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RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - Guardian Hope - 2017-01-23
Dated: January 22, 2017
The Road Forward...
From Ashes Community,
It is with great pride and esteem that I can begin announcing the road forward as From Ashes Danvers moves into its tenth Beta release. It's been a long road since the humble beginnings of From Ashes, taking the place of Arctic Zephyr: Exploded as its successor and soon Arctic Zephyr: For Another Age will supersede not only Arctic Zephyr: Exploded but Arctic Zephyr: Braz as well. We've stumbled, we've made mistakes, but we've always gotten back up, brushed ourselves off, and got back to work because the work is never done as some skin developers would say. So let's take a look at what the road forward is going to look like for the From Ashes Project.
To absent friends...
I've known about this for about a week but I had not yet told anyone here. Our Co-Author, Minus0 who brought a lot of enthusiasm to the table and creative ideas has stepped down from his position of Co-Author. As I have always said: real life takes priority over anything we do here; this is a volunteer project and his plate is really full right now. I do not know if he'll return as a Co-Author someday but for now, he has asked to be placed back into the Executive Contributor position - a title given to those who have contributed so much although for Minus0 it doesn't do him justice.
So please thank Minus0 for his hard work and wish him well on his new endeavours!
The Search for New Co-Authors
With the departure of Minus0 the hunt has begun for new Co-Authors. The only requirements: come up with your own creative ideas to help influence the directions of From Ashes and know how to code (or be learning how to) Kodi skins. And we're not limited to just one spot - if there are a few interested that's even better because the From Ashes Project just keeps getting bigger. Simply send me a PM or pop a message down below.
Habitual_Sinner and the Music Section
Do not fret, Habitual_Sinner, the most recent person to join the team is still with us although his contributions won't be occurring until after the From Ashes Project restructure. Someone proposed a fix to the Music section which I like and it will make its way into the next release of From Ashes Danvers. Other changes to music will be up to Habitual_Sinner and any interested co-authors.
Building the Foundation
As many have noticed or noted, From Ashes has outgrown out ability to keep track of the project, requests, and bugs from forum posts alone. In about two weeks time the official From Ashes Project site will launch featuring the ability to track the project, see the roadmap of where we're headed, report bugs, request features, contribute, and even an easy to use quick start wizard to get you started in using From Ashes (or developing for From Ashes). More on this closer to launch but I am really excited for it as it will make our lives and yours a lot easier.
Reaching Out
As part of the continuing effort to grow the already astonishing awareness of the From Ashes Project, we want to reach out to the very talented Kodi skinning community and find those modders who improve upon others work and unify the place to find them. A post about what this mean will be coming in later days but for now I just wanted to iterate our intention to reach out further into the community in more than just one way - we want to offer the same powerful options that the From Ashes Project enjoys or will enjoy to authors of notable skin modifications.
For Another Age
In the end, it seems Danvers will be a stepping stone to what's next: Arctic Zephyr: For Another Age. For Another Age will unify AZ:E and AZ:B into one skin under one umbrella and add new unique features, support Kodi 18 and later, and feature an all new design which may or may not already exist in some form somewhere on this forum if everything goes well. For Another Age will be a major paradigm shift: a native 4K skin that can switch between its classic current look and its modern For Another Age look at the tap of a button; likely pushing the abilities of Kodi's skinning engine to its complete limit.
For Another Age will not be for the feint of heart. From Ashes Danvers has already demanding requirements but For Another Age is going to make it look like a Floppy Disk next to a Blu-Ray when it is complete. Next stop: 4K UHD and whole bunch of new features.
And for Danvers...
We're going to examine Danvers carefully and learn what we want and what we don't want. We will focus on Danvers even as we move forward with For Another Age. I make this promise now for all to see: Danvers will be fully supported until the full general release of Kodi 18.
