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I just installed Libreelec based on Matrix, and Confluence 4.7.13 from repo. Am coming from Leia.
I'm opening a stream from my PVR, full screen all is fine. If I go back in the channel list while the stream is still playing, the image should be resized to a smaller thumbnail in right side in the screen.
However, it seems the resize no longer works and it just looks like a crop. The problem is also that the image is flickering aggressively.

I was thinking at trying older Confluence versions, but I don't see where to get them from.

Since some recent update I no longer have thumbnails in "Big List" view. Updating the library did not fix.

Confluence 4.8.0
Kodi 20.2
Ubuntu 20.04.6

When I try to use stretchmode in retroplayer nothing happens. On Estuari stretchmode does work.

Version 4.5.14 okay. Version 4.6.2. On selecting Music option from main screen, an extra thunbnail window with the caption "Now Playing" appears" overlaying the usual lower folder thumbnail. This extra widow persists until back at the main screen.

In Music-Library Artists (using Media info view) some artists have both born and formed data/date. These fields overlap each other on the same row and the end result is unreadable.

I might be wrong, as I am new to this feature and am just beginning to merge all of your great work into my locally tweaked version of Confluence (just up to Nexus for now) -> but I think this Boolean is opposite to what it should be - this message should only show if the value is empty, right? If a default has been set, we don't want this message to be popping up all the time right?

I've always had only three menu items on the Confluence home screen: Weather, Videos, System. Until updating to Leia, my home scree has always started with "Videos" in focus, i.e., with the two default tabs showing and any add-on shortcuts I've made.

Now the home screen opens with the focus on "System". Someone suggested to me that the focus is always on the third menu item (clearly not true for me in the past) and I did try adding another menu item before Videos. This worked, but I have no use for other menu items and really don't like the look of the home screen when focused on "System".

Is there a "simple" fix I can make myself in the accessible code?

Record button on 'Radio'

Playing TV and pressing the white 'Record' button there is on-screen information that the recording has started, the button turns red and additionally there is a red point on screen.

Playing Radio and pressing the white 'Record' button there is only the on-screen information. The button remains white, no additional point on the screen.

I would like to have the red button recording Radio too.(If this is possible ;-) )
Expected Behavior

When listening to Radio stations and pressing the white circle (record button) the button should turn red, indicating a recording is taking place (as it does when watching a TV station and pressing there the record-button)

Actual Behavior

The record button remains white, there is only a short information, that the recording has started.
Possible Fix

Copy the appropriate lines from the TV-Recording behaviour
To Reproduce

Start Raspian
select Kodi (in my case 18.7 as Raspian offers no newer version)
select Radio
select a free station
listen to the station
press the "record" button (should turn red now (like in TV)

Debuglog

There is no log for this:

Your Environment

Used Operating system:

[x ] Linux (RaspiOS) Raspberry pi4 4GB

Operating system version/name:

Kodi version: Leia 18.7 (latest for Raspi available version) Skin: Confluence

see also xbmc/xbmc#19225 (comment)

Could I please know why the Confluence skin is not updated in the kodi repository?
It's been more than 7 months and still hasn't been updated.
In the official repo there is only version 4.7.13 and not the version present in this git (4.7.15).
Maybe because the new update has to be released in a separate release specifically for Nexus? Thank you

This skin does not work on kodi 21 bèta 3 and later. It requires compatibility with Abi V5.17.0

Missing subtitle color setting lines in Settings > Player > Subtitle.

In the definition file SettingsCategory.xml is missing a ColorButton with id=15 and the DialogColorPicker.xml definition file is also completely missing.

Since the skin was updated to version 4.8.0, you can no longer open the favorites in the main screen with a keystroke, but now have to access them in a cumbersome way via the favorites icon at the bottom left.

I had assigned this function to a button on my remote control using the Keymap Editor program add-on, which in older versions <4.8.0 called up the side favorites menu.

With version 4.8.0 the programmed button no longer has any function. Can this functionality be implemented again in a future version?

