[Offsprin]

@bsoriano  I just went through and rebuilt one of my nodes using the node editor and pointing it to the titles like you suggested, and you're right, I am seeing the fan art now for most things. I've got the embuary script helper installed, but I'm still running into some instances where it's not pulling the art, but it's not that many. I do have a couple of other questions though.

1. Is it a skin or Kodi issue that I can't copy and paste my API keys for information providers, like TMDb?
   
2. Is there any way to get the top level node to show the underlying options such as Recently Added/Titles/Genres/etc. and also have the fan art?
   
3. Have you been able to get Recently Added to properly respect the rules for contains/does not contain? I'm not seeing that work properly.
   

Thanks for all the help, it looks like I've almost got it exactly how I want and the last part might be completely out of your hands.

[Offsprin]

@bsoriano  I just went through and rebuilt one of my nodes using the node editor and pointing it to the titles like you suggested, and you're right, I am seeing the fan art now for most things. I've got the embuary script helper installed, but I'm still running into some instances where it's not pulling the art, but it's not that many. I do have a couple of other questions though.

1. Is it a skin or Kodi issue that I can't copy and paste my API keys for information providers, like TMDb?
   
2. Is there any way to get the top level node to show the underlying options such as Recently Added/Titles/Genres/etc. and also have the fan art?
   
3. Have you been able to get Recently Added to properly respect the rules for contains/does not contain? I'm not seeing that work properly.
   

Thanks for all the help, it looks like I've almost got it exactly how I want and the last part might be completely out of your hands.

In addition, for whatever reason I cannot get the TV node to work the same way as the movie node (specifically 4K), even though I'm copying the exact same rules. I must be doing something wrong, I just don't know what.

[bsoriano]

@bsoriano  I just went through and rebuilt one of my nodes using the node editor and pointing it to the titles like you suggested, and you're right, I am seeing the fan art now for most things. I've got the embuary script helper installed, but I'm still running into some instances where it's not pulling the art, but it's not that many. I do have a couple of other questions though.

1. Is it a skin or Kodi issue that I can't copy and paste my API keys for information providers, like TMDb?
   
2. Is there any way to get the top level node to show the underlying options such as Recently Added/Titles/Genres/etc. and also have the fan art?
   
3. Have you been able to get Recently Added to properly respect the rules for contains/does not contain? I'm not seeing that work properly.
   

Thanks for all the help, it looks like I've almost got it exactly how I want and the last part might be completely out of your hands.

@Offsprin , my apologies for the delay in answering.

1. I have not experienced this; however, I do not think it is a skin issue.  Does it work with other skins?
2. Yes, as long as you point the menu item to the Titles item of the node, and not to the node itself.  If the main menu item is pointing to the index.xml of the node you will not get fanart.  That is why I recommended pointing the main menu item to the Titles item of the video node.
3. As I mentioned before, when you build a node with the Library Node Editor, the Recently Added submenu doesn't work correctly.  You need to create a smart playlist for this.  Create it with the rule of path contains , sort it by dateadded, descending, and limit it if you wish.  Then, point the Recently Added submenu item to this playlist.

Regards,

Bart

[bsoriano]

@bsoriano  I just went through and rebuilt one of my nodes using the node editor and pointing it to the titles like you suggested, and you're right, I am seeing the fan art now for most things. I've got the embuary script helper installed, but I'm still running into some instances where it's not pulling the art, but it's not that many. I do have a couple of other questions though.

1. Is it a skin or Kodi issue that I can't copy and paste my API keys for information providers, like TMDb?
   
2. Is there any way to get the top level node to show the underlying options such as Recently Added/Titles/Genres/etc. and also have the fan art?
   
3. Have you been able to get Recently Added to properly respect the rules for contains/does not contain? I'm not seeing that work properly.
   

Thanks for all the help, it looks like I've almost got it exactly how I want and the last part might be completely out of your hands.

In addition, for whatever reason I cannot get the TV node to work the same way as the movie node (specifically 4K), even though I'm copying the exact same rules. I must be doing something wrong, I just don't know what.

@Offsprin , could you please PM again the xml for your tv node? That way I can take a look.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

[Offsprin]

@bsoriano  I just went through and rebuilt one of my nodes using the node editor and pointing it to the titles like you suggested, and you're right, I am seeing the fan art now for most things. I've got the embuary script helper installed, but I'm still running into some instances where it's not pulling the art, but it's not that many. I do have a couple of other questions though.

1. Is it a skin or Kodi issue that I can't copy and paste my API keys for information providers, like TMDb?
   
2. Is there any way to get the top level node to show the underlying options such as Recently Added/Titles/Genres/etc. and also have the fan art?
   
