[samueljones]

@primaeval, you are so amazing. feature requested in the afternoon and we have it in the evening, I cant believe it. you are Indeed a blessing to Kodi community.

Thanks so much
SJ

[ed_davidson]

[EDIT] I see what you mean now. You will only get taken to the Stream Setup from Add Alt Stream if you don't have any matches in addons.ini. I expect you get that every time because you like to select the streams one by one. - CORRECT

Thanks for change/s

I can now set up Main and Alt streams for a channel.

Menu>Stream Setup>Browse>choose addon>Choose Stream (BBC1)>Save, saves main stream and goes back to EPG

Menu>Stream Setup>Browse>choose addon>Choose Stream (BBC1)>Alt Stream, saves alt stream and stays on same screen, should this go back to EPG?

I pressed Alt Stream a few times thinking the key press did not take, I ended up with a main stream of BBC1 and Multiple Alt Streams of BBC2.

Just to test I added another Alt Stream ITV1 and ended up with Main stream BBC1, multiple BBC2 alts and an ITV1 alt, like magic and they all played!!

I'm glad you've got it working.

The Alt Stream doesn't close in case you want to add a few streams at once.
For example: BBC One, you might also want BBC One London, BBC One Scotland etc and from different addons.

I still think it's easier to add all the streams in a folder with Add Folder and let the channel matching sort them out,
but I always try to allow multiple choice if possible.

I'll see if I can change the logic to only adding the stream once.

It goes back to the EPG of you click save after clicking alt stream.

I didn't know about adding alternate streams one after another without having to go back to the guide every time. That's really handy.

[ed_davidson]

Does the addon have the functionality to try each of the main and alt streams until it finds one that plays?
Or does I just try the one you select and error out if it won't play?

[primaeval]

Does the addon have the functionality to try each of the main and alt streams until it finds one that plays?
Or does I just try the one you select and error out if it won't play?

It is just one try and give up at the moment.

It is difficult to reliably tell if a stream won't play.
I'll try adding it in as a Lab option sometime if you like.

[gillmacca]

version 0.0.221
- unique alternative streams
- feedback on Alt Stream button
- categories menu in main epg (m, menu) [Thanks Team iVue]

@samueljones For those of you too lazy to open the context menu I've added the categories menu into the main epg.
There have been a few requests for this so here y'all go.

It is in my minimalist style. If you want it to look like the yellow one you'll have to get your crayons out in Photoshop.

You can get to it with the (menu, m) key and close it with m or back.
Right clicking on a category will bring up Add/Remove like in the normal context menu.

@Jeffers24 The Alternative Streams should be unique now. So you can click away on the same stream and it should only add it once. There is a quick info window when you click on Alt Stream.

To delete a Program Image that OMDb/TVDb/IMDb found now use the ACTION_DELETE_ITEM button.
I mapped mine up to DEL with the Keymap Editor addon.

This look great. Does anyone know if it is possible to access the categories on the epg on an Amazon Fire TV?

[ed_davidson]

Darn it the latest update kicked out all my stream links. Boo. LOL

[samueljones]

Can someone please help me out. whenever I change anything in the setting or add a new channel through webgrab+++, all my chosen channel logo will be removed and my channels arragement will be reset. I am not sure if this is how it meant to be. I use external logo Url source if that helps.

Regards
SJ

[primaeval]

Can someone please help me out. whenever I change anything in the setting or add a new channel through webgrab+++, all my chosen channel logo will be removed and my channels arragement will be reset. I am not sure if this is how it meant to be. I use external logo Url source if that helps.

Regards
SJ

These are all the settings that force a channel reset. Have a look in here to see what they are called in Settings:
addons\script.tvguide.fullscreen\resources\settings.xml

Code:

SETTINGS_TO_CHECK = ['source', 'xmltv.type', 'xmltv.file', 'xmltv.url', 'xmltv.logo.folder', 'logos.source', 'logos.folder', 'logos.url', 'source.source', 'yo.countries' , 'tvguide.co.uk.systemid']

I was having problems with keeping channel logo sources when I added TheLogoDB.com logos. There might be a bug.

The 2 Settings that could be causing the problem are:

Source \ Reset on Start: keep this off or the channels will get reset.

Logos \ Keep last Channel Logo mapping: keep this on if you manually changed the logos.

If it still doesn't work show me your settings.xml and I'll see if it's you or me.

[primaeval]

Darn it the latest update kicked out all my stream links. Boo. LOL

I thought I had stopped it doing that. I copied the old Alternative Stream table to a new one while I updated it. Sorry.

[primaeval]

This look great. Does anyone know if it is possible to access the categories on the epg on an Amazon Fire TV?

The FireTV remote is pretty limited. If you can find a spare button you can map it to the menu,m button in keymap.xml.

Does anyone know how to make an addon specific keymap?

The Categories are still in the main Context Menu on the Left.

I use one of these:

[Jeffers24]

This look great. Does anyone know if it is possible to access the categories on the epg on an Amazon Fire TV?

The FireTV remote is pretty limited. If you can find a spare button you can map it to the menu,m button in keymap.xml.

Does anyone know how to make an addon specific keymap?

The Categories are still in the main Context Menu on the Left.

I use one of these:

What is it LOL

[primaeval]

What is it LOL

A full keyboard and mouse, wireless with a usb dongle. Very cheap.
eg
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-4G-Wireless-...SwB09YKwEz

[primaeval]

@gillmacca

You might be able to map a longpress button to some other functions.

Have a look in the default keymap.xml for some examples of mod="longpress"
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...yboard.xml

Here is the main keymap Kodi page:
http://kodi.wiki/view/keymap

and here are some FireTV keymaps:
http://kodi.wiki/view/Alternative_keymap..._TV_remote

TV Guide Fullscreen uses a lot of buttons right now.
I'll see if I can add some little icons to the touch controls overlay sometime.

[Jeffers24]

What is it LOL

A full keyboard and mouse, wireless with a usb dongle. Very cheap.
eg
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-4G-Wireless-...SwB09YKwEz

Thanks, I have added one of these to my Amazon basket https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01C...L4JX5EK032

[FXB78]

@primaeval The categories option on the main screen is an excellent addition, works very well. I just have one little niggle with it, when I press M to open the Categories I have to press an arrow key twice to move to another Category. For example I press M then RIGHT and it doesn't move, pressing RIGHT again makes it move to the Category to the right. After that I can freely scroll left & right. Seems like a small bug with the initial focus? I've had a look in the skin xml and nothing jumps out unless I missed something