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RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - Wintermute0110 - 2019-05-15

(2019-05-15, 09:46)Buff Wrote:
(2019-05-15, 07:34)Wintermute0110 Wrote: What version of AEL are you using? Yeah, if you have further problems please put the full debug log (enable debug in AEL but not in Kodi to not clutter the log).

Scrapers (except the offline metadata) are not working at the moment in AEL 0.9.7 so it's a good idea to disable them in the addon settings for the scanner. Anyway, the crash you are getting should not happen (it's a bug). In AEL settings, ROM scraping tab, set "Metadata scraper" and "MAME metadata scraper" to "Offline scraper". 

Many thanks for your reply and help. I'm using AEL 0.9.8 - I realised yesterday that I haven't updated to Leia 18.2 (still on 18.1) is it worth doing that to see if that makes a difference?

Full debug log here onozajiqew.kodi (paste) - I assume it's the same Kodi log file just with debug turned on in AEL and not in Kodi, rather than a separate log file.

Both of those scrapers were already set to "offline scraper"

Many thanks

OK. Please install AEL from this commit. Recently I did some work on AEL trying to revive the scrapers with some code from master branch made by Chrisism, however it is still far from finished. Next couple of weeks I will be on holidays so expect no support. The commit I gave you is the current most stable version of AEL.


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - Buff - 2019-05-15

(2019-05-15, 10:06)Wintermute0110 Wrote: OK. Please install AEL from this commit. Recently I did some work on AEL trying to revive the scrapers with some code from master branch made by Chrisism, however it is still far from finished. Next couple of weeks I will be on holidays so expect no support. The commit I gave you is the current most stable version of AEL.

You beat me to it - I re-read the first page and noticed that 0.9.8 was a development build, don't know why I installed that, I think I was following the instructions on github. Anyway, I updated to 18.2 and installed 0.9.7 and it has scanned in roms perfectly for Atari and PS1 - the latter play fine, but I can;t get the Atari games to run, but I'm sure I'll figure that out.

Thanks for your help


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - Wintermute0110 - 2019-05-15

(2019-05-15, 10:17)Buff Wrote:
(2019-05-15, 10:06)Wintermute0110 Wrote: OK. Please install AEL from this commit. Recently I did some work on AEL trying to revive the scrapers with some code from master branch made by Chrisism, however it is still far from finished. Next couple of weeks I will be on holidays so expect no support. The commit I gave you is the current most stable version of AEL.

You beat me to it - I re-read the first page and noticed that 0.9.8 was a development build, don't know why I installed that, I think I was following the instructions on github. Anyway, I updated to 18.2 and installed 0.9.7 and it has scanned in roms perfectly for Atari and PS1 - the latter play fine, but I can;t get the Atari games to run, but I'm sure I'll figure that out.

Thanks for your help

OK, cool it works now. If you wish, the version I pointed out is as stable as 0.9.7 with a few improvements like artwork for the virtual launchers and display of categories/launchers in flat mode.


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - Buff - 2019-05-15

Many thanks, will give it a go


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - rdyott - 2019-05-28

feature or bug?

https://imgur.com/a/CJL1Mil

everytime im back on the home window that favorite is empty window pops up... cant find where to turn it off.. i dont care that the favorite folder is empty.


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - chrisism - 2019-05-28

(2019-05-28, 03:51)rdyott Wrote: feature or bug?

https://imgur.com/a/CJL1Mil

everytime im back on the home window that favorite is empty window pops up... cant find where to turn it off.. i dont care that the favorite folder is empty.

Do you have the favorites category as a widget in your home menu maybe? So each time your homescreen loads it tries to load the favorites, which are empty as indicated.
Post your logs to have a better look into it.


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - rdyott - 2019-05-28

(2019-05-28, 09:57)chrisism Wrote:
(2019-05-28, 03:51)rdyott Wrote: feature or bug?

https://imgur.com/a/CJL1Mil

everytime im back on the home window that favorite is empty window pops up... cant find where to turn it off.. i dont care that the favorite folder is empty.

Do you have the favorites category as a widget in your home menu maybe? So each time your homescreen loads it tries to load the favorites, which are empty as indicated.
Post your logs to have a better look into it. 
thanks Chrisism, ill check when i get home today.. i know i dont have a widget. but it could be a dropdown sub menu of the home menu.


