[User 477355]

Hi there,

I am currently researching in which skin fits best my need....so far this one looks very promising! Nice job!

I have a few questions in certain topics:

Categories Widget:

As far as I can see the categories are actual predefined smart playlist which are in the skin's directory somehow.

1. What is difference between .kodi/addons/skin.titan.bingie.mod/playlists and .kodi/addons/skin.titan.bingie.mod/extras/categories
   
2. How can I add/edit such a category? I tried to just edit one of the files and reload or restarted but they did not appear. Also looked into the dialog which let me choose which category to show in the widget. My update did not take place.
   
3. Is it correct that I do not see that special playlists in the overview of all my smart playlists?
   
4. What does the option "Homescreen layout -> Category Hub -> Enable Library List" do?
   

Smart Shortcuts:

1. Why are they called like this?
   
2. What is so smart about them?
   
3. Is it correct that they just contain my smart playlists?
   
4. What is the purpose of them?
   

Buggy behavior:

1. Often when I change the menu items for example I delete on the changes do not apply to the menu itself. I mean they are gone from the configuration menu but the menu does still show the item. The same sometimes happen when adding an item or edtiting it in generell. Simple things like setting the label sometimes do not apply. Are there some known issues going on?
   
2. I was curious what this "MyHub" thing is and tried bind it to a menu entry but it did not work. I selected it in the dialog but it does not apply anything.
   

Confusing stuff (at least for me):

1. On the menu item options: What is the difference between "Change Action" & "Change Shortcut"? For me it just opens the same dialog.
   
2. Can I not set an action which just points to a certain point in my library? (like TvShow->Genres or Movies->Tags->Love)
   

Suggestions:

1. Would be nice to have explantions for the settings. Dude, there are so many options and I would read all the info texts but there are none. That makes it really hard to configure it.
   
2. More in general: Wouldn't be nice to have some kind of documentation to a skin? As far as I can see for the skins there are only two places: Those giantic froum threads and their github-repository where a user can read out how to configure it.
   

My Setup:

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04
  
• Kodi: 19.5 (tried 20 before but rolled back because I read the skin is may not ready for that)
  
• Skin-Repo: https://achillespunks.github.io/reposito...ingie.mod/
  
• Skin-Version: 2.1.0
  

I know a lot of question. If you want them in a different from (in a github issue for example) let me know. I would really like to contribute at least from a user persepective because as I said I really like this skin.

Thanks,
Dragoo

PS: Oh, I forgot to mention...I pretty new to all this kodi stuff so please be patient.

[gaze]

Don't really want to look through almost every file in there. Thanks again!

Install Notepad++ and Edit -> Find in files..

[HisAirness23]

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[HisAirness23]

Don't really want to look through almost every file in there. Thanks again!

Install Notepad++ and Edit -> Find in files..

@SoulReaver It's not in the german strings.po file, unfortunately. If it would be inside the the file it would translate it, right? Is there a language setting for the skin? I couldn't find any yet but there are so many settings.
Found the label "choose art, more like this" in resource.language.en_gb\strings.po but adding a translation there or adding it to the german strings.po didn't do anything, unfortunately.

[SoulReaver]

Don't really want to look through almost every file in there. Thanks again!

Install Notepad++ and Edit -> Find in files..

@SoulReaver It's not in the german strings.po file, unfortunately. If it would be inside the the file it would translate it, right? Is there a language setting for the skin? I couldn't find any yet but there are so many settings.
Found the label "choose art, more like this" in resource.language.en_gb\strings.po but adding a translation there or adding it to the german strings.po didn't do anything, unfortunately.

You can just copy the missing strings code from the en_gb strings file to the language file of your choice and type the translation in the msgstr line and it will translate to that if your Kodi language is set to that same language in Kodi > Settings > Interface > Regional > Language.

[HisAirness23]

Install Notepad++ and Edit -> Find in files..

@SoulReaver It's not in the german strings.po file, unfortunately. If it would be inside the the file it would translate it, right? Is there a language setting for the skin? I couldn't find any yet but there are so many settings.
Found the label "choose art, more like this" in resource.language.en_gb\strings.po but adding a translation there or adding it to the german strings.po didn't do anything, unfortunately.

You can just copy the missing strings code from the en_gb strings file to the language file of your choice and type the translation in the msgstr line and it will translate to that if your Kodi language is set to that same language in Kodi > Settings > Interface > Regional > Language.

