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2013-06-04, 00:18
I wonder if someone can tell me what I am trying to do is possible,
I want to show fanart from my movies as a background in my skin, as it was possible in pre-frodo. I know that all fanart is now stored in the database, and I don't like the idea of exporting it as i would like to save hdd space.
So, what I propose is to create a service that will run every 20-30 sec that will grab a random fanart from json-rpc and populate a property of a window, my question is;
Is this a good way?
What can I do to make it work for all windows?
Any comment/feedback would be greatly appreciated,
Current setup:
Amlogic M3/MX + Linux + BOXiK Skin + Pioneer vsx520 + Dali Lektor 6
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Revo 3700 + flirc + OpenElec nightlies + Quartz + Pioneer vsx520 + Dali Lektor 6
atv1 + Crystalbuntu + XBMC nightly + xperience1080
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What skin are you using? A lot of skins have this as a feature. Aeon NOx comes to mind.
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This is a mod of confluence that I am developing,
Will check out Aeon Nox see what it does, thanks for the tip
On a separate note I found that I could do:
window = xbmcgui.Window(xbmcgui.getCurrentWindowId())
to get the current window to change the background
Current setup:
Amlogic M3/MX + Linux + BOXiK Skin + Pioneer vsx520 + Dali Lektor 6
Previous setup:
Revo 3700 + flirc + OpenElec nightlies + Quartz + Pioneer vsx520 + Dali Lektor 6
atv1 + Crystalbuntu + XBMC nightly + xperience1080
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Thanks, I had, but from what it looks like the script is caching locally - i want to avoid this as I am limited in space on device.
My idea is to: run a service that will grab a random/latest fanart and set it to property of window (similar to what skin.widgets does)
or
Run a service to cache (10-20 fanart at a time), show, delete, cache, etc - so to only consume small amount of hdd space
What do you think?
Current setup:
Amlogic M3/MX + Linux + BOXiK Skin + Pioneer vsx520 + Dali Lektor 6
Previous setup:
Revo 3700 + flirc + OpenElec nightlies + Quartz + Pioneer vsx520 + Dali Lektor 6
atv1 + Crystalbuntu + XBMC nightly + xperience1080
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can someone help me with a grabber for movies?
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Or just write a script that deletes rhe cache?