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How to programmatically display all the videos in a directory in a loop? - kxb3292 - 2018-02-19
Hello All,
I have a set up of raspberry pi 3 with raspbian operating system with kodi v16.1. I am trying to come up with a way to display all the videos I have in a directory (/home/pi/media) in a loop using kodi. My requirements are :
- I would like the video slideshow to start automatically when kodi is started using a script
- The slideshow should keep displaying all the videos in a particular directory in a loop and update itself if some content is added/removed from this directory (/home/pi/media)
Is there a step by step way that we could make this work? Perhaps there is a script/set up that can do this? Somebody else also must have stumbled upon this need. Perhaps I could get some hints/pointers to get there? Can this set up be created programmatically (assuming that the slideshow should run smoothly without having to intervene with keyboard/mouse)?
I would really appreciate any thoughts/help/ideas
Thank you so much!
kxb3292
RE: How to programmatically display all the videos in a directory in a loop? - DaVu - 2018-02-23
Probably it´s possbile to do that with an autoexec.py placed in your userdata folder.
it might look something like this:
python:
import xbmc
xmbc.executebuiltin('PlayMedia(/home/pi/media),isdir)')
xbmc.executebuiltin('PlayerControl(RepeatAll)')
Another way might be using a smart playlist and then play this at startup using a similar command for the autoexec.py. But I guess this won´t be updated automatically if you add content to a folder. Not so sure about smart playlists as I don´t use them very often. But I guess you need to update the playlist each time you add or remove content. For the example above, where you have your content in a specific folder, Kodi plays the content from that folder (,isdir) and if you add something to it, it should play that as well.
I hope that helps at least in a bit
