[hoppel118]

Hi,

what (and where) did you configure to get the dark mode popups?

Thanks and regards Hoppel

[baruchin]

Hi,

what (and where) did you configure to get the dark mode popups?

Thanks and regards Hoppel

Settings/Interface settings

[baruchin]

Hi JM, with the new update none of the addons opening

First and foremost, I apologize. With a skin like AH that has very useful widgets, I rarely open directly an add-on and always rely on homescreen widgets. Instead of using a widget, which they work fine, I can confirm that opening an add-on results in the minimal busy animation and then a blank screen. I tried on default Estuary skin and the add-on opens as expected, not on Arctic Horizon 0.5.7.

Here's what I get with YouTube add-on.

[jurialmunkey]

Hi JM, with the new update none of the addons opening

Should be fixed 0.5.8

For some reason I had all plugin views set to nothing when I built the default views include (hence no visibility for plugins by default!)

Not sure why script.skinvariables didn't fire and rebuild the file for you after install though. I'll have to look into why that's not triggering correctly. A quick fix if it happens again is to simply change the viewtype of *any* section in the skin. That will trigger the script to rebuild the views includes file.

[jurialmunkey]

I think this has been an issue for awhile, but I never really noticed it until I tried the new fullscreen widget stuff today.  Basically if you're using music as a source (in this case I'm using Random Artists), the full screen widget (and the regular info widget) show the date for the header rather than the name of the artist.

Ah I've never noticed this because all my music widgets are for albums which seem to work fine. Should be fixed now.

[hoppel118]

Hi,

what (and where) did you configure to get the dark mode popups?

Thanks and regards Hoppel

Settings/Interface settings

Trank you! This is perfekt! I love the new horizontal design! Good work @jurialmonkey

[Mahava]

I like the styling on this skin and tested it out as an alternative to the abandoned Estuary mod I'm using now.   I'm afraid I couldn't get it to stabilize.  Even after restarting Kodi, the busy spinners roll and roll and sometimes the widgets never load.  Sometimes they do.   If I click into an addon, the ocean busy spinner rolls and it never opens.  Then after the the initial time I was able to customize the home page, the "customise home page" button wouldn't open anything.  I clicked it, went away and did chores and came back and it had opened, so maybe sometimes it opens but takes a long time.  I tried installing it to a separate profile, but that didn't improve things markedly.

In skin shortcuts, I tried it with share menus switched off and on and didn't notice any difference.   What version of skin shortcuts does Arctic Horizon support, btw?

I'm on Windows 10, 9th gen i7, 16gb memory and Kodi 18.8  which is to say that I don't think my device is slow.

It's a Kodi issue - sometimes when Kodi is attempting to load multiple plugin paths it will get stuck in a loading loop. I'm not entirely certain about the cause but I think it's some bottle-neck related to some python module not loading properly -- I assume that Kodi only processes X number of plugin threads at a time and the rest wait in a queue. So if all the currently processing plugins are all waiting on a particular module to load (which isn't loading properly for whatever reason), then any new scripts/addons/plugins (e.g. skinshortcuts) will all just sit in that queue rather than run.

You could try disabling online lists in the info dialog and then restarting:
"Skin Settings > Lists and Other > Customise info dialog lists > Use online information"
(for some reason using lists from plugins in the info dialog cause issues for a lot of people)

RE: version of skinshortcuts. I use 1.0.19 but the one in the Kodi repo should be fine too. The issue isn't skinshortcuts - it's Kodi getting stuck in a loading loop that prevents skinshortcuts from running.

Reporting back for the benefit of anyone having the same problem as me:

I disabled online lists in the info dialogue settings; but the thing that really got the skin to work for me was taking a look at the widgets I had set on the home page.  I was using AutoWidgets and had over 16 widgets displaying on home page, total.  Apparently, whenever there's a problem with any of those links, nothing else will load on the home page, addons don't display and "customise home menu" won't open.  It didn't occur to me to look at widgets because on my old skin (Guilouz's Estuary mod v2), I have the same widgets and that skin displays whatever it can and simply ignores the problem widgets.  It doesn't slow down loading of other things, which I assumed is typical behaviour.  What worked was deleting certain widget links from AutoWidgets, most notably The Movie Database Helper ones; after that, Arctic Horizon loaded just fine.

