Download arctic zephyr skin

Step Click on the zip file within. If you see failed to install addon from Zip file , check your internet connection, reboot Kodi, and install again. Wait until you can see a message pops up on the upper-right side saying jurialmunkey Alpha Repository Add-on installed.

Then click Install from repository. Select jurialmunkey Alpha Repository. If you encounter " Could not connect to repository " error message, check out our troubleshooting. Select Arctic Zephyr 2 , then click Install. Click OK to install additional dependencies and add-ons when a dialog pops up. Try installing the required dependencies respectively, if you encounter failed to install a dependency. Wait for the skin to install.

Once the skin is installed, you'll be asked whether to switch to Arctic Zephyr 2, select Yes. Then select Yes to keep the change. It's advised to disable auto-update feature of the skin. To update skin in the future, switch your Kodi to default Estuary skin, update Arctic Zephyr 2, and then restart Kodi and switch it to Arctic Zephyr 2 skin.

That should avoid Arctic Zephyr 2 black screen and freezing loading screen issue. On first startup, the Arctic Zephyr 2 home screen will be blank if you haven't import your movie and TV shows collection to Kodi, if you haven't and don't know how to do so, you can learn from our guide on how to add local library to Kodi. The following setups all take place in Skin Settings menu. Other skin settings like appearance, layouts, color scheme, sorting, etc.

Hubs refer to the home menu items shortcuts you can access from the left side home screen. From there, highlight a hub and you can click the buttons on it to remove it, position it or add a new menu shortcut subsequent to it.

Click Choose item for menu from the right side so you can create a shortcut to your addon's directories to display in the hub. After you create a menu shortcut, you should assign an action for it, and the easiest method is to click Choose item for menu to point to it a playlist from addons or your favorite Trakt lists, to access from home screen. Widgets in Arctic Zephyr 2 serve as shortcuts in hubs. If there's only one widget for a hub, the lower-side of the screen in Arctic Horizon will display detailed information for the highlighted title.

If multiple widgets are added to a hub, you can scroll up and down for browsing widgets that point to different lists. But different from Arctic Horizon, Arctic Zephyr 2 doesn't support to customize widgets aspect for main menu items.

While the use of multiple widgets makes your hubs substantial, it may bog down system on lower-powered devices. Three for each hub would be the best widgets amount to guarantee performance. Install the beta version of skin helper from marcelveldt's beta repository. Installing new skins is actually very easy as it can be done within Kodi settings.

You just need to navigate through the menus to the skin section and you can install new skins from there. Here are step by step instructions:.

You can navigate through the menu at the bottom with the left and right keys, and the time and date are shown in the bottom right.

The information about the currently playing media is shown in the top right of the screen, along with a small round icon to show how far you are through the current item.

One thing to note about using the Arctic Zephyr skin is that it is not designed to be used with a mouse. If you try to control Kodi using a mouse in this skin it will sometimes work, but some menus will not function correctly.

Because of this, the cursor appears as a large and ugly red warning box when you try to use the mouse on this skin. Once you have the skin installed, you can start to customise it to get the look and functions that you want. To begin customising, go to Settings and then to Skin settings. This will open up the settings panel for the skin, which is the main place you will use to make changes to the skin.

Select Home from the menu on the left and then click on Customise home menu. The Customize Main Menu window is where you can change what appears on the main menu at the bottom of your home screen.

For example, you might want to add a menu item for Favourites , so that you can quickly access your favourite items. To add an item, move the highlight until the icon of a cross in a circle goes white. Click this to add a new menu item.

Now move to the right to choose the options for this new item you just created. There are currently three release channels available:. Please read the official threads. You can report issues you experience here on GitHub by opening up an issue for the appropriate version or by reporting it on the Kodi and the Emby forums. The Northern Lights Foundation receives no monetary compensation for the development and usage of this skin. Commercial users interested in integrating Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes into their product are required to contact NortheBridge to license the skin for their product.