[jurialmunkey]

Hey @jurialmunkey,
thanks for fixing the video links. Except for the problem with AutoWidget, I'm pretty happy at the moment. Regarding the playing now display, I thought you wanted to keep the space reserved at the bottom right, hence the suggestion to display it next to the analog clock.

Anyway, thanks again

Yeah I had a look at AutoWidget but I couldn't figure out what it was doing exactly. I think it tries to read the SkinShortcuts config for the skin to figure out which widget groups it should be refreshing/caching versus what it shouldn't -- considering the skin doesn't use SkinShortcuts at all anymore, I guess it acts like it is being opened "normally" via the library instead of as a widget (at least that's what I assume happens).

Anyway, I realised I practically already have most of this functionality of merging lists in SkinVariables filter directory method -- I just needed to expose it via the GUI to make it a bit more user friendly.

In v0.4.8 you can now select a special shortcut called "SkinVariables Custom Filter" then you can select whichever video paths you want to merge. You also add some additional options for sorting the list according to different values, and some quick filtering/exclusion properties too (e.g. you can filter by genre = Animation and so on).

It should be relatively easy to use and it will output its saved config to the filename you choose in "kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.skinvariables/nodes/dynamic/" so that you can edit it further in a text editor if need be.

[Sathish804]

@jurialmunkey Thank you for this super fantanstic Skin. Could you please advise how can we add a submenu on category with the common options like Settings, Reload Skin, Quit etc.

There was a bug before where the links for Kodi Commands etc weren't showing when selecting static submenu items. Should be able to add them now in 0.4.7 onwards via the normal means

Customisation > Edit categories > Edit submenu > Edit submenu items > Choose shortcut > Kodi commands > Quit (etc.)

Thank you!! With latest version I see the issue is solved.

[Nekromantik]

just installed this and great skin
how do i change the thumbnails to show posters instead of screenshot of the movie?

[Grumpyman]

hi

Trying to use the skin variables custom filter with emby addon.

what i am trying to do is to set a node for all continue watching under one node ( tvshows , episodes and movies )

It looks like it works but when i select it (either episodes or Tv shows...movies continue like they should ) it just brings me to the library instead of the show .

Not sure its even possible to do what i want but thought i would ask

here is the .json that it creates

{
    "info": "get_filter_dir",
    "library": "video",
    "paths": [
        "library://video/emby_movies_Movies/inprogress.xml/",
        "library://video/emby_tvshows_TV_shows/inprogress.xml/",
        "library://video/emby_tvshows_TV_shows/inprogressepisodes.xml/"
    ],
    "sort_by": "lastplayed",
    "sort_how": ""
}

[jollyhiggler]

Hey @jurialmunkey,
thanks for fixing the video links. Except for the problem with AutoWidget, I'm pretty happy at the moment. Regarding the playing now display, I thought you wanted to keep the space reserved at the bottom right, hence the suggestion to display it next to the analog clock.

Anyway, thanks again

Yeah I had a look at AutoWidget but I couldn't figure out what it was doing exactly. I think it tries to read the SkinShortcuts config for the skin to figure out which widget groups it should be refreshing/caching versus what it shouldn't -- considering the skin doesn't use SkinShortcuts at all anymore, I guess it acts like it is being opened "normally" via the library instead of as a widget (at least that's what I assume happens).

Anyway, I realised I practically already have most of this functionality of merging lists in SkinVariables filter directory method -- I just needed to expose it via the GUI to make it a bit more user friendly.

In v0.4.8 you can now select a special shortcut called "SkinVariables Custom Filter" then you can select whichever video paths you want to merge. You also add some additional options for sorting the list according to different values, and some quick filtering/exclusion properties too (e.g. you can filter by genre = Animation and so on).

It should be relatively easy to use and it will output its saved config to the filename you choose in "kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.skinvariables/nodes/dynamic/" so that you can edit it further in a text editor if need be.

I'm pleased to have chanced upon this post while in the process of setting up a YouTube custom hub. This looks as though it will be a cleaner way of grouping Subscriptions than merging the paths through Autowidget as I have done previously.

A couple of tweaks I'd be really grateful for:
- The option to point the skin at a previously created json files in the dynamic nodes folder (unless I'm missing it, it only seems to be possible to add the shortcut while initially establishing the path filters)
- Adjust the widget artwork logic in order that a YT video's individual thumbnail is pulled through on 'landscape' view (currently channel fanart) when going through a SkinVariables filter path (not an issue when going directly through the YT plugin).

[TrojanZ]

Coming from version 0.3.x to 0.4.x, I can appreciate the improvements made. After a small PITA of setting up the widgets again, I see that it's now much faster compared to versions 0.3.x. Good stuff!

Anyways did 0.4.x get rid of the slide out side menus? Can't seem to find the option to toggle it.

[jurialmunkey]

A couple of tweaks I'd be really grateful for:
- The option to point the skin at a previously created json files in the dynamic nodes folder (unless I'm missing it, it only seems to be possible to add the shortcut while initially establishing the path filters)

I actually was already working on this, just wasn't quite ready to make it into the last version. v0.4.9 should now let you select from your existing filter files.