Creating the Contributor Community
In the end, I picture the From Ashes Project as a healthy project where contributors drive the course forward and Co-Authors and myself oversee the large changes and overall stability of From Ashes. We will begin working towards that goal with the release of the From Ashes Official Site in the coming two weeks but I want to go on record now in saying that it really begins today: no longer will From Ashes add the feature for 'just one person;' if you want a particular feature and we aren't really interested in adding it, code it in (or find someone who will) and share your contribution. We'll note all contributions on the From Ashes Project Contributors page including what you have contributed.
Just remember, From Ashes is licensed under AGPLv3 with a non-commercial clause. We prefer that all contributions are done under the same license and that contributors understand the NOSSCA at https://cla-assistant.io/NortheBridge/skin.arctic.zephyr.fromashes which will be edited and made more pronounced but no one has raised concerns with it. However, if you want to license your contribution under something else just make sure it doesn't contradict AGPLv3. Open source can drive creativity and we believe this creativity is the way forward.
The relationship we're trying to create is one similar to Canonical and the Ubuntu community. It's made Ubuntu the most popular Linux Desktop OS there's no reason a modified framework can't propel the From Ashes Project.
Retiring NBD Repo v1 ("Victorious") for NBD Repo v2 ("NatalieDormer"
On February 1, 2017, the NortheBridge by Design v1 Repository, "Victorious," will be officially retired in favor of the NortheBridge by Design v2 Repository, "NatalieDormer." If you haven't already updated to the latest repository, simply download and install it from here: https://embycdn.northebridge.com/NatalieDormer/repository.northebridge.by.design.kodi-2.0.00.zip
The Greatest Things are to Come
Believe me when I say the greatest things are to come. There are so many ideas, so many creative people, and so many things we can do. As I end this post I want to thank everyone for supporting and continuing to support the From Ashes Project. Without you: our users, our contributors, our followers, and even our dissenters this project would not be possible. To symbolize the gratefulness we have for our community, From Ashes will be getting a new logo for Danvers and For Another Age. We're also going to be updating the NortheBridge by Design Repository logo as well.
So thank you and we hope for and look forward to your continued support as we move forward.
Guardian Hope
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - Synopis - 2017-01-23
Logo seems to over lap over a long tv show name which have 1 season
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - Croneter - 2017-01-24
(2017-01-10, 05:15)Guardian Hope Wrote:(2017-01-08, 21:21)osberg Wrote: Right I might have found a funny bug here.... But it could be related to my add-on that I am using..
I am using the PKC (PlexKodiConnect) on my rasp pi3.... When I go into On Deck sub folder I can see the movies that I am currently watching and has not finish.... But when my PKC does a full sync to my Plex server, my view changes from sort by: Last Played to Title, making the sorting fuck up hehe..
What do you need here to have a look at this??
I also have a threat with the dev of the PKC.
Okay, I read through the GitHub issue for PKC and read what you said here. Now I don't use Plex (I tried it long ago when it was in its infancy and didn't like it and went back to WMC + MediaBrowser [now Emby]) but what I would need is someone knowledgeable in PlexKodiConnect to tell me if there is any additional logic that would need to be added to the skin for the "On Deck" folder to work as prescribed. From what I have read, it now is but you have an issue where the sorting is switching from Last Played to Title.
Can you provide a Kodi debug log when this happens?
The reason this is odd is because the sorting setting is actually a specific setting that is written to disk so its persistent. That means, to change the sort setting something actually has to tell Kodi what sort setting AZ:FA should use (whether that you using the sideblade or an addon). To me, at least for now, it seems like a PKC problem.
Hi Guardian Hope, PKC dev here
The mentioned On Deck view shows certain library items sorted by lastplayed. This order is reverted on a PKC full sync when Kodi's xbmc.executebuiltin('UpdateLibrary(video)') is called.
The On Deck view is a simple video node like this:
Code:
<node order="1" type="filter">
<match>all</match>
<rule field="tag" operator="is">
<value>Movies</value>
</rule>
<label>On Deck</label>
<icon>special://home/addons/plugin.video.plexkodiconnect/icon.png</icon>
<content>movies</content>
<rule field="inprogress" operator="true" />
<limit>100</limit>
<order direction="descending">lastplayed</order>
</node>Anythink you can do about this?
