[Comma]

I like to know how people start the next episode of their progressing tv shows day after day.

How I do it is having the top widget as "Default Widgets > TV Shows > In Process TV Shows and then set the aspect to landscape, this is the only way I found the widget is showing the TV Show landscape.jpg which I do prefer, but it's not very smart and quick to start the next episode I know you can scroll down in the video info to "Next Up" where there is 3 episodes (after some loading) to choose, here it would be nice if you could scroll to the left to start the episode you fell asleep to last night.

Then there is Skin helpers service widgets "Next Episodes" which will get you directly to the video info of the next episode, what I think is a issue with this is 1. it will show the episode.jpg on home screen ugly and bad quality image and 2. when in video info the skin don't show episode no. like 03x12 or similar so it's hard know if what you are going to start.

Cartman.dos the dev of Titan Bingie mod has recently updated Skin helper service widgets with a new widget which sounds cool but I believe it needs skin support and from my testing in AZ2 it works like "Next Episodes", I guess what I am hoping for is some improvement on this part if possible or make use of the new widget Cartman.dos have made would be nice.

Here some info on the new widget.

Code:

Skin Helper Widgets
I've also released an update for skin helper widgets, that adds a new widget that is now used by default in bingie (if you're not installing fresh you have to reset menu to default or set the widget manually via skin helper widgets node). This widget is 'Continue Watching Episodes' and it comes to replace the use of 'Next Episodes'.
The change is delicate but important - it will fetch the last played episodes and will return them for you to continue or the next episode after the last one you watched. Difference is that 'Next Episodes' is returning episodes only for unwatched tvshows (so no re-watch) AND it returns the next UNWATCHED episode, so if you've fallen asleep and tv kept going or your gf want to watch a different episode or you just want to re-watch the series you won't be able with 'Next episodes'. In sum, it's like the continue watching widget for netflix.


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[jurialmunkey]

I like to know how people start the next episode of their progressing tv shows day after day.

How I do it is having the top widget as "Default Widgets > TV Shows > In Process TV Shows and then set the aspect to landscape, this is the only way I found the widget is showing the TV Show landscape.jpg which I do prefer, but it's not very smart and quick to start the next episode I know you can scroll down in the video info to "Next Up" where there is 3 episodes (after some loading) to choose, here it would be nice if you could scroll to the left to start the episode you fell asleep to last night.

Then there is Skin helpers service widgets "Next Episodes" which will get you directly to the video info of the next episode, what I think is a issue with this is 1. it will show the episode.jpg on home screen ugly and bad quality image and 2. when in video info the skin don't show episode no. like 03x12 or similar so it's hard know if what you are going to start.

Cartman.dos the dev of Titan Bingie mod has recently updated Skin helper service widgets with a new widget which sounds cool but I believe it needs skin support and from my testing in AZ2 it works like "Next Episodes", I guess what I am hoping for is some improvement on this part if possible or make use of the new widget Cartman.dos have made would be nice.

Here some info on the new widget.

Code:

Skin Helper Widgets
I've also released an update for skin helper widgets, that adds a new widget that is now used by default in bingie (if you're not installing fresh you have to reset menu to default or set the widget manually via skin helper widgets node). This widget is 'Continue Watching Episodes' and it comes to replace the use of 'Next Episodes'.
The change is delicate but important - it will fetch the last played episodes and will return them for you to continue or the next episode after the last one you watched. Difference is that 'Next Episodes' is returning episodes only for unwatched tvshows (so no re-watch) AND it returns the next UNWATCHED episode, so if you've fallen asleep and tv kept going or your gf want to watch a different episode or you just want to re-watch the series you won't be able with 'Next episodes'. In sum, it's like the continue watching widget for netflix.


This widget must be in a fork by cartman.dos as I don't see it anywhere. Shouldn't need skin support though - you should be able to add it as a widget just like any other add-on path.

Personally though - I find widgets that "continue watching" or show "next episodes" to be a pain because often someone else in my house has been watching the same series as me, but at a different time and/or is up to a different episode and then that just messes up the widget. Also, I might be re-watching something that I've already seen, or maybe I fell asleep watching something and a few episodes went by.

That's why I prefer to use the "Recently Played TvShows" default widget playlist. That way I get a list of tvshows that I've recently watched and I can click on them and just find where I was up to rather than worrying about whether someone else has messed up the "next" episode.

[Comma]

@jurialmunkey - you probably need have his repo installed to get update which I do.

About the "next up" in video info do you think this could be expanded so you will be able to scroll left and right (still only show 3 or 4 episodes) then you could get back some episodes if you fell asleep? The youtube row you are able to scroll/see more than only 3 videos.

[drinfernoo]

I like to know how people start the next episode of their progressing tv shows day after day.