In the standard Estuary skin, calling up favorites still works. I just like the old Confluence skin better and would like to have this function back.

Whilst I understand that Confluence is not a particularly fanart heavy type of skin, with the recent changes to the recently added stuff on the home page, which I see now shows the poster backdrop....it seems like perhaps people would be open to at least a little basic clearart support maybe?

For years I have used a simple mod which basically shows the clearart, failing that, the clearlogo, and failing that the episode thumb. I'm not big on random video thumbs (and the associated risk of spoilers) - and the logos etc always look a lot better. I don't think it would have any negative performance impact, and with Matrix all these art types etc. are all supported by default I believe.

Happy to knock up a PR if people here approve...

In a nutshell, it's just this, used in DialogScreenBar.xml and VideoFullScreen.xml

	<!--  BOSSANOVA808 MOD CLEARART -->
	<!--  SHOWS CLEARART BY DEFAULT, OTHERWISE FALLS BACK TO LOGO or BORING THUMB -->

	   	<control type="group" id="10121">
	      	<visible>[Player.Paused]</visible>
   		   	<visible>VideoPlayer.Content(Movies)</visible>
			<visible>!Skin.HasSetting(HideSeekBarOSD) | Window.IsActive(VideoOSD) | Player.ShowInfo</visible>
			<control type="image" id="1">
				<description>clearart image</description>
				<posx>10</posx>
				<posy>260r</posy>
				<width>300</width>
				<height>230</height>
				<texture>$INFO[Player.Art(clearart)]</texture>
				<aspectratio aligny="bottom">keep</aspectratio>
				<visible>!String.IsEmpty(Player.Art(clearart))</visible>
			</control>
			<control type="image" id="1">
				<description>logo image</description>
				<posx>10</posx>
				<posy>260r</posy>
				<width>300</width>
				<height>230</height>
				<texture>$INFO[Player.Art(clearlogo)]</texture>
				<aspectratio aligny="bottom">keep</aspectratio>
				<visible>!String.IsEmpty(Player.Art(clearlogo)) + String.IsEmpty(Player.Art(clearart))</visible>
			</control>
			<control type="image" id="1">
				<description>Movie cover image</description>
				<posx>20</posx>
				<posy>350r</posy>
				<width>300</width>
				<height>330</height>
				<texture fallback="DefaultVideoCover.png">$INFO[Player.Art(thumb)]</texture>
				<aspectratio aligny="bottom">keep</aspectratio>
				<bordertexture border="8">ThumbShadow.png</bordertexture>
				<bordersize>8</bordersize>
				<visible>String.IsEmpty(Player.Art(clearart)) + String.IsEmpty(Player.Art(clearlogo))</visible>
			</control>
		</control>

I am using "IPTV Simple PVR" for Live TV and EPG is provided with XMLTV format.
Though EPG Start time / end time and progress bar details are displayed as expected but there is no programme icon displayed from the XML. Same is visible using default Kodi skin though

Is there way to display programme icon in confluence skin?
I tried $INFO[ListItem.Icon] but it displayes channel logo instead of current programme icon from EPG

<programme start=" stop="" channel=""><title lang="en">some title</title>
<icon src="http://<somepath>" width="" height="">

Thank you

Hello!
(Sorry for my English.)

I circled the problem in red in the attached picture. Is there a solution to make the subtitle language icon appear properly?
There is no overscan, the picture appears fine otherwise.

System: CoreElec
Kodi: Omega (21) Official

Thank you in advance for your answer.

There is a depencie problem XBMC.gui 5.16.0

Hello

Which tool do you use/ prefer for editing xml files?

regards

Hi, is it possible to build Estuary's DialogPlayerProcessInfo into the Confluence skin in Kodi 19 now some things aren't quite right?
In Kodi 18 everything is fine.

May be my issue but can’t get around it. Apologize for creating issue if it is my problem alone.

My default page is videos but happens on movies, etc. Down arrow doesn’t immediately show/highlight the border around the add-on shortcuts so I don’t know what is highlighted. I do know the behavior so I’m able to press down once then right once or left twice to get to things but it’s an issue. Reinstalling local version of 4.8.0 resolves the issue.

