Kodi Community Forum - Idle time ignores video playback?

Hello,

I use xbmc.getGlobalIdleTime() in a python addon https://github.com/cogano/service.xbmc.c...default.py (see line 115) and wonder why it reports non-zero values when either music or video playback is running. Basically, it gets reset to zero only when I touch the keyboard or mouse.

Is this an expected behaviour of the function? (If so, I would have to use further checks for playback.)

Apart from this add-on, mythtv pvr and youtube video plugin and a few keymaps redefinition (for volume up/down and shutdown), I run a default installation on mythbuntu 14.04 (+ updates) and xbmc ppa (version 2:13.2~git20140817).

Hm, I checked the xbmc/Application.cpp and it reads:

Code:
// Global Idle Time in Seconds

// idle time will be resetet if on any OnKey()

// int return: system Idle time in seconds! 0 is no idle!

int CApplication::GlobalIdleTime()

Too bad, it seems I will have to iterate all the "idle time shutdown" code of XBMC in my addon plugin or modify the XBMC code to run an external script instead of shutting down.