{"id":6378,"date":"2025-01-18T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T02:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=6378"},"modified":"2025-01-27T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T22:52:32","slug":"set-default-settings-values-in-kodi-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=6378","title":{"rendered":"Set default settings values in Kodi skins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am currently creating a personal, Zoyinc, fork of the Amber Kodi skin. This is customized to my personal needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason for the skin is so that if I want to setup additional devices, or rebuild an existing one, I have a simple process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the things that I was trying to achieve was to set some defaults in the skin itself<\/strong>, specifically I wanted to set was “Disable all home shelves”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steps<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Skins can be created quite differently, so remember these notes are specifically for the Amber skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the plugin look for the file “\\1080i\\SkinSettings.xml” – this describes the skin settings pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will find a section that looks like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/path><\/path><\/svg><\/span>
<include<\/span> <\/span>content<\/span>=<\/span>"YesNoSettingItem"<\/span>><\/span><\/span>\n  <\/span><param<\/span> <\/span>name<\/span>=<\/span>"itemid"<\/span> <\/span>value<\/span>=<\/span>"12"<\/span>\/><\/span><\/span>\n  <\/span><param<\/span> <\/span>name<\/span>=<\/span>"itemlabel"<\/span> <\/span>value<\/span>=<\/span>"$LOCALIZE[31920]"<\/span>\/><\/span><\/span>\n  <\/span><param<\/span> <\/span>name<\/span>=<\/span>"skinsetting"<\/span> <\/span>value<\/span>=<\/span>"Hide.AllShelves"<\/span>\/><\/span><\/span>\n<\/include><\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
If you look up “31920” in the localization files, under “\/language”, for example “\/language\/resource.language.en_nz\/strings.po” for New Zealand, you will find:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/path><\/path><\/svg><\/span>
msgctxt "#31920"<\/span><\/span>\nmsgid "Disable all Home shelves"<\/span><\/span>\nmsgstr ""<\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
So that means the section in SkinSettings.xml are the ones for the setting “Disable all home shelves”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To see what happens when this setting is changed in the UI you need to look at the code behind the include tag:  “<include content=”YesNoSettingItem”>”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Essentially, if you set this to “Yes” in the UI it will save it in a skin file similar to “\\Kodi\\userdata\\addon_data\\kodi.skin.zoyinc\\settings.xml” where you will see the property:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/path><\/path><\/svg><\/span>
<setting<\/span> <\/span>id<\/span>=<\/span>"hide.allshelves"<\/span> <\/span>type<\/span>=<\/span>"bool"<\/span>><\/span>true<\/span><\/setting><\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The above file is in the user’s settings folder so we can’t do that directly from the skin – we need to find out how to set it in the skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Open up “\\1080i\\Startup.xml” and create an entry that looks like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/path><\/path><\/svg><\/span>
<onload<\/span> <\/span>condition<\/span>=<\/span>"!Skin.HasSetting(Hide.AllShelves)"<\/span>><\/span>Skin.SetBool(Hide.AllShelves, true)<\/span><\/onload><\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
As you can imagine this startup.xml file describes tasks that are run when Kodi starts. I think it’s reasonably obvious how this all hangs together and that it is setting Hide.AllShelves to true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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