Slyk Skin Mods v5

[gmanpanthro]

Wow i really understand kiddac's pain now! I always knew it must have been hard work, but never would I have guessed how annoying this lark can be!!

trial and error, over and over and over!! but i have finally finished the top picks screen based on a more landscape look, using kiddac's pixel guide

http://www.tiikoni.com/tis/view/?id=8d8a3b2

I couldn't get the pixels exact, because i was trying over and over and things were just not lining up properly!

TV Guide / Boxsets / Sly Cinema / Kids / Planner / Catch Up TV / Sports / Sky Store are 183 x 81

The gap between for top icons is 17 px, including the gap between the mini tv

Bottom images - top picks 1 at 383 x 244 , top picks 2 183 x 244 , top picks 3 + 4 183 x 116 , top picks 5 183 x 244 , top picks 6 183 x 116 , more top picks 183 x 116

The gap between the bottom images is also 17

Included the official sly search bar (visual look only) at the top

There is a bit of a problem with this though, i'm hoping it might just be on my box that can be easily fixed, i am getting a black border at the top and side of the tv picture in the mini tv - i've checked my visibility settings and they are correct, and it was fine before i started messing with this!!


Hope that's good enough; but if anyone wants to tweak to improve any better, feel free, here's the official sly screen if you want to compare :



danmed / gman or someone who knows, who wants to do the rest? i've created a thread for pulling in the images which i will start updating once this is finalised

thread here :

http://www.techkings.org/openvix-openatv-skins/104530-slyk-1-hd-top-picks-todays-picks-mod.html#post588637

Just need the shell script incorporated into it (I have no idea how myself) to pull the images from the net from the above link

if anyone knows how i can fix my preview screen visibility, please let me know !!

Files are mymods.xml and new set of sly icons

Unzip toppicks zip , ftp mymods.xml and skyicons folder to slyk-1-hd folder, restart gui

Download :

I wont be able to get to a computer today as im away to edinburgh, but kiddac fixed theblack border problem on the mini tv screen the other day there. If youve upgraded to his latest release, go into main-templates.xml and look for t1-tv screen and ull see he now has a transparent screen sitting behind the mini screen.

If i remember correctly it was set to be positioned +5px from the position of the mini tv on both x,y and the size was set to be -10px on the size(x,y)

so eg mini tv: pos(320,90) size(352,242

transparent screen: pos(325,95) size(342,232)

And that helped elimate the black border on the tv screen.

But looking good now that weve got the layout pixel perfect, and now that youve incorported the search bar at the top too.

 

[hideout10uk]

#!/bin/bash
for img in *.jpg
do convert "$img" "$img.png" done

Not use that or mogrify , imagemagik

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[danmed]

#!/bin/bash
for img in *.jpg
do convert "$img" "$img.png" done

Not use that or mogrify , imagemagik

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this doesn't work on the h2s.. no imagemagik or mogrify available (i don't think)

 

[kiddac]

Wow i really understand kiddac's pain now! I always knew it must have been hard work, but never would I have guessed how annoying this lark can be!!

trial and error, over and over and over!! but i have finally finished the top picks screen based on a more landscape look, using kiddac's pixel guide

It's not that difficult if you have a perfect screen shot to work off and do your graphic mockups first. I basically do what I did with the top picks and draw boxes everywhere. Obviously I have photoshop, you may not, but its just a case for me of adding some guide lines and calculating all the positioning and sizes.
Once I have done my initial draft. I take an openwebif screenshot of an sd channel which will snap an image at 1280x720 and then overlay it on my initial photoshop mockup. There will always be some nudging required especially for text layouts. But that is generally how I work. And yes I restart my box several hundred times a month while skinning ;)

 

[BiGC0L]

Wow i really understand kiddac's pain now! I always knew it must have been hard work, but never would I have guessed how annoying this lark can be!!

trial and error, over and over and over!! but i have finally finished the top picks screen based on a more landscape look, using kiddac's pixel guide

http://www.tiikoni.com/tis/view/?id=8d8a3b2

I couldn't get the pixels exact, because i was trying over and over and things were just not lining up properly!

TV Guide / Boxsets / Sly Cinema / Kids / Planner / Catch Up TV / Sports / Sky Store are 183 x 81

The gap between for top icons is 17 px, including the gap between the mini tv

Bottom images - top picks 1 at 383 x 244 , top picks 2 183 x 244 , top picks 3 + 4 183 x 116 , top picks 5 183 x 244 , top picks 6 183 x 116 , more top picks 183 x 116

The gap between the bottom images is also 17

Included the official sly search bar (visual look only) at the top

There is a bit of a problem with this though, i'm hoping it might just be on my box that can be easily fixed, i am getting a black border at the top and side of the tv picture in the mini tv - i've checked my visibility settings and they are correct, and it was fine before i started messing with this!!