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - Wintermute0110 - 2019-05-28

(2019-05-28, 15:01)rdyott Wrote:
(2019-05-28, 09:57)chrisism Wrote:
(2019-05-28, 03:51)rdyott Wrote: feature or bug?

https://imgur.com/a/CJL1Mil

everytime im back on the home window that favorite is empty window pops up... cant find where to turn it off.. i dont care that the favorite folder is empty.

Do you have the favorites category as a widget in your home menu maybe? So each time your homescreen loads it tries to load the favorites, which are empty as indicated.
Post your logs to have a better look into it. 
thanks Chrisism, ill check when i get home today.. i know i dont have a widget. but it could be a dropdown sub menu of the home menu.

@chrisism Thanks!

@rdyott AEL and AML include special URLs for the skin to obtain lists for the widgets. The difference between the normal version and the skin version is that the normal version may produce warnings/dialogs but the skin versions are silent. As Chrisism said, you get the notification because the Favourites are empty. Ruffo is using the standard URLs because the skin versions are not documented yet. Please be patient, we will fix this issue.


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - rdyott - 2019-05-28

(2019-05-28, 17:52)Wintermute0110 Wrote: Please be patient, we will fix this issue. 
No problem at all. Thank you

Also. not sure if this helps you at all:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1I4gLZppb2MAIArADi1RHdAXUz8mSUOBn
Nintendo 3DS.XML (basic XML list) missing: rating, genre, score, player, story.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AGypDfkDYQnMzNF7nuxNd2vSBYU8ieTF
Sega Megadrive.XML  (fixed this)


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - Wintermute0110 - 2019-05-29

(2019-05-28, 20:20)rdyott Wrote:
(2019-05-28, 17:52)Wintermute0110 Wrote: Please be patient, we will fix this issue. 
No problem at all. Thank you

Also. not sure if this helps you at all:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1I4gLZppb2MAIArADi1RHdAXUz8mSUOBn
Nintendo 3DS.XML (basic XML list) missing: rating, genre, score, player, story.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AGypDfkDYQnMzNF7nuxNd2vSBYU8ieTF
Sega Megadrive.XML  (fixed this)
Thanks a lot, every contribution helps and it's appreciated. I will add your files to the library ASAP.


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - Gee11 - 2019-06-04

how is it possible to launch regular non emulatet windows games in Kodi 18?


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - chrisism - 2019-06-04

(2019-06-04, 13:17)Gee11 Wrote: how is it possible to launch regular non emulatet windows games in Kodi 18?
Check in the topic start for the LNK launcher solution. You can also make standalone launchers just pointing to the exe file.
(and a LNK is the shortcut to the actual windows game, shortcuts have the .lnk extension. So copy/move the desired desktop shortcuts into a folder)


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - LupinSansei - 2019-06-05

Hi, I'm using this to launch Firefox so I can use Youtube in TV mode. Is there a way to launch a site in Firefox and in fullscreen?


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - Wintermute0110 - 2019-06-05

(2019-06-05, 01:53)LupinSansei Wrote: Hi, I'm using this to launch Firefox so I can use Youtube in TV mode. Is there a way to launch a site in Firefox and in fullscreen?

Have a look at the Firefox command line parameters. I recommend you create a LNK file to make your tests (you can change the launch arguments of the LNK file and try) and once you have what you want create a Standalone Launcher in AEL copying the arguments of the LNK file.


RE: Advanced Emulator Launcher - Multi-emulator frontend for Kodi - LupinSansei - 2019-06-05

(2019-06-05, 11:20)Wintermute0110 Wrote:
(2019-06-05, 01:53)LupinSansei Wrote: Hi, I'm using this to launch Firefox so I can use Youtube in TV mode. Is there a way to launch a site in Firefox and in fullscreen?

Have a look at the Firefox command line parameters. I recommend you create a LNK file to make your tests (you can change the launch arguments of the LNK file and try) and once you have what you want create a Standalone Launcher in AEL copying the arguments of the LNK file. 
Thanks! I ended up using Chrome but created a LNK like you suggested. It worked great thanks! For Youtube TV interface the argumenets I used for Chrome was --kiosk youtube.com/tv if anyone needed help with it or any other site.