Changing the background of SmartHub

[elsemieni]

Hello all!
Here I will teach you change default backgrounds from SmartHUB to custom ones. Maybe someone can find it horribly easy, but i make this for those people want to learn.

After some days with SamyGO installed in my tv, i was exploring some internal files via FTP, and I discovered the folder where SmartHub Backgrounds are stored.

Yes, SmartTV's are coming with a few (ugly) default backgrounds for SmartHUB, and you can't change into custom ones (this is a little silly...). But yes, with your TV with FTP access you can change it to anything you like.

The backgrounds are just PNG images, and replace it are simple, but not so simple. Why? The "skin" has some alpha channels (to show TV screen and SmartHUB ads); and if you avoid those, TV and smarthub ads will hide behind the "skin".

So, do you want to make your own backgrounds?

1. Make your background from scratch, making the right "holes" with alpha channel for TV screen and SmartHUB ads, if you want. I made a template for making backgrounds, hope you like it.
To view images correctly, it's better idea open those in a new windows, beacuse are too big for the forums.

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I recommend use some photo editing program with alpha channel functions (Photoshop/GIMP is fine).

For example, i made that for my TV.

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2. Okay, now connect to your TV with some FTP program ( i assume you already know one, especially if you already installed SamyGO ), and go to this directory:
/mtd_rwcommon/widgets/manager/10120000000/Resource/images/720/theme (Well... maybe in other models the folder will vary a little, i don't know really).

3. Look for a wallpaper_xx.png file (where xx is the number of wallpaper you want to replace). No idea what wallpaper are you want to change. Just take a peek on it, or view it in your TV in SmartHUB. I have a EH5300, and i choose replace the ugly Background 2 (the black one), so i choose wallpaper_02.png.

4. Make a backup copy of it (always is a good idea doing that), and replace it with your background.

5. Time to test it! I don't know if the image refreshes automatically or not, but to be sure, restart your TV and enter SmartHUB. Go to Change Background and select the number of background you have selected (don't worry, the thumb still shows the old one... you can take a peek in the theme folder if you want to change it too, but i think is useless ) and see the results.

Do you like it? So congratulations.

Do you look some ugly white holes in TV/SmartHUB ads? That's beacuse you save your PNG without alpha channel (no transparency). You will need to put those space with alpha channel to make appear TV/SmartHUB. Well, you can also make some interesting FX there, like put a circle instead that square... well... I don't know, it's imagination .

Well, my example of avobe fits really cool in my TV, take a look!


Hope you find it useful in some way
Bye!

[greenhorn]

Great! Thank you!

[fluffi444]

It happens from time to time that my personal Theme went again back to original...
Don't know really why but it sucks!

Therefore I made a little and easy workaround -This will copy my theme to the correct location on every TV start.

I changed this black theme (05) which came originally from Sammy.

1) Make a folder "theme" in "/mnt/etc/" and place your personal two files into it

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/mnt/etc/theme/theme_05.png
/mnt/etc/theme/wallpaper_05.png

2) Make a new init.d file (mine called 01_00_THEME.init)

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#!/bin/sh
#
# ? Copyright 1996-2013, SamyGO
#
#
 . /dtv/SGO.env
 
 THEMEDIR1="/mnt/etc/theme"
 THEMEDIR2="/mtd_rwcommon/widgets/manager/10120000000/Resource/images/1080"
 cp -r $THEMEDIR1 $THEMEDIR2
 chmod 755 $THEMEDIR2/theme/*

THEMEDIR2 (/mtd_rwcommon/widgets/manager/10120000000/Resource/images/1080) can of course vary depending of the theme location on your TV

Dont forget to set correct rights for init.d folder:

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chmod 755 /mnt/etc/init.d/*