Kodi Home screen gone....no access to addons.....wierd

[Ben.Ayres]

Hi:
When I turned on my box and clicked on Kodi, I got a new home page yesterday. No access to any of my add-ons. I have attached a picture of the home screen as it now appears. If I click on any of the menu choices (IE: Movies), all I get is a choice between "Saved Movies" or "PVR". No add-ons. When I click on settings and go to add-on managed. It shows the add-ons as still being active, but I can not access them for use.
I have spent hours going through the menus, and can't find a way to get back to the normal Kodi home screen and menus.
Please Help!

Thanks
Ben

 

[angela]

Hi, It may be it has changed skins, in kodi go to System or Settings > Appearance > Skins, to see if the skin you were using is there,click on the skin to change it back.

 

[ChrisM]

1) Try switching skins (if you've not already). I'm an avid Confluence fan, so not sure of the labels used by that skin, but try something like:
Settings>Appearance (not Skin Settings if they both exist)>Skin (might be top entry)>Switch to Confluence and if asked, confirm the change. If Kodi behaves properly now, can check the other skins listed.

2) If you prefer, you could try just temporarily renaming a file - GUISettings.xml in Kodi's userdata folder. Let us know if you're not sure where to go to do this.

[edit]
Sorry, had this post 1/2 written earlier, didn't refresh before completing the post, hence duplicating Angela slightly!

 

[Ben.Ayres]

Hi, It may be it has changed skins, in kodi go to System or Settings > Appearance > Skins, to see if the skin you were using is there,click on the skin to change it back.

Hi:
Both "Appearance & Skins Settings" exist. I tried "Skin Settings"....didn't work. I will try "Appearance" when I get home tonight, and let you know if it worked. Yes "Confluence" is the way it was set up before....not sure how it got changed.
I do not understand what you are recommending as option #2.

Thanks
Ben

 

[ChrisM]

Option 2 involves deleting or renaming a file in Kodi's data directory. Let us know how it goes with 1)

 

[Ben.Ayres]

Option 2 involves deleting or renaming a file in Kodi's data directory. Let us know how it goes with 1)

#1 worked!!!....THANK YOU!

 

[ChrisM]

Re skin getting changed, 99.9% of the time (did you know 85.32% of stats are made up/vaguely approximated?) it will be a Wizard type of add-on that installs add-ons, tweaks and new skins. Really glad you're sorted now, thanks for taking the time to let us know.