[cartman.dos]

Is there any way for local TV trailers to work within the "Next Episodes" widget? They play fine within the library itself, but do not appear to be recognizable on the home screen under said widget.

Hey, they weren't recognized in other widgets from skin helper also before so that's a progress
episodes are handed differently, I could maybe apply the workaround i did for tvshows  to episodes...

[tmlfan1977]

Is there any way for local TV trailers to work within the "Next Episodes" widget? They play fine within the library itself, but do not appear to be recognizable on the home screen under said widget.

Hey, they weren't recognized in other widgets from skin helper also before so that's a progress
episodes are handed differently, I could maybe apply the workaround i did for tvshows  to episodes...

Thanks for the reply! That would be great if that would work! I just added a few local trailers this morning and am amazed by the response time with how quickly they play! Thank you yet again for all that you do. This skin is indeed a game changer!

[LukeHansford]

Can a widget item limit be added to the settings?

AuraMod has this and let's you limit the widgets to 10 which helps with speed of widget loading.

I am talking about the widget limit for widgets from Kodi add-ons and not widgets from the library with skin helper widgets.

[tantrum080]

Is there any way for local TV trailers to work within the "Next Episodes" widget? They play fine within the library itself, but do not appear to be recognizable on the home screen under said widget.

Hey, they weren't recognized in other widgets from skin helper also before so that's a progress
episodes are handed differently, I could maybe apply the workaround i did for tvshows  to episodes...

Thanks for the reply! That would be great if that would work! I just added a few local trailers this morning and am amazed by the response time with how quickly they play! Thank you yet again for all that you do. This skin is indeed a game changer!

Not sure why, but this works for me already!! Maybe because in movie sets
I use the bingie main view and also set the trailers to auto play there too. That was something I was going to suggest before, but it works since this update for me.

[tantrum080]

Can a widget item limit be added to the settings?

AuraMod has this and let's you limit the widgets to 10 which helps with speed of widget loading.

Yes you can set widget limit in skinhelper widgets add-on - settings.

[tantrum080]

@Cartman.dos can I suggest the addition of being able to press right/left trigger to cycle through spotlight content?

[francissimard01]

IMPORTANT
A lot of people get errors from some of the addons that this skin (and others, i'd even say most) use.
Although it is not a SKIN-SPECIFIC(!) error. I've took the liberty of revisiting some of the addons and the updates are available in BINGIE Repository.
Please update to the latest versions as it may solve a lot of the issues (especially if you get Skin Helper Service/Widget errors), whether you're using this skin or not.
However if you're not using this skin, Please post your issue in a different thread, since this is the place to discuss about SKIN-RELATED ISSUES.

Thanks & enjoy.

When i go in skin settings and switch off the Show all widget detach from main menu. After i click back to go to the main screen and it freezes black screen. I can here the sound but nothing moves. Can you tell me if this happens to others and can it be fixed ? It happened with the older version to last week.

[LukeHansford]

Can a widget item limit be added to the settings?

AuraMod has this and let's you limit the widgets to 10 which helps with speed of widget loading.

Yes you can set widget limit in skinhelper widgets add-on - settings.

I am talking about widgets from Kodi addons and not from the library.

Skin helper widgets add-on only works for widgets you use that come from your local library.

The widget limit function that exist in the Aura Mod skin also works and limits widgets from Kodi add-ons.

[LukeHansford]

Is there an option or way to disable the red new episodes that show on addon TV show widgets?

I can see you can change the colour which is default to red but how can you disable them from showing?

[LukeHansford]

The "Prefer TV Show thumb for episodes in widgets is not working when enabled for Kodi add-on episode widgets.

It it still showing the episode thumbnails.

[cscott1]

The "Prefer TV Show thumb for episodes in widgets is not working when enabled for Kodi add-on episode widgets.

It it still showing the episode thumbnails.

are you using a plugin or addon or your kodi Library?

[SohoFire]

Hi

Firstly praise due for creating such a beautiful thing. I have been watching Bingie evolve over the last few years and I’m so impressed. It’s truly a work of art.

I do have a slight problem with running the new skin on my setup though and can’t use it with ease.

I have had no such issues with your previous skin (v 0.3) on a Raspberry Pi 3b+ running LibreELEC. It Ran like a dream.

To explain, all my movies and shows  are  in the cloud and my Kodi library talks to a HTTPS Apache web Server. Each directory on the HTTPS web server is protected from unauthorised access by a USER NAME and a PASSWORD. This server then serves up a .STRM file for each series, movie what have you. The .STRM file directs Kodi to my independent cloud storage (where the actual video files are stored) and the file plays.