Kodi 20.5, Confluence 4.8.4

Thanks.

A new version of KODI, KODI 18, calls for a new version of skin. I have used Confluence for a long time now and have been very pleased with it's plain and simple way of presenting the complex and wonderful world of KODI. However, I am not pleased with the Confluence version for KODI 18. In my view this version is a step down in functionality.

I am referring to the new way subtitles are handled via OSD. The new method just does not compare with the former handling. I have of course no idea why this change was made; but possibly it was made to make the "Subtitle OSD" look like the OSD for "Video Settings" and OSD for "Audio and subtitle settings" - however, my guess does not matter.

What matters is that the workings and uses of the "Subtitle OSD" is categorically different from the other two. Having them all look alike will just do that but at the same time destroy the powerful functionality of the "Subtitle OSD" experienced in former versions of Confluence.

Using the crippled "Subtitle OSD" on Confluence for KODI 18 - the mind wanders to the good old days of former versions of Confluence and a vague kind of hope or thought surfaces: "will it be changed back...". - Of course I reverted to KODI 17 with the superior Confluence.

TV-show season posters are not displayed in Kodi 19 RC1
Skin: Confluence 4.7.6
Not working in this view: Media info 2, Media info 3, Big List
Working in this view: List, Thumbnail, Poster Wrap
Poster naming (example): season01-poster.jpg

Operating system version/name: 1: Windows 10 64bit / 2: Libreelec 9.80 nightly / 3: FireOS
Kodi version: 19 RC1

The script-cu-lrclyrics-main.xml file still contains the list control 120 which is not used anymore in the CU LRC Lyrics adddon since version 6.30, see here: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=147340&pid=3094059#pid3094059

Please remove this or make it unvisible with
<visible>false</visible>

The list control 120 is drawn over the 110 lyrics list, see here: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=147340&pid=3093922#pid3093922

Add a progress bar and playtime.

Example

Hi!
I'm on Kodi v17.6 Windows 10, skin version 3.1.43
When you open the context menu "Information" about an addon, the "What's new"
text bleeds all over if the information spans more than one line,(news tag in addon.xml)

In the Estuary skin this is not a problem.

[ First of all, Confluence is by far my favorite skin on Kodi (still) – many thanks for maintaining it. It makes the whole cinematic experience so much cleaner and functional, IMO. ]

However there is a change in behaviour from the Leia branch compared to prior Kodi versions for this skin which impacts the status line (activated by pressing "i") – the icon for subtitle languange (e.g, "en" for English) is always present even if the subtitle has been switched off (with "t").

I've noticed this on several Leia installations; ranging from 18.3 to 18.7, running on Parabola Linux and also on Raspbian (Rpi4); the behaviour is the same. Also the same behaviour when compiling from source and reinstalling the Confluence add-on.

On prior versions of Kodi the icon for subtitle language was not present if a subtitle was currently not showing, which is what one would expect (it would re-appear if the subtitle was toggled back on, and "i", or the appropriate remote-control button mapping pressed.)

Hopefully this is a simple fix.

When i run Kodi with the Confluence skin it seems that the weekdays are missing when i use Swedish language.
So instead of Lördag den 19 september 2020 it will show den 19 september 2020

Kodi 18.8
Confluence 4.6.9
Windows 10

Btw, month should use lowercase letter, but that is another issue :)

Nexus - screen calibration not working

When playing a video there are two symbols that show the sound and subtitle languages. In Kodi 18.x it is now showing the subtitle language even if the subtitles are not enabled. This is the only way to quickly see if the subtitles are enabled or disabled, but now that isn't possible anymore because this symbol is always there when a video has subtitles.

Kodi version: 18.6
Confluence version: 4.6.9

Hi,

I have migrated from Kodi 17 to 18 and I am using Confuence.
Now when Kodi starts, the "Film", "Videos", Series", "Music",... labels don't appear into the menu. And into System menu, some entries are blank. But I can click them to enter the menu.
If I change from Confluence to another skin and come back to Confluence, the label are here.
I use Confluence into French language with kodi on Ubuntu 18.04.
Here are images of the missing labels.

