[Jeffers24]

@mikeSiLVO 

"As I said previously, the skin settings do not control many aspects of the main menu. Skin Shortcuts handles all of that and due to the fact that the Main Menu includes are built "on the fly" by the script none of the options like backgrounds or other custom home menu items are saved to that file. I am not even sure why there is a setting added to there for you to modify in the first place unless some script is automatically adding them like skin helper or one of the other helper scripts. So yeah the solution is what you did but modifying the skins settings.xml file won't work unless I go back to the way OG Aeon Nox 5 handles the Main Menu, which I may do considering nobody has been around to maintain Skin Shortcuts in a while..."

NPs, I made an incorrect assumption that if I changed the background paths in skin settings.xml it would change the backgrounds.

Now I know the right way to do it in your skin all worked well.

[mikeSiLVO]

Back in the day there was a thing that some folks referred to as "Glow Bars".
People seemed to like modding that into the skin so I decided to add it as an option to the color customizer.

[Jayabs]

 

Hey @mikeSiLVO, you can see on the picture below that under the channel name you have the correct title displayed (description is not available on this skin widget).
Let me know if you need more information. (thanks for still looking at this)

Ok taking a look at the Estuary code I think I may have a fix for this but if you could test it out and let me know that would be great. It is available on Git for Leia and Matrix (master branch) or you can download the Variables_Widgets.xml file and replace that in the skins 16x9 folder. 

@mikeSiLVO I did replace the variables_widgets.xml file and it works for the title !!! Many many thanks...
Do you think you can also work on the timers variables ?
looks like the widget take the date/time when the show/movie was created and not the current time when it pass on the TV ?
I (Would like to have it like on the tv guide ex: from 20:00 to 20:50 and not the date/time when the show was created.

But i am already very happy with this fix !!


thanks....

[mikeSiLVO]

@mikeSiLVO I did replace the variables_widgets.xml file and it works for the title !!! Many many thanks...
Do you think you can also work on the timers variables ?
looks like the widget take the date/time when the show/movie was created and not the current time when it pass on the TV ?
I (Would like to have it like on the tv guide ex: from 20:00 to 20:50 and not the date/time when the show was created.

But i am already very happy with this fix !!


thanks....

Can you try re-downloading that same file. I just updated it with a fix for the actual start date of the PVR program.

EDIT: You want the start and end time as well?

[Jayabs]

@mikeSiLVO I did replace the variables_widgets.xml file and it works for the title !!! Many many thanks...
Do you think you can also work on the timers variables ?
looks like the widget take the date/time when the show/movie was created and not the current time when it pass on the TV ?
I (Would like to have it like on the tv guide ex: from 20:00 to 20:50 and not the date/time when the show was created.

But i am already very happy with this fix !!


thanks....

Can you try re-downloading that same file. I just updated it with a fix for the actual start date of the PVR program.

EDIT: You want the start and end time as well? 

Yes end time would be great !

So After dl the new file I have the correct start time if I use the regular Kodi widget  ( as you can see below there is also the current date but I dont need it, not sure if it can be removed...)


But using the skin helper widget looks like the time is not correct as it show 00:00 for all the programmes:

[mikeSiLVO]

Yes end time would be great !

So After dl the new file I have the correct start time if I use the regular Kodi widget  ( as you can see below there is also the current date but I dont need it, not sure if it can be removed...)

But using the skin helper widget looks like the time is not correct as it show 00:00 for all the programmes:

I'll play around with it and post an update to this post when I am done. Shouldn't be too long.

With the skin helper stuff I'll try to fix that as well but since it isn't maintained anymore that Widget will likely be removed soon.

EDIT: Try to re-download that file and replace. Nothing I can do about the Skin Helper Widget since there isn't a Start or End time INFO label provided by it.

[sniferx1]

Not 100% sure what you mean here but it is not a BUG if you are talking about sorting by rating and then the list is sorted by rating.

Skin does not control this at all and there is nothing I can do to change Kodi core functionality.

Now if you want it sorted by Top 250 then you have to do that and not sort by rating


You need to either use the skins built in Top 250 playlist in the extras folder or create your own Top 250 smart playlist:

xml:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<smartplaylist type="movies">

<name>Top 250</name>

<match>all</match>

<group>none</group>

<rule field="top250" operator="isnot">0</rule>

<order direction="ascending">top250</order>

</smartplaylist>

On the other hand if you are asking to sort by rating where the movie with the most votes have priority then that is beyond what the skin can accomplish.
 

@mikeSiLVO 
Many thanks for the info. I am looking at a way to SORT by "IMDB Top 250" and it as a Widget to the Video main menu as Compact Panel. Any help with this much appreciated.

P.S:
As per your feedback I managed to get the TOP 250 added as a SUBMENU Item and it's now showing correct order, but when added as a Widget (The playlist I saved) it's not showing the correct order.