So to confirm the Kodi source is the HTTPS web server. This pulls all the metadata into the library and the .STRM file directs the video player to the cloud server and the video plays.

As I say on the old build of the skin this worked beautifully. However on the new skin in certain circumstances the file will not play.

To explain:

If I select a TV Show to watch from a widget I get the screen asking if I want to  for example, PLAY EPISODE 1 SERIES 1 or WATCH OTHER EPISODES.

If I select the top option  PLAY EPISODE 1 SERIES 1 the file will NOT play and there is an error message.

However if i select WATCH OTHER EPISODES and select the episode manually the file plays as expected. I have pulled the logs on both instances and i think I have identified the problem but I am not sure if this is an issue with your skin or Kodi and would really appreciate your advice.

Looking at the logs, when I select the top option PLAY EPISODE 1 SERIES 1 Kodi tries to pull the file from my HTTPS server but it does not parse the USERNAME and PASSWORD of the protected directory that the file is in and thus it fails to play.

Here is a snippet of the log:


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019-03-27 21:57:48.165 T:1936896016   ERROR: CCurlFile::Stat - Failed: HTTP response code said error(22) for https://178.###.###.247:443/shows/en/Aft...peer=false
2019-03-27 21:57:48.247 T:1936896016   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: HTTP returned error 401
2019-03-27 21:57:48.247 T:1936896016   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 401 for https://178.###.###.247:443/shows/en/Aft...01E01.strm:
2019-03-27 21:57:48.247 T:1936896016   ERROR: Open - failed to open source <https://178.###.###.247:443/shows/en/After%20Life%20(2019)/S01E01.strm|verifypeer=false>
2019-03-27 21:57:48.494 T:1936896016   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: HTTP returned error 401
2019-03-27 21:57:48.495 T:1936896016   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 401 for https://178.###.###.247:443/shows/en/Aft...01E01.strm:
2019-03-27 21:57:48.495 T:1936896016   ERROR: GetDirectory - Unable to get http directory (https://178.###.###.247:443/shows/en/Aft...peer=false)
2019-03-27 21:57:48.497 T:1936896016   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting https://178.###.###.247:443/shows/en/Aft...peer=false
2019-03-27 21:57:48.977 T:1936896016   ERROR: CCurlFile::Stat - Failed: HTTP response code said error(22) for https://178.###.###.247:443/shows/en/Aft...peer=false
2019-03-27 21:57:49.232 T:1936896016   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: HTTP returned error 401
2019-03-27 21:57:49.232 T:1936896016   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 401 for https://178.###.###.247:443/shows/en/Aft...01E01.strm:
2019-03-27 21:57:49.236 T:1936896016   ERROR: Open - failed to open source <https://178.###.###.247:443/shows/en/After%20Life%20(2019)/S01E01.strm|verifypeer=false>
2019-03-27 21:57:49.242 T:1936896016   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [https://178.###.###.247:443/shows/en/Aft...peer=false]

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When I compare it to the log where the file does open (when I select the episode manually) it does send the USERNAME and the PASSWORD of the protected directory and so it plays the file. As shown below:


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2019-03-27 21:50:59.162 T:1936896016  NOTICE: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@178.###.###.24...peer=false
2019-03-27 21:50:59.177 T:965145456  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
2019-03-27 21:50:59.643 T:965145456  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
2019-03-27 21:50:59.679 T:965145456  NOTICE: Opening stream: 0 source: 256
2019-03-27 21:50:59.679 T:965145456  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 173
2019-03-27 21:50:59.679 T:965145456   ERROR: CMMALVideo::Open : Video codec unknown: ad
2019-03-27 21:50:59.679 T:965145456  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: HEVC (rpi)
2019-03-27 21:50:59.718 T:965145456  NOTICE: Creating video thread
2019-03-27 21:50:59.718 T:1124066160  NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
2019-03-27 21:50:59.719 T:965145456  NOTICE: Opening stream: 1 source: 256

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So my question is is this a fault with the code in your skin or is this something I need to talk to Kodi  / LibreELEC about?

I appreciate that this is quite a complex problem to explain  but I hope I have explained it clearly enough. If there is anything i can do to clarify please let me know.

Thanks so much for your time and help.

