[Guardian Hope]

Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Dormer) for Kodi 16 Jarvis End of Life Notification

Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Dormer - 3.x) for Kodi 16 Jarvis has officially reached End of Life. No further updates will be released for the Dormer line to enhance the experience or fix any outstanding bugs. The Dormer line has reached its End of Life on November 15, 2016; approximately a year after it was first released on the Emby forums. For continued support, please update to Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes Danvers (4.x/5.x) for Kodi 17 Krypton. If you are using a distribution that doesn't support Krypton yet, you are welcome to stay on Jarvis and continue using AZ:FA as you normally would but there will be no further support provided.

Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes Danvers (Preview Beta 5) Critical Bug Notice for macOS

A critical installation bug has been identified with Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes Danvers (Preview Beta 5) on macOS resulting from a third party dependency - studio icons in white. Currently there is no workaround for this issue as it seems it's the third-party addon that is causing the issue and not AZ:FA. We will try to get this sorted for Beta 6 but first we must contact the developers of the third party addon that fails to install.

We thank you for your patience.

[petesbodyparts]

UPDATE - i just downloaded krypton17 beta 1, it updated addons on install, i then downloaded basic arctic zephyr no problem.
got repo. norhbridge .by design added that via zip , no problem , tried to install danvers preview skin and it got as far as 20% before a couple of dependancy failures stopped it. ( think there are a couple of other posters who got this far as well )
this is a lot further than i have got, so i will keep logging on here to see what is happening.

@ontap, I am having the same issue testing on Mac. Are you saying you downgraded to beta 1 and you got it working or are you on a different beta level?

no i found a youtube vid where a guy was installing a build onto krypton17 and when i downloaded the link for the kodi version he had been using it was beta 1 so i tried it , it downloaded ok all the updates worked , then i tried to load northbridge repo but it failed , then i added script.shortcuts-1.0.12.zip and after adding that i retried northbridge and it loaded OK.
I assume am not allowed to post link to the krypton17 beta1, file on here ?
rereading your question mate sorry , i guess thats downgrading to beta 1 yes.

Same here - updated to script.shortcuts-1.0.12.zip and Danver now loads fine

[Cranial]

Running Danvers Beta 5 on a Mac Mini and MacBook Air running Krypton Nightly.

First issue, which I think I've seen mentioned but wanted to check, was the watched/unwatched icons displaying as pink rectangles:



Second issue, not sure if it's as designed or a display problem, the home screen menu text is hard against the top of the menu background:

[petesbodyparts]

Running Danvers Beta 5 on a Mac Mini and MacBook Air running Krypton Nightly.

First issue, which I think I've seen mentioned but wanted to check, was the watched/unwatched icons displaying as pink rectangles:



Second issue, not sure if it's as designed or a display problem, the home screen menu text is hard against the top of the menu background:

Everyone gets the pink squares If you look back several pages, Guardian mentions it's in the list of fixes (it's a font transition issue).

Pete

[SuperDOS]

how can you change the pvr background image?
would like to have my fallback image there.


In the PVR the context menu doesnt really fit.

[Karateinspace]

Did a completely fresh install of 3.4.30 in Kodi on FireTV and it still won't let me turn off the Dormer notice. I can see the notice in the extras menu and I can't select it. The cursor just skips over it. And it's not greyed out.

[Guardian Hope]

Did a completely fresh install of 3.4.30 in Kodi on FireTV and it still won't let me turn off the Dormer notice. I can see the notice in the extras menu and I can't select it. The cursor just skips over it. And it's not greyed out.

Since Dormer is working properly now sans the reports of being unable to turn off the Dormer Notice which it seems most people don't care about the one extra button press at startup now that everything is working we decided to drop the issue and let it be.

[Synopis]

wait... the skin got updated for Krypton?

[minus0]

ATTENTION ALL Dormer Users

Link to corrected file to turn off Dormer Notice
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xnhp4mw2dub7z...s.xml?dl=0

Place in your 16x9 folder. Please backup SkinSettings.xml before you copy file into folder.
Should fix all problems with the notice.

[Guardian Hope]

wait... the skin got updated for Krypton?