3. Have you been able to get Recently Added to properly respect the rules for contains/does not contain? I'm not seeing that work properly.
   

Thanks for all the help, it looks like I've almost got it exactly how I want and the last part might be completely out of your hands.

In addition, for whatever reason I cannot get the TV node to work the same way as the movie node (specifically 4K), even though I'm copying the exact same rules. I must be doing something wrong, I just don't know what.

@Offsprin , could you please PM again the xml for your tv node? That way I can take a look.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

@bsoriano no worries on the delay. I've narrowed the copy/paste thing down to Kodi itself, not the skin. I don't totally understand what you mean by pointing the menu item to the Titles item of the node, though. As for the Recently Added, my bad. I'll fix that with a smart playlist.

[bsoriano]

In addition, for whatever reason I cannot get the TV node to work the same way as the movie node (specifically 4K), even though I'm copying the exact same rules. I must be doing something wrong, I just don't know what.

@Offsprin , could you please PM again the xml for your tv node? That way I can take a look.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

@bsoriano no worries on the delay. I've narrowed the copy/paste thing down to Kodi itself, not the skin. I don't totally understand what you mean by pointing the menu item to the Titles item of the node, though. As for the Recently Added, my bad. I'll fix that with a smart playlist.

@Offsprin , I mean to configure the main menu item to have the Titles item of the node as the action, like it is shown here:



You would get to that by going to "Choose Item for Menu", then choosing "Video Library":



Then your node (in this case, I chose "4K Movies"):



And then choose "Titles":



Please be aware that you are going to have to change the label to the name of the node, or else it will say "Titles" as the name of the main menu item.

Please let me know if this helps.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

[Offsprin]

OK, I think I understand but I'll try it out and let you know. Thanks.

[Offsprin]

ok@Offsprin , could you please PM again the xml for your tv node? That way I can take a look.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

@bsoriano no worries on the delay. I've narrowed the copy/paste thing down to Kodi itself, not the skin. I don't totally understand what you mean by pointing the menu item to the Titles item of the node, though. As for the Recently Added, my bad. I'll fix that with a smart playlist.

@Offsprin , I mean to configure the main menu item to have the Titles item of the node as the action, like it is shown here:



You would get to that by going to "Choose Item for Menu", then choosing "Video Library":



Then your node (in this case, I chose "4K Movies"):



And then choose "Titles":



Please be aware that you are going to have to change the label to the name of the node, or else it will say "Titles" as the name of the main menu item.

Please let me know if this helps.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

ok, @bsoriano I sent you the link to the files. I'm starting to think part of the issue I'm having is that I have the multipath setup for the TV and movie paths, and that's causing Kodi to get confused, at least for the node editor, but I'm not 100%.

[bsoriano]

@bsoriano no worries on the delay. I've narrowed the copy/paste thing down to Kodi itself, not the skin. I don't totally understand what you mean by pointing the menu item to the Titles item of the node, though. As for the Recently Added, my bad. I'll fix that with a smart playlist.

@Offsprin , I mean to configure the main menu item to have the Titles item of the node as the action, like it is shown here:



You would get to that by going to "Choose Item for Menu", then choosing "Video Library":



Then your node (in this case, I chose "4K Movies"):



And then choose "Titles":



Please be aware that you are going to have to change the label to the name of the node, or else it will say "Titles" as the name of the main menu item.

Please let me know if this helps.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

ok, @bsoriano I sent you the link to the files. I'm starting to think part of the issue I'm having is that I have the multipath setup for the TV and movie paths, and that's causing Kodi to get confused, at least for the node editor, but I'm not 100%.

@Offsprin , thanks for the files.  While the node will work well for movies, for TV Shows it seems that Kodi does not allow the same tv show title to be in 2 different paths.  I tried having the same tv show, in 4k and not in 4k, in different paths.  If I go to the tv shows default library node, the tv show appears just once, with double the amount of episodes (the 4k ones and the non 4k ones).  The problem is that you cannot create a tv show node that is filtered by path if the tv shows are in the library on another path.  Long story short: it will not work.  It works for movies and episodes, but not for tv shows.

I am sorry about that, but there is nothing I can do from the skin side to make this work.  Not even a tv show smart playlist with a path rule works. 

However, if you change the title(s) of the tv show(s), and scan it (them) again, then the node works and th smart playlist works.  So, in essence, the same tv show will not show up in different paths.

Regards,

Bart

[Offsprin]

@bsoriano bleh, ok. Thanks for looking into that.