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MaterialSkinCockpit

A modern, dark skin for your OpenViX receiver, with a home screen that you set up for the way you watch TV: your favourite bouquets and channels, and the menu entries and plugins that you use every day, one key press away.

The Cockpit: your bouquets and channels above, your menu entries and plugins below

What it looks like

  • Dark and calm. Dark grey surfaces, rounded panels, one soft blue for highlights, and the Roboto font. Colour is only used where it means something: the four colour-key labels at the bottom of a screen, and recording or status marks.
  • Easy to read. Text has strong contrast against the background. The time is always in the top-right corner, and the colour keys say what they do in the footer.
  • The same everywhere. About 300 screens share the look: the infobar, the channel list, the EPG, the movie list and player, timers, AutoTimer, EPG import, softcam info, TMDB and many plugins. A plugin screen does not look like a separate program.

The Cockpit: your own home screen

When you press MENU you get the Cockpit instead of the long main menu. It is two grids of icons:

  • Media, on top: the TV bouquets and the single channels that you picked.
  • Menu and plugins, below: the menu entries, plugins and extensions that you use most, for example Timer or MovieCockpit.

Move with the arrow keys; CHANNEL UP and CHANNEL DOWN jump between the two grids, and the title tells you where you are. OK opens the tile: a plugin starts, a bouquet opens the channel list on it, a channel is tuned.

The four colour keys are shortcuts: each one opens an item of your choice, and the footer shows what it will open.

You make it your own with MENU inside the Cockpit. There you can choose bouquets and channels (open a bouquet to pick single channels), menu entries and plugins, and what the colour keys open. The whole normal menu is still there, as the first choice of the same MENU key. The Cockpit remembers where you were, so it opens on the same tile next time. More in Cockpit menu.

The original Main Menu

When you press MENU on the Cockpit screen you get the the original Main menu in grid style.

The Main menu: the original mainmenu screen

The Settings menu: the original mainmenu settings screen

Screens you use every day

The channel list: logos, what is on now and a side panel

Channel list. Logos, the programme that is on now with a progress bar, and a side panel with a preview picture, the description and the next programmes. Four colour keys switch between all channels, satellites, providers and favourites.

The grid EPG: a time line with a marker for now

Grid EPG. A time line with the channel logos at the left, a red marker for the present time, and colour keys for TMDB search, adding a timer, EPG search and AutoTimer.

Menus as icon grids. Every menu (not only the Cockpit) is a grid of about 100 icons.

Pages

Page Content
Cockpit menu How the Cockpit works: the two lists, the keys, the colour keys, choosing your bouquets, channels, menu entries and plugins, where it is stored, how to switch it off
Colour concept The dark theme: the colours and their roles, contrast, rules for new screens, and how to change the theme

For developers

  • The skin is based on the E2-DarkOS skin by DimitarCC. It was refactored with Claude Code to use SkinForge's hierarchical model: shared screen parts that are included and placed by relative positioning, and colours, fonts and corner radii that are defined once.
  • The skin sources are SkinForge YAML: skin.yml includes the *.ymlinc files of src/skin/default/, which ymlcompile compiles to the skin.xml that Enigma2 loads. See the SkinForge wiki for the language and the tools.
  • The skin implements Google's material style 3 with menu icons from Material Symbols (Apache 2.0).

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