[Doctor Eggs]

I'm currently working on the layout for the PVR section of my skin and I'm running into an issue with load time. The first time I launch ActivateWindow(TVChannels) it takes about 10-15 seconds to load. I can click on the back button or reload the skin and the page loads fine immediately but after about 30 seconds, I get the same 10-15 second load time.

I've looked into the log and can't see any reason for the 10-15 second load time.

It doesn't happen for the movie/tv library windows but does for all of the PVR windows and actions like ActivateWindow(Videos,sources://video/,return).

I started with the Confluence skin in Kodi V19.4.

What is the best way to troubleshoot this issue? Is there an add-on that could be impacting this?

Thanks for any help.

[scott967]

Don't know, but it seems like if the pvr manager is not running that can hold up the whole app.  Try running just the demo pvr addon first.

scott s.
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[Doctor Eggs]

Thanks Scott. I tried but that didn't fix my issue. 

I ended up uninstalling Kodi and starting from scratch and that has fixed the issue.

I'll post something here if I find out what was causing the issue as I get things back to the way they were.

[realcopacetic]

Interesting, Iv'e noticed a similar issue recently but with the videos and music windows where I get that delay on first load, even with all the code and animations stripped out. I may try a clean install and see if that fixes it

[Doctor Eggs]

So, when I do a fresh install on my Windows PC, install just the PVR and point it to an m3u and epg.xml, it loads everything as it should. I can go back and forth between menus and go back to channels or files and there is no delay. 

As soon as I exit Kodi and launch it again, I see the issue where it takes a good 15 seconds to load anything in the Live TV Section. I can load TV >> Channels, hit the back button and go back into it for the next 30 seconds but right around the 30 second mark is when I start to see an issue. I go into Channels (or Guide or Videos >> Files) and it takes 15 seconds to load.

I am using the Estuary skin (but see it in other skins as well), with nothing more than the IPTV Simple client installed.

[ksooo]

How many channels are in your m3u?

[Doctor Eggs]

530 channels but I've tried it with just 7 channels and it still has the same issue.

If I'm also having the same issue with opening Videos >> Files is that an indication for something else causing the issue?

[ksooo]

530 channels but I've tried it with just 7 channels and it still has the same issue.

If I'm also having the same issue with opening Videos >> Files is that an indication for something else causing the issue?

If it happens with other windows, then it is most probably not a problem caused by Kodi PVR (or PVR addon) code.

[Doctor Eggs]

First, just want to say thank you to everyone that tried to help. It turns out that this was an issue with my setup. 

I recently physically removed a network drive from my network but still had it mapped in Windows. Once I disconnected the network drive, everything works as expected.

Sorry for wasting peoples time, but ultimately it helped me resolve the issue. Thanks again!

[Doctor Eggs]

I'm having another issue with MyPVRChannels.xml

I changed the scroll bar from vertical to horizontal with the layout I have. I'm looking to put the focus <ondown> to a button on the page but I can't seem to get it to work. The button will get focus <onleft>, <onright>, <onup> but for some reason, <ondown> doesn't seem to work.

Has anyone else run into this issue? And is there a way to fix it?

[realcopacetic]

Are you sharing IDs across different scrollbars? That can cause issues if your visibility conditions are conflicting with one another or if you're on Nexus (due to a change in rendering transparent items that I believe is in the process of being rolled back).

[Doctor Eggs]

I'm not on Nexus yet. I'm working in Matrix.

It seems that no matter what I put in for <onup> and <ondown> I can't change it. I've changed the id for the scrollbar to something that isn't used (id="12340000") as well as the button I want to focus (id="610000") and it still doesn't work.

Here is what I have for the chunk of code that isn't working (with a lot of things removed just so this post isn't insanely long):

xml:


