(2014-07-12, 12:43)Jeroen Wrote:

(2014-07-12, 01:36)bryanbrazil Wrote: That photo is located here:

\xbmc\addons\skin.refocus\media\thumbs\default_Actor.png

If you're using the skin from the XBMC repository, there's no easy way to change it as the textures are compressed.

If you're using the skin from github, you can just replace the .png file with one of your choosing.

Shouldn't XBMC use any provided uncompressed texture with the same path even if there's one in the .xbt? I believe this used to be the case at least, although that might have been when XBMC was still using .xpr files.

(2014-07-12, 15:13)Branphma Wrote: Is it possible to disable Fanart Grabber? I don't use it as I have my own folder of fanart, so it's loading everytime during startup without use for me. Not that it's a big deal, but maybe the home menu would appear a bit earlier.

(2014-07-12, 16:52)bryanbrazil Wrote: My experience has been that XBMC will load the compressed textures and ignore any uncompressed textures with the same path/filename as those in the .xbt. Adding new uncompressed textures that don't exist in the .xbt works ok.

(2014-07-12, 12:43)Jeroen Wrote: The fanart slideshow is using the Fanart Grabber add-on, and it's loaded during startup. In Startup.xml there's this line:

PHP Code:

<onload condition="System.HasAddon(script.grab.fanart)">RunScript(script.grab.fanart,mode=random,refresh=20)</onload> 


Editing the value for refresh should control this. However when trying this out myself this would not work. As described here it should also be possible to adjust it in the addon's settings (settings->add-ons->enabled add-ons->services->Grab Fanart), but I just got a blank settings window.

@robweber: if you're reading along, could you shed a light on this?

(2014-07-12, 17:35)Jeroen Wrote: You should be able to disable any add-on through the add-on browser. But since reFocus performs a check related to the add-on I'm not sure how that's going to behave ATM. I don't think I'll be providing options for it as the time saved would be negligible IMO.

(2014-07-12, 21:01)Jeroen Wrote: No, there's no black background set anywhere. As a matter of fact I have been struggling with that too. Artists slideshow rarely displays anything for me lately, and I've seen more people having trouble with it.

I have only set fallbacks for regular fanart. I have also set it to fall back to regular fanart when artists slideshow can't provide images. It seems to me artists slideshow is reporting it has images, but not displaying any thus making the conditions I set never return true.

I'll investigate this some more.

(2014-07-12, 20:35)robweber Wrote: If this isn't working for you I'd be curious as to why. Any details you can give me of the tests you've done would be great. Also, if you add

PHP Code:

utils.log(utils.getSetting('refresh'),xbmc.LOGDEBUG) 


To line 141 of the service.py file you can print the refresh time in debug mode and check. Side note - the default refresh time is 10 so this setting must be working since reFocus extends this to 20 seconds normally.

(2014-07-12, 21:08)bryanbrazil Wrote:

(2014-07-12, 21:01)Jeroen Wrote: No, there's no black background set anywhere. As a matter of fact I have been struggling with that too. Artists slideshow rarely displays anything for me lately, and I've seen more people having trouble with it.

I have only set fallbacks for regular fanart. I have also set it to fall back to regular fanart when artists slideshow can't provide images. It seems to me artists slideshow is reporting it has images, but not displaying any thus making the conditions I set never return true.

I'll investigate this some more.

Ok, thanks, I'll look into it some more too. I was having a bigger problem earlier where AS wouldn't display fanart when clicking back to full screen viz, but updated to the latest beta and it fixed those problems.

AS 1.6.8 beta 1
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=124880&pid=1746800#pid1746800

(2014-07-12, 20:35)robweber Wrote: If this isn't working for you I'd be curious as to why. Any details you can give me of the tests you've done would be great.

1. Edit the value in Startup.xml
   
2. Skin Settings->Use a slideshow of your fanart->apply
   
3. After the previously set refresh time has passed (I had it set high to 100), then the new refresh time picks up
   

(2014-07-13, 10:56)Jeroen Wrote:

(2014-07-12, 21:08)bryanbrazil Wrote:

(2014-07-12, 21:01)Jeroen Wrote: No, there's no black background set anywhere. As a matter of fact I have been struggling with that too. Artists slideshow rarely displays anything for me lately, and I've seen more people having trouble with it.

I have only set fallbacks for regular fanart. I have also set it to fall back to regular fanart when artists slideshow can't provide images. It seems to me artists slideshow is reporting it has images, but not displaying any thus making the conditions I set never return true.

I'll investigate this some more.

Ok, thanks, I'll look into it some more too. I was having a bigger problem earlier where AS wouldn't display fanart when clicking back to full screen viz, but updated to the latest beta and it fixed those problems.

AS 1.6.8 beta 1
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=124880&pid=1746800#pid1746800

Thanks, that beta fixed the problem for me too.

Though contrary to what I thought last night, I have no fallback in place for Artist Slideshow. The add-on doesn't really provide any property for it either. The only way is to use Window.Property(ArtistSlideshowTransparent) as a condition. The user then has to enable "Use transparent background when no artist images are found" in the addon's settings window in order to see the fallback image provided through the skin.

This way I can't really use a condition based on whether there are images available, but only on whether the user has a setting enabled in the add-on. So even if there are images available through AS, I am still needlessly displaying the fallback image behind it. Can't say I'm a fan of the implementation, but I've added it for the next release.

(2014-07-13, 11:35)Jeroen Wrote:

(2014-07-12, 20:35)robweber Wrote: If this isn't working for you I'd be curious as to why. Any details you can give me of the tests you've done would be great.

Turns out it wasn't changing for me because I would edit the value in Startup.xml and then go to:

Skin Settings->Use a slideshow of your fanart->apply

If I completely exited XBMC and restarted the new value was picked up. Which I didn't really understand as that apply button uses ReplaceWindow(startup) and the service is triggered in Startup.xml

So I did some more testing and came to this scenario:

1. Edit the value in Startup.xml
   
2. Skin Settings->Use a slideshow of your fanart->apply
   
3. After the previously set refresh time has passed (I had it set high to 100), then the new refresh time picks up
   

Does this make sense to you? I'm guessing as it's a service it's never really stopped unless XBMC quits, and therefore it just finishes it's "cycle". I think it's fine this way, but if this is something you don't expect / wish to change I'll be happy to provide a log.

(2014-07-13, 17:48)robweber Wrote: Was XBMC running or not when you changed the Startup.xml file? When I was testing I changed the Startup.xml line, then started XBMC. Doing it this way applied the setting instantly, If XBMC is already running and you do the Fanart->apply (to force re-running the ScriptRun() line) then it makes sense that you have to complete 1 cycle of the old refresh time. This is because that setting is only evaluated when the images change, once you've switched images you have to wait until the previous time expires and it will grab the new one. Seems like expected behavior all the way around from what you've described.

(2014-07-13, 14:34)bryanbrazil Wrote: fyi, looks like pkscout may add a window property to determine whether or not AS has fanart.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=124880&pid=1751163#pid1751163

UPDATE: beta 2 adds a new window property that should allow you to test for available fanart

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=124880&pid=1752342#pid1752342

(2014-07-14, 13:03)haansplosion Wrote: One slight problem though - Im not able to get the watchlist working properly.. It just navigates to the video list.