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - barlow1123 - 2017-01-24
Anybody else have issues with widgets on the home screen, no matter what widget I select to use (would like to be able to use the "Recently added episodes" and "recently added movies" widgets) either no widget at all appears or the Spotlight widget takes over.
Anybody able to help me on this?
Thanks
Craig
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - petesbodyparts - 2017-01-26
(2017-01-24, 19:15)barlow1123 Wrote: Anybody else have issues with widgets on the home screen, no matter what widget I select to use (would like to be able to use the "Recently added episodes" and "recently added movies" widgets) either no widget at all appears or the Spotlight widget takes over.
Anybody able to help me on this?
Thanks
Craig
Same issue here - known bug as far as I can tell.
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - Nekromantik - 2017-01-26
Guardian Hope I am excited to see what you have in store! Can't wait to try beta of 4k skin. Keep up the great work! Best skin for kodi since exploded.
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - Dunjamon - 2017-01-26
Love this skin! With the latest 9 and 10 releases is anyone else seeing a YouTube error with add-ons? Everything seems to work, but when I load up a video add on I see a YouTube error in the top right. If I revert back to the default skin it works fine. I've removed and re-installed the skin, but it's still the same.
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - Guardian Hope - 2017-01-28
(2017-01-24, 10:56)Croneter Wrote:(2017-01-10, 05:15)Guardian Hope Wrote:(2017-01-08, 21:21)osberg Wrote: Right I might have found a funny bug here.... But it could be related to my add-on that I am using..
I am using the PKC (PlexKodiConnect) on my rasp pi3.... When I go into On Deck sub folder I can see the movies that I am currently watching and has not finish.... But when my PKC does a full sync to my Plex server, my view changes from sort by: Last Played to Title, making the sorting fuck up hehe..
What do you need here to have a look at this??
I also have a threat with the dev of the PKC.
Okay, I read through the GitHub issue for PKC and read what you said here. Now I don't use Plex (I tried it long ago when it was in its infancy and didn't like it and went back to WMC + MediaBrowser [now Emby]) but what I would need is someone knowledgeable in PlexKodiConnect to tell me if there is any additional logic that would need to be added to the skin for the "On Deck" folder to work as prescribed. From what I have read, it now is but you have an issue where the sorting is switching from Last Played to Title.
Can you provide a Kodi debug log when this happens?
The reason this is odd is because the sorting setting is actually a specific setting that is written to disk so its persistent. That means, to change the sort setting something actually has to tell Kodi what sort setting AZ:FA should use (whether that you using the sideblade or an addon). To me, at least for now, it seems like a PKC problem.
Hi Guardian Hope, PKC dev here
The mentioned On Deck view shows certain library items sorted by lastplayed. This order is reverted on a PKC full sync when Kodi's xbmc.executebuiltin('UpdateLibrary(video)') is called.
The On Deck view is a simple video node like this:
Code:<node order="1" type="filter">
<match>all</match>
<rule field="tag" operator="is">
<value>Movies</value>
</rule>
<label>On Deck</label>
<icon>special://home/addons/plugin.video.plexkodiconnect/icon.png</icon>
<content>movies</content>
<rule field="inprogress" operator="true" />
<limit>100</limit>
<order direction="descending">lastplayed</order>
</node>
Anythink you can do about this?
I haven't tested PKC and without any actionable log it's going to be hard to determine if there is any bug here; especially since it seems that in the PKC bug report it was stated that the issue resolved itself. I also watched the recorded video that was uploaded to OneDrive and it seems a few modifications were made to that copy of From Ashes since we intentionally disabled the ability of a user to enable icons on everything but the "Classic" home screen.
There is a known issue in From Ashes' library content detection with Emby which I believe I brought up resulting in video nodes being looked at as music and a current workaround but a fix is going to be released with Beta 11 - I do not know if that fix would have any effect on PKC.
