online scrapers don't work until 0.10.0 is released to avoid disappointments.

[mechevarria]

Just to help out with debugging. I grabbed the latest source off github and I got an error of 'Unknown command SCAN_ROMS' when trying to add roms to a collection. Here is a link to the logs from kodi in debug mode. The 0.9.7 release works well, I have no problem using it. Just want to help

https://pastebin.com/BQauFBWW

[mechevarria]

Just tried this skin out in Kodi Leia, it looks great with AEL! Thanks for keeping this up to date!

[Wintermute0110]

@mechevarria Thanks for your help I'm aware of the problem, the ROM scanner needs a rewriting because some changes in Kodi API and will take some time.

The skin you mention is Estuary AEL, isn't it?

[Steel99]

Please read this post.

I will change the first post in the thread to notify that online scrapers don't work until 0.10.0 is released to avoid disappointments. 

Oh, sorry, i haven't seen the post. Ok, then i'll do it manually, no problem, i only have a few pc games. Emulator stuff goes all by Hyperspin, cause it looks so nice, but is lots of work.

Thank you very much for your help. Great support!

[mechevarria]

@mechevarria Thanks for your help I'm aware of the problem, the ROM scanner needs a rewriting because some changes in Kodi API and will take some time.

The skin you mention is Estuary AEL, isn't it?

 Yeah I meant to quote it. Estuary AEL is working great now.  Everything is close to perfect, the only features I am looking forward to are the manual/pdf viewer and the ability to add custom home menu entries in the Estuary AEL skin. I don't mind manually editing the categories.xml or rom_DB json by hand to get everythiing pointed at emumovies sync output.

[budswell]

Thanks. Broken scrapers sounds better than me being incompetent. Once again thanks for your work on this, I am always amazed at people with motivation for programming in their own time

[Wintermute0110]

@mechevarria Thanks for your help I'm aware of the problem, the ROM scanner needs a rewriting because some changes in Kodi API and will take some time.

The skin you mention is Estuary AEL, isn't it?

 Yeah I meant to quote it. Estuary AEL is working great now.  Everything is close to perfect, the only features I am looking forward to are the manual/pdf viewer and the ability to add custom home menu entries in the Estuary AEL skin. I don't mind manually editing the categories.xml or rom_DB json by hand to get everythiing pointed at emumovies sync output.

Estuary does not use Skin Shortcuts, that's the reason custom widgets are not supported on the Home windows. However, have a look here, work is already under way to include more AEL stuff on the Home windows.

Regarding the artwork, you can manually edit the databases XML/JSON files. However, for categories/launchers, I recommend you use the AEL asset library and/or have the local copies of artwork and the XML exported configurations. If you want to change a piece of cat/launch artwork, you change the image file and then reload the XML config file for the cat/launcher.

For the ROMs, download the images and put in the correct place. If for some reason you have to rebuild the launcher the images will be there and will be picked quickly by the ROM scanner. If you use No-Intro ROMs, you can download most artwork from the Retroarch collection in Github. For MAME, ProgrettoSNAPS have the most complete arcade artwork collection, compatible with both AEL and AML.

AEL 0.10.0 will be renamed from plugin.program.advanced.emulator.launcher to plugin.program.AEL. In the following days I will make sure that both versions (the stable and the development one) could be installed on the same machine with different databases (that is, you can do whatever you want in the dev version without affecting your stable AEL installation) for testing.

Again, keep in mind that AEL 0.10.0 code is highly unstable with lot of things not working at all or crashing.

[Bedwyr]

Is there a way to use a launcher to run windows explorer when you're running Kodi as the shell? What I want to do is run the launcher, get my taskbar and start menu back, and then have AEL hand control back to Kodi. Currently, AEL hands control over to explore.exe until that shuts down (which isn't going to happen).

[mac1202]

If I correctly understand for the moment there isn't a working version for kodi 18. The 0.9 version has broken scraper and the current master git has the Unknown command SCAN_ROMS error when trying to launch something. Am I right ?

[Wintermute0110]

If I correctly understand for the moment there isn't a working version for kodi 18. The 0.9 version has broken scraper and the current master git has the Unknown command SCAN_ROMS error when trying to launch something. Am I right ?

The development version doesn't work at all, and nobody should care about that except the developers

AEL 0.9.7 works perfectly in both Krypton and Leia, with the exception of the online scrapers. I understand this could be a nuisance but is light years far away from saying AEL is not working.

[Wintermute0110]

Is there a way to use a launcher to run windows explorer when you're running Kodi as the shell? What I want to do is run the launcher, get my taskbar and start menu back, and then have AEL hand control back to Kodi. Currently, AEL hands control over to explore.exe until that shuts down (which isn't going to happen).

Complicated... if you use Kodi as a shell then AEL will tend to work erratically (for example, the launched app being in the background and not the foreground, Kodi capturing the joystick instead of the launcher app, etc.) Note that AEL simply executes (or calls) the launcher app, and then it lets the operating system to handle the app. What you propose will require platform dependent code.

[mariofenech]

Working nicely...thanks..

[mariofenech]

Hi..I m updating my kodi/libreelec setup to kodi leia from krypton...on a Rpi2..
My setup is AEL + RA + ES from Gamestarter Repo..
All is set up with artwork..
I like that new kodi has retroplayer builtin...my question is..can I just launch a rom directly with AEL and running it with retroplayer instead of retroarch or its a headache?

Go to "Edit Launcher", "Advanced Modifications" and there should be an option to change the launching app to Retroplayer. If you change your main, you can later switch back to external launcher in the same way.

Note that you need uncompressed ROMs to use Retroplayer. 

 Working ...Thanks

[Bedwyr]

Is there a way to use a launcher to run windows explorer when you're running Kodi as the shell? What I want to do is run the launcher, get my taskbar and start menu back, and then have AEL hand control back to Kodi. Currently, AEL hands control over to explore.exe until that shuts down (which isn't going to happen).

Complicated... if you use Kodi as a shell then AEL will tend to work erratically (for example, the launched app being in the background and not the foreground, Kodi capturing the joystick instead of the launcher app, etc.) Note that AEL simply executes (or calls) the launcher app, and then it lets the operating system to handle the app. What you propose will require platform dependent code. 

 Hmm. What about simply using the launcher to start explorer and then shut down Kodi in a compound command as kind of a universal escape tool? If not, I'm not entirely too fussed. I mostly just want to keep the system in media mode and invoke explorer when I need to.