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RE: Arctic: Zephyr - jurialmunkey - 2015-08-08

@elchupete - That would be the repo version of the skin where the media folder is compressed into a textures file. You will have to delete the textures file to use the images in the media folder. I also recommend changing the skin version in addon.xml in the skin directory to avoid automatic repo updates in future that will wipe your changes (kodi will update if the repo has a higher version number)


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - jurialmunkey - 2015-08-08

(2015-08-08, 00:05)Citrus Wrote: How come the ExtendInfo dependency now shows up under the Video Addons section?
Not controlled by the skin. I assume so you can browse through the various extended info categories as if they were part of the library like other video addons.
(2015-08-07, 14:56)TeflonDog Wrote: How do I get the OSD back along the bottom? It's suddenly along the left-hand side in some vertical box. I looked in Settings and couldn't find anything.

Cheers
Revert to a previous version... Or you could get the relevant xml files from a previous version and overwrite them -
musicosd.xml
musicvisualisation.xml
Includes_osd.xml


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - Citrus - 2015-08-08

How can I remove the Movies Spotlight menu that shows up when pressing up on the home screen?


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - jbaconbits - 2015-08-08

2.0 looks great.

Found a bug though. Selecting low list in the Extra Info view will cause it to bug out. Wouldn't let me change the view back from the YouTube app but I was able to deflect low list in my tv shows for Extra Info to display properly.


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - Citrus - 2015-08-08

The Clearart doesn't seem to work for me. I have it enabled in the furniture and OSD and I don't see it.


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - bigwillch - 2015-08-08

(2015-08-08, 05:00)Citrus Wrote: The Clearart doesn't seem to work for me. I have it enabled in the furniture and OSD and I don't see it.

I had a similar question answered here: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=217174&pid=2059963#pid2059963

Seems you have to manually run the extra art scrapper, it doesn't run with normal library scans, I think this is to save the fanart server getting hit with too many requests.

I set up a cron job on my openelec rpi2 setup to automatically run the scan once a week using the instructions here: http://www.reddit.com/r/xbmc/comments/1y2mfk/running_artwork_downloader_on_a_scheduale/


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - matze276 - 2015-08-08

I cannot see the current skin version in the Repo with Kodi 15.0 installed. If I download the skin from github and try to install it from zip it says "Dependency check failed."

Does anyone have an idea why I can't install the skin?

UPDATE: Okay, i just removed the "portable_data" folder and the Skin was shown in the Repo. That fixed it for me.


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - elchupete - 2015-08-08

(2015-08-08, 01:35)jurialmunkey Wrote: @elchupete - That would be the repo version of the skin where the media folder is compressed into a textures file. You will have to delete the textures file to use the images in the media folder. I also recommend changing the skin version in addon.xml in the skin directory to avoid automatic repo updates in future that will wipe your changes (kodi will update if the repo has a higher version number)

Hi Jurialmunkey,

Thanks for this usefull information.

Best regards
Stefan


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - wolfodeiwolfy - 2015-08-08

Hi,

I have this error message when I want to add a playlist or favorites to the home menu (menu or submenu)

Quote:there are no shortcuts available for the category that you choose

What can I do ?


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - CaBrA - 2015-08-08

Thanks to a post from Kodi in Facebook I discovered this skin, and it is beautiful!!! Looks really modern, congratulations to the author!!

Im still playing with skin options but I'm stuck with something: movies fanarts looks nice but how can I set to:

1) show movies+TV shows or
2) show TV shows fanart while in TV show section

3) show albums as fanart for music menu


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - omriamos - 2015-08-09

Hi,

Thanks for this great skin, version 2 looks awesome!
I'm testing it now but I'm having some trouble setting up my homepage the way I want it - with different background (fanart) for each category (movies, tv shows, music, live tv...).
For example,
In movies I want the backgrounds to be a random movie from the entire movies library. I can choose widgets like "recent movies" or "movies spotlight" so it will also affect the background, but I have no option for just random movies...
In tv shows I actually don't want any widget at all, I just want the background to be taken from a random tv show... If I must have a widget for it then fine, but there is no "random tv show" option...

Is there a way to actually separate the backgrounds from the widgets? I know there is a "select background" option - but that's for static images only (I tried selecting "multiple images" and selecting the movies folder but that didn't work) and in any way the widgets overwrite it..

If not, is there a "random movie" / "random tv show" widget that I'm missing?


thanks


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - Crssi - 2015-08-09

@omriamos

1. do you want random background to be constantly changing
or
2. to be one time random when you focus to TV shows in homepage (i mean everytime when you focus to tv shows another random fanart is shown)

I like option 2 and I have also setup this way, since I dont like that fanart is constantly changing if I dont change focus... its just inconvenient distraction for me... but I know that option 1 is also possible, have been there/done that, just have forgotten how, since I dont use it

Which option?


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - omriamos - 2015-08-09

(2015-08-09, 14:59)Crssi Wrote: @omriamos

1. do you want random background to be constantly changing
or
2. to be one time random when you focus to TV shows in homepage (i mean everytime when you focus to tv shows another random fanart is shown)

I like option 2 and I have also setup this way, since I dont like that fanart is constantly changing if I dont change focus... its just inconvenient distraction for me... but I know that option 1 is also possible, have been there/done that, just have forgotten how, since I dont use it

Which option?

Doesn't really matter actually... I will take both options, each one will be fine. Smile


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - Crssi - 2015-08-09

@CaBrA

1. not sure that this is super easy and fully automated, but you can set background to some folder and copy fanarts pictures there
2. while in tv show section, I find best that I have fanart of the focused tv show... or did you mean focus on tv show part in homepage? in that case it is the same case as omriamos asked
3. dont use kodi for music, so I dont have answer for it


RE: Arctic: Zephyr - omriamos - 2015-08-09

BTW, I couldn't find any way to set the skin to "dark" theme as seen in the screenshots from the first post - is this not available in version 2.0 maybe?

Another thing:
The "Extra Info" view is a great view that displays all the info I need to see, year, length, rating... but doesn't show the poster: http://i.imgur.com/9vJyRRw.png
So there is another great view, "Media info", that when used with the "Extra info" setting - displays both images and is basically almost perfect: http://i.imgur.com/c2DKLZM.png
The only thing missing is the YEAR label..... I believe it can be added just below the length label (or maybe replace their order and put the year above the length), will you please consider adding this?
Also (an option to?) remove the rating from this view so that there will be more space for the title - will be great....

EDIT:
Just noticed that:
(a) I don't have the length label at all (as opposed to the screenshot) in the "Media info" (+"extra info" setting) view...
(b) The rating next to the title is changed according to the "sort by" option, so that when sorting by year - the year is showing instead of the rating.
Because you actually do have a sort by rating option (that shows the rating next to the title, which is fine), shouldn't it NOT display the rating when sorting by TITLE?
This will make more room for the title in the default sorting method, and will also make more sense...