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XBMC Version: 13.2 Gotham

Hey all - I have a couple of questions in relation to adding a button in the Confluence skin.

I want to add a Concerts directory with live Concerts and do NOT want those Concert videos showing in Movies in any way (ie: not in recently added, not in Title etc etc) but ONLY to show via the custom Concerts button.

Found what I think is the most recent following wiki:
http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Edit_the_ho...o_the_Menu

Under section 3: How to add a new button to the Menu it says:

Adding a button is pretty easy, you can just use the code of one of the other buttons as a template.

Here is the example given:

Code:

<item id="19">
    <label>Kids Movies</label>
    <onclick>ActivateWindow(Videos,Kids)</onclick>
    <icon>-</icon>
    <thumb>-</thumb>
</item>

And here is an example of a button from my current Home.xml:

Code:

<item id="3">
    <label>31956</label>
    <onclick>ActivateWindow(Music)</onclick>
    <icon>-</icon>
    <thumb>-</thumb>
    <visible>!Skin.HasSetting(HomeMenuNoMusicButton)</visible>
</item>

Obviously the code example and the current code in Home.xml are different which leads me to.......

Questions:

1) Why does <label></label> appear with a numerical value for buttons in the current Home.xml file and do I follow the instructions on the current wiki or do I also need to use a numerical value for the custom Concerts button I want to create?

2) What does the following EXTRA line do which appears in current buttons and do I need to also add this to a custom button or is it not required?


eg:

Code:

<visible>!Skin.HasSetting(HomeMenuNoMusicButton)</visible>

The wiki states that the video source, and in my case a Concerts directory, still needs to be added via Videos -> Add source.

3) If A numerical value is NOT required for <label></label> and the EXTRA line <visible>!Skin.HasSetting(HomeMenuNoMusicButton)</visible> ARE NOT required then the following should work so long as I use an <item id=> which is not currently in use?

Code:

<item id="19">
    <label>Concerts</label>
    <onclick>ActivateWindow(Videos,Concerts)</onclick>
    <icon>-</icon>
    <thumb>-</thumb>
</item>

4) If the above piece of code is all I need then which scraper would y'all recommend to use when adding the source Concerts directory?

Thanks in advance for any advice you may be able to provide.