2022-12-31, 20:37
DStealthTV (DSTV), an Estuary-modified Skin, was designed to be light-weight, easy on the eyes, and customizable for an easy to use "TV streaming service" like layout (eg. Netflix and Prime). This skin was originally just a personal project for my own use but it quickly became popular with friends and family and eventually made its appearance on the Kodi forums where it received a warm welcome. Thanks to the support and encouragement I received I decided to polish it up as best I could with my original light-weight-and-efficient goals in mind. Really the only big changes (or any) are to the Home screen. I've modified the layout to be a dynamic and customizable Main Menu with customizable widgets. There are a few visual and behavioural settings that you can play around with in the Skin Settings page for a better experience tailored to your liking.
If you encounter any bugs please respond to this thread or DM me directly with as many details and instructions as you can provide for me to replicate the bug so that I may fix it.
NOTE: Kodi 21-Omega update will break previously set menu's for DSTV. This is because i've renamed the skin from "skin.dstealthtv-matrix" to "skin.dstealthtv" and thus Kodi will consider it a separate skin. Sorry for the inconvenience but this change will prevent this from happening again in the future!
Download/Install:
1) Add DStealth Kodi Repo to File Manager sources, address: https://dstealth.com/kodi or https://dstealth.com/kodi/.repo/repository.dstealth/
a) Go into Kodi Settings
b) Go into File Manager
c) Select Add Source
d) Where it says "<None>" enter the address above in (Step 1)
e) Where it says "Enter a name for this media source" call it something like "DStealth Kodi Repo"
2) Install DStealth Repo from zip from the added source in step 1
a) Go into Kodi Settings
b) Go into Add-ons
c) Select Install from zip file
d) If the warning for addons-ons from zip comes up, select Yes and turn on Unknown Sources from System settings/Add-ons section if you haven't already
e) Navigate into DStealth Kodi Repo >> DStealth Repo >> select repository.dstealth-1.0.0.zip (or whichever latest version is there)
f) Wait for the pop-up confirmation the DStealth Repo has now been installed
3) Install DSTV-Matrix skin from DStealth Repo repository
a) Go into Kodi Settings
b) Go into Add-ons
c) Select Install from repository
d) Select DStealth Repo
e) Navigate to Look and Feel >> Skin >> and select DStealthTV
f) wait for the skin to install
Donate/Tip:
If you like my work and want to support me, you may buy me a coffee on Ko-Fi:
https://ko-fi.com/dstealth
Updates:
Full Changelog:
- Available in the Skin Settings > General > View Changelog
Update 2023-09-09:
- Sorry for the long wait, just wanted to let everyone know that after a pretty busy year I've finally time to resume working on this skin - the skin is still in development and not dead haha. Current plan is to flesh out the DStealth-Helper a bit more and get that trakt functionality working. After that I will start with updating the current DSTV-Matrix skin to include some new features. Once that's done I will begin creating a DSTV-Nexus version to add in the Kodi 20 changes. Stay tuned!
Update 2023-12-03, DSTV v1.19.0 & DS-Helper v1.0.0:
- Lots of bug fixes and improvements. See in-skin Skin Settings Changelog
Update 2023-12-08, DSTV v1.19.2:
- Made as many fixes and updates as I could think of for the Kodi 19 version. Will now start working on updating to the Kodi 20 version.
Update 2023-12-10, DSTV v1.20.0:
- Updated to support Kodi 20 changes.
Update 2023-12-11, DSTV v1.20.1 & v1.21.0:
- Fixed a couple visual bugs introduced in the last update
- Updated DSTV to support Kodi 21-Omega changes (This update will break previously set menu's for DSTV. This is because i've renamed the skin from "skin.dstealthtv-matrix" to "skin.dstealthtv" and thus Kodi will consider it a separate skin. Sorry for the inconvenience but this change will prevent this from happening again in the future!)
Update 2023-12-14,DSTV v1.20.2 (Nexus) & v1.21.2 (Omega):
- Added Skin Settings option for Preloading Fanart
- Reworked main screen info area and added Age Rating display
- Reworked some prefixed paths for some of the Movie widgets to return better results