How to replace background

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Hi everyone,

I just upgraded osmc and found out that there’s no more that old style osmc background.
Does anyone know if there’s a way to replace it?

thanx for all your replies.

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Currently there is no simple method to change the background of the OSMC skin, it might be added in the future as an option

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@ooZee

Is there any chance you could provide me background picture from previous version?

thanx

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Nope, I don’t have it.

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It didn’t exactly have one. It had a white image to which Kodi applied a colordiffuse effect. The color Kodi applied was 0b2430.

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@BobCrachett

Can you let me know how to do that?

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Just use your favourite image editor to create an image with that color.

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Is there any way to remove the blue tint on the custom backgrounds, so the actual image fully shows?

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Now my time is freeing up a little, it’s possible using the git version of the skin (found here - extract it to Kodi’s standard add-on directory and it should be used instead of the included version after a reboot or - if that doesn’t make any sense to you - wait until I have time to finalise all the needed and upcoming changes, which hopefully will be in the next monthly update :))

If you do use this test version, there’s a new option in Skin Settings > Background to disable the default OSMC background color and choose your own - select an opacity of 0% to completely disable the background overlay - you may be prompted to install a required script, and we take no responsibility for readability issues if you do this :slight_smile:

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That works a treat, many thanks!

Is it normal to not see submenus for some items? E.g. Live TV doesn’t show TV Guide or Recordings but the normal Kodi skin does?

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Worked great for me too. Looks awesome with my custom background. Thank you!

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Reminds me of one of the Windows XP desert backgrounds.
Perhaps we should offer a few alternatives.

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That’s actually a photo of mine from The Wave!

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Nice – I saw the Grand Canyon and also rafted on the Black Canyon. That’s all I saw of Arizona unfortunately

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Brilliant trip.

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Unfortunately I noticed it’s downsampling the image somehow and it appears pixelated. When I open the same image with the photo viewer it’s full-resolution.

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It’s probably scaling it. You might want to resize it to the native resolution of the GUi, I.e. 1080p

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So any background above 1920x1080 will be down scaled to that resolution? A bit disappointing for a 4k device if so.

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AFAIK, it’s a Kodi limitation. How to change the default background?

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You should be running your GUI at 1080p for the best picture quality (menus, fan art etc)

4K video will obviously be output as 4K

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