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<blockquote data-quote="Micropolis" data-source="post: 916840" data-attributes="member: 96567">Hello SpudR, kjegibbons, Holzi,&nbsp;@<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/spudr.54104/" target="_blank">SpudR</a>:Sorry to say, but in my opinion you don't had understand the idea of expert settings.The main goal was to reduce to configuration complexity of this plugin, not to hide important settings. All of these expert settings are not required for a smooth plugin functionality, but can be helpful for skinners, expert users with special MediaPortal configurations or others with different hardware/network configuration. And last but not least, it helps me to identify potential plugin problems without distribution builds every minute.Too bad that you have to fool members to tell your opinion.&nbsp;@<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/kjegibbons.113063/" target="_blank">kjegibbons</a>:Maybe a good idea, please allocate time and write a (that's you term) &quot;idiot&quot; guide in the next days.&nbsp;Simple answer: Some skinners or, for example also my person, want to download and use other zodiac images than the published one. But what you make, if the image rotates into the incorect direction? Maybe, you could say, take Photoshop and mirror the image. But what you will do, if the image contains text?&nbsp;Simple answer: there was a user request and I want to fullfill his needs. He has a UMTS internet connection and images are loading very slowly. Now he was bothered by the rotating circle and his idea was to hide the cursor.Common, why it works for other users?&nbsp;In my opinion this is a skin related problem. Please check the appropriate skin file and report your result. Based on this, maybe catavolt can help here.&nbsp;Open your mediaportal.xml, goto the WorldWeather section and enter the line &quot;&lt;entry name=&quot;ExpertSettingsVisible&quot;&gt;true&lt;/entry&gt;&quot; and save it. Now you can see the appropriate configuration tab by default.&nbsp;@<a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/holzi.104034/" target="_blank">Holzi</a>:Currently the plugin display a country result only, if it was supported by selected weather provider. I would chance the logic asap, means if the return result is empty the selected country from the configuration will be shown.&nbsp;I expected that the frustration will not be reduced after my vacation. I really do not know if I still want to keep going.&nbsp;Micropolis</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Micropolis, post: 916840, member: 96567"] Hello SpudR, kjegibbons, Holzi, @[URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/spudr.54104/']SpudR[/URL]: Sorry to say, but in my opinion you don't had understand the idea of expert settings. The main goal was to [U]reduce[/U] to configuration complexity of this plugin, not to hide important settings. All of these expert settings are not required for a smooth plugin functionality, but can be helpful for skinners, expert users with special MediaPortal configurations or others with different hardware/network configuration. And last but not least, it helps me to identify potential plugin problems without distribution builds every minute. Too bad that you have to fool members to tell your opinion. @[URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/kjegibbons.113063/']kjegibbons[/URL]: Maybe a good idea, please allocate time and write a (that's you term) "idiot" guide in the next days. Simple answer: Some skinners or, for example also my person, want to download and use other zodiac images than the published one. But what you make, if the image rotates into the incorect direction? Maybe, you could say, take Photoshop and mirror the image. But what you will do, if the image contains text? Simple answer: there was a user request and I want to fullfill his needs. He has a UMTS internet connection and images are loading very slowly. Now he was bothered by the rotating circle and his idea was to hide the cursor. Common, why it works for other users? In my opinion this is a skin related problem. Please check the appropriate skin file and report your result. Based on this, maybe catavolt can help here. Open your mediaportal.xml, goto the WorldWeather section and enter the line "<entry name="ExpertSettingsVisible">true</entry>" and save it. Now you can see the appropriate configuration tab by default. @[URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/holzi.104034/']Holzi[/URL]: Currently the plugin display a country result only, if it was supported by selected weather provider. I would chance the logic asap, means if the return result is empty the selected country from the configuration will be shown. I expected that the frustration will not be reduced after my vacation. I really do not know if I still want to keep going. Micropolis [/QUOTE]

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