[DroppedPJK]

Hey guys,

I want to remove the sources RECOVERY, SETTINGS, and Video Add Ons which appear when I go into the video menu under the confluence skin.

I have tried safely remove for RECOVERY and SETTINGS but they reappear when the system is rebooted.


My goal is for the media to only be read from a portable Flashdrive that contains all the media.

Any help?

[BatterPudding]

RECOVERY? Where is that in the Confluence skin? Got a screen shot or better description?

Sounds to me like someone has modded your skin. What is being "recovered"?

Maybe just download the Confluence Skin from the normal KODI Repo. Overwriting the modified one you have there?


OR: Look into SYSTEM \ SETTINGS \ APPEARANCE \ SKIN \ Settings

In here you will find you can change some things on the HOME WINDOW and ADD-ON sections.


OR: Go hack the skin files by hand.

Hard to tell what your hardware is. You say your changes disappear after a reboot. What happens if you just exit KODI and restart it without restarting the OS?

OR: Look for the addon "Video Node Editor" in the official repository (under Program add-ons). I don't pretend to know how it works, but I installed it once and I think it could achieve some of what you are requesting.... Just had a quick look, and it is certainly possible to do the edits you are asking for

http://kodi.wiki/view/Video_nodes
http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Video_Node_Editor



But if your hardware is a custom box with custom KODI on it then maybe that hardware is just resetting to a non-standard KODI every time. And if that is the case - go hassle the guy you bought it from. Tell him to let you know where he is copying KODI back in from on each reboot.

[DroppedPJK]

RECOVERY? Where is that in the Confluence skin? Got a screen shot or better description?

Sounds to me like someone has modded your skin. What is being "recovered"?

Maybe just download the Confluence Skin from the normal KODI Repo. Overwriting the modified one you have there?


OR: Look into SYSTEM \ SETTINGS \ APPEARANCE \ SKIN \ Settings

In here you will find you can change some things on the HOME WINDOW and ADD-ON sections.


OR: Go hack the skin files by hand.

Hard to tell what your hardware is. You say your changes disappear after a reboot. What happens if you just exit KODI and restart it without restarting the OS?

OR: Look for the addon "Video Node Editor" in the official repository (under Program add-ons). I don't pretend to know how it works, but I installed it once and I think it could achieve some of what you are requesting.... Just had a quick look, and it is certainly possible to do the edits you are asking for

http://kodi.wiki/view/Video_nodes
http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Video_Node_Editor



But if your hardware is a custom box with custom KODI on it then maybe that hardware is just resetting to a non-standard KODI every time. And if that is the case - go hassle the guy you bought it from. Tell him to let you know where he is copying KODI back in from on each reboot.

As of right now I can't get a screenshot. I have modded the skin, I am in the process of modding the original confluence skin.

If I retrace my steps correctly, if you take an out of the box Confluence skin and you are at the home menu then you should be able to see a dark blue bubble background.

From there I can select music , videos, or pictures. I choose music and it will give me a vertical list of "folders" or "directories" to access to find my music to play.

Music
Music Add on
RECOVERY
SETTINGS

I want to remove Music Add on, RECOVERY, and SETTINGS. (I believe these are rightfully termed as media sources)

If I were to connect a USB, then the USB would also appear in the vertical list above.

If I go into the file manager under System which can be accessed at the home page, I can see I have three sources. They appear as

profile_directory
RECOVERY
SETTINGS

No matter what I do I cannot make these two go away permanently.

[DarrenHill]

I'd guess they are maybe hidden recovery partitions on your computer? It's this a Windows PC?

If so have a look at disk management and see if they are there.

[BatterPudding]

I use an unmodified Confluence skin. And I can't work out where you are seeing that text. It must be coming from either an add-on or part of the custom skin.

It isn't a list of "media sources", as you are just at the top level of the Music Library this time. Your original question was asking about the videos section.

Have you tried the Video Node Editor? This will let you edit the video page.


Is this a custom box of some form? I have seen recovery sections on some Android boxes so they can be reset to factory defaults.

(I would disagree with the "hidden windows partitions" theory as I can't see how they could appear at that location in KODI)

[DroppedPJK]

I use an unmodified Confluence skin. And I can't work out where you are seeing that text. It must be coming from either an add-on or part of the custom skin.

It isn't a list of "media sources", as you are just at the top level of the Music Library this time. Your original question was asking about the videos section.

Have you tried the Video Node Editor? This will let you edit the video page.


Is this a custom box of some form? I have seen recovery sections on some Android boxes so they can be reset to factory defaults.

(I would disagree with the "hidden windows partitions" theory as I can't see how they could appear at that location in KODI)

I apologize for being slow on this.

http://puu.sh/nowVr/29451a306f.jpg

http://puu.sh/nowXq/7ce9ee498a.jpg

In the two pictures above I want RECOVERY AND SETTINGS removed from the files menu of both the Videos and the Music

http://puu.sh/nowZz/1ddc54a6bb.jpg

This picture tells me that my Video button on the Home screen doesn't directly go to Videos - File WHILE my Music button on my home screen goes to Music - File which gives me the inclination that I can change where they navigate too. I just need to find where I can change that.

