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AdvancedSettings.xml overriding guisettings.xml. - emveepee - 2020-10-26

Over the weekend I read on the wiki that some guisettings.xml can also be retrieved from advancedsettings.xml https://kodi.wiki/view/Advancedsettings.xml#guisettings.xml_settings  That is a great feature for me because I usually copy in my custom advancedsettings on every install and I could get my own defaults much easier.  I can't get it to work though and I can't easily find any code to to help me sort this out.  If the wiki wrong (for Matrix anyway) on this or am I just not building advancedsettings properly?

Martin

RE: AdvancedSettings.xml overriding guisettings.xml. - Klojum - 2020-10-26

(2020-10-26, 02:03)emveepee Wrote: I can't get it to work though and I can't easily find any code to to help me sort this out. 

Which tags/values placed in the advancedsettings.xml file aren't working for you?
I never knew of this option, and it would simplify and expedite installing new Kodi clients quite a bit.

RE: AdvancedSettings.xml overriding guisettings.xml. - emveepee - 2020-10-26

All, well at least I haven't found any that work.  The setting names don't match the example either

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/xbmc/settings/Settings.cpp#L63

Martin

RE: AdvancedSettings.xml overriding guisettings.xml. - Karellen - 2020-10-26

After a little bit of trial and error, I figured out how it works. I used v19 to test.

If you open your guisettings.xml file you will find the settings which look like this example...
xml:
    <setting id="videolibrary.showunwatchedplots" default="true">0,1,2</setting>

    <setting id="videolibrary.groupmoviesets" default="true">false</setting>

    <setting id="videolibrary.groupsingleitemsets">true</setting>

    <setting id="myvideos.flatten" default="true">false</setting>

    <setting id="videolibrary.flattentvshows">0</setting>

    <setting id="videolibrary.showemptytvshows">true</setting>

Selecting one and breaking it down
xml:
    <setting id="videolibrary.showemptytvshows">true</setting>
videolibrary- parent tag
showemptytvshows- tag
true- value

Which then becomes this for the advancedsettings.xml file...
xml:


<advancedsettings version="1.0">

     <videolibrary>

          <showemptytvshows>true</showemptytvshows>

     </videolibrary>

</advancedsettings>

Then you will note that this setting is no longer visible in the Settings pages

Once others can test and confirm it works as described above, I will update the wiki page.

RE: AdvancedSettings.xml overriding guisettings.xml. - emveepee - 2020-10-26

I see my issue, I was putting <pvrmanager> in <pvr> like settings.xml, at the root it works.

Thanks

Martin

RE: AdvancedSettings.xml overriding guisettings.xml. - black_eagle - 2020-10-26

@Karellen I can confirm that it works as you describe here.  For instance

xml:
<videoscreen>

    <monitor>DVI-D-0</monitor>

</videoscreen>

removes the option to change the display output device.  Relevant guisettings.xml is <setting id="videoscreen.monitor">DVI-D-0</setting>.  I tested several settings and they all worked.  Quite powerful to be able to remove a bunch of settings from the GUI.  I'm going to use this to re-configure the kids rPi's so that I can remove some settings that they are occasionally tempted to tinker around with Cool

RE: AdvancedSettings.xml overriding guisettings.xml. - Karellen - 2020-10-26

Thanks for confirming @emveepee and @black_eagle

I'll update the wiki page tomorrow.

RE: AdvancedSettings.xml overriding guisettings.xml. - hugohuetzel - 2020-11-26

I use this feature for years to have the same config on all kodi boxes, but i copy only the line from guisettings.xml to advancedsettings.xml (but you have to remove the default="true").

For example:
xml:


<advancedsettings>

  <setting id="smb.legacysecurity">false</setting>

  <setting id="smb.maxprotocol">3</setting>

  <setting id="smb.minprotocol">1</setting>

  <setting id="smb.winsserver">0.0.0.0</setting>

  <setting id="smb.workgroup">WORKGROUP</setting>

</advancedsettings>

This is working fine for me. I have about 100 predefined settings in my advancedsettings.xml and all of them are hided in the gui.

RE: AdvancedSettings.xml overriding guisettings.xml. - Karellen - 2020-11-26

Thanks @hugohuetzel

I did not realise that worked also. I'll try it out.