Dark Flat Skin

Confirm that your device has (unlimited) access to the internet. The jivelite Applet Installer (Settings > Advanced > Applet Installer) gets the list of available applets from your (local) LMS server. Your device will then (try to) download the applet directly from the source (URL).

- Go to Settings -> Advanced -> Applet Installer and confirm that Recommended Applets Only is disabled.
- Confirm that your server and device both have internet access.
- If it's a caching problem, try this:
- reload the LMS Settings -> Manage Plugins page so the server has the latest list of available applets
- if you enter the Settings -> Advanced -> Applet Installer menu and it doesn't show the latest update, exit the menu and wait a couple of minutes before calling it again.

This is a jivelite quirk that's not tied to any skin in particular. Just enter the NowPlaying screen using the top right note icon. Then go back and try again. That usually solves it. If not, make sure that you have selected a player and that this player is connected.

You need to click/touch the track title in the title bar. The lyrics (text) cannot be used for that because you can scroll up or down in the song lyrics using click-hold/touch-hold.

Sometimes you need to switch to another Now Playing view before the changes take effect.

To rate a track directly on the Now Playing screen, the track must be part of the LMS library (applies to local and remote/online tracks). And you need the Ratings Light plugin. Make sure the Now Playing screen setting Rate tracks directly on screen is enabled.

To unrate a track click/touch the space to the left or right of the rating stars. Since the space to the left of the rating stars is quite small on Now Playing views with artwork, it's probably better to click/touch the space to the right (about 40px wide).

Alternatively or additionally, you can replace the Shuffle and Repeat buttons on Now Playing views that display track ratings with rating buttons that will increase or decrease the track rating by half a star. This setting is not enabled by default and can be change here: Settings > Screen > Dark Flat Skin.

Please note: on piCorePlayer, the VU meter you select for the Dark Flat Skin is also used by the Dark Flat Grid Skin. You can't set a different VU meter for the Grid skin.

For guaranteed success:
- SqueezePlay: restart SqueezePlay.
On Windows (and possibly Linux) selecting a different VU meter requires admin privileges. Please read the corresponding FAQ article below
- piCorePlayer: use the Quit button to restart jivelite.
- SB Touch: reboot your device.

Works sometimes:
- Go to Settings > Screen > NowPlaying > NowPlaying views.
- Deselect the analog VU meter view. - Exit the menu. - Then reenter the menu and select the analog VU meter view again.

WINDOWS:
Installing and uninstalling the skin and changing the VU meter design require admin privileges on Windows, i.e. you need to `run SqueezePlay as admin` to install, uninstall or change the VU meter design.

The installer has to rename files in and copy files to the NowPlaying and Clock applet folders in the protected jive applet folder. And on Windows, creating symbolic links (to change the VU meter design) seems to require admin privileges too.

LINUX:
It probably depends on where you've installed SqueezePlay. The installer requires write permissions (755) to rename files in and copy files to the NowPlaying and Clock applet folders in the jive applet folder.
If you install the skin using sudo, it will install the userpath skin files in the root user's home folder. And nobody wants to run SqueezePlay as root all the time.
So either the installer can write to the jive applet folder or you install the applet (files) manually.

The SB Touch knows 3 different skins settings: Touch Skin, Remote Skin, and just ”Skin”. The GUI menus will let you change the Touch and the Remote skin type but not the type “Skin“ which resets to WQVGAsmallSkin after every reboot.
However, it's easy to fix:
- go to **Settings > Screen > Select skin > Touch Skin**
- select WQVGAsmallSkin
- and then select Dark Flat Skin again.

It's a trade-off: Dark Flat Skin is a stand-alone/separate applet that's easy to install/uninstall. But that causes quirks like this one. It only happens after a reboot. So decide for yourself if you think it's worth it.

If the installation / update didn't complete successfully or if you manually deleted skin files or folders, jivelite will still try to load the (missing or damaged) Dark Flat Skin. Instead of doing a factory reset, you can try to log in to your device and repair this:
- enable remote (SSH) access to your [Touch](https://github.com/AF-1/sobras/wiki/Command-line-access-to-SB-Radio-and-SB-Touch) (Settings > Advanced) or piCorePlayer (pCP Web UI > Main > Security) and log in to your device.
- change to the the user settings folder:
- on the Touch: `cd /etc/squeezeplay/userpath/settings`
- on piCorePlayer: `cd /home/tc/.jivelite/userpath/settings`
- open the settings file called SelectSkin.lua with your default editor (vi or nano) (on piCorePlayer you need to use sudo). - change the selected skin in that file to the default skin:
- Touch: `skin="WQVGAsmallSkin"`
- piCorePlayer: `skin="JogglerSkin"`
- save your changes to that file
- piCorePlayer only: do a backup using `pcp bu`
- reboot your device.

SqueezePlay: locate the user applets folder with the DarkFlatSkin folders, the path ends with `/userpath/applets/`. Delete all folders whose names start with `DarkFlatSkin`. Then delete and reinstall the SqueezePlay app.

The steps below only apply to piCorePlayer and Touch: - enable remote (SSH) access to your [Touch](https://github.com/AF-1/sobras/wiki/Command-line-access-to-SB-Radio-and-SB-Touch) (Settings > Advanced) or piCorePlayer (pCP Web UI > Main > Security) and log in to your device.
- you need these applet folder path(s):
- Touch: all applets are installed to the same folder: `/usr/share/jive/applets/`
- piCorePlayer: you only need the user applets folder: `/home/tc/.jivelite/userpath/applets/`
- delete all folders starting with `DarkFlatSkin`
- piCorePlayer only: delete the NowPlaying and Clock folders in the user applets folder as well. - Touch only: have a look at the NowPlaying and the Clock folders.
- in the NowPlaying applet folder:
if you have a file called `NowPlayingApplet.lua_ORG` in this folder, delete the file `NowPlayingApplet.lua` and then rename `NowPlayingApplet.lua_ORG` to `NowPlayingApplet.lua`.
Do the same with `NowPlayingMeta.lua_ORG` and `strings.txt_ORG`.
- in the Clock applet folder:
if you have `ClockApplet.lua_ORG` in the this folder, delete `ClockApplet.lua` and then rename `ClockApplet.lua_ORG` to `ClockApplet.lua`. - piCorePlayer only: if there's a file called `/opt/bootlocal.sh.orig` in the `/opt` folder, delete the file called `bootlocal.sh` in that folder and rename `/opt/bootlocal.sh.orig` to `/opt/bootlocal.sh`.
You can also delete this file: `/home/tc/darkflatskin_bootscript.sh`.
- piCorePlayer only: do a backup using `pcp bu`
- reboot your device.

The VU meter and spectrum visualizer are only displayed if the device running jivelite is also a local player (e.g. if you have SqueezeLite running on your piCorePlayer device).