[syphonx]

Since switching to Kodi 17 and using the Estuary skin (which I like a lot) the In Progress TV Shows don't start playing when you select them from the home menu but instead take you to the TV show's season and episode list. I thought it was a bug on Libreelec but its the same behaviour on Linux, Android and Windows as well. However when selecting an episode from "Recently Added" the episode plays directly without going to another menu first. How can I force "In Progress" episodes to play when they are first selected?

[Guilouz]

It's normal. Episodes are items so they launch directly, TV Shows are folders that's why it's open folder.

[syphonx]

It's normal. Episodes are items so they launch directly, TV Shows are folders that's why it's open folder.

Is there anyway to change this, on previous skins I used the ongoing episodes would play directly and not go to the folder, I don't want to change skins if I can avoid it.

[Guilouz]

It's normal. Episodes are items so they launch directly, TV Shows are folders that's why it's open folder.

Is there anyway to change this, on previous skins I used the ongoing episodes would play directly and not go to the folder, I don't want to change skins if I can avoid it.

Not possible, it's how Kodi works. If items are episodes or movies or songs, they launch directly, if they are TV Shows or moviesets or albums or artists, Kodi open folder.

Ongoing episodes are episodes, that's why they was launched directly.

[WayneD]

What we need is a list of single next episodes (one per show) so that selecting it starts playing that next episode instead of opening a list. The current behavior is really perplexing to me, as it often goes to the top of a long list of episodes (or even a list of multiple seasons) and trying to find the next episode to play is a difficult task that requires a lot of scrolling around. So, if some folks like the current behavior, can we please get a new section (perhaps named "Next Up") that just lists single episodes for what's next?

[Guilouz]

What we need is a list of single next episodes (one per show) so that selecting it starts playing that next episode instead of opening a list. The current behavior is really perplexing to me, as it often goes to the top of a long list of episodes (or even a list of multiple seasons) and trying to find the next episode to play is a difficult task that requires a lot of scrolling around. So, if some folks like the current behavior, can we please get a new section (perhaps named "Next Up") that just lists single episodes for what's next?

I haver this in my mod :

[syphonx]

What we need is a list of single next episodes (one per show) so that selecting it starts playing that next episode instead of opening a list. The current behavior is really perplexing to me, as it often goes to the top of a long list of episodes (or even a list of multiple seasons) and trying to find the next episode to play is a difficult task that requires a lot of scrolling around. So, if some folks like the current behavior, can we please get a new section (perhaps named "Next Up") that just lists single episodes for what's next?

I haver this in my mod :

Awesome, looks exactly like what I want, I'll check it out!

[redglory]

@Guilouz this "Next episodes to watch" is a great feature but I need to apply this separately by source path.

Can you give me some pointers on how to implement this?

Thanks

EDIT: I've looked into marcelveldt's skin.skin.helper.widgets script and it alows <tags> as a filter:

Code:

if self.options.get("tag"):
   filters.append({"operator": "contains", "field": "tag", "value": self.options["tag"]})

Maybe I can work with this

[Ainuke]

It's normal. Episodes are items so they launch directly, TV Shows are folders that's why it's open folder.

Is there anyway to change this, on previous skins I used the ongoing episodes would play directly and not go to the folder, I don't want to change skins if I can avoid it.

Not possible, it's how Kodi works. If items are episodes or movies or songs, they launch directly, if they are TV Shows or moviesets or albums or artists, Kodi open folder.

Ongoing episodes are episodes, that's why they was launched directly.

FWIW, I'm using the Amber skin, and this behavior is entirely possible. Amber has a "recommended" shelf that queues either the "in progress" episodes, or the next up, depending on the resume point. I got so used to it's convenience that I nearly reverted to Jarvis when Krypton wasn't giving me the same behavior.
It's still available in Krypton through settings>SkinSettings>HomeShelf> "use Jarvis style shelves".