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RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - sleeplesschris - 2013-07-11 what am i doing wrong? i'm in the 'Includes_Home' file and this is what appears as content within the vertical menu: <content> <include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Videos)">HomeVideosButton</include> <include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Movies)">HomeMoviesButton</include> <include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Menu_TVShows)">HomeTVShowsButton</include> <include condition="Skin.HasSetting(Menu_MusicVideos)">HomeMusicVideosButton</include> <include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Menu_TV) + System.GetBool(pvrmanager.enabled)">HomeTVButton</include> <include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Music) + Library.HasContent(Music) + !Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Music_FileMode)">HomeMusicButton</include> <include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Music) + [!Library.HasContent(Music) | Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Music_FileMode)]">HomeMusicFilesButton</include> <include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Pictures)">HomePicturesButton</include> <include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Programs)">HomeProgramsButton</include> <include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Weather)">HomeWeatherButton</include> <include condition="Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Favourites)">HomeFavouritesButton</include> <include condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Settings)">HomeSettingsButton</include> <include condition="Skin.HasSetting(Menu_PlayDisc)">HomePlayDiscButton</include> <include condition="Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Custom1)">HomeCustom1Button</include> <include condition="Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Custom2)">HomeCustom2Button</include> <include condition="Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Custom3)">HomeCustom3Button</include> </content> </control> nothing like this: <item id="16"> <label>$INFO[Skin.String(Menu_Custom3_Label)]</label> <onclick>$INFO[Skin.String(Menu_Custom3_Path)]</onclick> <icon>special://skin/backgrounds/settings.jpg</icon> <thumb>$INFO[Skin.String(Home_Custom_Back_Custom3_Folder)]</thumb> <visible>Skin.HasSetting(Menu_Custom3)</visible> </item> please help. RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - borgmanjayce - 2013-07-20 I just want to say that this is a great thread and I'll definitely be trying this out, but I have a couple of questions to ask: 1) Does this work with things like Anime OAV's, Hentai and Tokusatsu (Japanese superhero shows)? 2) I'm using Aeon MQ4 as my skin and even though I can't seem to click on the button for the menu's that I made for each custom playlist, I can't seem to get the anime stuff to be recognised as anime at all, so is there any advice you can offer to people like me who use skins such as the Aeon series, and also if they want to, how to use the scrapers from Anime News Network and AniDB instead of the one from TVDB as it sucks when it comes to a lot of 80's and 90's anime such as Zillion. RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - chaddt - 2013-11-10 is this info still correct, i tried it but seems to be different, the end result was no menu.... has it changed? RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - mngrl1 - 2013-11-16 yeah im pretty sure some things have changed i've been trying to add the <onclick>ActivateWindow(Videosfiles,kids,return)</onclick> but this makes it un-clickable if i put <onclick>ActivateWindow(Videos,kids,return)</onclick> it works but displays an empty folder. fixed my problem <onclick>ActivateWindow(Videos,C:/kids)</onclick> RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - ryankeast - 2013-12-17 Hi, I think I’m getting my head around this guide, which if I’m understanding it correctly, then this is just what I am after to separate my comedy stand up shows. Firstly, my current set up is a 3TB harddrive connected to my mini PC. On that harddrive I have folders “Albums”, “TVSHOWS” and “MOVIES” I want to start adding comedy stand up to my library, but like many do not want it in with my default Movie Library. So I will create a new folder on the harddrive called “STANDUP” I will create a source called STANDUP also within XBMC. First question, what do people use to scrap StandUP and what media type do you use? I understand the hacking of the xml files but before I start making special smart playlists for the three following sections – TVSHOWS, MOVIES and STANDUP, what I want to check is the following. I have spent a lot of time and effort going through each of my movies individually and scrapping them with the fanart that I like the most. Can you confirm that the MOVIES and TVSHOWS art won’t be effected by doing what I’m doing? Thanks to those that will reply and thanks for the originator of this post as this could be the answer to my dreams :-) RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - csjjpm - 2014-03-22 Hi, would someone suggest how I can get mine to work properly. I've added locations to sources.xml <video> <default pathversion="1"></default> <source> <name>Kids_TV</name> <path pathversion="1">C:\Users\Public\Videos\Kids_TV\</path> <allowsharing>true</allowsharing> </source> <source> <name>Kids_Films</name> <path pathversion="1">C:\Users\Public\Videos\Kids_Films\</path> <allowsharing>true</allowsharing> </source> <source> <name>Films</name> <path pathversion="1">C:\Users\Public\Videos\Films\</path> <allowsharing>true</allowsharing> </source> <source> <name>TV</name> <path pathversion="1">C:\Users\Public\Videos\TV\</path> <allowsharing>true</allowsharing> </source> </video> and edited the home.xml <item id="19"> <label>Kids Films</label> <onclick>ActivateWindow(Videos,Files,Kids_Films,return)</onclick> <icon>-</icon> <thumb>-</thumb> </item> <item id="19"> <label>Kids TV</label> <onclick>ActivateWindow(Videos,Files,Kids_TV,return)</onclick> <icon>-</icon> <thumb>-</thumb> </item> this puts me into the 'Files' location and I can see my 'sources' I've tried editing it to ActivateWindow(Videos,Kids_Films,return) but this puts me into 'Videos' any idea how I can get straight into the 'Kids_Films' location? thanks Paul RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - budswell - 2014-03-25 Thanks, I've tried a few of the ideas in this topic and have custom front menu items for smart playlists working. But I tend to do most of my video browsing on the ios remote, and it does not appear to have any way to access playlists for videos. So for all my vids which i'd like to keep seperate from the movies (mainly sport) I am stuck with not adding to the library at all and browsing by file. Is there any other way to get video library playlists and/or "sections" working in both the main UI and the iosRemote? RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - Ernie11 - 2014-04-05 [Edit 2] After sleeping I noticed what I did wrong, I changed the playlist paths but not the sources paths. I got it working now. Hello. In the past I used your guide and after playing with it a little I got it to work. The problem I have now, hope you can help me figure it out, is that my main hard drive got full. I went out a bought a new hard drive so now I have 2 hard drives in my computer. I moved some of the videos to the new hard drive to open some space on my old one. I went into xbmc and edited the playlists so that it would look at the D: drive instead of the C: drive when it was looking up certain videos. Now the playlists of the videos on the 2nd drive doesnt work. All I get is the blank spaces with the popcorn background. When I go to the playlists within xbmc and open them I get the same, its like not finding the files. I did "update library" but nothing scans in. Am I forgetting something or am I doing something wrong? Thanks. [Edit] I changed the paths in each playlist back to the C: drive (havnt deleted it form the main yet) and all the videos show up again. Doesnt make sense to me. Ernie. RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - lonny - 2016-03-23 thank yo so much.. so awesome RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - vongikking - 2017-03-17 Thank you very much, this helped me A LOT, but one thing wasnt clear for me. I now have a smartplaylist that shows all my anime...but is there a way so that the same anime does not show on the "movies" tab? RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - dgreen - 2017-03-20 After watching a show on 17.1, how do you return to home screen without backing out? RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - ronvp - 2017-06-04 Excellent guide!!, but all this to create a couple of home screen folders?? Kodi needs some serious user friendliness upgrade!''' I have my movies in about 8 folders (Movies, Documentaries, Standup comedy, Animation, TV Shows, Home Movies and Music concerts, Music videos), Why in the standard skin( because that one is really good) after adding these, is it so hard in Kodi to have these show up under Movies, each in their own folder and still have all the same options as under the current "Movies" home screen item? To me there needs to be an option that allows for showing the root folder for each movie category folder. RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - the_other_guy - 2019-01-26 (2017-06-04, 13:48)ronvp Wrote: Excellent guide!!, but all this to create a couple of home screen folders??based on kodi 18 may work on 17 it is just side menu with no widget screens you would edit home.xml you need to add new menu items the way to set up a link (links can be made by adding item to favourites \AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata just copy "link\\" E:\\=DRIVE PATH "E:\\Blu-Ray\\"
"D:\\Documentaries\\"
"E:\\Standup comedy\\"
"E:\\Animation\\"
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=333279 RE: HOW-TO customize the home menu with custom categories - atd2 - 2019-01-31 is this still working? RE: - User 436809 - 2019-07-19 (2011-01-05, 21:42)Myth Wrote: 4. Preparing the skin, Transpancy!! Thank You, so much. This helped me a lot. |