[Seattle2Nashville]

I'm having really slow load times using the "similar" "recommended" and "top picks" widgets on my Shield and, albeit wayyy less, on my gaming rig with a 6 core xeon.. which is kind of impressive depending on how you look at it 

[louisefindlay23]

Maybe you missed one important thing: TMDB and Trakt sections inside Skin helper service widgets only show movies or tv shows which are already inside your library and puts them in certain categories. So, if you don't have any movie or tv show that could populate a specific section, it will be empty.
To achieve what you're looking the easiest imho is to create a widget using Extended info add-on entries

Thanks for your answer. But I do use library integration with Kodi, that makes this skin so much better! So that's not the problem unfortunately.. I do have the extended info mod (OpenInfo) installed, I don't know if that could be the issue?  

If the modded version changed the api of how to use the addon then it wouldn't work but doing that is very....stupid?

Thanks for all your help with this great mod of Titan.

I updated the skin to the downloaded zip from here https://github.com/cartmandos/skin.titan.bingie but I still get a lower cased continue watching.

Because your widgets were set once when installing the skin.
1) you could just change it your self in configure shortcuts section
2) you can restore menu and hubs in edit shortcuts tab of skin settings which will reload them
each should do the job.

I did that along with a fresh install but I'm still getting this.

[FlashOne]

Perfect, now all old widget layouts and displays are back to their places, thx!

Finally Slim OSD has a time bar! Now we only miss Remaining time and Total Lenght. EDIT: forgot to say that it also miss N° and Channel Name and Now airing above OSD buttons, which are well present in Non-Slim OSD.
Haven't noticed any change in others OSD styles (besides automatic resize of buttons layout according to what is in playing, really amazing!)

About thumb/channel icon fallback: it works almost fine but, imho, it's not useful like older behavior to show channel logo. I'll try to explain better: when surfing through channels, I think it's easier to find something I'm looking for if I came across a well known logo. An epg thumb isn't often so quick to understand at a glance. While it's not an issue in guide or channel list view, epg thumbs don't look as good as channel logos do when OSD pop up. Had same thoughts speaking with mardukL and he was agree too; best solution would be like in above posted picture (channel logo in low position and EPG preview when infos are on) but, if it's something impossible to achieve, channels logos should have priority over epg thumbs 

Is remaining time and total length working for you in Marduk's mod? because we use pretty much the same info but maybe i miss something and can compare for reference.
channel name and number not supposed to appear on other osds, but you can see them when you showinfo, right?
but i'm guessing there's a logic in adding them for pvr...
about logos/icons/etc, it's really a guessing game for me, i think it'd be best if you just play with the var here, erase the condition="..." part and just replace each one to be the first and look what you get, then you can tell me which order seems logical because i've got zero idea honestly.
https://github.com/cartmandos/skin.titan....xml#L3052

They also works in tv shows (TVDB scraper) but here I got a different trouble: I can't set boxed info status (like renewed show, ended etc...) anymore; tried a quick downgrade to 0.3beta and everything works fine there. EDIT: "downgrading" to proper repository skin version resolved the issue.
@cartman.dos Is there an easy way to import 523 view from oldest beta and use it on actual 1.0.0?

Yep, both remaining time and total length labels are now working fine on mardukL mod OSDs (it just has some other little bug); also channel logos vs. epg thumbs question has been already resolved on there, you should definitely take a look for a comparison.
Also, found other two new little glitches in pvr osd:
- when you switch channel using number input, framed left space you introduced some time ago is empty while the small number appear in upper right position.
- channel logo in Slim OSD style is a little bit "compressed" in its size (I'm referring to new github updated file version)
 

"cartman.dos Wrote:

It's not that, it's probably because you must disable the 'additional info' line to show media flags both in home and view523. because otherwise there's a good chance of overlapping that can't go together. you can just edit the xml itself to remove the condition to show media flags if you want to 'take the chance'
https://github.com/cartmandos/skin.titan...n.xml#L241
(note that this is if you're using latest git, which in it i separated the option of disabling additional info from home tab options to context-menu.
in other words, make sure footer is enabled for media library views, go to view523, open context menu, disable additional info. close the window and reopen, it should now appear. 

That's exactly what I did first time I configured 1.0.0: in fact the warning pop up appearing when enabling both additional info and media codec info was pretty clear and everything went right but, after manual update to newest git version, it seems that doesn't works anymore, additional info can't be disabled in favor of media codec ones. I was asking to revert to 0.3beta Binge view because everything used to works perfectly for me, I guess because of a different additional info management on my settings. For the moment I'll stay on official repository build where at least media codec info/status works fine.
Infinities thx for your patience and help!