[Jeffers24]

 am having a problem with my backgrounds.

I set them up on my laptop, then manually changed them all to special in the settings.xml file in C:\Users\willi\Desktop\Kodi Versions Folders\KodiSilvio\portable_data\userdata\addon_data\skin.aeon.nox.silvo :-

However when I view the background settings in Kodi they still point to my C: drive:-

All looks OK on my laptop, but when I transfer build to android box no backgrounds :-(

Anyone able to advise on how to sort this?

Skin settings, mostly, have very little to do with the Main Menu. If you do not want to set it up manually for other Kodi installations then you need to include the addon_data/script.skin.shortcuts folder contents.

Sorry, the id is the same. I did not play the same file twice, it was a different one. Then, I checked the id myself and the id is identical both ways.
I've tried Embuary (Leia) and there is exactly the same behavior. The file name is missing when starting from the widget. When I start from the addon directly, it is there.
I think it is not an addon issue, because Zattoo widgets have the exact same behavior, so it is not just the DAZN addon. Maybe it is an general issue in Kodi when you have direct internet streams from addons as widgets. I can not explain it otherwise.
On the other side, Sky Go has not this problem.

If the same thing happens in another skin but the Sky Go add-on does work then it is probably an issue with those add-ons. Why would one work and the others not if it wasn't the add-ons?

IMHO OFC   

Mike,

I may not have explained my issue correctly, I do not wish to change the skin, I only wish to change the path to the backgrounds to special.

My backgrounds are in a folder in the userdata folder called 'Backgrounds'.

I modified all the background paths in settings.xml to special, see screen shot, but the skin appears to ignore these and retains the C:\ paths to my backgrounds.

If the background paths are not stored/used in the settings.xml file where are they stored in your skin?

"If you do not want to set it up manually for other Kodi installations then you need to include the addon_data/script.skin.shortcuts folder contents."

When I move my build from windows laptop to android box I copy the complete Appdata\Roaming\Kodi folder, which includes the script.skin.shortcuts folder

I looked in every file in the script.skin.shortcuts folder and no background paths were stored there.

I may have done something wrong, I don't see how your skin associates a specific background to a main menu item in the shot below.