Hi, thanks for making this awesome skin.
As 4K becomes mainstream, would you consider making the skin native in 4K?

I know it goes way beyond updating wallpaper and probably requires a lot of changes. I also understand if you reject this feature request. Could you please advice if this is going to happen?

Thank you for your awesome skin.

Every time I try to use Music to play a file, about one or two seconds into playing, Kodi abruptly exits. This is true for both Kodi 18.3 and 18.4 on my FireTV Gen 2. It worked with earlier versions, and it works with other skins.

This issue should be understood as a WIP and should simply list stuff I would like to do before submitting a new version to the repo(s).

• New branch for Nexus
• New branch for Omega (probably after first Kodi alpha release)
• Add "Show/Hide password option"
• Provide setting for using poster instead of thumbs for musicvideos (fixes #198 )
• look through the skinning engine changes and see if other things need to be changed as well (https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=363553)

Others are free to comment to this issue if they think that things need to be changed/adjusted

My 'Kodi user friends' and I enjoy using Confluence for our Kodi Skin. We use local graphics for fanart, poster, and thumb for each musicvideo. Quite often we only have one or two graphics that are used for all three. Hours and hours are spent either assigning the 'Poster' graphic to be used for thumbnail and often for fanart. Or the 'poster' graphic is copied one or two times for each music video and renamed to be used for thumb and often for fanart and saved to each musicvideo folder.

Many many hours of work would be saved if Confluence had two settings available to allow the 'poster' graphic to be used as an alternate for thumb and/or fanart.

As information, the Estuary skin has a setting to allow the use of Poster to be used for the thumb graphic.

Currently each of our musicvideo folder's contents is similar to the following:

Alicia Keys - Unplugged.iso
Alicia Keys - Unplugged.nfo
Alicia Keys - Unplugged-poster. jpg
Alicia Keys - Unplugged-fanart.jpg
Alicia Keys - Unplugged-thumb.jpg

Thank you for your consideration.

Frankpc

The main menu item, 'Programs' is missing in recent Confluence versions on Leia. Previously this could be toggled via System->Appearance->Skin settings, but the Programs entry is altogether missing from the list (entries which can be toggled are 'Weather', 'Movies', TV Shows', 'Music', etc.

I frequently rely on using the Programs menu-item to quickly access program addons, which now take 4-5 more steps to find, selecting the add-on, and choosing 'Run'; which is as one might agree a lot more cumbersome.

As seen on the above screenshot, there is an "addons" entry on the main menu. When clicked, it leads to program addons. Thus, I think it's label is missleading and it should say "programs" (or whatever it said up to the kodi 17 version). Else, it should lead to the addons browser or the addons settings in preferences

The screenshot was taken from my pi zero, with libreelec 9.0, kodi 18.0 and confluence 4.5.14 (and greek locale).

For reference, this is how it looks on the quartz skin and, when clicking settings, it leads straight to settings > addons.
That screenshot was taken from my pc, with debian testing x64, kodi 18.1 and quartz 5.4.6 (and english locale). I switched it to the english locale because quartz also translates "addons" to "προσθετα" (greek translation of addons).

Please change Εμφάνηση (lines 257 and 261 in the greek strings.po) to Εμφάνιση (as seen in line 241 and a few more).
Above that, on line 269, απτικοποίηση should be oπτικοποίηση. Those 2 hurt my eyes :P

Moreover, the same lines could be changed from

"Εμφάνηση φόντου βίντεο που \"Αναπαραγωγή σε εκτέλεση\""
"Εμφάνηση φόντου οπτικοποίησης που \"Αναπαραγωγή σε εκτέλεση\""

to

"Εμφάνιση φόντου βίντεο όταν γίνεται \"Αναπαραγωγή σε εκτέλεση\""
"Εμφάνιση φόντου οπτικοποίησης όταν γίνεται \"Αναπαραγωγή σε εκτέλεση\""

In rough translation, it means "when playback occurs", but it sounds better than the existing one.