It did. Danvers Preview Beta 5 was released a couple of days ago but hasn't been updated on anything but the NBD repo and GitHub. No release notes because they are going to be combined with Danvers Preview Beta 6 which will fix the missing icons that were a result of the font transition and update the Addon Framework.

I think @minus0 was including some fixes as well but I was at a courthouse most of yesterday so I may have misread that line on Slack so don't quote me on that.

ATTENTION ALL Dormer Users

Link to corrected file to turn off Dormer Notice
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xnhp4mw2dub7z...s.xml?dl=0

Place in your 16x9 folder. Please backup SkinSettings.xml before you copy file into folder.
Should fix all problems with the notice.

And Dormer will apparently get one more hotfix, 3.4.50 (yeah, I just realized I skipped over 3.4.40). Besides, I need to add how to turn off the notice to the notice.

After that, no more Dormer updates. It'll be released the same day as Beta 6 of Danvers for Krypton (both will be released before Thanksgiving in the United States).

Please remember that with the holidays, update frequencies will decrease so Beta 6 of Danvers and 3.4.50 of Dormer will likely be it for the year.

Soon, everyone will have access to JIRA so we can better track issues and the team can discuss them which will happen in the intermediary between Beta 6 and Beta 7.

Since there will be a long time like between Alpha 9 and Beta 5, we really want everyone to dig into it and find the issues once those are released. Hopefully we can lock down a Release Candidate so I can personally begin focusing on For Another Age's new User Experience (remember that AZ:For Another Age will also have a quick switch back to the current home screen style but I think people will like it since it's a more modern take on AZ:FA's current design and really intended for 4K).

[Blurayx]

ATTENTION ALL Dormer Users

Link to corrected file to turn off Dormer Notice
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xnhp4mw2dub7z...s.xml?dl=0

Place in your 16x9 folder. Please backup SkinSettings.xml before you copy file into folder.
Should fix all problems with the notice.

@ minus0,

I don't use the Jarvis version but I have to comment on how helpful you are to upload a hotfix for the Jarvis users

[riccioluca]

Update somehow deletes items in the hubs.
TV Hubs has no entries
Movie Hubs has no entries.
And it seems like you can't add entries via settings either.

Danvers version. on Arch linux and Libreelec.

Danvers version on qnap nas ts 451 (linux).

[minus0]

@Blurayx

Thanks. I always try to help out, especially if it's something I have done wrong.


@riccioluca
Fixed Hubs. Should appear in the next upgrade.

[Durron]

Hi,

Guardian Hope is it possible that you put in the funktion to the Danvers to sort the Movies and TV Shows by unseen and not in a carusell in the vertical menue? Would be verry great.

Thx for the superb work!

[Guardian Hope]

Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Thanksgiving Day Update)

Released Thursday, November 24, 2016 (Dormer: 3.4.60 / Danvers: 4.9.91-beta6)

Thanksgiving Holiday Notice

Due to the holidays, a showcase of changes in the new updates won't be posted until this weekend if not Monday. However, we want to make sure you know what you are getting so while we won't have a showcase ready for you yet we do have the release notes. Links won't be posted until after the holidays (exception to Dormer)! If you are running Krypton be sure to have the NBD Repo or Emby Beta Repo installed for automatic updating!

Dormer 3.4.60 for Kodi 16 Jarvis - "End of Life Thanksgiving Rollup"

The Thanksgiving Update to Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes (Dormer) concludes support for the Dormer branch of Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes and officially marks the End of Life status. Details on what End of Life for Dormer means will be made available this weekend at https://northebridge.com/systems/oss/kod...dormer/eol and https://northebridge.com/systems/oss/kod.../lifecycle. The Dormer branch of AZ:FA is what started it all and kept the AZ:E project alive. Now we are moving forward with Danvers and soon, For Another Age which will incorporate AZ:FA and AZ:Braz to make the premiere AZ skin experience.