@Jurialmunkey: With 0.5.1 version of AH, I'm not getting that lovely "Blur" background setting as before: before, if I moused over any image, the background would display a blurred version of it creating a nice gradient effect with cycling of colours as I moved the mouse.  Now I'm getting the unblurred fanart only. 

Question: do you have to set TMDB Helper's default select action to "play/open" instead of "browse" to get its widgets to display properly?

[drinfernoo]

I like the styling on this skin and tested it out as an alternative to the abandoned Estuary mod I'm using now.   I'm afraid I couldn't get it to stabilize.  Even after restarting Kodi, the busy spinners roll and roll and sometimes the widgets never load.  Sometimes they do.   If I click into an addon, the ocean busy spinner rolls and it never opens.  Then after the the initial time I was able to customize the home page, the "customise home page" button wouldn't open anything.  I clicked it, went away and did chores and came back and it had opened, so maybe sometimes it opens but takes a long time.  I tried installing it to a separate profile, but that didn't improve things markedly.

In skin shortcuts, I tried it with share menus switched off and on and didn't notice any difference.   What version of skin shortcuts does Arctic Horizon support, btw?

I'm on Windows 10, 9th gen i7, 16gb memory and Kodi 18.8  which is to say that I don't think my device is slow.

It's a Kodi issue - sometimes when Kodi is attempting to load multiple plugin paths it will get stuck in a loading loop. I'm not entirely certain about the cause but I think it's some bottle-neck related to some python module not loading properly -- I assume that Kodi only processes X number of plugin threads at a time and the rest wait in a queue. So if all the currently processing plugins are all waiting on a particular module to load (which isn't loading properly for whatever reason), then any new scripts/addons/plugins (e.g. skinshortcuts) will all just sit in that queue rather than run.

You could try disabling online lists in the info dialog and then restarting:
"Skin Settings > Lists and Other > Customise info dialog lists > Use online information"
(for some reason using lists from plugins in the info dialog cause issues for a lot of people)

RE: version of skinshortcuts. I use 1.0.19 but the one in the Kodi repo should be fine too. The issue isn't skinshortcuts - it's Kodi getting stuck in a loading loop that prevents skinshortcuts from running.

Reporting back for the benefit of anyone having the same problem as me:

I disabled online lists in the info dialogue settings; but the thing that really got the skin to work for me was taking a look at the widgets I had set on the home page.  I was using AutoWidgets and had over 16 widgets displaying on home page, total.  Apparently, whenever there's a problem with any of those links, nothing else will load on the home page, addons don't display and "customise home menu" won't open.  It didn't occur to me to look at widgets because on my old skin (Guilouz's Estuary mod v2), I have the same widgets and that skin displays whatever it can and simply ignores the problem widgets.  It doesn't slow down loading of other things, which I assumed is typical behaviour.  What worked was deleting certain widget links from AutoWidgets, most notably The Movie Database Helper ones; after that, Arctic Horizon loaded just fine.

@Jurialmunkey: With 0.5.1 version of AH, I'm not getting that lovely "Blur" background setting as before: before, if I moused over any image, the background would display a blurred version of it creating a nice gradient effect with cycling of colours as I moved the mouse.  Now I'm getting the unblurred fanart only. 

Question: do you have to set TMDB Helper's default select action to "play/open" instead of "browse" to get its widgets to display properly?

One widget not loading shouldn't keep the skin from loading the rest. What that typically looks like it's just a "missing" widget once they all load in, until a skin reload attempts to display the widget again.

EDIT: Loading times certainly grow in proportion to the number of widgets being loaded, however. That should go without saying.

[Mahava]

It's a Kodi issue - sometimes when Kodi is attempting to load multiple plugin paths it will get stuck in a loading loop. I'm not entirely certain about the cause but I think it's some bottle-neck related to some python module not loading properly -- I assume that Kodi only processes X number of plugin threads at a time and the rest wait in a queue. So if all the currently processing plugins are all waiting on a particular module to load (which isn't loading properly for whatever reason), then any new scripts/addons/plugins (e.g. skinshortcuts) will all just sit in that queue rather than run.

