[jusnogood]

Oddly if I look in the read me its saying it's 0.4.4 lol

script.skinshortcuts was written with the intention of making user customizable shortcuts on the home page easier for skinners.


What's New for Skinners (version 0.4.4 - current Repo release)
-----------------------

- Just Select method - option to show a 'None' option, which will reset all skin labels passed in. See "Advanced Usage.txt", section "Just Select Shortcuts"
- Ability to specify available thumbnails for user to choose from with new button 311. See "Advanced Usage.txt", section "Overrides.xml", part 13 and "Management Dialog.txt"
- Ability to specify conditions for widgets and thumbnails to determine if they are available for selection. See "Advanced Usage.txt", section "Overrides.xml", parts 3 and 4
- Ability to set skin boolean based on inclusion of a shortcut with a specified action. See "Advanced Usage.txt", section "Overrides.xml", part 7
- Advice change - hasSubmenu cannot be relied upon to indicate there are no visible items, there may still be invisible items.

[jusnogood]

and same version is in your github library too https://github.com/HitcherUK/script.skinshortcuts

Help

[jusnogood]

Ah, the addon.xml says it's 0.5.1...so yes, I am using the latest one.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<addon id="script.skinshortcuts" name="Skin Shortcuts" version="0.5.1" provider-name="BigNoid,marcelveldt">
<requires>

[Hitcher]

Might be better to grab this one then - https://github.com/marcelveldt/script.skinshortcuts

[jusnogood]

Thanks Hitcher. I downloaded that...pushed it to my /sdcard/ folder and did an install from zip. I then went to the add-ons menu item...system...dependencies and see Skin Shortcuts is version 0.5.1 and enabled.

I then restarted my AFTV and Kodi and same error. Looking at the log and the using ES File Explorer I can see the xmlfunctions.py is loaded in the skin shortcuts folder but I can't see anywhere any /home/jenkins stuff. I'm not sure what loads that, is that my problem?

19:25:10 T:1741188272 DEBUG: script.skinshortcuts: Building menu for profile Master user
19:25:10 T:1741188272 DEBUG: script.skinshortcuts: Failed to write menu
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.skinshortcuts/resources/lib/xmlfunctions.py", line 92, in buildMenu
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: self.writexml( profilelist, mainmenuID, groups, numLevels, buildMode, progress, options )
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.skinshortcuts/resources/lib/xmlfunctions.py", line 378, in writexml
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: menuitem = self.buildElement( item, "mainmenu", None, profile[1], DATA.slugify( submenu, convertInteger=True ), itemid = itemidmainmenu, options = options )
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.skinshortcuts/resources/lib/xmlfunctions.py", line 695, in buildElement
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: if not newelement.findall(".//property[@name='path']"):
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 355, in findall
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementPath.py", line 198, in findall
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementPath.py", line 176, in _compile
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/arm-linux-androideabi-android-17/lib/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementPath.py", line 93, in __init__
19:25:10 T:1741188272 ERROR: SyntaxError: expected path separator ([)

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[stoshua]

I know this has issue has been addressed a thousand times.

But after going over other's post on the matter, I still have not been able to get widgets to work on the home screen after
updating to 1.2.4
They were working fine when I was running the older build I believe it was 1.0.4

I started to follow the troubleshooting steps others have posted,
- Delete the widgets, restart and then try again hoping they would appear.
This did not work for me.

Then I went to check the versions of toolbox I had installed, that was up to date, but when looking for skin shortcuts, that was not installed.
So I downloaded from the link Hitcher posted and attempted to install it but received the error message from Kodi stating:
the addon does not have correct structure.

Any help would be appreciated,
Im running Kodi 15.1
Nexus Player

[jusnogood]

I know this has issue has been addressed a thousand times.

But after going over other's post on the matter, I still have not been able to get widgets to work on the home screen after
updating to 1.2.4
They were working fine when I was running the older build I believe it was 1.0.4

I started to follow the troubleshooting steps others have posted,
- Delete the widgets, restart and then try again hoping they would appear.
This did not work for me.

