Bugs and improvements (incl. themes) (5 Viewers)

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

Thanks for a great skin. The thing that has held me back from MP2 (bar a few key features) has been a suitable skin. I currently use Titan in MP1, but found the MP2 Titan skin lacking/buggy - I might still go back to MePo1 but we'll see :O

A few things I would like to see changed in BV (personal preference obviously - and heavily TV oriented at present):
Main TV Guide utilises more of the screen, I feel there is wasted space (or unnecessary things on the screen). You should be able to display more channels, and more room for the channel numbers, etc.
Main TV Guide has more time intervals listed across the top (eg: 9pm, 9:30pm, 10pm, etc)
When in main TV Guide, the currently highlighted/selected program has a highlighted border around it
When in Main TV Guide, you can loop scroll through the channels (eg once you reach the bottom of the list it automatically loops back to the top, and vice-versa)
I see the newer Dev releases now support channel numbers, etc - But for me the number that is displayed is the index number and not my associated channel number
If I select a current program from the TV Guide, I want it to play and not bring up a sub menu (watch, record, schedule).

Thanks for listening

J.

 

[Lehmden]

But for me the number that is displayed is the index number and not my associated channel number

Only a matter of your settings. This can be changed in MP2 Settings easily...
Maybe the string isn't that clear (you can change this on transiflex, if you like), but the function is exactly what you want.

 

[Lehmden]

I currently use Titan in MP1, but found the MP2 Titan skin lacking/buggy

It is obsolete and abandoned from newer releases. You may try Titanium Extended Theme for Blue Vision instead...

 

[ge2301]

Main TV Guide has more time intervals listed across the top (eg: 9pm, 9:30pm, 10pm, etc)

I requested this already and will place it once again on the TodoList in the intenral development forum. At the moment I can simply not do it, because the backend code is not available for this. And though it seems simple, the solution needs to be scalable, so it's some effort behind.

When in main TV Guide, the currently highlighted/selected program has a highlighted border around it

This depends on skin. In BlueVision skin the focus is created by background color. In WMC skin I'm creating at the moment, it's a focus frame as you like. For BV I'll not add a frame for design reasons.

When in Main TV Guide, you can loop scroll through the channels (eg once you reach the bottom of the list it automatically loops back to the top, and vice-versa)

I could add this quickly, but it will cause a huge problem. As there are menu buttons in the top, you won't be able to reach them anymore. You'd be trapped in a EPG loop. In Titanium Extended Theme of BV skin it will be possible. This skin is from navigation point of view a bit further. I'll consider to add a loop control there.

 

[Jay_UK]

Main TV Guide has more time intervals listed across the top (eg: 9pm, 9:30pm, 10pm, etc)

I requested this already and will place it once again on the TodoList in the intenral development forum. At the moment I can simply not do it, because the backend code is not available for this. And though it seems simple, the solution needs to be scalable, so it's some effort behind.

Thanks for clarifying (it would seem simple)

When in main TV Guide, the currently highlighted/selected program has a highlighted border around it

This depends on skin. In BlueVision skin the focus is created by background color. In WMC skin I'm creating at the moment, it's a focus frame as you like. For BV I'll not add a frame for design reasons.

I just find the background colour quite similar to the colour of the none selected programs

When in Main TV Guide, you can loop scroll through the channels (eg once you reach the bottom of the list it automatically loops back to the top, and vice-versa)

I could add this quickly, but it will cause a huge problem. As there are menu buttons in the top, you won't be able to reach them anymore. You'd be trapped in a EPG loop. In Titanium Extended Theme of BV skin it will be possible. This skin is from navigation point of view a bit further. I'll consider to add a loop control there.

If you could add the function to the TE theme that would be great I suppose I'm use to using the back button to return back out of the EPG loop, every skin/design/user has their preference of how things should work.

Thanks for the quick reply, I will go and have a look at the TE theme again.

J.

 

[HTPCSourcer]

@ge2301 : I just realize that of all BV skins only Titanium Extended is displaying the local temperature. Shouldn't this be the case for all BV themes?

 

[ge2301]

Temperature display
@ge2301 : I just realize that of all BV skins only Titanium Extended is displaying the local temperature. Shouldn't this be the case for all BV themes?

I checked the weather pages, all skins and themes show the same information. What do you mean with "local" temperature? All temperatures, current and forcast temperatures are always according to the selected city. Perhaps you ment something else.

 

[HTPCSourcer]

Screenshots for TE, BV and Win10: Temperature is only visible in the TE theme. Maybe that's by design.

 

[Holzi]

@ge2301
I have some strange empty brackets in the EPG description (after the program title) which are not there in WMC skin. Any ideas?

Screenshot:

 

[morpheus_xx]

I have some strange empty brackets in the EPG description (after the program title) which are not there in WMC skin. Any ideas?

The empty brackets come from episode information. Usually they should only appear if a season/episode number is known. And I'm quite sure that it was fixed already.
Are you using a recent dev snapshot?