[loveart]

thanks for many bugs you fixed

[realcopacetic]

Quick update on some recent additions.

As well as a lot of bug fixes that were recently reported by various people on Github, this latest version on my repo now includes Beta PVR support. I've mainly been doing this off the demo pvr addon, so I could do with some real-world feedback from people with actual live data going into the PVR sections.

One of the PVR views I added could potentially work well as a more detailed list view for movies and tv shows etc. I personally wouldn't use this, so I'm only inclined to add it if there would be interest as it's quite a lot of work to add a new view at this stage.

[Reekon]

Amazing work @realcopacetic

I updated and can see many improvements but Favourites is still broken. Do I need to re-add it or is it on the todo list?

Is there an option to go to details instead of instantly playing when clicking on a movie?

Can you also put Weather on the list of things to pretty-up at some point?

Thanks for the amazing skin, great job 👏

[realcopacetic]

Amazing work @realcopacetic

I updated and can see many improvements but Favourites is still broken. Do I need to re-add it or is it on the todo list?

Is there an option to go to details instead of instantly playing when clicking on a movie?

Can you also put Weather on the list of things to pretty-up at some point?

Thanks for the amazing skin, great job 👏

When you say broken what do you mean? The Favourites system was overhauled in Omega, so I had to re-add my shortcuts. Does that work if you try that? You should be able to add it to your shortcut without doing anything diffeerent, but maybe try removing it and adding it again if you're having problems.

Not sure I'll do the full weather window as I personally don't see much value in it but I added the weather widget you can use next to the clock

[Reekon]

If I add Favourites to the Home menu (Common > Favourites), it doesn’t do anything when clicked. It makes the sound but nothing happens.

If I add the Favourites widget that works but it is limited to 20 items and requires scrolling through the list in sequence. Can you add another Grid view to the widget that has several rows, similar to when viewing all movies? Is it possible to have more than 20 or for the user to specify how many are shown?

The weather next to the clock is perfect and fulfills my needs, I was just asking in the case we view more than one location but it’s definitely not something needed in a media centre (just a nice extra).

Thanks for replying

[Reekon]

Edit: I managed to fix the Favourites Home menu item by manually changing the action to ActivateWindow(FavouritesBrowser), as posted earlier in the thread. It would still be nice to have a Grid view similar to the Movies section (but square boxes instead of posters). Thanks.

[realcopacetic]

Edit: I managed to fix the Favourites Home menu item by manually changing the action to ActivateWindow(FavouritesBrowser), as posted earlier in the thread. It would still be nice to have a Grid view similar to the Movies section (but square boxes instead of posters). Thanks.

Cool, glad you got it sorted. Yes I will add more views to favourites shortly!

[Reekon]

Thanks, you are the best!

[Reekon]

Edit: I managed to fix the Favourites Home menu item by manually changing the action to ActivateWindow(FavouritesBrowser), as posted earlier in the thread. It would still be nice to have a Grid view similar to the Movies section (but square boxes instead of posters). Thanks.

Cool, glad you got it sorted. Yes I will add more views to favourites shortly!

I have a few more suggestions, feel free to take them onboard or discard them

1) I’m not sure if this is possible but if it is, can we have an option for the Time to persist when we enter apps and different sections? We currently have it persist across the entire home screen but when anything is clicked it disappears. If not possible that is fair

2) When we choose the Grid/Posters view for Movies, can we have a side/view menu option to decrease/increase the size of the posters (to show less/more on the screen at a time)? Can we also have an option to have a small gap/space between them off/on?

3) For the Widgets (Grid/Strip views), can we have an option to show fanart or something the background? Not sure if will look good or not but looks a bit plain with the black background. Maybe it can be blurred or very faint so it’s not too distracting, or plain might just be better now that I’m thinking about it haha. Might be worth an experiment to see how it looks.

4) In the TV Shows section, can we have the Season folders showing even when there is only a Season 1? Can we have an option for this as I’m sure some prefer not to have it.

Thank you, and keep up the good work!