Hope that's good enough; but if anyone wants to tweak to improve any better, feel free, here's the official sly screen if you want to compare :



danmed / gman or someone who knows, who wants to do the rest? i've created a thread for pulling in the images which i will start updating once this is finalised

thread here :

http://www.techkings.org/openvix-openatv-skins/104530-slyk-1-hd-top-picks-todays-picks-mod.html#post588637

Just need the shell script incorporated into it (I have no idea how myself) to pull the images from the net from the above link

if anyone knows how i can fix my preview screen visibility, please let me know !!

Files are mymods.xml and new set of sly icons

Unzip toppicks zip , ftp mymods.xml and skyicons folder to slyk-1-hd folder, restart gui

Download :

I wont be able to get to a computer today as im away to edinburgh, but kiddac fixed theblack border problem on the mini tv screen the other day there. If youve upgraded to his latest release, go into main-templates.xml and look for t1-tv screen and ull see he now has a transparent screen sitting behind the mini screen.

If i remember correctly it was set to be positioned +5px from the position of the mini tv on both x,y and the size was set to be -10px on the size(x,y)

so eg mini tv: pos(320,90) size(352,242

transparent screen: pos(325,95) size(342,232)

And that helped elimate the black border on the tv screen.

But looking good now that weve got the layout pixel perfect, and now that youve incorported the search bar at the top too.

morning guys
i'm missing the search visual from the top is this just a image.png missing from the skyicons folder? followed both instructions (i think) and still got a small black bar on the right hand side not sure if this can be fixed

 

[kiddac]

The bigger the mini tv screen, the more prominent the screen offset is going to show. If you are using my transparent mask hack technique, keep the mask the right dimensions and just enlarge your tv screen behind it.

 

[BiGC0L]

The bigger the mini tv screen, the more prominent the screen offset is going to show. If you are using my transparent mask hack technique, keep the mask the right dimensions and just enlarge your tv screen behind it.

its perfect on all screens apart from this one i think am using your transparent mask hack technique?

<screen name="t1-tv">
        <widget source="session.VideoPicture" render="Pig" position="893,75" size="330,190" backgroundColor="transparent" transparent="1" />
            <eLabel  position="898,80" size="320,180" backgroundColor="transparent" zPosition="4"/>
        <widget source="session.CurrentService" render="Label" position="898,229" size="320,24" font="Bold;21" foregroundColor="white" backgroundColor="transparent" borderWidth="1" borderColor="black" transparent="1" valign="center" halign="center" noWrap="1" zPosition="5">
            <convert type="ServiceName">Name</convert>
        </widget>
    </screen>

 

[grantdavey91]

Danmned - thanks , no problem I will just upload a set of files to my dropbox and update the zip every couple of days - in the zip I'll have the correct dimensions of images and always keep the name of the zip folder the same - can't get on a the comp this morning but I will update with link later on and post back :)

Gmanpanthro - whoops silly me, I've been so busy with this MOD that I had completely forgotten to upgrade to the latest skin version! I'll get this done later on :) - thanks! Bloody took ages restarting box every 5 seconds, taking screenshots every 10 to see if they match up! Bit of a nightmare but worth it! Thank you

Kiddac - if I do much more of this work it may be worth me looking into Photoshop, I've had it before and didn't understand how to use it really, but saying that it was about 6 years ago and there has probably been about 50 updated versions since then, I just can't get on with the millions of different buttons!
I did work in a similar way though, I used your template that you created in Photoshop for top picks as well as each time I restarted my box I took a high res screenshot and zoomed into the image to check the sizing and pixels - you were pretty much bang on with the sizing though, it may even work pixel for pixel and positioning as on your template, but I couldn't manage it, but it's very very close!! :)

Bigcol - yes sorry about that, was doing a million things at once and forgot to include in the zip folder. You are correct it goes in the skyicons folder - as soon as I can get on a comp I'll re-upload for you - apologies

Kiddac - no worries, thanks I had completely forgotten to update to 5.106! I'll get this installed later and adjust if needed

I'm glad you all like it :) I will get the dropbox zip for auto updating later on as well as fix the search bar
Then it's just a case of adding the shell to work with the screen (somebody will need to tell me how and where to place on the box- I have no clue)

Post back soon :)

 

[hideout10uk]

Isn't there a way of me perhaps utilising my server to either use Php or other to pull images and convert with dimensions and feed enigma2?

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[danmed]

Isn't there a way of me perhaps utilising my server to either use Php or other to pull images and convert with dimensions and feed enigma2?

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Have a look at the other thread for this.. i've got a python script running on a cron job that will download the files.. if you want them coming from somewhere else, just change the url's its grabbing

 

[hideout10uk]

Isn't there a way of me perhaps utilising my server to either use Php or other to pull images and convert with dimensions and feed enigma2?

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Have a look at the other thread for this.. i've got a python script running on a cron job that will download the files.. if you want them coming from somewhere else, just change the url's its grabbing

Is it all working and not manual tho? Or still manual update with correct dimensions etc?

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[hideout10uk]

Damn missed that post , will head over to that post and sort it

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[Chabs]

EPG Mode as requested...

very good work though danmed, you've proven that it works! all we need to do is find a better source for the images that's regularly updated?

I was looking at

https://www.skymedia.co.uk/

would this be any better?

