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Esturay is a great skin! Very much enjoy the clean look.
What's missing for me is to further customize the homescreen. Particularly:
1) Separating movies and movies-3D and music and classical music
2) Widgets show categories, in progress movies, recently added movies, genres, etc. Would love to add / eliminate some and also change the ordering.
3) Recently added episodes widget on homescreen shows a clip. Would instead love to show the tvshow poster art. The clips are not attractive to look at in a main screen view.
Is this type of customization possible? And if so, can it be done via GUI without going into editing files manually?
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Thanks for your quick reply.
So, you are saying that I need to install the MOD to get it working.
And then work with library node editor to get #1 working and manually change the home.xml for #3.
#2 cannot be achieved?
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Thanks for your help. I have installed Mod_V2 and starting to get an idea what I can do. Let me play around a bit.
One unfortunate issue that I am observing is that the widgets no longer shows movies in a reliable way. Is this a known bug or anything I can do? When I select "movies" from home screen, all works well and I get to the movie list and can see all movies. However, the widgets next to movies only show the header (e.g., random movies), but underneath show a loading circle. Same for tv shows and music. After restarting Kodi, this sometimes is not happening, but eventually this is an issue. Any thoughts?
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It also gets stuck when exiting Kodi and I have to unplug my Shield to get back. I didn't have these issues with stock Estuary. Any thoughts?
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Thanks for your continued help.
The article you linked has a different objective though. It shows how to "change the recently added episodes widget to a recently added TV Shows widget" (quote: "basically the same thing but it shows the newly added shows grouped by show rather than by episode").
I actually would love to keep recently added episodes (not recently added shows) and don't like them to be grouped either. I just like to keep the current way with recently added episodes, but then instead show the tvshow poster instead of the episode screenshot. Particularly on the homescreen, the episodes clips don't look like nice and don't give me an immediate info what shows have recently added episodes.
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(This post was last modified: 2019-03-24, 12:54 by the_other_guy.)
you will need to replace the images
artwork beef plig in and press i for info choose art to change image
you will need to type thumb and goto folder and pick poster
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Thanks for your continued help. You saying I need to do this manually and then redo it every time I add a new episode? And/or requires artwork beef as I cannot do the manual change with standard Kodi?
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