(2025-01-26, 05:36)Dan_of_Earth Wrote: I know the skin is in early development, so this is NOT meant as a complaint, but does anyone have any tips on increasing the performance on cheaper devices like Firestick, onn, etc? It's very laggy as it is and I was just wondering if there were any settings I could change for optimization's sake. I've already changed the background blur effect, which hasn't made a difference. Thanks
Depends on what you mean by "laggy".
If you mean images take time to load, that's nothing to do with the skin. Kodi controls image loading (exception is that blur/crop passes through TMDbHelper first but you've already disabled that).
If you mean navigation animations feel janky, again not much that can be done skin side. The main performance killer will be the number of widgets you use.
You might get a a very small bit of navigation animation improvement by turning off some of the more "complicated" indicators in Skin Settings > Details > Customise indicators (turn off things like ratings on posters and progress). Same goes for the info line tags (turn them all off). Note though this will only give a tiny/modest improvement - main killer is always number of widgets.
The other place you'll get some improvement on navigation animation is compressing the media folder into a Textures.xbt but that's a bit more of a complicated topic.
If you mean widget loading times, absolutely nothing to do with the skin here. Use fewer widgets as Kodi tries to load ALL of the widgets in the window at once regardless of what you can see or what category is visible (all widgets in all categories load together). More widgets (even if hidden behind another category) means worse loading time because they load roughly in order they are listed (if you have a slow widget at the top it will block everything below it until it loads).
And absolutely disable auto trailers as you'll be constantly smashing widgets to reload every time the trailer plays and stops. (the option comes with the big warning for a reason). Even if you don't think you see widgets loading, they are -- the skin just hides it by keeping the content from the last load still visible on screen. Widgets loading constantly will kill your performance.
Note you can also disable widgets in the info dialog - this is less of a performance killer since it only matters once you open info and press down to access them, but if you remove some that you never use it may help since they won't take up memory when they do load (because they won't be loaded).
. That's something I would try anyway if the wife is traveling with her girls for a week. Possible failure is already planned for 
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