Posts by KiddaC

menu...info...network

to get your new ip address.

root and blank is correct

kodi is pretty much dead on it's ass. And unless you have a fast box, is slow as hell on a lot of boxes.

Most people are moving to iptv for sports and movies now.

if you look in my dropbox. there is a guide for setting up a zgemma with openatv. It's pretty much the same for all boxes though. So anyone can follow it for any build or box. Might help you with common tasks like softcams, filezilla, cache flush, swap files, what plugins to install etc etc

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7f8…47McPCYtIifXC63x4X6a?dl=0

This also happens in the newest openatv which I am assuming is the same new openwebif version. I have put off updating my image because of this. With my skinning work, it is impossible for me to work without openwebif screenshots on my computer. Especially as my computer is in a different room than my tv.

I did try many of the settings in the openwebif settings, but nothing I tried worked.

So like the OP, if anyone knows a fix to this other than using an older openwebif version, any advice would be much appreciated.

If I have time tonight, I might do a file compare of all the older working files with the newer broken files.

Yes unfortunately openpli has lots of different names for the various screens. So a skin designed for openatv or openvix will not fully work on openpli.

You can find that skin on this forum

Powerboard skin Mod by OTTOMAN

Just try it on your box. It won;t break anything. But you will be able to see what screens look ok and which ones don't

Not got round to testing this yet, but looks a very promising project.

I can't help you with the plugin building (one day I will teach myself plugins), but may I add if you do go down the plugin route, it would be very useful if you design it so skinners can skin it via their own files, rather than a skin folder in the plugin. Its so much easier for us.

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If your box is not working, it might not have been assigned an ip address.

There are several ways to find an ip address for you devices connected to your network.

1) Log into your router via your PC. And somewhere in your settings (ARP/DHCP) it will list the devices connected and the IPs assigned to various devices.

2) Use windows command prompt. arp -a to give a list of assigned IP addresses on your network.

3)Trial an error in telnet or ftp sofware. By just stepping through the IP addresses you expect on your network i.e 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2, 192.168.1.3 . ...

It does really help that with any problem you have of you...

You state what box you are using.

What image you are using.

What possible pre-made backup build you are using.

crossepg doesn't work well on openatv. You have to use an older version of crossepg on openatv. So if using openatv its probably best to use empg importer.

crossepg is always corrupting data. Its known to be buggy as hell.

quickiest fix for most crossepg problems is just to delete your epg.dat file from your hdd/usb and do a fresh scan.

epg.dat lives
media/hdd or media/usb.

I personally don't use crossepg as it's to temperamental , so if you are further struggling, hopefully someone else can give you some advice.

Did you actually read my answer? Did you try doing my answer? Did you actually try anything...

when your box has rebooted to install the skin it looks like its cleared your epg data. What ever you are using to bring in your epg data. I.e epg importer or crossepg you just need to do a manual scan for whichever plugin you have installed. That is all. It isnt a skin problem.

I like rumours, and there has been lots of them this week on various different forums. The rumour mill is in overdrive. ;)
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Nice choice of skin boss. ;)

The skin is my new slyk onyx skin.

Slyk Onyx

but chabs skyq skin used to use a completely random size.

xpicons standard size is 220 x 132

normal picons are 160 x 100

Quote from dsayers

echo 'Moving Large picons to usb - please wait'

mv -f /hdd/SkyQ/picon /sdc1/xpicons/picon

That should do.

If using kiddacs skins it reads both SkyQ folder and xpicons folder ive just used SkyQ as chabs has only set his skin to read SkyQ

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Well the original and most other xpicon code/scripts use XPicon/picon folder. Metrix users this... Kraven uses this... I think Rossi's skins uses this. Maybe this should be your default. If others want to break protocol it's there problem to fix.

when I do it manually it looks like the gstreamer one anyway. So I was just checking if I was missing something. Thanks for detailed answer.

masterg. is there any benefit of this plugin over the old school manual way. i.e convert m3u to bouquet. save the file and place in etc/enigma2. blahblahblah. which to someone like me is no problem.

i am not talking speed and simplicity but interested in why you select gstreamer or livestreamer etc. what exactly is that doing. does it write something into the bouquet code.

Having a table side by side, of available not available might be useful. Stops all the questions of whats available and what isn't. Tick Tock Tick Tock. The End.

Why don't you just create a dropbox account. Upload your file there, then share your link to people via email or forums.

It's all I do for my skins.

Frequently Asked Questions

General Skin Questions

Q) Do I have to uninstall any previous skins.

A) No. You can install as many skins as you want. All my skins are sequentially named so you just need to install my skins over the top of old ones.

There should no longer be any clashes with other installed skins custom components.

Q) Does your skin work on Weteks

A) Yes and No. I believe it does now work on later versions of pbnigma, but there were problems with older versions. Just try it and see.

Q) Will slyk skin work on [random box name]

A) Just try it and see. It will either work, be part skinned, or not install at all. It won't break anything

Q) I am struggling to use FTP software. Can I install your skin via a USB Stick

A) Yes. You need to have the correct folder structure on your usb though. create a media folder. Inside that create a usb folder. Inside that place your ipk file.... media/usb/file.ipk

Q) I have been faffing with your skin and now my box only counts up to 49 and then boot loops. Do I need to reflash.

A) If your box is stopping at 49 count up. This is usually a skin problem. Either undo your last edit and save. Or delete my entire skin folder and
install it again. Your box will then continue to load normally. No reflash required.

Q) Will installing your skin reset all my personal settings

A) Installing a skin does not effect any of your settings on your box. Installing a new version will override any modifications you have made in the skin files or extras.xml though.

Q) Skin wont install as its conflicting with existing components.

A) Telnet into your box and force install it with this command. opkg install -force-overwrite /tmp/*.ipk

Movie Player Questions

Q) My movie planner isn't skinned

A) By default you box will use Enhanced Movie Center. This is not skinned. Either remove or disable EMC in plugins menu.

Q) My movie planner is all squashed up

A) Press menu button on movie planner and change the number of rows to your preference.

Infobar Questions

Q) Pressing OK twice brings up event view and not 2nd infobar.

A) See recommended settings above. (OSD Settings)

Q) How do I get large picons on the infobar.

A) See picons section above

Q) Why has my picons got a coloured background

A) OSD settings. Show picon background colour – Disabled

Movie Planner Mod

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Install the relevant movieplanner ipk for either openatv or openvix

Reboot your GUI

Press menu on the movie planner screen and go into settings.

Number of rows - <= 14

Use extended List - Slyk Onyx Planner.

Toppicks

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Toppicks (the graphics along the top and right), are a design feature of this skin.

How to enable toppicks

Install the toppicks ipk in the zip on the first post.

make sure these 2 script files have executable rights.

/usr/script

(/usr/scripts for openvix)

skypicker.sh

skyscraper.sh

Right click the file in your ftp software and edit file permissions to 755 or execute checked for owner/group/public.

Navigate to

/etc/cron/crontabs

edit "roots" file

for example below is my 9am scraper as set in the above screen shot.

the image picker is set to run every 30 mins.

0 9 * * * /usr/script/skyscraper.sh
*/30 * * * * /usr/script/skypicker.sh

If you don't want to use the toppicks and want to remove the graphics edit skin.xml on your box.

/usr/share/enigma2/slyk-onyx/skin.xml

comment out the toppicks import screen.

<!-- <include filename="/usr/share/enigma2/slyk-onyx-1080/o-toppicks.xml" /> -->