[im85288]

Version 1.0.72 is now in the repo.

Slight changes here, an option to turn off dividers has been added and the button widths adjusted.

[im85288]

Ian, great job, this looks really great! Very simple and elegant, thank you!

Some things I am seeing:

1. The cast list is always positioned on the last cast member, and not the first. Since I scrape all available cast members, this makes it really difficult for me to see who are the main cast members.

2. I have not been able to get your new weather widget to show, i only get the old one in the top right of the screen. What options and weather provider need to be set in order for the new widget to show?

3. I am sorry to continue to bring this up, but the rating still does not show for movies rated R (USA rating). Today I noticed also that for movies that are Not Rated, the skin shows ratings G, NC-17 and R all at the same time.

Again, thank you so much for this great skin!

Regards,

Bart

Ian, one other thing:

Which color needs to be changed in order for the main menu options text to be in another color? I tried different combinations, but could not get the options text to change color.

Thanks,

Bart

The main menu text colour is the "highlight" colour..so in my screenshots green. There is also a highlight 2 colour which in my screenshots is yellow. You can see this on the flags if they are set to colour or in the netflix view. The final one is the "selected" colour. Those are the only three I allow to be changed.

With regards the cast..works fine for me and no one else has mentioned it so I guess it is a local problem. Weather's working great, again I can only imagine you have not configured things correctly. I hear you about the rating flags so no need to keep reporting, you have to understand I am british and the british flags are working correctly, eventually I'll have a look into this but it would be better if someone who uses the USA flags made the fix and asked me to include it in this version as it's pretty difficult catering for so many permutations for things that you never actually see/use.

[bsoriano]

Thanks Ian!

Just to verify, for the weather widget to function, do you need to set weather fanart as in the original Arctic Zephyr?

For the rating issue, could you let me know in which xml should I look? I am not a skinner, but should be able to look at the code and figure out how to resolve.

Again, thanks a lot!

Regards,

Bart

[im85288]

Yes the weather fanart pack must be set, that always had been the case though for even the horizontal view. Believe it or not I wasn't born a skinner either Just takes a lot of hard work. The ratings are in includes.xml I think! I'll have a look when I'm back home if your still struggling or alternatively can you check if it works correctly on the video info screen as I did things differently there recently.

[bsoriano]

Thanks Ian!

1. Got weather working! i had not used weather fanart before, once I set it, it works great!
2. The primary highlight colour does not work if you are showing icons in the main menu, only if you show text only
3. I looked at includes.xml, and I can fix the code for the ratings for USA. I will try it and let you know if it works. If it does, I will post the modified file for you to take a look at and most likely come up with a more efficient way of doing it

4. Could you please add back in the video info dialog the option to refresh a movie or tv show or tv episode? This is the only way to rescrape a single movie or tv show or episode without having to rescrape the whole source.

5. Could you please add back the option Download Extra Arts when you press C on a movie, tv show or episode? This was the only way in your skin to download all artwork automatically for the movie, tv show or episode via artwork downloader, without having to choose the type of artwork you want to download.

Thanks a lot for evaluating my requests!

Regards,

Bart

[im85288]

Thanks Ian!

1. Got weather working! i had not used weather fanart before, once I set it, it works great!
2. The primary highlight colour does not work if you are showing icons in the main menu, only if you show text only
3. I looked at includes.xml, and I can fix the code for the ratings for USA. I will try it and let you know if it works. If it does, I will post the modified file for you to take a look at and most likely come up with a more efficient way of doing it

4. Could you please add back in the video info dialog the option to refresh a movie or tv show or tv episode? This is the only way to rescrape a single movie or tv show or episode without having to rescrape the whole source.

5. Could you please add back the option Download Extra Arts when you press C on a movie, tv show or episode? This was the only way in your skin to download all artwork automatically for the movie, tv show or episode via artwork downloader, without having to choose the type of artwork you want to download.

Thanks a lot for evaluating my requests!

Regards,

Bart

Cool, glad you got it sorted...there's some really nice weather fanart packs out there...the version I have is more accurate with the images it shows (i.e. if its raining, shows a rainy picture etc).