How I do it is having the top widget as "Default Widgets > TV Shows > In Process TV Shows and then set the aspect to landscape, this is the only way I found the widget is showing the TV Show landscape.jpg which I do prefer, but it's not very smart and quick to start the next episode I know you can scroll down in the video info to "Next Up" where there is 3 episodes (after some loading) to choose, here it would be nice if you could scroll to the left to start the episode you fell asleep to last night.

Then there is Skin helpers service widgets "Next Episodes" which will get you directly to the video info of the next episode, what I think is a issue with this is 1. it will show the episode.jpg on home screen ugly and bad quality image and 2. when in video info the skin don't show episode no. like 03x12 or similar so it's hard know if what you are going to start.

Cartman.dos the dev of Titan Bingie mod has recently updated Skin helper service widgets with a new widget which sounds cool but I believe it needs skin support and from my testing in AZ2 it works like "Next Episodes", I guess what I am hoping for is some improvement on this part if possible or make use of the new widget Cartman.dos have made would be nice.

Here some info on the new widget.

Code:

Skin Helper Widgets
I've also released an update for skin helper widgets, that adds a new widget that is now used by default in bingie (if you're not installing fresh you have to reset menu to default or set the widget manually via skin helper widgets node). This widget is 'Continue Watching Episodes' and it comes to replace the use of 'Next Episodes'.
The change is delicate but important - it will fetch the last played episodes and will return them for you to continue or the next episode after the last one you watched. Difference is that 'Next Episodes' is returning episodes only for unwatched tvshows (so no re-watch) AND it returns the next UNWATCHED episode, so if you've fallen asleep and tv kept going or your gf want to watch a different episode or you just want to re-watch the series you won't be able with 'Next episodes'. In sum, it's like the continue watching widget for netflix.


This widget must be in a fork by cartman.dos as I don't see it anywhere. Shouldn't need skin support though - you should be able to add it as a widget just like any other add-on path.

Personally though - I find widgets that "continue watching" or show "next episodes" to be a pain because often someone else in my house has been watching the same series as me, but at a different time and/or is up to a different episode and then that just messes up the widget. Also, I might be re-watching something that I've already seen, or maybe I fell asleep watching something and a few episodes went by.

That's why I prefer to use the "Recently Played TvShows" default widget playlist. That way I get a list of tvshows that I've recently watched and I can click on them and just find where I was up to rather than worrying about whether someone else has messed up the "next" episode. 

FWIW, cartman.dos has been maintaining SHS/SHSW for a few months now (as he's updating them to work with Titan BINGIE), and his versions may or may not have fixes that would be beneficial to general skin development.

Also, I really dig the "Small Landscape" widget aspect! Nice work!

[robjbw]

I have a question regarding a "widget". So I've created a smart playlist for movies with the rules "In progress and Recently added. Now, in the "Customize Main Menu" settings, in "Widgets" for my menu "Movies" I used that playlist. Now for "sort method", all I want to be/show is for any "In Progress movies be in front of the list. But I'm unable to accomplish this. Am I doing something wrong? Thx

[jurialmunkey]

I have a question regarding a "widget". So I've created a smart playlist for movies with the rules "In progress and Recently added. Now, in the "Customize Main Menu" settings, in "Widgets" for my menu "Movies" I used that playlist. Now for "sort method", all I want to be/show is for any "In Progress movies be in front of the list. But I'm unable to accomplish this. Am I doing something wrong? Thx

Unfortunately there isn't a sort method for "in-progress" - the closest you can get is "last played" by "descending".
That will at least put the most recently watched movies at the front. The main issue is that 100% watched recently added movies will also come to the front, which is what I'm guessing you are trying to avoid.

One solution is to combine two playlists so that you can mix matching:

Playlist One "Unwatched Recently Added"
Rules:
"Date Added in the last X weeks"
"Playcount is 0"
"Match ALL rules".

Playlist Two "In-Progress and Recently Added"
Rules:
"In-Progress True"
"Playlist is Unwatched Recently Added"
"Match ANY rules".

This approach allows you to mix "and/or" matching - i.e.
In-Progress OR [Unwatched AND Recently Added]

The second playlist should now show In-Progress movies and Unwatched Recently Added.
Because the recently added haven't been watched, then sorting by last played will put all the in-progress first.

[drinfernoo]

I have a question regarding a "widget". So I've created a smart playlist for movies with the rules "In progress and Recently added. Now, in the "Customize Main Menu" settings, in "Widgets" for my menu "Movies" I used that playlist. Now for "sort method", all I want to be/show is for any "In Progress movies be in front of the list. But I'm unable to accomplish this. Am I doing something wrong? Thx

Unfortunately there isn't a sort method for "in-progress" - the closest you can get is "last played" by "descending".
That will at least put the most recently watched movies at the front. The main issue is that 100% watched recently added movies will also come to the front, which is what I'm guessing you are trying to avoid.

