Add-on:Skin Widgets

Skin Widgets

See this add-on on the kodi.tv showcase
Author:	Martijn, phil65
Type:	Services
Repo:	Kodi.tv repo v18
License:	GPL v2.0
Source:	Source code
Summary:	Skin widgets

Add-ons

Skin Widgets

Need help with this add-on? See here.

Skin widgets

1 Installing

To install this add-on you must do so from the Add-on manager from within Kodi by going to

The home screen
Add-ons
Download
Services
Skin Widgets
Install

This addon provides skin with an array of labels they can use for displaying in their skins. The addon will be run as a service on user "login" and will be stopped on user "logout".

2 Setting

Enable recommended
Enable randomitems

Only unplayed
Randomize time (minutes)
Use season folders

Number of labels is hardcoded at 20

3 Dependency

Add this to your addon.xml to make it install along with your skin.

 <requires>
   <import addon="xbmc.gui" version="3.00"/>
   <import addon="service.skin.widgets" version="0.0.2"/>
 </requires>

Note: Please check on what minimum version you need and change it accordingly

4 Infolabels

4.1 Random items

Link below contains the InfoLabels used for the Randomitems service

Add-on:Skin_Widgets/RandomItems

4.2 Recommended

Link below contains the InfoLabels used for the Recommended service

Add-on:Skin_Widgets/Recommended

4.3 Recent items

Link below contains the InfoLabels used for the RecentItems service

Add-on:Skin_Widgets/RecentItems

4.4 General

Use: Window(Home).Property(*)

**Available labels**
Property: General	Description
SkinWidgets_Running	addon running 'true/false'
SkinWidgets_Recommended	addon setting 'true/false'
SkinWidgets_RandomItems	addon setting 'true/false'
SkinWidgets_RecentItems	addon setting 'true/false'

**Available triggers**
Property: General	Description
SetProperty(SkinWidgets_RandomItems_Update,true)	Trigger randomitems update. Script resets the value back to false and resets running randomize timer.