Thanks for the bug report, I always use text only but will fix that. Cool rating should be easy, but please check on the Video Info screen first. Yes eventually the refresh/cinema experience button will come back. For your last one can you not just use EMBY and avoid all of these artwork management issues in Kodi? I honestly really do not like my video info dialog showing things like get artwork, set thumb etc (IMO these things are nothing to do with the information of the movie that I want to see before watching)...but having said all that it seems people still like to manage these sort of things there so yes I will keep it in mind...but similar to my previous statement (using Emby I Never need to look at artwork or get artwork as it's all automatic - surely everyone likes this?) it will not be a priority. And if I have my way I will move all of these management functions to at most one button on the video info window and preferably totally out.

EDIT - 2. should be fixed on git, please test when you can thanks

[bsoriano]

Good afternoon Ian,

Thanks for your quick response!

Which weather fanart pack are you using? I am using Dr. Toxics Weather Fanart Pack, and it seems to be pretty accurate.

In response to your question, yes I could certainly use Emby, and in fact I have the server installed in my main HTPC.

1. When I tried it, what I did not like is that it overrode all of my posters and fanarts for my whole movie collection (3000+), and I still have not recovered from that one. This was even when selecting the option to not do this. Mind you, this was several months ago, so this is something that might have been fixed already.

2. I would like to use it on my Synology NAS instead of in a PC (my mysql database is currently running on my NAS), but from what I have read, it is a bit involved/complex to do and I am not a Linux expert or feel very comfortable doing things from a command line/terminal window.

Having said all that, I will investigate further, since it does seem like a great option. If there is any help you can provide, or forum articles you could point me to, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks again,

Bart

[im85288]

Hi Bart,

I may have that as it sounds familiar.

As for Emby, hopefully that bug has been fixed..I certainly never had the issue but I just let Emby do its thing. There's been some improvements recently with the synology package: http://emby.media/community/index.php?/t...ogy-setup/

Though if you plan on transcoding (i.e. using it out the house or on mobile clients like iOS etc) then I would advise you having the server on as powerful hardware as you can.

Any questions don't hesitate to ask in our Kodi section in the Emby forums. I know I'm biased but with the Kodi for Emby addon I created (with 4 others) it makes Emby and Kodi work perfectly together

[bsoriano]

Ian,

Thanks for the advice. I will try running the latest version of Emby Server from my main HTPC, it has 8 GB RAM and a AMD A10 processor (I hope those are enough).

I can confirm that the highlight color is now working with icons, thanks for the quick fix!

Finally, I will have to wait to use the Emby for Kodi add-on, since I am running Insengard RC2 and the addon does not support the MyVideos94 Kodi database yet. Once it is supported, I will try using it.

Regards,

Bart

[im85288]

Hi Bart,

That will be more than powerful enough! As confirmed in the Emby forums MyVideos94 is a Kodi 16 feature. The Emby for Kodi addon works fine with Isengard RC2

[im85288]

Version 1.0.73 is on the way to the repo.

Only a few minor bug fixes here:

1) Colour highlight fixed for vertical menu when showing icons + text
2) Shows dollar or euro sign for budget if US or Germany country rating selected...default still pounds
3) Fix layout of studios on video info
4) Fix layout of top250 info on video info

[domuk89]

I just wanted to post simply to say thanks for the skin! I have been using it for a week or two now, and It's by far the best I have used.

Cheers!

[freretox]

Hello.

Thank's for this skin, perfect for my usage, but, in older version, we can select on the widget section, to see widget with click up on the main page.

I dont see this option now, its normal?

(sry for my english).

[im85288]

I just wanted to post simply to say thanks for the skin! I have been using it for a week or two now, and It's by far the best I have used.

Cheers!

Thanks

Hello.

Thank's for this skin, perfect for my usage, but, in older version, we can select on the widget section, to see widget with click up on the main page.

I dont see this option now, its normal?

(sry for my english).

Thanks too! The selection widget (spotlight/random movies etc) should be working correctly on both horizontal and vertical menus. Hopefully this is what you were meaning.

[im85288]

@bart - I checked in what should fix the USA flags issue on Git. If you get a chance please test and let me know if it's working correctly now.

Cheers