[realcopacetic]

Edit: I managed to fix the Favourites Home menu item by manually changing the action to ActivateWindow(FavouritesBrowser), as posted earlier in the thread. It would still be nice to have a Grid view similar to the Movies section (but square boxes instead of posters). Thanks.

Cool, glad you got it sorted. Yes I will add more views to favourites shortly!

I have a few more suggestions, feel free to take them onboard or discard them

1) I’m not sure if this is possible but if it is, can we have an option for the Time to persist when we enter apps and different sections? We currently have it persist across the entire home screen but when anything is clicked it disappears. If not possible that is fair

2) When we choose the Grid/Posters view for Movies, can we have a side/view menu option to decrease/increase the size of the posters (to show less/more on the screen at a time)? Can we also have an option to have a small gap/space between them off/on?

3) For the Widgets (Grid/Strip views), can we have an option to show fanart or something the background? Not sure if will look good or not but looks a bit plain with the black background. Maybe it can be blurred or very faint so it’s not too distracting, or plain might just be better now that I’m thinking about it haha. Might be worth an experiment to see how it looks.

4) In the TV Shows section, can we have the Season folders showing even when there is only a Season 1? Can we have an option for this as I’m sure some prefer not to have it.

Thank you, and keep up the good work!

Thanks for the suggestions, here are a few follow-ups

1) Time all the time is possible as I deliberately keep that space free in all views so that notifications, volume bar and the musicplayer widget can show up. I should be able to add this fairly easily.
2) You can change the size of the posters in the skin settings menu, there are layouts

1. "Vertical Large" gets you one full row of 5 posters (plus one row of 5 cut off) on the screen at once
   
2. "Horizontal" gets you two full rows of 6 posters (12 in total, plus two posters cut off on the side) on the screen at once
   
3. "Vertical small gets you 2 full rows of 7 posters (14 in total, plus another row of seven cut off) on the screen at once
   

Having more than this begins to hurt performance on low-powered devices because Kodi doesn't really resample the images for the smaller space, so if you scrape posters at 2000x3000 for example, which is good for other views where they get the full screen height treatment, then they are all loaded at this resolution in grid as well (even though they're scaled down) and it begins to chug along.

The reason this option isn't in the hidden options menu is because with these three layout types and then with fanart, poster and square displays, there are effectively 9 (3x3) layouts for grid view. With an option in skin settings to choose the layout, I can make a rule that says the video window only needs to load the 3 layouts (poster, fanart and square) for the selected layout type. But if I have the option in the hidden menu, I have to load all nine when the videos window is initialised. The more code that needs to be loaded, the stronger the delay you see when opening videos for the first time after a restart. This is why I have the option in skin settings to disable views you don't want to use, to speed things up.

I don't know the real-world implications of moving this option to the hidden options menu so I could try it at some point and see if anyone feels the slow down. That way you would also be able to then choose Horizontal layout for Movies and Vertical small layout for tv shows, etc, instead of having one layout for all grid views. But the reason I didn't do that is I thought it would be confusing for people having grid scroll down in some placesa and right in others. Open to opinions on this though.

3). I've bene working on a detailed list view (you can see above) where I have experimented with this. I don't love it and I always felt a few years ago it made all the skins look kind of the same. I'd rather go for something a bit more minimal as I agree black screen can be boring, something like iPlayer, perhaps some sort of blur or gradient based on the selected accent colour that then changes based on the dominant colour of each item, potentially with some sort of subtle movement. It's on my to do list.

4) This is a Kodi option if I understand you correctly. There is an option in Settings > Media > Videos called " Flatten TV show seasons" - if that's set to "If only one season" it skips the seasons if there's only one. Set it to never and then you'll always see the season level between TV show and Episodes.

[Reekon]

Cool, glad you got it sorted. Yes I will add more views to favourites shortly!

I have a few more suggestions, feel free to take them onboard or discard them

1) I’m not sure if this is possible but if it is, can we have an option for the Time to persist when we enter apps and different sections? We currently have it persist across the entire home screen but when anything is clicked it disappears. If not possible that is fair

2) When we choose the Grid/Posters view for Movies, can we have a side/view menu option to decrease/increase the size of the posters (to show less/more on the screen at a time)? Can we also have an option to have a small gap/space between them off/on?