Also found

https://www.skymedia.co.uk/broadcast/

http://www.sky.com/tv/channel/skycinema#?genre=all&window=skyCinema&certificate=all

https://www.sky.com/watch

---------- Post Merged at 08:54 PM ----------

this maybe a long shot, but would it work if i were to upload the current images at the right dimensions to a new thread on here, and update them on this site every few days?

---------- Post Merged at 08:58 PM ----------

Hi mate

Sorry I have been busy from yesterday as you may know its Eid today. So was busy with family.

I will upload it for you tomorrow if thats ok.

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don't apologise it's absolutely fine, tomorrow is fine, no rush.

thank you :)

Hi mate

the mod as promised. I can see that kiddac has already implimented the service icons on the epg screen...but he is usinf text and I am using graphics....so you have to delete his to get mine to work or u can choose to kip his...

 

[hideout10uk]

Not able to add cron timer as can't see command line???

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[grantdavey91]

Ahh gotta love your other half :) got my partner to enable my remote access on the comp,

so here's the correct skyicons folder for the 1st set of images, now included the search bar for top picks

other file is the mymods xml file

script is at

https://github.com/danmed/toppicks

place the skyicons folder in slyk-1-hd location

also the mymods.xml in the slyk-1-hd

toppicks.py can go in the location of your choice

instructions to run the cron timer is at the gitbhub site above

credit goes to Kiddac, the creator of slyk-1-hd, danmed for the python / github, grantdavey91 for the top picks screen re-design / maintenance of images, And also huge thanks to gmanpanthro, creator of the initial mod for this

I don't believe i've missed anything, give me a nudge if i've forgotten something.

thanks guys, hope you enjoy the mod! - images at github will be first be updated this thursday Thursday late evening, and then every 48 hours or so moving forward.

 

[hedges2016]

is this right? super job from all

 

[No1gooner]

grantdavey91 thanks a lot to you and the rest of the guys for this amazing work!
Just a a few questions before I install this, does the mymods.xml contain any other mods? Last time I checked it did and as I have my own personal mods would it be possible to just have an xml file with just this splash screen mod on it and nothing else? I'm not interested in the 4 images in the menu screens just the splash screen when pressing epg, also do I need to still direct skin.xml to mymods.xml? And do I also need to still enable show bouquet list first in settings? Sorry if these have been covered already but wasn't sure if anything had changed since then? sorry to be a pain in the ....!

 

[grantdavey91]

is this right? super job from all

should be :) - you've set it up to run daily at 3pm

to check if it's working (i have just changed toppicks1.png at the source to make sure i had it working properly, and i didn't haha! working now though)

telnet into your receiver and run /usr/bin/python/usr/toppicks.py

then go into your top picks screen to see if the images have downloaded

for the moment i have only tried it the telnet way with the script enabled and have it set up to run every hour for testing ; i'll change a few images tonight to be sure it's all correct

if all's well the new images will display if you telnet the command, or they will download on your box at 3pm tomorrow

hope this makes sense

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grantdavey91 thanks a lot to you and the rest of the guys for this amazing work!
Just a a few questions before I install this, does the mymods.xml contain any other mods? Last time I checked it did and as I have my own personal mods would it be possible to just have an xml file with just this splash screen mod on it and nothing else? I'm not interested in the 4 images in the menu screens just the splash screen when pressing epg, also do I need to still direct skin.xml to mymods.xml? And do I also need to still enable show bouquet list first in settings? Sorry if these have been covered already but wasn't sure if anything had changed since then? sorry to be a pain in the ....!

no problem, couldn't have been possible without the great work of kiddac, gmanpanthro and danmed!!

it does contain other mods yes, i will edit the xml with just the top picks splash screen for you, give me a few mins and i'll upload :)

yes you'll still need to direct skin to mymods to enable the mymods xml

you will need to show bouquet in graphical epg settings otherwise it will skip the top picks screen and go into the graphical epg

not a problem, some has been covered but i can appreciate there's been a lot of talk regarding this particular mod so it's easy to miss things :)

i'll just amend the mymods now, bear with me :)

---------- Post Merged at 08:30 PM ----------

i'll just amend the mymods now, bear with me

no1gooner, mymods.xml below containing only the top picks mod

you'll still need to download my previous upload titled 'toppicks13092016' a few posts up and ftp the skyicons folder to slyk-1-hd and place the toppicks.py in the location of your choice

e.g in /usr/script (you'll need to create the folder)

then if you're using vix just go to menu > timers > cron timers > add > set to update to your preference (images will be updated every 48 hours or so) > custom command >

enter /usr/bin/python /usr/script/toppicks.py, then save the timer

to check it's working telnet into your receiver and run /usr/bin/python /usr/script/toppicks.py

then press epg after enabling yes on show bouquet on launch to check the images have downloaded

 

[No1gooner]

grantdavey91 thank you pal for taking the time to do that it's very much appreciated!

 

[grantdavey91]

Not able to add cron timer as can't see command line???

all instructions at https://github.com/danmed/toppicks

it will start with /usr/bin/python and then the location of the toppicks.py e.g. /usr/script/toppicks.py