Then I went to check the versions of toolbox I had installed, that was up to date, but when looking for skin shortcuts, that was not installed.
So I downloaded from the link Hitcher posted and attempted to install it but received the error message from Kodi stating:
the addon does not have correct structure.

Any help would be appreciated,
Im running Kodi 15.1
Nexus Player

I had that problem when I downloaded from github, got a folder structure and not a zip, so I zipped it up myself and tried installing it. Instead I Right clicked on on the download button and did "save as" and it saved as a zip.

[stoshua]

I know this has issue has been addressed a thousand times.

But after going over other's post on the matter, I still have not been able to get widgets to work on the home screen after
updating to 1.2.4
They were working fine when I was running the older build I believe it was 1.0.4

I started to follow the troubleshooting steps others have posted,
- Delete the widgets, restart and then try again hoping they would appear.
This did not work for me.

Then I went to check the versions of toolbox I had installed, that was up to date, but when looking for skin shortcuts, that was not installed.
So I downloaded from the link Hitcher posted and attempted to install it but received the error message from Kodi stating:
the addon does not have correct structure.

Any help would be appreciated,
Im running Kodi 15.1
Nexus Player

I had that problem when I downloaded from github, got a folder structure and not a zip, so I zipped it up myself and tried installing it. Instead I Right clicked on on the download button and did "save as" and it saved as a zip.

Thank you, now i have skin shortcuts installed, but I am still having the same issue.

[jusnogood]

I'm glad it's not just me

[stoshua]

I'm glad it's not just me

What are you running on?

[stoshua]

I'm glad it's not just me

What are you running on?

[jusnogood]

AFTV.

[stoshua]

Downgraded to 15.0 from 15.1, issue persist
I'm just going to suffer with mimic for the time being
Until issue can be resolved.

[blah_blah_]

So I backed up my kodi from my fire stick with the latest fire skin from github. then i restore the same backup file to my PC and it keeps saying cant rebuild or build the menu.

Error message

Skin Shortcuts
-unable to build menu. install kodi log uploader add-on to easily provide a debug log.

the log was uploaded to http://xbmclogs.com/pputsx1l7

Did you ever resolve your issue? I'm having the same problem. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the skin

I can see errors in the log...which would lead me to believe the install (or perhaps I) haven't installed something correctly...

here are a few of them...

12:18:57 T:1759174984 ERROR: static bool XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory(const CURL&, CFileItemList&, const XFILE::CDirectory::CHints&, bool) - Error getting /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/skin.ftv-master/extras/flags/studios/

12:18:59 T:1717505072 ERROR: static bool XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory(const CURL&, CFileItemList&, const XFILE::CDirectory::CHints&, bool) - Error getting special://skin/extras/widgetplaylists/unwatchedmovies.xsp
12:19:00 T:1554927520 NOTICE: StorageServer Module loaded RUN
12:19:00 T:1554927520 NOTICE: StorageClient-2.5.4 Starting server
12:19:02 T:1686248000 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
12:19:02 T:1686248000 ERROR: File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.skinshortcuts-master/resources/lib/xmlfunctions.py", line 92, in buildMenu
12:19:02 T:1686248000 ERROR: self.writexml( profilelist, mainmenuID, groups, numLevels, buildMode, progress, options )
12:19:02 T:1686248000 ERROR: File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.skinshortcuts-master/resources/lib/xmlfunctions.py", line 378, in writexml

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Downgraded to 15.0 from 15.1, issue persist
I'm just going to suffer with mimic for the time being
Until issue can be resolved.

Try uninstalling fTV skin, uninstall Skin Shortcuts, reinstall fTV skin.

[stoshua]

Thank you for trying to help,
I already did try this though,
I worked on it for 7 hours so
I gave up on it, and decided to
wait till there's something that
actually works when you install it.