We thank you for your continued support and look forward to providing you a high quality skin on Kodi 17 Krypton. For now, here's the changelog to AZ:FA Dormer 3.4.60:

Code:

Resolved Issue: Unable to turn off "Dormer Notification" in Skin Settings
Added "Update Available!" to the Power Menu
Added Prompt with Update Instructions

Danvers 4.9.91-beta6 for Kodi 17 Jarvis - "Danvers Beta 6 Preview Thanksgiving Day Cumulative Update"

The Thanksgiving Day Cumulative Update to Danvers, marking the 6th Beta entry for the next generation Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes experience will be released to the NBD Repo and Emby Beta repo concurrently and features many changes. It will be the latest release for quite a while due to the holidays so we are making sure that it is stable on Windows 10, macOS, and Linux. Let's take a look at the changes (including all those from Beta 5):

Code:

Beta 6 Changes

Addon Framework Update to Danvers 4.9.92
Texture Package Update to Danvers 4.9.92
Resolved Issue: Missing Fonts
Added new InfoWall View - Episodes
Changed InfoWall to left/right plot block
Fixed DialogContextMenu not displaying correctly
Added Kodi Privacy Policy to SystemInfo Window
Upgraded SmartPlaylist Editor to Kodi17 requirements
Fixed Hubs in "override.xml"
Removed Hubs Category in SkinSettings ( no longer needed )
Fixed Home Widgets plot text not scrolling.
Added Animated FanArt to "FlipMusicInfo" Visualization
Added Gradient Background ( lower portion ) to "FlipMusicInfo" Visualization
Minor Changes

Beta 5 Changes:
Addon Framework Update to Danvers 4.9.91
Texture Package Update to Danvers 4.9.91
Updated "About From Ashes" Information Screen
Changelog Corrections
Danvers Notification Update
Added feature FlipMusicInfo
Added Library View "InfoWall 2"
Added Library View "Panel"
Added Library View "Gallery"
Added Music Library Views - "Wall Square," "Big Icons," and "Panel" to Music Library Views
Added Colour Section "Indicators" in Skin Settings.
Ability to Change Watched,UnWatched, Playing, and Resume Colour Indicators.
Indicator Was Added to all Library Views
Changed Library Navigation to Include Videos, Music, Pictures, Programs, and Addons.
SideBlade Is Now Main navigation. Views Are Selected Next to SideBlade with the Corresponding Thumb View.
Fullscreen Effect
Missing View Thumbs Plus New View Thumbs Were Added
Added Plot Overlay Button to SideBlade With Ability to Enable/Disable
Changed CuLyrics Display Window so Player Controls and Song Lyrics Display On Top of Music Visualization.
Music Visualization - FlipMusicInfo Has the Option to Show Spinning DiscArt, and Border Box around Info
Bitrate Was Added to the Info
NOTICE: To Use Feature Flip MusicInfo, CuLyrics Has to be Set to Manual.\
Added the Ability to use Advance Launcher In Some Library Views
Added FileManager Icon Box to Settings Page
Changed Focus Highlight Colour to Match Text Banner
Fixed Icon thumb scaling in DialogAddonInfo
Fixed Icon scaling in some views

NortheBridge by Design Repo Thanksgiving Day Update (2.0.00)

Last but not least, the NortheBridge by Design repository is also getting an update to reflect backend server changes happening over the holidays, add MD5 checksums to the repository addons, and update the repository address to pay homage to the end of life of the Dormer build line of AZ:FA which started it all. The update will be released into the current update repo so everyone should automatically update. If it doesn't, a link will be provided Thanksgiving Day.

Changelog:

Code:

Repository Address Update (now https://embycdn.northebridge.com/NatalieDormer/)
Added MD5 Checksum Output to Repository Output Script

Backend Changelog:

Code:

New Verizon Anycast Netcode to guarantee updates within 2-4 hours of release
New Edge Sever deployments providing faster service to all geographical locations
New Update Origin Zone Added US West, Los Angeles
Async Update Origin Method for Correlative Updates Between Washington, D.C. Update Origin and Los Angeles Update Origin
Direct Connect between AZ:FA Build Server and Update Origin Servers
Point-to-Point Origin to CDN Edge Server Hardware Upgrades from Dual Gigabit Links to Dual 10Gbps Links (20Gbps aggregate)

Have a happy Thanksgiving and be safe on Black Friday!