Themes on WD TV Live - Newbie question

Hello everybody,

Sorry for my bad english, I’m from Geneva-Switzerland, and my mother tongue is french (if you know a french WD community let me know…)

I have a WD TV Live, model wdbgxt0000nbk-01.

I would like to know if there is any possibility to change the default (mochi) interface theme, and how to do that.

Thanks for your help and hope to read your suggestions soon.

Helvetic greetings.

Mythrill :smiley:

PS 1: I forgot to mention that my WD TV Live runs under the  1.06.04 (1/2012) firmware version.

PS 2: The link to the themes page http://www.wdtvlive.com/theme, found at page 176 of the french manual, is out of reach

Ok, if you had spent even 1 minute looking at the first page of the Live Streaming Discussions you would have seen a thread I made about themes for 1.06, which would answer some of your questions. You could have posted there instead of making a new thread.

So I am hesitant to even answer your question due to annoyance.

You’re out of luck if you are looking for themes that are fully functional for the SMP. Most of the theme developers are working on an earlier FW version of the HUB and those themes are not fully compatible with the SMP.

The only one that I have tried that works 100% (as far as I can tell.) is Alaska, but you need to downgrade your FW from 1.06 to 1.04. Set the screen size on the device to 95%. 

How to rollback FW:  http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5860/~/how-to-roll-back-the-firmware-on-a-wd-tv-live-hub-media-center-or-wd-tv-live

How to install themes - See post #4 step #4:  http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming-Discussions/WDTV-Live-Streaming-User-Themes/m-p/284122/message-uid/284122/highlight/true#U284122

Alaska theme thread:  http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming-Discussions/Alaska-Theme-for-WDTV-Live-Streaming-for-firmware-1-04-12/td-p/326387/highlight/false

Tinwarbale has ported his Mojo to the SMP - It mostly works, but you CANNOT get cover art thumbs to work properly. They will chop at the bottom and the transparency effect will not show. 

Mojo theme thread:  http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Streaming-Discussions/Mojo-for-the-SMP-Updated-11-09-11/td-p/287022

 Edit: Also ask yourself if you want a moviesheet theme or a non-moviesheet theme.

If you want moviesheets you will need to use Thumbgen. Here is a Thumbgen guide:  http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Hub-Themes/Video-Tutorials-nOOb-Centeral/td-p/283846

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wow Fennec… What a way to smack down someone whose first language is not English.  Unfortunate start to an otherwise great response.

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Yes Fennec perhaps you may want to edit your post. I understand an annoyance when users just can’t be bothered to look around before posting but here I think there is a need for a little understanding towards somebody who has only posted once and has difficulty understanding English.

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Fennec you post was very informative.  Thanks!