One solution is to combine two playlists so that you can mix matching:

Playlist One "Unwatched Recently Added"
Rules:
"Date Added in the last X weeks"
"Playcount is 0"
"Match ALL rules".

Playlist Two "In-Progress and Recently Added"
Rules:
"In-Progress True"
"Playlist is Unwatched Recently Added"
"Match ANY rules".

This approach allows you to mix "and/or" matching - i.e.
In-Progress OR [Unwatched AND Recently Added]

The second playlist should now show In-Progress movies and Unwatched Recently Added.
Because the recently added haven't been watched, then sorting by last played will put all the in-progress first.

That's clever! I really need to get more into the details of smart playlists... it seems like every time I turn around, I learn a cool new thing.

[Qirat77]

Hi. I often have multiple studio names in my movie nfos (distribution/production companies) which can take up a decent amount of space at the bottom of the screen. I would prefer to have as much screen space as possible for this information by removing country & audio language names/icons, which although cool to have, don’t really find that useful personally. Currently, the option to display studio & language tags is tied in together. Would it be possible to separate these out, allowing me to only display studios? Tried editing my nfos to do this...works for countries, but language tag will always reappear after the file is played. Thanks.

[jurialmunkey]

Hi. I often have multiple studio names in my movie nfos (distribution/production companies) which can take up a decent amount of space at the bottom of the screen. I would prefer to have as much screen space as possible for this information by removing country & audio language names/icons, which although cool to have, don’t really find that useful personally. Currently, the option to display studio & language tags is tied in together. Would it be possible to separate these out, allowing me to only display studios? Tried editing my nfos to do this...works for countries, but language tag will always reappear after the file is played. Thanks.

Added to my todo list:
https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arc.../issues/84

[Qirat77]

Hi. I often have multiple studio names in my movie nfos (distribution/production companies) which can take up a decent amount of space at the bottom of the screen. I would prefer to have as much screen space as possible for this information by removing country & audio language names/icons, which although cool to have, don’t really find that useful personally. Currently, the option to display studio & language tags is tied in together. Would it be possible to separate these out, allowing me to only display studios? Tried editing my nfos to do this...works for countries, but language tag will always reappear after the file is played. Thanks.

Added to my todo list:
https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arc.../issues/84

Awesome, thanks man!

[wowmk1]

Hi. I have a question about the widgets. (Love them btw) my progress for movies and shows is synced with trakt. I have the trakt addon authorized. On the widgets i get small numbers on the posters for tv shows indicating number of unwatched episodes. On the movies widget i do not have any indicator if a movie has been already watched or not. How can i fix this? Thank you - great work on the skin it really changes the whole experience.

[drinfernoo]

Hi. I have a question about the widgets. (Love them btw) my progress for movies and shows is synced with trakt. I have the trakt addon authorized. On the widgets i get small numbers on the posters for tv shows indicating number of unwatched episodes. On the movies widget i do not have any indicator if a movie has been already watched or not. How can i fix this? Thank you - great work on the skin it really changes the whole experience.

That sounds like the Trakt add-on isn't returning watched statuses for movies, for one reason or another. It could be broken, or just not turned on in the settings?

[wowmk1]

Hi. I have a question about the widgets. (Love them btw) my progress for movies and shows is synced with trakt. I have the trakt addon authorized. On the widgets i get small numbers on the posters for tv shows indicating number of unwatched episodes. On the movies widget i do not have any indicator if a movie has been already watched or not. How can i fix this? Thank you - great work on the skin it really changes the whole experience.

That sounds like the Trakt add-on isn't returning watched statuses for movies, for one reason or another. It could be broken, or just not turned on in the settings?

I will double check but i think i set that up correctly. Reinstalled kodi just to see if this gets resolved but it did not. I have no other ideas. Thanks for your help!

[omaramiromo]

Hi. I have a question about the widgets. (Love them btw) my progress for movies and shows is synced with trakt. I have the trakt addon authorized. On the widgets i get small numbers on the posters for tv shows indicating number of unwatched episodes. On the movies widget i do not have any indicator if a movie has been already watched or not. How can i fix this? Thank you - great work on the skin it really changes the whole experience.

That sounds like the Trakt add-on isn't returning watched statuses for movies, for one reason or another. It could be broken, or just not turned on in the settings?

I will double check but i think i set that up correctly. Reinstalled kodi just to see if this gets resolved but it did not. I have no other ideas. Thanks for your help!

From my experience from the day 1 I use this skin. The tick mark for watched tv shows/movies will not show on the widget.. it only show if you browse in library.. i don't know if this kodi bug itself or the skin or my setting mistake.. hope someone have the answer.