Theme change on-the-fly (variables based on date and time of the day, weather, etc.)?

jmarshall Wrote:IMO this would be useless, as 48 conditions is way too many for a skinner to be bothered with. It would have to be reduced significantly (eg down to just a handful of options) before it became useful, and even then I'm not sure I see any skinners bothering with it.

Those 48 conditions could simple be made to represent the brightness value of whichever theme color is used (so they do not each have to represent a color, 'just' the brightness level). Like how the brightness changes during the day in the Sony PlayeStation 3 XMB dashboard, see; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Media...or_schemes

So the skinning could choose to chance the brightness level on the weather instead of the time of day

Gamester17 Wrote:Those 48 conditions could simple be made to represent the brightness value of whichever theme color is used (so they do not each have to represent a color, 'just' the brightness level). Like how the brightness changes during the day in the Sony PlayeStation 3 XMB dashboard, see; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Media...or_schemes

So the skinning could choose to chance the brightness level on the weather instead of the time of day

How about assigning a fade/brightness-level procentage to each image (based on the weather condition that each image represent, so low fade/brightness-level procentage for sunny and high fade/brightness-level procentage for rain, etc. ...or vice versa, that could be up to be skinner if 'good' weather should have low fade/brightness-level procentage and 'bad' weather should have fade/brightness-level procentage or vice versa).

Have anyone given this any more thought?

I still think that automaticly on-the-fly change theme based on time-of-day and/or the weather would be really cool skinning feature.

There is allready time and date based conditions added so things can be shown at certain times /days
Its in the wiki under boolean conditions

Cool! ...so only 'current weather' as boolean conditions missing now then?

shouldn't a current weather conditional work with the comparestring conditional?

sure would

I was thinking of a kind of 'FanArt' backdrop function for weather with different backdrops for each kind of typical weather condition, with a standard directory structure so one could use multiple images for each type of weather condition, for example something similar to this:
http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/weather.php
http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/view...URRWEATHER

\FanArt Backdrops\Adult\
\FanArt Backdrops\Emulators\
\FanArt Backdrops\Games\
\FanArt Backdrops\Movies\
\FanArt Backdrops\Music\
\FanArt Backdrops\TV Shows\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Coudy Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Coudy Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Coudy and Rain Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Coudy and Rain Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Hail Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Hail Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Frost Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Frost Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Snow Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Snow Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Snow and Rain\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Sunny Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Sunny Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Sunny and Cloudy Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Sunny and Cloudy Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Sunny and Rain\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Storm Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Storm Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Rain Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Rain Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Windy Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Day - Windy Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Coudy Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Coudy Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Coudy and Rain Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Coudy and Rain Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Full Moon
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - New Moon
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Hail Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Hail Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Frost Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Frost Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Snow Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Snow Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Snow and Rain\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Storm Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Storm Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Rain Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Rain Heavy\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Windy Light\
\FanArt Backdrops\Weather\Night - Windy Heavy\

Quote:
N/A Not Available
00 Rain/Lightning
01 Windy/Rain
02 Same as 01
03 Same as 00
04 Same as 00
05 Cloudy/Snow-Rain Mix
06 Hail
07 Icy/Clouds Rain-Snow
08 Icy/Haze Rain
09 Haze/Rain
10 Icy/Rain
11 Light Rain
12 Moderate Rain
13 Cloudy/Flurries
14 Same as 13
15 Flurries
16 Same as 13
17 Same as 00
18 Same as 00
19 Dust
20 Fog
21 Haze
22 Smoke
23 Windy
24 Same as 23
25 Frigid
26 Mostly Cloudy
27 Mostly Cloudy/Night
28 Mostly Cloudy/Sunny
29 Partly Cloudy/Night
30 Partly Cloudy/Day
31 Clear/Night
32 Clear/Day
33 Hazy/Night
34 Hazy/Day
35 Same as 00
36 Hot!
37 Lightning/Day
38 Lightning
39 Rain/Day
40 Rain
41 Snow
42 Same as 41
43 Windy/Snow
44 Same as 30
45 Rain/Night
46 Snow/Night
47 Thunder Showers/Night

That functionality exists right now, though its only via the icon number rather than directly using the weather condition name. Nuka added this a couple months ago I think, but it didn't seem to draw too much attention at the time. I posted a fanart pack for it a while back. Could use some expanding, but still have several hundred pictures there...

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=41650

the original weather fanart discussion...http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=40709

About 5 pages in nuka added the infolabel and mentions how to use it.