How Set The Aeon Nox Skin

Video library

Video Direction

Custom Dwelling Items

Aeon Nox Silvo

ane Introduction

This Guide explains the process of creating new Main Carte du jour items to enable separate principal bill of fare listings. Example uses include:

Separating childrens movies from mature movies
Separately list documentaries, cartoons, sci-fi or whatever other genre
Separately list Home Movies

Annotation: This guide assumes you know how to install Kodi, install skins, and add together Sources to your Kodi library, and accept installed the AeonNox:SiLVO skin

2 Folder Structure

The right folder structure will ensure a relatively hassle gratuitous experience in setting up these menu buttons.

Organize the video files on your file server/NAS/local difficult bulldoze into carve up folders for each Main Menu button you require.

The image below is an example of how you might organize your folders and files (Windows x). Each category that y'all intend to take equally a motion-picture show menu particular, will accept the movies saved in a specific folder.

three Create Smart Playlists

The first step is to create a Smart Playlist for each new listing you crave. The following is a simple guide to attain that:

Click Organisation on the Chief Menu, then in the window that opens click on the System icon. In the lesser left corner by the gear symbol ensure EXPERT is chosen.
Add each folder as a Source to the Kodi library using the Add Video Source dialog box, being sure to select the content blazon (Movies or Goggle box, etc.) correctly and scraping.

3. Later on each binder has been added equally a Source and scraped, go to the Playlists button under the Videos Main Menu push button.
4. Cull New smart playlist…
five. In the Type menu cull Movies or TV as appropriate.
six. In the EDIT SMART PLAYLIST dialog box click on New rule….
vii. In the CHOOSE RULE Blazon dialog box click on the word Title and choose Path from the Cull RULE TYPE card.
8. Now, click on the word contains.
ix. Choose starts with from the SMART PLAYLIST RULE dialog box.
10. Click on the word Scan in the SMART PLAYLIST Dominion dialog box.
11. Cull the library you want, then click OK.
12. The contents of the library will be listed, click OK again.
13. Click OK once more.
14. Click OK once more.
xv. An onscreen keyboard will appear, blazon the name of your new Smart Playlist, click DONE.

16. Echo the to a higher place steps as needed to build all the Smart Playlists you want, and then dorsum out to the home screen.

four Customising The Main Card

This footstep will create the new Main Carte du jour items. The side by side section is a straight continuation of the steps in this section.

17. Click on Skin SETTINGS under SYSTEM in the Main Menu.
18. In the adjacent screen, click on Setup the Aeon Nox main menu
19. The MAIN MENU CUSTOMIZER windows opens and will await like the above image

Description of options

The Carte Items are on the left

Options are along the top row (or next to menu item in previous versions)

X - deletes the item

+ - adds a new carte particular

↑ - move carte item up the list

↓ - motion carte du jour item down the list

Restore - default menu items that have been removed or modified will exist restored to original. User added menu items will remain.

Notation: The default middle of them Principal Menu is the third agile menu detail in the list. In this instance, information technology is MOVIES).

5 Calculation The Smart Playlists To The Main Menu

This final step now links the Smart Playlists created in Section iii to the new Main Menu items created in the previous Section.

20. Select a Main Card particular y'all want to change, or click the plus sign to create a new one. If you create a new particular, it will appear beneath the selected menu particular with the characterization NONE. Either way, on the right side, select Choose detail for carte and a pop out bill of fare will appear.
21. Click on Video Library.
22. In the pop out menu that appears adjacent, choose Playlists >
23. In the Playlist pop out menu, cull the required Playlist
24. In the What do you want to practise with the playlist? box, cull Display
25. If you desire, you tin select background fanart for the individual playlists. This will rotate through fanart that is specific to that playlist.
26. Now scroll thru the popular out menu to (Video Playlist) <your playlist> to choose which background images are used

27a. Echo these steps as needed to add your playlists to the Main Menu, arrange their positions on the Carte to your liking, add widgets, etc.

27b. If you lot have no further buttons to add, simply back out to return to the Home Screen. At this point a script will run to re-build the Main Menu.

half-dozen Duplicated Listings

If you prefer to non accept the same Film or TV Show listed in the original Movie and TV Prove buttons along with being listed in the newly created buttons, then follow these steps:

Disable the original Moving picture or TV Show push in the Main Menu Customizer screen as shown in footstep 19
Repeat the steps detailed on this folio to create a new button with a suitable name and a new Smart Playlist that excludes the videos that are included in the new buttons.

You lot're done!