KiddaC Skin E2sentials

KiddaC Skin E2sentials - Official Release.

V 1.01 - 01/02/2025

Welcome to my new combined Skin E2sentials plugin.

This plugin is designed to bring together several of my smaller, standalone plugins into one simple and user-friendly interface.

With E2sentials, there's no longer any need to manually edit files or set up cron timers—everything is managed directly through the plugin.

As part of this transition, the individual plugins will soon be removed from GitHub and feeds, making this the go-to solution moving forward.

Please remove previous standalone plugin unstallations before installing. See instructions at the bottom of this post.

What is currently included.

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Screen Names plugin.

A handy tool for skinners and users to quickly identify specific screens without the need to check debug logs.
The screen name is displayed clearly at the top of the screen for easy reference.

Can be used on any skin.

Movie Planner mod.

This mod offers customisable layouts for the movie planner screen, replicating styles from official providers like Sky and Virgin.
Optimized for my skins: Slyk-1080, Slyk Q, Slyk Onyx, and Vskins.
Can be used with other skins if there’s enough space for all elements.
Note: Not compatible with Enhanced Movie Center (EMC); you must disable EMC to use this mod.

For full instructions, refer to the Movie Planner Mod section below.

Top Picks Mod

A feature primarily designed for my skins (Slyk-1080, Slyk Q, Slyk Onyx, and Vskins), but skinners can adapt it for their own projects.

This mod fetches cover art for currently airing Sky UK channels and highlighted programs from Arabic OSN channels.

Users can select which channels and cover art to display via the settings menu.

For full instructions, see the Top Picks Mod section below.

Deleting old standalone versions of my plugins.

Screen Names
Plugins - remove plugins - extensions - screennames

Clean settings file.
Telnet:
init 4
/etc/enigma2/settings
remove references to config.plugins.ScreenNames
init 3

Folder clean up
delete folder and contents
/usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/Extensions/ScreenNames

Reboot GUI

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Movie Planner Mod
Plugins - remove plugins - extensions - MoviePlannerMod

Clean settings file.
Telnet:
init 4
/etc/enigma2/settings
remove references to config.movielistmod
init 3

Folder clean up
delete folder and contents
/usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/Extensions/MoviePlannerMod

Reboot GUI

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Top Picks Mod
Plugins - remove plugins - skins - Slyk Toppicks

Folder clean up
delete folder and contents
etc/enigma2/slyk

Script clean up
delete scripts
user/script/skypicker.sh
user/script/skyscraper.sh

Cron clean up
/etc/cron/crontabs/roots
delete references to usr/script/skyscraper.sh and /usr/script/skypicker.sh

Reboot GUI

Movie Planner Mod

How to use

OpenATV - open up movie planner settings - change the "use extended list" - select the appropriate layout.

OpenVIX - open up movie planner settings - change the "use movie planner layout mod" - select the appropriate layout.

** note due to a compatibility issue - you cannot re-assign buttons on openvix once this plugin is installed - set your buttons before installing **

Compatiblity
Currently only for openatv, openvix 5.3, openvix 5.4, openvix 6.0+, and openbh 5+


Slyk-1080 layout - recommended rows 8
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Slyk Q layout - recommended rows 8

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Slyk Onyx layout - recommended rows 12
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VSkins layout - recommended rows 14

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Top picks

Top picks brings in cover art and backdrop images for airing SKY UK channels now and the next few hours and recommend featured programmes from Arabic OSN.

Currently 2 choices. Sky UK or Arabic OSN. (Note I cannot just bring in any tv guide data - so we limited in what I can display).

Settings should be self explanatory.

Unless a setting change requires a reboot, changing any other options like channel choices will refresh the downloaded data.
A setting that requires a reboot, will require you to go back into the plugin to download the images first time (before the scheduled time)

Note: Top picks is purely for eye candy and to add some visual elements to a skin. Images cannot be interacted with.

Example top picks for my skins.

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Example of 3rd party skin incorporating my top picks elements. Skin AL_AYAM_FHD from nitro team (biko)

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Currently we have skin configs for my skins, mods of my skins and Al_ayam_fhd.

My skins

slyk-q-1080
slyk-onyx-1080
slyk-1080-r19
vskin-1080

Older sd skins
slyk-q-720
slyk-onyx-720
slyk-720-r19
vskin-720

Mods

Q-DarkBlue-FHD (slyk q mod - openbh)
Q-FHD (slyk q mod - openbh)
Q-GradientPurple-FHD (slyk q mod - openbh)
Q-Purple-FHD (slyk q mod - openbh)
slyk-q (slyk q mod) ?
slyk-q-de-1080 (slyk q mod) ?

3rd Party
Cosmos - openbh
AL_AYAM_FHD

Top Picks User settings

The main groups for Sky or OSN are selected via the plugin settings.

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You can further refine these set groups by manually editing the channel config files and commenting out with a # for those you do not want.
Highly recommended having at least 2 in each group otherwise there will be not enough data to fill the images.

/usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/Extensions/KiddaC_Skin_E2sentials/sky_channel_configs.py
or
/usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/Extensions/KiddaC_Skin_E2sentials/osn_channel_configs.py

example for refining sky sports group.

    "sports": {
        # "3835": "sky-sports-f1",  # sky-sports-darts
        "3939": "sky-sports-football",
        # "4081": "sky-sports-cricket",
        # "4026": "sky-sports-golf",
        "4002": "sky-sports-main-event",
        "4091": "sky-sports-mix",
        # "4022": "sky-sports-nfl",
        "4010": "sky-sports-premier-league",
        # "1284": "sky-sports-tennis",
        "3661": "tnt-sports-1",
        "3663": "tnt-sports-2",
        # "3629": "tnt-sports-3",
        # "4040": "tnt-sports-4",
    },

Top Picks Skin Configs for skinners.

If a skinner would like to use this code in their own skins then it requires adding in the necessary default elements in your own skin.
Then adding your own skin settings in the config file.

Example of adding top picks to menu pages.

Create a folder to hold your default images in your skin folder. Folder can be called anything as we reference later in the config file.
My example here lives in my skin files as q-toppicks folder.

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background.jpg - this is a copy of your main skin background file in jpg format. It is used to merge the backdrop image onto the background.
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hero.jpg - This file will be the merged background and backdrop. Can be just a copy of background.jpg when setting up. q.png is just a png version of this file
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hero.png - This a place holder image that stores the masked backdrop image. Can be a blank png file when setting up.
You can use this file overlaying your normal background if you prefer. Especially useful if you have multiple backgrounds or colours in your skin.

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the toppicks jpg in the above files are place holders for your cover art. Can be blank before first run. But better to source some cover arts to use here as default.
You need placeholder files for the number of images your skin is going to load. Numbers need to be 1 to n. In my example above I am bringing in 10 images. toppicks1.jpg, toppicks2.jpg, toppicks3.jpg etc

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example skin code as used in my menu screens
<ePixmap pixmap="q-toppicks/hero.jpg" position="0,0" size="1920,1080" zPosition="-1"/>
<ePixmap pixmap="q-toppicks/toppicks1.jpg" position="542,386" size="240,320" backgroundColor="mid" transparent="0" zPosition="2"/>
...

...

...

example KiddaC Skin Essentials skin config.

skin_configs = {
    "slyk-q-1080": {
        "background": True,  # show background hero graphic
        "backgroundsize": [1280, 720],  # backdrop overlay size - the masked backdrop image
        "image_folder": "q-toppicks/",  # skin default image set. background.jpg, hero.jpg, toppicks1.jpg x by number of images
        "image_prefix": "toppicks",  # name of image tiles in skin
        "landscape_pics": [],  # which images are landscape i.e [1, 2, 3]
        "landscape_size": [],  # size of landscape pics i.e. [407, 241]
        "channel_logo_height": 21,  # channel logo height
        "channel_logo_halign": "center",  # channel logo horizontal position. left/center/right
        "channel_logo_valign": "top",  # channel logo vertical position. top/bottom
        "number_of_images": 10,  # total number of images portrait and landscape
        "picons": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10],  # which images you want channel picons to appear on.
        "portrait_pics": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10],  # which images are portrait
        "portrait_size": [240, 320],  # size of portrait cover pics
        "skin_folder": "/usr/share/enigma2/slyk-q-1080/",
        "skin_size": 1080,  # skin default height. i.e 1920 x 1080.
        "programme_logo_width": 300,  # programme / movies / series logo - only for osn images
        "programme_logo_x_offset": 540,  # offset from the left
        "programme_logo_y_offset": 54  # offset from the top
    },

To add in your own skin config.
Amend the skin config file - make sure the main name is the name of your skin.
All options need to be included even if not used. So like above for landscape they are empty arrays as not used in that particular skin.

/usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/Extensions/KiddaC_Skin_E2sentials/skin_configs.py.

Ask if you have any questions.
Ask if you want your config adding to my files

Examples files in your skin folder after the program has run. q.png is just a random file used in one particular skin only. But can be used as your backdrop if your skin has a png background.

hero.jpg, hero.png, programme_logo.png and toppicks(n).jpg are the files of interest for your skin.

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E2sentials v1.00

New files on post 1

I have included a .deb file but I have no idea if this has ever worked on dreamboxes. Previously I have only made .ipks for these individual files.

Enjoy.

biko

Translations

If anybody would like to provide translation files for the settings page.
You only need to provide the settings page translations. You can ignore all the movie planner text.

Just these

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biko do you want any changes made to your skin config?

Yes as you are probably aware, seagen is no longer active on any forums due to ill health. So its good those skins work for openbh, as there will be no more updates to them.
Unless someone on the openbh forums make future amends.

E2sentials v1.01

New files on post 1

added in arabic translation file.

Now been pushed to my github for feeds.
Please remove my other smaller plugins from feeds now and replace with this single one. Top picks mod / movie planner mod / screen names plugin.

https://github.com/kiddac/KiddaC_Skin_E2sentials

abu baniaz