If there are any other strings that need to be translated, please tell me.

Kodi 20 Nvidia Shield Pro Confluence
After the update, you can no longer scan individual video files to the library. Thumbnails no longer show posters in Thumbnail view, even with local posters and ini files.
This applies to SMB network shares. I have not tested local files due to space limitations.

When downloading subtitles in 17.6 the player controls (OSD) did always close it self when the subtitle was downloaded, but in 18.6 i have to close it manually. Most of the time you are done when you have selected the subtitle, but now you have to wait for it and when it is finished you have to press the back button to close the OSD :(

Kodi 18.6
Confluence 4.6.9

Hi.
After upgrading to Kodi 19 (Nvidia Shield) I am no longer able to open the context/submenu when in the TV guide (used to "long press" the select key and it would display a menu to show information - select recording etc. I've configured KODI/PVR client to change channel on "short" pressing select).

I "think" it's trying to work as when I look at the log the following appears after a long press of the select key.

2021-03-16 21:26:06.031 T:20346 INFO : Loading skin file: DialogPVRGuideControls.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
2021-03-16 21:26:06.032 T:20346 ERROR : Unable to load window XML: /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/skin.confluence/720p/DialogPVRGuideControls.xml. Line 0
Failed to open file

I don't know enough about it to go find the xml file myself.
Thanks,
Pete.

When I connect to my tvheadend and want to play a recording, "DialogPVRInfo.xml" doesn't show a button for playing, but shows the "Add Timer" button instead. Pressing the play button on the remote works.

Shouldn't button id 9 (Add Timer) be <visible>Window.IsActive(PVRGuideInfo)</visible> and
button id 8 (Play recording) be always visible?

Confluence 4.6.9

I upgraded to the latest Kodi 20 and found that during a 10 minute skip/seek (up arrow on remote) the seekbar in the upper right hand corner no longer shows. If I use the small skip (right arrow or left arrow on remote) the seekbar is displayed. Anyone know how to fix this? I've attached a photo of the seekbar in question. Any other skin does not appear to have this problem. It's reproducible on Android or Windows. I've tested both.

Thanks.

Can't intall at coreelec 9.2.5 stable.

I tried to add the latest version Confluence 4.8 to Kodi 21.0 Omega,
downloaden from both the Kodi Omega add-on and from the github

I get an error, in Dutch,
NL: "De afhankelijkheid op xbmc.gui versie 5.16.0 kan niet worden voldaan"
In English,
EN: "The dependency on xbmc.gui version 5.16.0 could not be satisfied".

Confluence add-on skin will not install on my system for now

I downloaded KodiSetup-20240220-e085b62f-master-x64.exe | 73.4 MiB | 2024-Feb-21 03:23 from:
https://mirrors.kodi.tv/nightlies/windows/win64/master/

Confluence doesn't work with it. Is there a workaround in the meantime?

not sure if somebody is already aware of this. installing confluence under current master looks like this

all good when installing under Matrix

Hi,

Trying to download Confluence skin for newly installed Leia on my Nvidia Shield tv and it's been marked as incompatible....any idea if you will be updating?

Hi,
I really don't like this Add-ons submenu you've included in version 4.6.3. It would be nice if an option to disable this addition were included. I can get to all those submenu choices in System. I don't need immediate access to them.

I've bitched enough, I suppose. It was just surprising when suddenly that submenu was there. I thought my LibreELEC RPi had gone haywire. I was ready to reinstall, but decided to come to your github first. Glad I did.

Thank you for your time.

I would like to switch from LIBREELEC (KODI 16) to COREELEC but I would like to change the appearance of the channel change window in PVR IPTV SIMPLE CLIENT to the one I have now in LIBREELEC (photo below). COREELEC just displays a large white channel number and I don't quite like it. Can I go back to the old version of the channel change in the CONFLUENCE skin?