You could try disabling online lists in the info dialog and then restarting:
"Skin Settings > Lists and Other > Customise info dialog lists > Use online information"
(for some reason using lists from plugins in the info dialog cause issues for a lot of people)

RE: version of skinshortcuts. I use 1.0.19 but the one in the Kodi repo should be fine too. The issue isn't skinshortcuts - it's Kodi getting stuck in a loading loop that prevents skinshortcuts from running.

Reporting back for the benefit of anyone having the same problem as me:

I disabled online lists in the info dialogue settings; but the thing that really got the skin to work for me was taking a look at the widgets I had set on the home page.  I was using AutoWidgets and had over 16 widgets displaying on home page, total.  Apparently, whenever there's a problem with any of those links, nothing else will load on the home page, addons don't display and "customise home menu" won't open.  It didn't occur to me to look at widgets because on my old skin (Guilouz's Estuary mod v2), I have the same widgets and that skin displays whatever it can and simply ignores the problem widgets.  It doesn't slow down loading of other things, which I assumed is typical behaviour.  What worked was deleting certain widget links from AutoWidgets, most notably The Movie Database Helper ones; after that, Arctic Horizon loaded just fine.

@Jurialmunkey: With 0.5.1 version of AH, I'm not getting that lovely "Blur" background setting as before: before, if I moused over any image, the background would display a blurred version of it creating a nice gradient effect with cycling of colours as I moved the mouse.  Now I'm getting the unblurred fanart only. 

Question: do you have to set TMDB Helper's default select action to "play/open" instead of "browse" to get its widgets to display properly?

One widget not loading shouldn't keep the skin from loading the rest. What that typically looks like it's just a "missing" widget once they all load in, until a skin reload attempts to display the widget again.

EDIT: Loading times certainly grow in proportion to the number of widgets being loaded, however. That should go without saying.

...and yet, in the old skin and on the same device, I have the same number, and type, of widgets and it's blazing fast at loading and there's just a missing widget whenever there's a problem with its link.  That's why it's puzzling because I didn't expect that to slow everything down in one case, but not in the other.

in any event, deleting some of the widgets in the group seemed to resolve things.

[aquerido]

Jurial, you outdid yourself once more. Fab skin, clean, simple but yet looking very professional.
I would love to help out translating it to Portuguese. Let me know when.
And once again, thanks a lot for all your efforts.

Cheers.
Art

[Kecruz85]

Under the recently added episodes widget, it will show shows that haven’t aired yet. IE: Sunday morning it will show Yellowstone even though it airs Sunday night. It happens with all shows. How do I fix this?

[drinfernoo]

Under the recently added episodes widget, it will show shows that haven’t aired yet. IE: Sunday morning it will show Yellowstone even though it airs Sunday night. It happens with all shows. How do I fix this?

Don't add episodes that haven't aired yet

[FXB78]

How is it even possible to add episodes that haven't aired. Is the widget linked to an addon?

[Ricks]

If I'm on my movie menu and scroll down through the widgets and press the back button, the focus jumps to the main menu again but the widget I was on stays 'active'

When I do the same on my TV items and press back, it highlights the main menu but scrolls the widgets back to the top. This is the behaviour I want.

Using horizontal menu, anyone have any ideas what causes this? Can get a log if it helps.

Have you got a widget that is disabled on the Movies menu? Focus gets sent back to the first position widget ID, so if that's disabled or empty then the focus can't reset.

Actually, I can no longer navigate down to my movie widgets if there is not an in progress movie. This only started to occur after I removed and readded the 'in progress movies' widget. Is this expected? Previously if this widget didn't generate any entries and I press down from the top menu, it would just go down to my second (actually first as the in progress isn't there) widget in line. Now if I press down it just stays on the top menu.

[pkscout]

I feel like I've become infoline/title wack-a-mole guy. I honestly can't remember if this one has been this way the whole time or just started, but using the Last Played Channels info widget, the info area title is today's date rather than the title of the show in the EPG.