[sniferx1]

@mikeSiLVO

I am reporting this issue after 3 days of continue research and tested across my 4x Kodi boxes. Kindly don’t reject my claim and see what can be improved in future or fix in next Version of Kodi (v18) or in current versionI love this skin and using this for past 3 years and don’t want to move to others and my feedback related to other skin behaviours just to point out the issue. 

Issue I am facing: One of my main features I like is rotating Fanarts in the home window from my movies lib and Tv shows liv.  I have enabled this via (Skin settings —> Configure Main Menu —> Movies Back ground, Tv Show background as “FANARTS”. Unfortunately in this skin Fanarts will only works if they are cache locally in the “Textures13.db” and files are in the local Kodi “Thumbnails” folder.

My Setup:
- Kodi 17.6 (latest)
- Nox 5: SiLVO (latest)
- KODI running on OSMC in 3x VERO4K
- KODI running on OSMC in 1x Rpi3
- KODI running on MAC in 1x MacBook Pro
- KODI Media lib hosted in Synology NAS
- Lib Size (4000 Movie Tiles + 120 TV shows + 12000 songs)

How I am saying this is an issue:
1. I have cached TV shows via the cool “texturecache.py” script and all Fanarts were rotating perfectly
2. I have removed the “Textures13.db” and “Thumbnails” folder and once rebooted Kodi background fanarts were black but I can see each rotating image got a “Tv show” title
3. I have cached TV shows via again and all started to work again
4. Then I have removed “Textures13.db” and “Thumbnails” folder again and rebooted and problem came back again
5. Now I went and changed the skin to Reaper and few others and I have seen Homepage Fanarts were rotating fine and I have seen these skins going to my NAS to get the fanarts as I can see my NAS network connectivity going up and down. 

How this is an issue for me and why not just cache them all:
1. I am using 3x Vero4K devices and Rpi 3 with 16GM SSD card and once I cache all Movies and Tv-shows my “Thumbnails” folder is around 12GB and my filesystem running out of space. I have already explored all possible options with “texturecache.py” to remove all duplicated and still my “Thumbnails” folder is around 12GB
2. I have even deleted the whole folder and cache it again to make sure no duplications. 

My Ask:
Similar to other skins (like Reaper) implement a check that if the artwork (Fanart) missing from the local “Textures13.db” then go to the default NAS location and rotate them as it should not show just blank screens I can see this feature already implemented for posters and fanarts in this skin as when you hover or select a Movie or Tv Show as poster and artwork displaying when the items are not cached locally. 

Again this is to make this skin standout as I really really love it and hopefully the owners and developers will implement this feature. I am happy to be a ginny-pig and test it out when needed. 

Thanks again for this awesome skin….