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[SUPPORT THREAD] Embuary - A Emby Kodi Skin


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Posted

No, the official plex kodi addon was built by them from scratch, they hired a couple of kodi devs to create it.

Really? I thought they copied Emby's.

 

OK, back under my rock :(

sualfred
Posted (edited)

Fork Kodi, rape its core and replace all database calls with a Emby DB compatible interface, and we don't need any addon to get Emby integrated :) (Plex also started with a Kodi fork)

 

With the utmost respect to your work on the Emby Theater clients, Kodi is a beast (flexible, fast, etc, best PVR integration, etc.). I use Emby Theater and the WebGui  on my PC, XBone, Android. But on my HTPC, my daily driver? Nope.

 

But we are going OT.

Edited by sualfred
Posted

Really? I thought they copied Emby's.

 

OK, back under my rock :(

It has been back and forth.

 

We ripped PleXBMC for xmb3c, Plex ripped Emby for Kodi for PlexKodiConnect.  Now Plex has a new addon called Plex for Kodi.  Yeah, we could copy that, but it is more like a separate app launched from Kodi.  I think a skin that 'knows' about EmbyCon but also about native addons is a better direction.  But my days of coding for this are over - for now at least.

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sualfred
Posted (edited)

We can work on adding dynamic content end points for any info you need.

 

 

 

something like this? 
 
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Based on conditional visiblity (Library.HasContent(%s) and System.HasAddon(embycon)) I could show only the DB, only EmbyCon or both together.
 
Sadly the Globalsearch script won't work with EmbyCon.
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im85288
Posted

Feel free to ignore but I feel this way will cause a load of pain in keeping it in sync with both the native kodi database and the embycon addon. I’ve been there before back in the xbmc3 days.

 

A combination of embycon with skinned windows in the addon (ie like plex for kodi) would be optimal as you control the whole process. If you two could combine it would be awesome, maybe null pointer could do the python and sulafred the skinning.

 

Regardless the skin is looking great and will give it a try when your completed with teasing us :)

sualfred
Posted

I'm with im85288. I would prefer something similar to the official Plex addon. That's cleaner and more user friendly. I have no problem to take care of the skinning part. But if we are going to achieve something like this, we should switch to something like Slack to discuss the details.

 

But nevertheless, I will integrate some options for EmbyCon :)

sualfred
Posted (edited)

Let me complete the skin for the common Kodi interface. It's still a long road.

As soon as I'm done we can discuss the missing options of EmbyCon. We would def. need some python scripts to get the cast lists etc (like Marcel's skin.helper.service/.widgets).

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im85288
Posted

The python to skin part was not that bad when I did it in the next up addon, for example: https://github.com/xbmc/repo-scripts/blob/isengard/service.nextup.notification/resources/lib/PostPlayInfo.py shows how the Window Props are set from the item(s) being browsed..the equivalent skin is here: https://github.com/xbmc/repo-scripts/blob/isengard/service.nextup.notification/resources/skins/default/1080i/script-nextup-notification-PostPlayInfo.xml

im85288
Posted

Strange, I use this:

 

postPlayPage = PostPlayInfo("script-nextup-notification-PostPlayInfo.xml",

addonSettings.getAddonInfo('path'), "default", "1080i")

 

And it picks up the 1080 directory corrector

fantasticn
Posted

Hi sualfred,

 

that skin looks amazing!!! Why no posting in the Kodi WIP-section?

 

I am also using Emby for my mobile devices and Kodi for my media players (Shield TV boxes). Therefore I would love to have some kind of unified interface. However, are you already skinning for Kodi 18 "Leia" or still for Kodi 17 "Krypton"? Though Leia is already running very stable and offers some great advantages, especially for Android users (like Google voice-search and inputstream-plugin) there currently is not much skins available yet. Everybody still is skinning for Krypton.

 

Can't wait for a release. Keep up the good work!

sualfred
Posted (edited)

Mainly because it's targeted to Emby users and it's to early to get annoyed by the "any eta??" questions ;)

 

It's still on Krypton because Leia is too buggy atm. And the Emby addon has no support yet.

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Angelblue05
Posted

OMG, you cant use includes with addon skins!

Nope. You sure can't and to top it off, you can't control the font either.

sualfred
Posted

The Python guys are crying for addon fonts and includes for years. Dunno why this isn't implemented yet. The only way is to add the addon skin files into the active skin directory.

Angelblue05
Posted

The Python guys are crying for addon fonts and includes for years. Dunno why this isn't implemented yet. The only way is to add the addon skin files into the active skin directory.

And they would never allow an official add-on to do anything like that.

sualfred
Posted

Yeah, the official repo rules... That's another reason why I use my own and the Kodinerds repo.

Angelblue05
Posted

Wow that is amazing.

Posted

By the way on the home screen it is my eventual goal to not have any tabs but i just haven't found a new home for favorites yet.

sualfred
Posted (edited)

Wow that is amazing.

As soon as the painful dialogues and video/music fullscreen windows were finished, it would be awesome. I hate coding those :)

 

The inconsistency of the way how they are rendered is driving me nuts everytime. Some of them uses grouplist, some containers and some of them are with hardcoded controls with auto/non-auto set labels.

 

 

By the way on the home screen it is my eventual goal to not have any tabs but i just haven't found a new home for favorites yet.

 

You mean the items in the topbar?

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sualfred
Posted

Dialogs..., I'm not quite sure how to layout the settings dialogs & windows.

So, if anybody has an idea, feel free to give me some input.

 

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horstepipe
Posted

Hey

As the skin is focused on Emby, could you please make sure that covers created by coverart look good in Kodi?

In almost all skins (except for Titan, marcelveldt put in a switchable fix for that) you have unpretty borders behind the covers.

sualfred
Posted

Vacation is over and the progress will get slower.

 

Summary of the last 2 weeks:

 

@@horstepipe

 

Don't get what you mean. None of my skins ever had ugly borders.

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Posted

Loks amazing so far!

 

Just noticing you seem to have live tv and pvr functionality working and I’m wondering how are you accomplishing this? Are you running a 3rd party pvr backend or have you somehow integrated the built in Emby server live tv features into your skin?

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