[mikeSiLVO]

@mikeSiLVO 
Many thanks for the info. I am looking at a way to SORT by "IMDB Top 250" and that's all I need. Any help with this much appreciated

I already told you how:



What are you having trouble with?

[mikeSiLVO]

As per your feedback I managed to get the TOP 250 added as a SUBMENU Item and it's now showing correct order, but when added as a Widget (The playlist I saved) it's not showing the correct order.

You have to add the sort to the smartplaylist:

Code:

<order direction="ascending">top250</order>

[sniferx1]

As per your feedback I managed to get the TOP 250 added as a SUBMENU Item and it's now showing correct order, but when added as a Widget (The playlist I saved) it's not showing the correct order.

@mikeSiLVO  Attached are my settings. It's not working for me. Please let me know what else I can do to get the Widget working.

[mikeSiLVO]

@mikeSiLVO  Attached are my settings. It's not working for me. Please let me know what else I can do to get the Widget working.

Did you restart Kodi or reload the skin after changing the smartplaylist settings?

[sniferx1]

@mikeSiLVO  Attached are my settings. It's not working for me. Please let me know what else I can do to get the Widget working.

Did you restart Kodi or reload the skin after changing the smartplaylist settings?  

@mikeSiLVO Yes I did reboot. Also I reload the skin as well. Note that I can replicate the same behavior on my MAC running latest Kodi and also on my VERO4K+ box running same version. Happy to provide any logs or any other info you need to help with this issue for me.

Thanks again.

P.S:
playlist is showing the correct order when I swap the skin to Default KODI.....

[mikeSiLVO]

@mikeSiLVO Yes I did reboot. Also I reload the skin as well. Note that I can replicate the same behavior on my MAC running latest Kodi and also on my VERO4K+ box running same version. Happy to provide any logs or any other info you need to help with this issue for me.

Thanks again.

Not sure what to tell you here cause it works for me. You can try and remove the ascending from the Widget setting since it is not needed if you have it added to the playlist.

Otherwise, yes I will need a debug log (wiki), copy of your script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml file and the contents of the IMDB Top 250.xsp file in your userdata (wiki)/playlists folder.

EDIT:

P.S:
playlist is showing the correct order when I swap the skin to Default KODI.....

I thought you said the problem is in the Widget. Skin is not displaying correct in the Library view now?

[sniferx1]

Not sure what to tell you here cause it works for me. You can try and remove the ascending from the Widget setting since it is not needed if you have it added to the playlist.

Otherwise, yes I will need a debug log (wiki), copy of your script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml file and the contents of the IMDB Top 250.xsp file in your userdata (wiki)/playlists folder.

@mikeSiLVO Thanks again for helping with this mystery. Requested files as below. If you need more info kindly let me know.

Kodi Debug Logs: 
https://paste.osmc.tv/lomacowawu

Copy of "script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gJNf3Qd...sp=sharing

Contents of the IMDB Top 250.xsp file:

xml:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<smartplaylist type="movies">

    <name>IMDB Top 250</name>

    <match>all</match>

    <rule field="top250" operator="isnot">

        <value>0</value>

    </rule>

    <group>none</group>

    <order direction="ascending">top250</order>

</smartplaylist>

Note:
Reason I posted the view of the default Kodi skin with the same playlist is to show that SiLVO skin showing the same playlist sorted by Movies title names and Kodi skin showing as per TOP250. Also I think that same maybe happening when same Playlist trying to load via the SiLVO Widget. I yet to figure out how to add the same playlist as a widget via KODI default skin as this will give us some results to compare.

[mikeSiLVO]

@mikeSiLVO Thanks again for helping with this mystery. Requested files as below. If you need more info kindly let me know.

Kodi Debug Logs: 
https://paste.osmc.tv/lomacowawu

Copy of "script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gJNf3Qd...sp=sharing

Note:
Reason I posted the view of the default Kodi skin with the same playlist is to show that SiLVO skin showing the same playlist sorted by Movies title names and Kodi skin showing as per TOP250. Also I think that same maybe happening when same Playlist trying to load via the SiLVO Widget. I yet to figure out how to add the same playlist as a widget via KODI default skin as this will give us some results to compare.

Something is not right here...

According to your script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml file on your MacBook you have special://skin/extras/playlists/top250.xsp as your Widget but that doesn't exist in the skin and according to your pics it should be userdata (wiki)/playlists/video/IMDBTop250.xsp (special://profile/playlists/video/IMDBTop250.xsp).

What are the contents of the extras/playlists/top250.xsp file in the skin.aeon.nox.silvo folder? Alternatively you can change the Widget to use the IMDBTop250.xsp which already seems correct based on what you have posted.