[smitchell6879]

I am sure this has already been asked but when I search I get old results...

With my special features addon I want to add the ablilty auto update.. my thoughts are to have it run after the user scans movies into the kodi database.. but when attempting to use 

monitor.onScanFinished('video') I always get 'none' as a return.... 

is there a way to get the trigger for when the library is updated or cleaned so I can update and clean the database my addon makes?

[Takezo36]

Hi you can't just call the method you need to implement a class extending monitor and than the method will get called. plus you need to keep the thread alive. something like this (untestet):

class MyMonitor(xbmc.Monitor):
  def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    xbmc.Monitor.__init__(self)

  def onDatabaseUpdated(self,db):
    xbmc.log('database updated')

if (__name__ == "__main__"):
  monitor = MyMonitor()
  while (not xbmc.abortRequested):
     xbmc.sleep(10000)
  del monitor

have a look here for a running implementation
https://github.com/pilluli/service.xbmc.callbacks
that's where i started of with when playing around with the monitor class

[smitchell6879]

Thanks for the reply but, That's what I have now ... It I added it to a working while notabort loop in the service part of my add-on that monitor the list item and set a property so I know the monitor loop is working on a .6 sec loop


So I added

Test=xbmc.monitoir().onscanfinished('video')
Xbmcgui(). notification ("",str(test))

Into the loop while in Kodi I only get

None in the notification...
I did update library and scan new content but never saw it change. I am using Krypton if it makes a difference..

[Takezo36]

Hi,

few things. Like said you can't just call the on<whatever> methods from the monitor they will always return null. Kodi calls this methods on the implementations of monitor. Monitor is a listener and creating one will will automatically hook it into kodi and kodi will send notifications/call the on<whatever> methods. It is a oberserver pattern if you want to look it up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_pattern)
The abortRequested loop is only there to keep your script and the instance of the monitor alive.

In your case you would need a monitor impl like this.

class MyMonitor(xbmc.Monitor):
  def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    xbmc.Monitor.__init__(self)

  def onScanFinished(self, library):
#if you only want to act on video lib updates   
    if library == "video":
      doWhatYouNeedToDo()

If you still have trouble maybe post your complete code so i can have a look at it and maybe give you a hand to help.

[Roman_V_M]

You can see a working implementation in my addon for next-episode.net site:
https://github.com/santah/next-episode-k...service.py
https://github.com/santah/next-episode-k...py#L19-L43

[smitchell6879]

Thanks Roman I will give it another go this evening.

[Milhouse]

if (__name__ == "__main__"):
  monitor = MyMonitor()
  while (not xbmc.abortRequested):
     xbmc.sleep(10000)
  del monitor

I know this is example code but just in case anyone implements it xmbc.sleep(10000) is a bad idea as it will delay Kodi shutdown. Instead use monitor.waitForAbort() - you won't need the while loop and Kodi will not be delayed while it waits for the add-on to wake up and exit.

[smitchell6879]

Roman it works perfectly... now I need to learn how to actually use the class part of python the right way and redo the whole addon lol. thanks you again... I a determined to learn this stuff one day.