(2020-12-12, 00:22)jurialmunkey Wrote:

(2020-12-11, 15:46)Baubas Wrote:

(2020-11-04, 12:03)mathu204 Wrote:  

Also make sure online lookups are turned on for ratings (skin interface) as that needs to be on for the tmdbhelper service monitor to work.

Quote:In terms of skin settings, FXB78 is correct - I use the default settings, but with wall disabled as I prefer the alphabet/scrollbar/filter approach to finding something in a big list.

In terms of widget / main menu my setup is fairly straight forward.

All my main menu items open the submenu popup.

Widget layout:
Movies
- TMDbHelper > Randomised > Popular Movies
- TMDbHelper > Trakt > Trending Movies
- TMDbHelper > Randomised > Based on Recently Watched Movies
- Autowidget > Various Trakt Lists (e.g. Big 4 Academy Awards; Best Sci-Fi movies etc.)
- Autowidget > Various Genre and Studio widgets (e.g. Studio Ghibli Films, Animation, Documentaries, etc.)
- TMDbHelper > Randomised > Popular Trakt List
- Recently Added Movies
- TMDbHelper > Trakt > Watchlist
- TMDbHelper > Movie Genres (icon)

TVShows
- TMDbHelper > Trakt > Trending (banner)
- TMDbHelper > Trakt > Recently Watched Shows (landscape)
- TMDbHelper > Trakt > Calendar > Last Fortnight (landscape)
- TMDbHelper > Trakt > In-Progress (landscape)
- TMDbHelper > Trakt > Watchlist
- Autowidget > Various TMDbHelper widgets based on Networks (e.g. Netflix, HBO, Amazon)
- Recently Added Episodes
- TMDbHelper > TVShow Genres (icon)

Music
- Random Artists (square)
- Top100 Albums (square)

Addons
- Recently Played TV Channels (square)
- Video Addons (square sorted by last used).

Search
- Fullscreen widget - Random Movies

Settings
- Weather widget


In My Movies submenu
- TMDbHelper subsection (e.g. Movies section)
- TMDbHelper search
- TMDbHelper genres
- Trending Lists (movies submenu only)
- TMDbHelper > Trakt > Recently Watched
- TMDbHelper Discover
- Library All Titles

TV submenu is the same except that Trending Lists is replaced by Next Aired (Trakt) calendar.

Addons submenu has various different addon sections plus commands to install from repo etc.

Search has no submenu -- just calls Horizon search menu.

Settings has shortcuts to things like filemanager.



I was using showcase hubs for a while instead of popup submenu but I found that mostly interact with widgets or info dialogs, so it was simpler just to have popup submenu.

(2020-12-09, 21:15)FXB78 Wrote:

(2020-12-09, 20:07)Baubas Wrote: On the Main Menu where the widgets are located, near the bottom, there is the day/date/year and under that there is a info logo with my Shield TV ip and the Arctic Horizon current firmware number. Is there a way to change or remove the info under the day/date/year?

No there isn't, it's just a placeholder for where there is no info. Although if you update to the latest git version there should be just one line with no date on there.

(2020-12-14, 14:17)Baubas Wrote:

(2020-12-09, 21:15)FXB78 Wrote:

(2020-12-09, 20:07)Baubas Wrote: On the Main Menu where the widgets are located, near the bottom, there is the day/date/year and under that there is a info logo with my Shield TV ip and the Arctic Horizon current firmware number. Is there a way to change or remove the info under the day/date/year?

No there isn't, it's just a placeholder for where there is no info. Although if you update to the latest git version there should be just one line with no date on there.

I have two Shield TVs so after setting the first one up with Arctic Horizon I set the second one up the exact same way. All the same boxes checked and unchecked and the same black background set as the fallback image. I also set the same black background for each shortcut on the Main Menu. On one Shield TV, on the Main Menu, the background is black and I can see the Menu title, clock/weather and at the bottom the day/date/year I wanted to remove. On the second Shield TV, on the Main Menu even though I am using the same black image on all the shortcuts, the Main Menu isn't the same. The background isn't really black. It looks more like when the busy loader is running. Like my black image with some kind of filter over it and the day/date/year at the bottom of the screen is gone. How do I have two different results with the same settings and how do I make one like the other?

(2020-12-14, 14:47)FXB78 Wrote:

(2020-12-14, 14:17)Baubas Wrote:

(2020-12-09, 21:15)FXB78 Wrote: No there isn't, it's just a placeholder for where there is no info. Although if you update to the latest git version there should be just one line with no date on there.

I have two Shield TVs so after setting the first one up with Arctic Horizon I set the second one up the exact same way. All the same boxes checked and unchecked and the same black background set as the fallback image. I also set the same black background for each shortcut on the Main Menu. On one Shield TV, on the Main Menu, the background is black and I can see the Menu title, clock/weather and at the bottom the day/date/year I wanted to remove. On the second Shield TV, on the Main Menu even though I am using the same black image on all the shortcuts, the Main Menu isn't the same. The background isn't really black. It looks more like when the busy loader is running. Like my black image with some kind of filter over it and the day/date/year at the bottom of the screen is gone. How do I have two different results with the same settings and how do I make one like the other?

Ah okay, I was thinking of something else. That's the Full Screen Widget which is enabled by default, I don't know of any way to disable it other than by adding a Widget to the screen. Also, the only reason I can think that it shows on one and not the other is that you probably have an older version of the skin on one of the devices.

(2020-12-15, 21:58)MrSeb Wrote: Hello, For the "Genre", I am missing some images like drama, story, mystery ... Why ?

Thx

(2020-04-12, 22:55)tinnyskillz Wrote:

(2020-04-12, 08:55)jurialmunkey Wrote:

(2020-04-12, 08:13)tinnyskillz Wrote: Hey @jurialmunkey I was wondering. Would you consider making the home screen (on the right side, not the home bar\menu on the left) haves no overlay, but instead, use the full screen widget showcase shadow look as a replacement (so plot is readable)? 


Basically, full screen widget showcase with the "play", and "show information" buttons. But if you go down to the other widgets that are set up. The "play", and "show information" buttons go away, and whatever media is highlighted in the widget below is shown on the full screen widget above.


Sorry if i i sound confusing.

I've already tried this sort of thing. It doesn't work. As soon as you have any background that is light or has any sort of detail in it, then it becomes extremely difficult to read the text. The only way this sort of thing is possible is if I had more control over the types of fanart used e.g. if I could specify to use fanart where most of the detail is aligned to the right of screen, then it could work - but with the variability of fanart, it just simply does not work.

Fanart with bright details makes text unreadable:


Even with darker artwork, if there is any variability you lose text



The showcase hub overlay works because the majority of the screen does not have text, so only a small corner needs to be dimmed. For that sort of effect to work with the standard library views where there is much more content on screen, the overlay would need to cover nearly the entire screen which then defeats the whole purpose. That's why the standard library background is relatively dark - it has to work with a variety of backgrounds.      

This is exactly the look i was struggling to explain to you

It looks nice like this to me. You`re 100% right though. Text is unreadable.

Do you think it`s possible to add a dark, slightly transparent overlay or blur to only display where there`s text. Kind of like you did where it says info, trailer, similar etc io the first pic?

Found this on Google. Something similar (maybe a little more transparency) to this:  

Not sure if that`s possible (sounds like a lot of work) to insert only where there`s text, but it would help with unreadable text.

Edit: looking at the two pictures you posted again. I noticed the bottom half of each picture has more darker shadows than the top half (gradient-like). The top has less shadow. You could probably put the shadow used on the bottom, and duplicate it up top, and it would have more readable text.Hi Guy