Some of the string codes are not missing and it still doesn't work. "More like this" (in en_gb) has already been translated from "Similar" en_us to "Änhnlich" in the de_de strings file. I guess More like this and similar mean the same as they both share the same #31622, just BE and AE.

msgctxt "#31622"
msgid "Similar"
msgstr "Ähnlich"

It's still showing "More like this" though. The Kodi language and region has been set to regional > language > german. Am I missing a setting somewhere?
Thanks again

[shaktoo]

Skin has become unusable on android x last 3-4 days. Its solid in windows  no issues.
SHS and related scripts have been discussed as the possible reason for this   As Discussed here & here. 
As these are skin dependencies hence cannot disable them or uninstall them.
Is there anyway these could be removed as  a dependency to test  ( everyone is using tmdb Helper for widgets  & its working great)
Also for Amazon VOD content AH2 ( using tmdb helper) is able to display Logo's / artwork 
I am requesting if you could consider using similar tmdb helper to populate the artwork for Amazon VOD  in TBM as well please.

[SoulReaver]

@SoulReaver It's not in the german strings.po file, unfortunately. If it would be inside the the file it would translate it, right? Is there a language setting for the skin? I couldn't find any yet but there are so many settings.
Found the label "choose art, more like this" in resource.language.en_gb\strings.po but adding a translation there or adding it to the german strings.po didn't do anything, unfortunately.

You can just copy the missing strings code from the en_gb strings file to the language file of your choice and type the translation in the msgstr line and it will translate to that if your Kodi language is set to that same language in Kodi > Settings > Interface > Regional > Language.

Some of the string codes are not missing and it still doesn't work. "More like this" (in en_gb) has already been translated from "Similar" en_us to "Änhnlich" in the de_de strings file. I guess More like this and similar mean the same as they both share the same #31622, just BE and AE.

msgctxt "#31622"
msgid "Similar"
msgstr "Ähnlich"

It's still showing "More like this" though. The Kodi language and region has been set to regional > language > german. Am I missing a setting somewhere?
Thanks again

Try putting this in the de_de strings file

msgctxt "#31622"
msgid "More Like This"
msgstr "your translation"

msgctxt "#320005"
msgid "Similar"
msgstr "your translation"

And test again with Kodi language set to German.

[ksc1]

You can just copy the missing strings code from the en_gb strings file to the language file of your choice and type the translation in the msgstr line and it will translate to that if your Kodi language is set to that same language in Kodi > Settings > Interface > Regional > Language.

Some of the string codes are not missing and it still doesn't work. "More like this" (in en_gb) has already been translated from "Similar" en_us to "Änhnlich" in the de_de strings file. I guess More like this and similar mean the same as they both share the same #31622, just BE and AE.

msgctxt "#31622"
msgid "Similar"
msgstr "Ähnlich"

It's still showing "More like this" though. The Kodi language and region has been set to regional > language > german. Am I missing a setting somewhere?
Thanks again

Try putting this in the de_de strings file

msgctxt "#31622"
msgid "More Like This"
msgstr "your translation"

msgctxt "#320005"
msgid "Similar"
msgstr "your translation"

And test again with Kodi language set to German.

U can explain this? I was trying the same to spanish but the 32xxxx digits msgctxt, don't works.

I can't translate all the msgctxt that begin with 32xxxx, any missing or wrong

[HugoL]

@SoulReaver It's not in the german strings.po file, unfortunately. If it would be inside the the file it would translate it, right? Is there a language setting for the skin? I couldn't find any yet but there are so many settings.
Found the label "choose art, more like this" in resource.language.en_gb\strings.po but adding a translation there or adding it to the german strings.po didn't do anything, unfortunately.

You can just copy the missing strings code from the en_gb strings file to the language file of your choice and type the translation in the msgstr line and it will translate to that if your Kodi language is set to that same language in Kodi > Settings > Interface > Regional > Language.

Some of the string codes are not missing and it still doesn't work. "More like this" (in en_gb) has already been translated from "Similar" en_us to "Änhnlich" in the de_de strings file. I guess More like this and similar mean the same as they both share the same #31622, just BE and AE.

msgctxt "#31622"
msgid "Similar"
msgstr "Ähnlich"

It's still showing "More like this" though. The Kodi language and region has been set to regional > language > german. Am I missing a setting somewhere?
Thanks again

So you're saying it has been localised in the Germany strings.po but still not displaying the translation? Sounds like a strange issue. However, a work-around would be to manually change these labels (if you can find them).  I can't go on a hunt through XMLs right now but the method is to search for the radio button that you want to change the label of. 

