Bigmack3000 84 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 How would I go about editing the xml file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy1 44 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 just use notepad or notepad++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embyjunky 2 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Can you give us newbies some specific edit instructions? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feerlessleadr 155 Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 (edited) This should apply to those that have already upgraded to matrix and embuary has been automatically disabled. Copy the addon.xml (located in the skin.embuary-leia folder in the add-ons folder within your kodi userdata folder) from your kodi install to a computer. Your userdata folder will be different depending on what you have kodi installed on. Check the kodi wiki if you don't know where it is. Open the addon.xml file in either notepad++ or notepad. Find the line that says <import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.14.0"/> And change it to <import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.15.0"/> Then copy the addon.xml back to the same location for your kodi install in step 1. Restart your box and/or kodi. You can now enable/select the skin in settings. Edited February 25, 2021 by feerlessleadr 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmack3000 84 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 How would I move that file from my Shield to my computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feerlessleadr 155 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 You can either use the kodi file manager and add your computer as a source in kodi (either via smb or sftp/ssh), a file manager app on the shield and connect to your computer over the network (like fx file manager, solid explorer, etc.), or you can plug in a usb drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embyjunky 2 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Thanks for the tips, Feerlessleadr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feerlessleadr 155 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 all the credit goes to @Grumpy1 for finding that tidbit from @sualfred on how to get the skin to work on Matrix. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmaxy 1 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Outstanding work everyone!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embyjunky 2 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Quick question: If I want to start over with Kodi (fresh install), how do I install Embuary skin in Matrix? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feerlessleadr 155 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 there may be a better way, but your best bet I think would be to install 18.9 first, install embuary, then update to 19 and do the steps I mentioned previously. Alternatively, you can download the zip of embuary right from the github repo, manually extract and rename the skin folder (to skin.embuary-leia) and copy the entire folder to your addons folder in your userdata folder. Either method should work I think though - not sure if there are better ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embyjunky 2 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Thanks feerlessleadr. I chose to download the zip file, updated add-on file and install as Zip file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bamboozled 0 Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, Embyjunky said: Thanks feerlessleadr. I chose to download the zip file, updated add-on file and install as Zip file. I am trying to do the same thing. What do I need to change in the add-on file? I can't find this line <import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.14.0"/> Edited February 26, 2021 by Bamboozled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feerlessleadr 155 Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 5 hours ago, Bamboozled said: I am trying to do the same thing. What do I need to change in the add-on file? I can't find this line <import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.14.0"/> Post the entire file to paste in and post the link here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xorp 47 Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Will Embuary be updated with official Matrix support at some point, or will we always have to use the xml hack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyde62 48 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 On 25/02/2021 at 09:59, feerlessleadr said: This should apply to those that have already upgraded to matrix and embuary has been automatically disabled. Copy the addon.xml (located in the skin.embuary-leia folder in the add-ons folder within your kodi userdata folder) from your kodi install to a computer. Your userdata folder will be different depending on what you have kodi installed on. Check the kodi wiki if you don't know where it is. Open the addon.xml file in either notepad++ or notepad. Find the line that says <import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.14.0"/> And change it to <import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.15.0"/> Then copy the addon.xml back to the same location for your kodi install in step 1. Restart your box and/or kodi. You can now enable/select the skin in settings. Done all that and still not showing in kodi to install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feerlessleadr 155 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 12 minutes ago, Glyde62 said: Done all that and still not showing in kodi to install You aren't installing it, it's already installed. You just select the skin from your interface settings and that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyde62 48 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 3 minutes ago, feerlessleadr said: You aren't installing it, it's already installed. You just select the skin from your interface settings and that's it. Worked it out. was disabled for some reason Had to enable it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyde62 48 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) Problem now is keyboard stops working on some screens and is fine on others Keyboard works fine till in get install page in repositories then stops working Edited March 7, 2021 by Glyde62 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feerlessleadr 155 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 55 minutes ago, Glyde62 said: Problem now is keyboard stops working on some screens and is fine on others Keyboard works fine till in get install page in repositories then stops working It still works, it's just that the cursor isn't showing what the current selection is highlighting. If you need to install something, it should still work, as the Install button is the default selection when you click into an add-on from the repository. Once the add-on is installed though, the cursor shows up when you go to the information screen (for me anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyde62 48 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) On 07/03/2021 at 12:24, feerlessleadr said: It still works, it's just that the cursor isn't showing what the current selection is highlighting. you are correct, Strange it disappears on that one page Was only a test build on my pc, Got it working ok but think i will wait for Embuary to be released officially for Kodi 10, Also Emby for Kodi missing a few feature i like at the moment so happy to wait a while Edited March 9, 2021 by Glyde62 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pog22 50 Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 (edited) On 25/02/2021 at 04:35, feerlessleadr said: You can either use the kodi file manager and add your computer as a source in kodi (either via smb or sftp/ssh), a file manager app on the shield and connect to your computer over the network (like fx file manager, solid explorer, etc.), or you can plug in a usb drive. Does the Shield need to be rooted to access these directories? Scratch that, got it! It's a hidden directory. Edited and working now \\SHIELD\internal\Android\data\org.xbmc.kodi\files\.kodi\addons Edited March 8, 2021 by Pog22 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFreeMan 2 Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 (edited) On 2/24/2021 at 8:54 AM, Grumpy1 said: This is from Saulfred over at the Kodi forums Quote Tempory fix to get this skin running in Matrix is to manually edit the addon.xml and bump the xbmc gui version to 5.15.0. There were no important changes which could affect this skin. Will take care of it as soon as I find time. Haven't messed with my Kodi setup in ages... Where do I go to find the addon.xml file? The only one I can find is in /userdata/library/video and it doesn't have anything in there (that I can see) relating to an xbmc gui version... Never mind... I hadn't read far enough to find that the instructions are further up this page. I'd only made it through page 78. Well... almost... I don't have an `addon.xml` file in my skin.embuary-leia directory. I've only got `settings.xml`. I'm pretty sure I can't just create an `addon.xml` file with that one line - I'm sure that there's more that's necessary for the xml to be valid. Of course, I'm still on 18.9 at this point, so it's not critical that I get this fixed today, but it would be nice to know what I'm missing for when the day comes. Ah! I found the original post on forum.kodi.tv, and I found a post a little further down with a complete addon.xml file with the edit already made. I put it in /userdata/addon_data/addon.xml I rebooted and no ill effects on Kodi 18.9.0. I just need to remember this when it's time to update. (Shouldn't LibraELEC be pushing these updates automatically?) Edited March 19, 2021 by TheFreeMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skank 81 Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 On 3/4/2021 at 3:02 AM, Xorp said: Will Embuary be updated with official Matrix support at some point, or will we always have to use the xml hack? Yeah im waiting for it too, dont feel like hacking and editing stuff on shield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feerlessleadr 155 Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 For anyone that doesn't want to make the updates, here I have attached the updated addon.xml which you can copy into your skin folder on your box and re-load kodi. For anyone that needs to install fresh, here is the zip with the entire skin with the modified xml already baked in, where you can just install from zip file. All I did for this was download the zip from fred's repo, add in the modified addon.xml, and re-zip. No other changes. I take no credit for this or the skin, just helping out fellow users. Mods, if this is inappropriate, please let me know and I will delete. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1L4EFdrSSEoZvHMlMsbp2uZAWKsfkjt3f?usp=sharing 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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