Difference between revisions of "Gen3 Themes"

Revision as of 13:56, 17 March 2015

Gen3 aka (WD Streaming Media Player or SMP) has official supported methods for themes as well as WDLXTV theming methods.

All themes once loaded can be selected in the settings menu. This is true of both official and WDLXTV theming methods.

1. Upload theme via WD Official Webend

2. Select a Downloadable theme from WD servers (4 or 5 available)

Limitations and Requirements of Official Method

1. Theme must be inside a .zip file

2. Size can not exceed 30MB

3. zipped theme must not use any compression

4. Can only have 1 theme at a time. (uploading/downloading a different theme erases the one previously installed)

5. Must have a valid meta.xml (this is actually true of any theme, regardless of method used)

Any of the following are valid folder names for running a theme.

Theme folder can be located on any attached drive.

1. .theme

This is an bit depreciated now, but can still be used to force the firmware to boot to this theme at each boot.

2. <my-theme-name>.theme

Generic Theme

3. <my-theme-name>.theme.linksheets

General Theme with added benefit of automated linksheets scanning via linksheets.pl script

Which method is best for me?

I recommend you read the Gen3 Moviesheets wiki and then decide.

Where can I find additional themes?

I want to create my own theme. How do I start?

Misc

Using WDLXTV methods, you can have as many themes as you want on your thumbdrive

WDTV Hub, WDTV Gen3, WDTV Gen4 themes are for the most part compatible, with a few minor glitches

If you know the correct path, theme's can be enabled via cmd line or on WEC (reboot is required)

config_tool -c THEME_PATH=/path/to/root/of/theme

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 WDTV Hub, WDTV Gen3, WDTV Gen4 themes are for the most part compatible, with a few minor glitches
+If you know the correct path, theme's can be enabled via cmd line or on WEC (reboot is required)
+ config_tool -c THEME_PATH=/path/to/root/of/theme
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