So as an example and in your particular case, you're looking for a includesdialogvideoinfo.xml (think that's what it's called, it's been a long time since I worked on these xmls)

ctrl + F to search for all instances of

Code:

<label>$LOCALIZE[31622]</label>

Replace with

Code:

<label>Ähnlich</label>

[SoulReaver]

Some of the string codes are not missing and it still doesn't work. "More like this" (in en_gb) has already been translated from "Similar" en_us to "Änhnlich" in the de_de strings file. I guess More like this and similar mean the same as they both share the same #31622, just BE and AE.

msgctxt "#31622"
msgid "Similar"
msgstr "Ähnlich"

It's still showing "More like this" though. The Kodi language and region has been set to regional > language > german. Am I missing a setting somewhere?
Thanks again

Try putting this in the de_de strings file

msgctxt "#31622"
msgid "More Like This"
msgstr "your translation"

msgctxt "#320005"
msgid "Similar"
msgstr "your translation"

And test again with Kodi language set to German.

U can explain this? I was trying the same to spanish but the 32xxxx digits msgctxt, don't works.

I can't translate all the msgctxt that begin with 32xxxx, any missing or wrong

Copy the missing strings from the en_gb strings.po file which has them all to your es_es strings.po file and then add your translation in the empty msgstr line between the quotes symbols and try again with Kodi language set to Spanish.

[matke]

Guys you have to be a little patient with Kodi Nexus. Kodi Nexus since moving to python 3.11 has a problem with Python ElementTree module. When multiple scripts attempt to use ElementTree simultaneously causes unexplained SegFaults which crash Kodi. What some skins do is a temporary solution and cannot be applied to every skin, especially not to the titan bingie mod that relies on a lot of scripts. Even those solutions are not a 100% guarantee that the crash will not happen again. After all, why would all developers change their code when the problem is in Kodi and python and not in the script. All Kodi builds after 24. october when python 3.11 was released they have this bug. I installed nexus 20 alpha 3 and everything works without problems. Any Kodi after that crashes on android. Everything is super stable on Windows. So let's wait for kodi 20.1 and I hope kodi developers will fix this bug. Thanks.

[nazim12]

@Achilles Kindy dont upgrade for nexus version If you are still not to able resolve random sorting refresh for addons listed widgets .

[SoulReaver]

Guys you have to be a little patient with Kodi Nexus. Kodi Nexus since moving to python 3.11 has a problem with Python ElementTree module. When multiple scripts attempt to use ElementTree simultaneously causes unexplained SegFaults which crash Kodi. What some skins do is a temporary solution and cannot be applied to every skin, especially not to the titan bingie mod that relies on a lot of scripts. Even those solutions are not a 100% guarantee that the crash will not happen again. After all, why would all developers change their code when the problem is in Kodi and python and not in the script. All Kodi builds after 24. october when python 3.11 was released they have this bug. I installed nexus 20 alpha 3 and everything works without problems. Any Kodi after that crashes on android. Everything is super stable on Windows. So let's wait for kodi 20.1 and I hope kodi developers will fix this bug. Thanks.

Python 3.11.2 should be released with the fix early next week and then soon after that Kodi nightlies will be released with that included.

Also if anyone wants to use a build that already has a temporary fix included for this issue the Maven Kodinerds builds have this now.

Thanks again for making this very cool skin.

[ksc1]

Try putting this in the de_de strings file

msgctxt "#31622"
msgid "More Like This"
msgstr "your translation"

msgctxt "#320005"
msgid "Similar"
msgstr "your translation"

And test again with Kodi language set to German.

U can explain this? I was trying the same to spanish but the 32xxxx digits msgctxt, don't works.

I can't translate all the msgctxt that begin with 32xxxx, any missing or wrong

Copy the missing strings from the en_gb strings.po file which has them all to your es_es strings.po file and then add your translation in the empty msgstr line between the quotes symbols and try again with Kodi language set to Spanish.

I didn't notice, I was using my old file from oldest version, so thanks for tips. Job done!!!