3) For the Widgets (Grid/Strip views), can we have an option to show fanart or something the background? Not sure if will look good or not but looks a bit plain with the black background. Maybe it can be blurred or very faint so it’s not too distracting, or plain might just be better now that I’m thinking about it haha. Might be worth an experiment to see how it looks.

4) In the TV Shows section, can we have the Season folders showing even when there is only a Season 1? Can we have an option for this as I’m sure some prefer not to have it.

Thank you, and keep up the good work!

Thanks for the suggestions, here are a few follow-ups

1) Time all the time is possible as I deliberately keep that space free in all views so that notifications, volume bar and the musicplayer widget can show up. I should be able to add this fairly easily.
2) You can change the size of the posters in the skin settings menu, there are layouts

1. "Vertical Large" gets you one full row of 5 posters (plus one row of 5 cut off) on the screen at once
   
2. "Horizontal" gets you two full rows of 6 posters (12 in total, plus two posters cut off on the side) on the screen at once
   
3. "Vertical small gets you 2 full rows of 7 posters (14 in total, plus another row of seven cut off) on the screen at once
   

Having more than this begins to hurt performance on low-powered devices because Kodi doesn't really resample the images for the smaller space, so if you scrape posters at 2000x3000 for example, which is good for other views where they get the full screen height treatment, then they are all loaded at this resolution in grid as well (even though they're scaled down) and it begins to chug along.

The reason this option isn't in the hidden options menu is because with these three layout types and then with fanart, poster and square displays, there are effectively 9 (3x3) layouts for grid view. With an option in skin settings to choose the layout, I can make a rule that says the video window only needs to load the 3 layouts (poster, fanart and square) for the selected layout type. But if I have the option in the hidden menu, I have to load all nine when the videos window is initialised. The more code that needs to be loaded, the stronger the delay you see when opening videos for the first time after a restart. This is why I have the option in skin settings to disable views you don't want to use, to speed things up.

I don't know the real-world implications of moving this option to the hidden options menu so I could try it at some point and see if anyone feels the slow down. That way you would also be able to then choose Horizontal layout for Movies and Vertical small layout for tv shows, etc, instead of having one layout for all grid views. But the reason I didn't do that is I thought it would be confusing for people having grid scroll down in some placesa and right in others. Open to opinions on this though.

3). I've bene working on a detailed list view (you can see above) where I have experimented with this. I don't love it and I always felt a few years ago it made all the skins look kind of the same. I'd rather go for something a bit more minimal as I agree black screen can be boring, something like iPlayer, perhaps some sort of blur or gradient based on the selected accent colour that then changes based on the dominant colour of each item, potentially with some sort of subtle movement. It's on my to do list.

4) This is a Kodi option if I understand you correctly. There is an option in Settings > Media > Videos called " Flatten TV show seasons" - if that's set to "If only one season" it skips the seasons if there's only one. Set it to never and then you'll always see the season level between TV show and Episodes.

Thank you @realcopacetic

1) Excellent, I can’t wait to see it
2) Sounds good! I was already on 7 so all good.
3) Minimalist is good, your idea sounds great
4) I found it as described after switching to Advanced view, thanks!

5) Is it possible to have some options added for the Favourites widget? It would be cool if we could set a higher number than 20, and also an option to list by last played (without affecting the order of the Favourites menu item).

[Aaiemron]

Hi. It's bin a while ago that I asked this; Can you please add an autoclose OSD option?
I still have to close it manually.  Thanks

[AchillesPunks]

Just a quick question and it's no big deal. I was wondering if there is a away to make this section as colored icons?

[realcopacetic]

Hi. It's bin a while ago that I asked this; Can you please add an autoclose OSD option?
I still have to close it manually.  Thanks

I wasnt able to figure out why it's not working for you. If I remember you said the Estuary autoclose doesn't work either?

[realcopacetic]

Just a quick question and it's no big deal. I was wondering if there is a away to make this section as colored icons?

Not at the moment but I have started building up a collection of coloured icons ( I use my own rather than the default resource packs so I can make them better quality and update them more) so it is on the list to add at some point