[MOD] Custom Home Items the easy way

Brillant little jobbie this is . Ive added it to my original xbox and its works a treat . I have however run into a bit of trouble on the apple tv 2 . I can install it and the new custom home shows as it should . It even adds the title to the homepage but it cant find to favorites.xml to set up the shortcuts . Ive found the favorites.xml on the apple tv2 . Its in the following folder
/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata

Im guessing that its looking elsewhere for the favorites.xml and drawing a blank as it isnt where you mod is pointing to . Is this one you could resolve for the appletv 2 people as it really is a great mod and i would luv to get it going .

williams_1980 Wrote:Brillant little jobbie this is . Ive added it to my original xbox and its works a treat . I have however run into a bit of trouble on the apple tv 2 . I can install it and the new custom home shows as it should . It even adds the title to the homepage but it cant find to favorites.xml to set up the shortcuts . Ive found the favorites.xml on the apple tv2 . Its in the following folder
/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata

Im guessing that its looking elsewhere for the favorites.xml and drawing a blank as it isnt where you mod is pointing to . Is this one you could resolve for the appletv 2 people as it really is a great mod and i would luv to get it going .

update : worked it out by reading instructions on page 8 . All good now . cheer

Could you be so kind to tell me how can I make changes manually after installing and configuring the Mod? I wanted the change somethings on my own. Where are the new menus and the multi image background in the XML...

Thanks!

Couldn't make the menu with favourites work. I pasted the script.favourites in:

../.xbmc/addons/script.favourites;
../.xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/script.favourites;
/usr/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/script.favourites;
/usr/share/xbmc/addons/script.favourites.

None of them worked. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and xbmc 10.0 r35648 and ubuntu 9.10 and xbmc 10.1.

Anyone that make that works in linux, help me please!

On win 7 it goes in the C:\Program Files\xbmc\addons\skin.confluence folder.

This mod works well for me except it kind of messed up the confluence home screen:



Any idea why the dark border area is gone?

Windows 7
May 30th 2011 nightly (pre-eden)

Ok nevermind...

I just re-installed the nightly and I can see why this mod no longer works!

They have redesigned the confluence home screen, and it's freaking great!

I can still see a use for this addon, but definitely the new home screen makes accessing custom video addons much easier.

vinistois Wrote:Ok nevermind...

I just re-installed the nightly and I can see why this mod no longer works!

They have redesigned the confluence home screen, and it's freaking great!

I can still see a use for this addon, but definitely the new home screen makes accessing custom video addons much easier.

vinistois Wrote:This mod works well for me except it kind of messed up the confluence home screen:



Any idea why the dark border area is gone?

Windows 7
May 30th 2011 nightly (pre-eden)

Same here. Anyone know how to make this work with the nightly builds?

hiimcliff Wrote:Same here. Anyone know how to make this work with the nightly builds?

The nightly builds have a redesigned home page, so this mod won't work until a new version of it is made.

Personally I think custom home menu items (and sub-menu items) should be integrated into the skin.

The way the home page looks now (without this mod installed) looks and works very well. My wife even commented on how much easier it is now to get to the video addons. The way they pop up automatically with their logos is very intuitive.