[akevit]

I'm pretty happy with my setup now, and I'm fairly sure I can help you with your problems.

Question to @pecinko

Quoting @akevit


Im sorry you dismissed these comments from @akevit so fast. I have been hammering my head over the same issues.

I also, like @akevit would wish for a quick shortcut back to the Home screen.

First, see my post here about adding additional IR commands to the ATV2. For some reason no one seemed to really care but the additional IR functions don't seem to be well documented and they are terrific for adding some functionality to the Apple TV.

I've now set one of those IR codes to always go to the home screen, another to pull up movies, and another to pull up TV Shows.

When I watch an episode from the watchlist panel and finish, and want to see next episode after that, the same episode starts again.... I need to restart XBMC for the Watchlist Media Panel to update.

Same with movies I have just seen. They don't disappear from the Watchlist Media Panel untill I restart XBMC. Also, same with Currently Watching, needs to restart XBMC for it to update...

As Pecinko said this is a script issue, though I'm not sure why it works fine in confluence but not fine here. At any rate I've 'fixed' this by just disabling this feature and creating a playlist that has the same function. I then added that playlist to my favorites so I can just go straight to it from any menu with my mapped IR code.

And this crash when opening the Context menu in the Home screen is very real, and I thought for a while that it was a feature to shutdown... But is it shutting down in a controlled manner?

I've now found out that this is actually a documented "feature", button ID 8 is meant to call the shutdown function while in the home screen. Here is a listing of the full keymap for the ATV2 which documents what each button does while in different screens. Please note however the Harmony and Learned IR button IDs are incorrect as mentioned in my other post referenced above.

Is it possible to have the library updating at fixed times and make sure it is not updating while I'm using the ATV2. And also to avoid the update running on startup? It is very resource demanding and screws up the user experience.

There is an addon called XBMC Library Auto Update that might work with this skin, it's a Program Add On. My solution however was to stop all library updating on my ATV2 and instead control it from my PC. I have a shared library via MySQL and I have uTorrent set to update my library whenever a download finishes. The skinny of this is that you can use cURL to update your library, see this post.

After a long period of inactivity the sound often disappears, and I have to restart XBMC. I have also normally turned off and on the receiver and the TV when this happens. The ATV2 is running normally all the time I expect... But as it most often happens, sound is gone when I turn it back on from inactivity.

I doubt this is skin related, I'd recommend posting this problem on the ATV2 support thread. Before you go through all that trouble though would you mind telling me how you have your Audio Output in System Settings configured? I'm outputting via both Optical and HDMI and it works just fine. Make sure Audio output is set to Optical/Coax and that AC3 is turned off.