            <control type="grouplist">

                <left>0</left>

                <top>0</top>

                <width>1920</width>

                <height>1080</height>

                <usecontrolcoords>true</usecontrolcoords>

                <include>VisibleFadeEffect</include>

                <control type="panel" id="50">

                    <left>105</left>

                    <top>200</top>

                    <width>1815</width>

                    <height>600</height>

                    <onleft>50</onleft>

                    <onright>50</onright>

                    <onup>50</onup>

                    <ondown>12340000</ondown>

                    <viewtype label="31034">bigwrap</viewtype>

                    <orientation>horizontal</orientation>

                    <pagecontrol>12340000</pagecontrol>

                    <scrolltime>200</scrolltime>

                    <itemlayout width="251" height="160">

                        <control type="image">

                            <left>40</left>

                            <top>30</top>

                            <width>250</width>

                            <height>141</height>

                            <bordersize>1</bordersize>

                            <texture>$VAR[IconPVRForced]</texture>

                            <aspectratio scalediffuse="false">keep</aspectratio>

                            <colordiffuse>CCFFFFFF</colordiffuse>

                        </control>

                        <control type="progress">

                            <description>Progressbar</description>

                            <left>41</left>

                            <top>-10r</top>

                            <width>248</width>

                            <height>18</height>

                            <colordiffuse>ffFFFFFF</colordiffuse>

                            <texturebg colordiffuse="FF000000">black-back.png</texturebg>

                            <midtexture colordiffuse="FFFFFFFF">black-back.png</midtexture>

                            <visible>ListItem.HasEpg</visible>

                            <info>ListItem.Progress</info>

                        </control>

                        <control type="label">

                            <left>46</left>

                            <top>-7r</top>

                            <width>244</width>

                            <height>20</height>

                            <font>font10</font>

                            <textcolor>grey</textcolor>

                            <selectedcolor>selected</selectedcolor>

                            <align>left</align>

                            <aligny>center</aligny>

                            <label>$INFO[ListItem.Title]</label>

                        </control>

                    </itemlayout>

                    <focusedlayout width="270" height="288">

                        <control type="image">

                            <depth>DepthContentPopout</depth>

                            <left>5</left>

                            <top>8</top>

                            <width>330</width>

                            <height>182</height>

                            <texture>$VAR[IconPVRForced]</texture>

                            <aspectratio scalediffuse="false">keep</aspectratio>

                        </control>

                        <control type="progress">

                            <description>Progressbar</description>

                            <left>5</left>

                            <top>100r</top>

                            <width>330</width>

                            <height>18</height>

                            <colordiffuse>ffFFFFFF</colordiffuse>

                            <texturebg colordiffuse="FF000000">black-back.png</texturebg>

                            <midtexture colordiffuse="FFFFFFFF">black-back.png</midtexture>

                            <visible>ListItem.HasEpg</visible>

                            <info>ListItem.Progress</info>

                        </control>

                        <control type="label">

                            <left>10</left>

                            <top>120r</top>

                            <width>330</width>

                            <height>20</height>

                            <font>font10</font>

                            <textcolor>grey</textcolor>

                            <selectedcolor>selected</selectedcolor>

                            <align>left</align>

                            <aligny>center</aligny>

                            <label>$INFO[ListItem.Title]</label>

                        </control>

                    </focusedlayout>

                </control>

                <control type="scrollbar" id="12340000">

                    <left>140</left>

                    <top>-50</top>

                    <width>1640</width>

                    <height>25</height>

                    <texturesliderbackground border="14,0,14,0">ScrollBarH.png</texturesliderbackground>

                    <texturesliderbar border="14,0,14,0">ScrollBarH_bar.png</texturesliderbar>

                    <texturesliderbarfocus border="14,0,14,0">ScrollBarH_bar_focus.png</texturesliderbarfocus>

                    <textureslidernib>ScrollBarNib.png</textureslidernib>

                    <textureslidernibfocus>ScrollBarNib.png</textureslidernibfocus>

                    <onup>610000</onup>

                    <ondown>610000</ondown>

                    <onright>610000</onright>

                    <onleft>610000</onleft>

                    <showonepage>false</showonepage>

                    <orientation>horizontal</orientation>

                </control>

                <control type="label">

                    <depth>DepthFooter</depth>

                    <animation effect="slide" start="0,0" end="-90,0" time="0" condition="system.getbool(input.enablemouse)">Conditional</animation>

                    <description>Page Count Label</description>

                    <right>40</right>

                    <top>53r</top>

                    <width>500</width>

                    <height>20</height>

                    <font>font12</font>

                    <textcolor>grey</textcolor>

                    <scroll>false</scroll>

                    <align>right</align>

                    <aligny>center</aligny>

                    <label>($INFO[Container(50).NumItems]) $LOCALIZE[19019] - $LOCALIZE[31024] ($INFO[Container(50).CurrentPage]/$INFO[Container(50).NumPages])</label>

                    <include>Window_OpenClose_Animation</include>

                </control>

            </control>

[realcopacetic]

hmmm, the only thing I can think that sometimes works for me and I don't really know why is using SetFocus(61000) instead of just the ID.

<onup>SetFocus(61000)</onup>

[Doctor Eggs]

Thanks for the suggestion and I'll keep that in mind going forward if I get stuck. Ultimately it didn't fix my issue but I figured it out.

In an effort to make things similar to the layout I have on my TV/Movie Library layouts, I put the <control type="grouplist"> around the control. As soon as I removed it, I was able to assign <onup>, <ondown>, etc. It messed up the positioning for a bunch of the other items on that view but fixed the <onup>, <ondown> issue I was having which is much more important.

Thanks again for your help.

[realcopacetic]

Ahh I see. Does it work with the grouplist in place if you give the grouplist control an ID as well?