My set up is a standard Raspberry Pi 2 Model B with an SD card using NOOBS to install OpenElec. When I took the picture the only thing connected was a USB Mouse and the power supply. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING else was connected.


For example,
in the video below the user has successfully made it so that he only reads media from his USB Disk when he goes to the videos - file menu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcT3xZxSiRo

[BatterPudding]

Still don't see anything like that on my screen. I have to dig down a bit to go VIDEO \ FILES to find that screen you have sent the photo of. And then I don't find any hidden computer partitions or anything like that.

If you think they are SOURCES... follow what DarrenHill said. Go to SETTINGS \ FILE MANAGER and see if they are listed in there. If you do see them listed in there, right click and REMOVE SOURCE.

Did you follow through the ideas on my first post? Go look into the SKIN settings and you'll find you can change some things there. This may change what happens when you actually click on VIDEOS.

Also go play with the Video Node Editor and the Library Node Editors. ( http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Library_Node_Editor ) Maybe these will help? It is NODES you are trying to change.

In the NODE editors you can change what is foudn on those menus. First thing I'd try would be the RESET LIBRARY NODES TO DEFAULT...

(I have not fiddled with these NODE editors much before. I think you just need LIBRARY NODE EDITOR as it seems to work on both.)

Further reading.... the Library Node Editor is the one you want... http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=224512 )

[DroppedPJK]

Still don't see anything like that on my screen. I have to dig down a bit to go VIDEO \ FILES to find that screen you have sent the photo of. And then I don't find any hidden computer partitions or anything like that.

If you think they are SOURCES... follow what DarrenHill said. Go to SETTINGS \ FILE MANAGER and see if they are listed in there. If you do see them listed in there, right click and REMOVE SOURCE.

Did you follow through the ideas on my first post? Go look into the SKIN settings and you'll find you can change some things there. This may change what happens when you actually click on VIDEOS.

Also go play with the Video Node Editor and the Library Node Editors. ( http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Library_Node_Editor ) Maybe these will help? It is NODES you are trying to change.

In the NODE editors you can change what is foudn on those menus. First thing I'd try would be the RESET LIBRARY NODES TO DEFAULT...

(I have not fiddled with these NODE editors much before. I think you just need LIBRARY NODE EDITOR as it seems to work on both.)

Further reading.... the Library Node Editor is the one you want... http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=224512 )

First and foremost,

RECOVERY AND SETTINGS cannot be removed no matter how hard I try. They can be removed temporarily but they seem to come back on reboot.

Secondly, it looks like I need to install an update for kodi as I have the wrong version number and forgot about it. Library Node Editor seems to be Isengard only and hopefully I don't lose every change I've made to update. Wish me luck!

EDIT: OK Library Node Editor doesn't show Music add-ons. It's actually completely missing the XML file for Music add-ons. I cannot create my own because I do not know the node value/or path location for music add-ons.

[DarrenHill]

What you're seeing there is how OpenElec on Pi shows removable media.

So presuming you haven't got a USB key or similar stuck in your pi that you've neglected to mention, I'd guess they are other partitions on your Noobs SD card which OE is seeing and automatically mounting for you.

If you don't need Noobs or multiple OS booting, I'd suggest when you update Kodi you look at downloading the disk image from the OE site and burn that to create a fresh new image of just OpenElec rather than having all the Noobs overhead. You can back up your existing install first (either use the backup option within the OE add-on, the separately installable backup add-on or just make a copy of your .kodi directory directly to another network location).

I can't confirm for certain as I don't and never have used Noobs, but those sources definitely look like detected removable media to me. If they are then every time you reboot OE will see them and auto-mount them for you again, even though you don't want it to.

[DroppedPJK]

What you're seeing there is how OpenElec on Pi shows removable media.

So presuming you haven't got a USB key or similar stuck in your pi that you've neglected to mention, I'd guess they are other partitions on your Noobs SD card which OE is seeing and automatically mounting for you.

If you don't need Noobs or multiple OS booting, I'd suggest when you update Kodi you look at downloading the disk image from the OE site and burn that to create a fresh new image of just OpenElec rather than having all the Noobs overhead. You can back up your existing install first (either use the backup option within the OE add-on, the separately installable backup add-on or just make a copy of your .kodi directory directly to another network location).

I can't confirm for certain as I don't and never have used Noobs, but those sources definitely look like detected removable media to me. If they are then every time you reboot OE will see them and auto-mount them for you again, even though you don't want it to.

Good news, figured out how to unmount the drives once I figured out how to properly search for a solution. Took me a while to properly phrase the right question for google.

How to unmount NOOBS partition OpenElec would be the go to.

Now I just have to find a way to get rid of the pesky Music Add-ons and Picture Add-ons.

ALL problems solved
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=123690 (This removes the add-ons virtual sources)
http://openelec.tv/forum/12-guides-tips-...cal-drives (This unmounts any partitions that may be auto mounted on startup.)