1.4.x Slick blue Theme for Titan - Recording space indicator and MPSteam support (1 Viewer)

[GaryMartynUK]

Slick Blue is a 'tweaked' version of the Titan Blue theme. Only a few subtle changes.

This theme is designed to work best in Basic Home mode with backdrops or fanart enabled. I believe it works fine in classic mode, but you won't see a great deal of difference.

Update 27/11/13 - I have since developed two other skins, one of which now effectively replaces both Slick Blue and Slick Blue Panel. Pulse8 and Pulse-Hex contain many more features than Slick Blue but can be configured to look exactly like Slick Blue if you turn off some of the extra features. You can look at them by clicking the links on the names in this paragraph. They also come in two other colour combinations. Pulse-Hex is the replacement for Slick Blue, Pulse8 also adds 8 buttons per Basic Home screen and thus includes more plug-in supported on the main screens.

v0.1.0

• Included support for backdrops on the 2nd Basic Home page
• Added a second backdrop for the Radio button
• Incorporated support the MPSteam plug-in
• Faster drawing of the 'Latest TV series' and 'Latest movies' overlays
• Moved power button to the bottom of the screen and lowered all Basic Home buttons to reveal more of the backdrops
• Incorporated support for DriveFreeSpace plug-in to give a recording space indicator on the Recorded TV screen
• Included the coloured EPG categories on the 11 line TV guide
• Some custom basic home buttons
• Rounded off the edges of the RSS ticker

v0.2.0 - Updated 21/8/13

• Added submenu for Radio
• Created 11 row radio guide (picks up the same setting as 7 or 11 row TV guide in skin settings)
• Reordered TV submenu
• Set default click on TV and Radio buttons to highlight 'Guide' in submenu
• Changed titles on Recorded Radio and Radio Search screens to say Radio not TV and include Radio icon
• Moved Radio submenu and Latest TV Series overlays to be in front of the background overlay (makes submenus and latest media overlays equally bright)
• Note : There is no language pack entry for 'Search Radio guide' so I have hard coded 'Search' the title on this screen will not translate

v0.2.1 - Updated 23/08/13

• Fixed alignment of latest videos overlay posters and centred them in all overlays
• Fixed hidden menu in My Videos due to skipping 'scan' when scrolling up (this was submitted as a bug to Titan and is fixed in 1.5.0 when released

v0.3.0 - Updated 08/09/13

• Lowered all menu items further
• Removed 'slide' effect on 2nd basic home menu (the first ones doesn't slide, so made them consistent)
• Added a solid blue 'Glow' effect to highlight buttons as opposed to the normal highlight frame in Titan
• Lowered left and right next menu indicators to align to buttons
• Created a 'Slick Blue Panel' theme which includes a back panel for the buttons on the basic home screen and updated left and right menu indicators

Simply extract the file into the theme directory within
C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Titan


There is a txt file in the zip for info on how to set-up DriveFreeSpace (or you can access that info here https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...n-recorded-programs-view.120119/#post-1008890)

v0.3.0 updates

New Glow highlight

Default Titan highlight (For comparison)

Slick Blue main menu

Slick Blue Panel main menu

v0.2.0 updates
Radio Menu

11 row radio guide



v0.1.0 + v0.2.0
Backdrops on 2nd basic home screen + New RSS background

Integration of MPSteam plug-in

Recording space indicator on recorded TV screen

Genre indicators on 11 row TV Guide

 

[Brudertac]

Thanks for the Theme! Very nice Looking.

I use 1.6.0pre and there must be some changes with the DriveFreeSpace Indicator? It is looking wierd..
Maybe you know what must be changed? Thanks alot!

 

[GaryMartynUK]

Brudertac,

Thanks for the compliment, glad you like it. I've not used 1.6.0pre yet so not had a chance to look into this. But technically 1.6.0pre has no changes to the skin engine so the skin should technically work, it could also be an incompatibility with the DriveFreeSpace plugin. Can you check in the MediaPortal configuration on the plugins tab to see if DriveFreeSpace shows as compatible or not?

I guess it should be showing as compatible as the drive space indicator on the Recorded TV page should simply not show if it detects the plug-in is not enabled. So assuming it is showing as compatible could you send me a screen shot of your recordedTV page so I can see what it looks like and I will install 1.6.0pre in a virtual machine and see if I can fix it.

Also as a quick possible fix. In general I find if a visual element does not show correctly it is normally where an old version of an image is already in the Cache (MP only reads images the first time you load a skin, from then on it pulls them from it's cache. So whilst this should not happen as the images the drive indicator uses are all unique, it might be worth closing MP, deleting the c:\programdata\Team Mediaportal\Cache\Titan directory and then restarting MePo. This will cause it to rebuild the image cache and ensures that it is using the images defined in the skin.

 

[Brudertac]

Hi GaryMartynUK,

i have tried to delete the cache. That doesnt help.
The Plugin is shown as Compatible in MP Config.

Screenshot of FreeDriveSpace in MP and a Screenshot of the Config.

 

[GaryMartynUK]

Brudertac,

OK I see the problem now, the DriveFreeSpace plugin appears to be working fine, you just have the default text strings in the DriveFreeSpace plugin config.

If you change the 'GUI Text' box to contain....
Approx %rectimeleft% hours available

and in the GUI text (total for all enabled drives) box put.....
%uspercent%

Then it should display properly. I think this info is also in a text file included with the skin, but I should really make that clear on the initial post. So I'll add that in asap.

I also notice from your pictures that you run your system in German. As there is nothing suitable in the the MePo language files for this plugin the label 'Recording space' is hard coded in English. If you translate 'Recording Space' for me I'll happily update and upload an XML file for the recordedTV page in German.

 

[Brudertac]

Gary, thanks a lot. It is working perfect now.

You can translate as follows:

"Approx %rectimeleft% hours available" - "ca. %rectimeleft% Stunden verfügbar"

"Recording Space" - "Aufnahmespeicher"
"used" - "verwendet"

best regards

 

[GaryMartynUK]

Brudertac,

Here you go. Put the "ca. %rectimeleft% Stunden verfügbar" into DriveFreeSpace config as you already spotted and then save the attached mytvrecordedtv.xml in the C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Titan\Themes\Slick blue or Slick Blue Panel directory over the top of the one that is in there. You should then get this.....

If there is anything wrong please let me know.