One thing I can think of doing is to say that the On Deck node needs to be explicitly defined by a user as "sort by last played" which can be done from the Sideblade or the Settings menu where you can edit nodes.
Another thing I can note is that AZ:FA will default to A-Z Title Sort Order should a connection be lost the server containing the media and the database is not cached. It is also known that a full sync (depending on the method; I'm going off of Emby) can also temporarily revert the sort order to default until the sync refreshes the node (when the sync is complete).
Usually a toast notification is displayed on the sync status. Does PKC not display any such toast?
I would be curious to see what the node layout looked like in Kodi's settings file when this issue occurs.
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - Guardian Hope - 2017-01-28
(2017-01-26, 10:19)Dunjamon Wrote: Love this skin! With the latest 9 and 10 releases is anyone else seeing a YouTube error with add-ons? Everything seems to work, but when I load up a video add on I see a YouTube error in the top right. If I revert back to the default skin it works fine. I've removed and re-installed the skin, but it's still the same.
Can you please provide a debug level log with the error occurring so I can take a look into i for the Beta 11 update?
I also want to go through the list of known tracked bugs so far:
- Potential Compatibility Issues with PlexKodiConnect "On Deck"
- UHD Detection Displays SD Icon
- UHD Texture Is Missing
- Spotlight Widget Behaivor Not Switching Modes to Other Available Functions
- Emby Video Library Detection
Are there other issues with Beta 10? Our focus moving forward has to shift from adding new features to stability as new features can be added post-preview.
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - avia - 2017-01-28
I want to add an option to customise the hub so as to enable user defined image as per each category in a HUB . How can i do this ...maybe you can suggest a short mod to make it doable ?
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - zszs - 2017-01-29
For the last 2 months, randomly i've been trying to download this theme from the CDN link and I continue to get a network error after about 3-4 minutes into the download... am I seriously the only one having this issue?
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - Nogler - 2017-01-29
Hi,
Please look in the PVR/LiveTv window.
Code:
ERROR: Window Translator: Can't find window pvr
ERROR: Activate/ReplaceWindow called with invalid destination window: MyPVRMaybe because in Krypton there a no pvr window names? http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=250862&pid=2361591#pid2361591
Thanks
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - Guardian Hope - 2017-01-29
(2017-01-29, 08:49)Nogler Wrote: Hi,
Please look in the PVR/LiveTv window.
Code:ERROR: Window Translator: Can't find window pvr
ERROR: Activate/ReplaceWindow called with invalid destination window: MyPVR
Maybe because in Krypton there a no pvr window names? http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=250862&pid=2361591#pid2361591
Thanks
We fixed PVR long ago although it's due a design overhaul. Are you actually using Beta 10? You can see complaints about the design of the PVR windows from earlier in this the preview because they are the AZ:E windows still and aren't going to be graphically updated until For Another Age.
However, if you are experiencing functionality issues and are on Beta 10, I will add it to the list of known issues that need to be fixed.
As a friendly reminder to everyone: post-Beta 10 updates are to stabilize the AZ:FA Danvers codebase for release. New features will be added after AZ:FA reaches version 5.
So hunt down those annoying bugs (like that annoying bright pink) and post them here!
I believe Rotten Tomatoes isn't functioning correctly as there have been updates to it since it was originally added; I will speak to the author of that addition to see if he can lend his talents to fixing it up again for AZ:FA Danvers.
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - Nogler - 2017-01-29
Hi,
I have installed beta 10 but i can't use it because the pvr window don't appear wenn i select livetv in the main menu.
RE: Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Jarvis / Krypton) [3.4.70 / 4.9.92-beta10] - osberg - 2017-01-30
(2017-01-29, 23:07)Nogler Wrote: Hi,
I have installed beta 10 but i can't use it because the pvr window don't appear wenn i select livetv in the main menu.
I saw the same thing, what I did was change the function of what is should do when you want to enter the live tv part.
I chose the option to go into TV - Channels and now it works for me