I'll also be adding some options soon (hopefully version after next) to edit / delete / rename etc. the files from the GUI.

- Adjust the widget artwork logic in order that a YT video's individual thumbnail is pulled through on 'landscape' view (currently channel fanart) when going through a SkinVariables filter path (not an issue when going directly through the YT plugin).

I'm not quite sure why, but reading the YT directories via JSON RPC lists the mediatype for items as "unknown" -- so then skin variables doesn't know what content type to set.

You can get around it by adding a dbtype hint to the file for the filter in "kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.skinvariables/nodes/dynamic"

e.g. add a dbtype line under the library line like so:

json:


{

    "info": "get_filter_dir",

    "library": "video",

    "dbtype": "video",

    "paths": [

        "plugin://plugin.video.youtube/special/popular_right_now/"

    ],

    "sort_by": "",

    "sort_how": ""

}

Also dbtype hint can be other types than video. For the "video" library, it can also have dbtype of "movie", "tvshow", "season", "episode", "set", or "musicvideo" if that's more suitable (but for YT it should be "video").

[jurialmunkey]

Trying to use the skin variables custom filter with emby addon.

what i am trying to do is to set a node for all continue watching under one node ( tvshows , episodes and movies )
It looks like it works but when i select it (either episodes or Tv shows...movies continue like they should ) it just brings me to the library instead of the show .

Not sure its even possible to do what i want but thought i would ask

Theoretically it definitely should be possible but I also know the Emby addon does some unusual things with the library and I'm not really familiar enough with it to know what the issue might be.

The json file looks fine. Is there anything in the log?

[jurialmunkey]

just installed this and great skin
how do i change the thumbnails to show posters instead of screenshot of the movie?

Do you mean for widgets? When you go to Edit widgets in the config dialog you should be able to change the "Style" to poster.

In the library, you change the view by pressing up to access the filter options at top of the screen. There's a view button where you can select the view type.

[jurialmunkey]

Coming from version 0.3.x to 0.4.x, I can appreciate the improvements made. After a small PITA of setting up the widgets again, I see that it's now much faster compared to versions 0.3.x. Good stuff!

Anyways did 0.4.x get rid of the slide out side menus? Can't seem to find the option to toggle it.

Yeah the labels for the side menu have been removed as they were broken if there were more than five items set to the side menu. Hopefully will make a return in a future version as long as I find a suitable approach which doesn't interfere with the mouse.

Can track issue report here:
https://github.com/jurialmunkey/skin.arc...issues/241

[MohamedYousri]

Great work as usual, very crafted Appreciated. 

It felt a little bit slow at Xiaomi Mi Box S 2nd gen, a little bit laggy and takes a few seconds to respond to any order. 

Don't know if this because i am installing and running Kodi from the attached SSD or this is the Skin normal behavior.

[Grumpyman]

Trying to use the skin variables custom filter with emby addon.

what i am trying to do is to set a node for all continue watching under one node ( tvshows , episodes and movies )
It looks like it works but when i select it (either episodes or Tv shows...movies continue like they should ) it just brings me to the library instead of the show .

Not sure its even possible to do what i want but thought i would ask

Theoretically it definitely should be possible but I also know the Emby addon does some unusual things with the library and I'm not really familiar enough with it to know what the issue might be.

The json file looks fine. Is there anything in the log?

yes there are errors in the log ...i will ask on the emby forums

thanks

[jollyhiggler]

A couple of tweaks I'd be really grateful for:
- The option to point the skin at a previously created json files in the dynamic nodes folder (unless I'm missing it, it only seems to be possible to add the shortcut while initially establishing the path filters)

I actually was already working on this, just wasn't quite ready to make it into the last version. v0.4.9 should now let you select from your existing filter files.

I'll also be adding some options soon (hopefully version after next) to edit / delete / rename etc. the files from the GUI.

- Adjust the widget artwork logic in order that a YT video's individual thumbnail is pulled through on 'landscape' view (currently channel fanart) when going through a SkinVariables filter path (not an issue when going directly through the YT plugin).

I'm not quite sure why, but reading the YT directories via JSON RPC lists the mediatype for items as "unknown" -- so then skin variables doesn't know what content type to set.

You can get around it by adding a dbtype hint to the file for the filter in "kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.skinvariables/nodes/dynamic"

e.g. add a dbtype line under the library line like so:

json:


{

"info": "get_filter_dir",

"library": "video",

"dbtype": "video",

"paths": [

"plugin://plugin.video.youtube/special/popular_right_now/"

],

"sort_by": "",

"sort_how": ""

}

Also dbtype hint can be other types than video. For the "video" library, it can also have dbtype of "movie", "tvshow", "season", "episode", "set", or "musicvideo" if that's more suitable (but for YT it should be "video").

Sorted - thanks a lot.

While on the subject of YT artwork in widgets - is there any straightforward adjustment that can be made to force the thumbnail to fully populate the landscape template - i.e. without the black bars to the top and bottom?

[Adamosborne83]

Can you add this onto Customise Options too? As I like one of my options to be quit.

[jurialmunkey]

Can you add this onto Customise Options too? As I like one of my options to be quit.

Add what? Quit? It should be available under Kodi Commands when choosing a shortcut.