2015-03-31, 04:05
Ok folks here's a little supplementary thing I have started work on. It's very handy if you have a squeezebox sitting next to your Kodi machine....
It's called XSqueezeDisplay (& I am offiicially crap at naming things!).
It's a tool to display Kodi now playing info using the line display of a SB2/Sb3/Classic Squeezebox. Basically, the idea is that it will be like LCDProc but using a Squeezebox display. If you're not using Kodi, it will just fall back to displaying the standard Date and Time stuff.
This alpha version displays only one thing so far - time remaining on the currently playing video (only) file.
To install:
In LMS Settings -> Plugins add my repo URL:
Hit apply. reload that page, and you should now see XSqueezeDisplay -> tick that and it will prompt you to restart LMS - do so.
Once restarted, XSqueezeDisplay should be in your active plugins list, so click settings on right and fill those in with your Kodi json details (IP address, port, username and password or leave those last two blank if you don't use authentication). Note the two template lines at the bottom are currently not used so just leave them empty!
Apply the settings (bottom right).
Now - RESTART your LMS again.
Check the end of the LMS log and you should see something like:
*** XSqueezeDisplay *** Kodi endpoint is http://user:[email protected]:80/jsonrpc (user:password will be missing if you don't use one).
Now on your kodi machine, play a video. You should see the display change to something like (if in two line mode):
Playing
12:05PM [-45:12] - and the timer on the right ticking down as each second passes.
...the goal here is to get a few folks to try it to make sure it generally works. If it does, and there is some interest, I can make it more general fairly easily and add support for info like the name of the episode playing etc.
....and @nickr thanks for answering those things etc above, I don't always get the email notifications for some reason...
It's called XSqueezeDisplay (& I am offiicially crap at naming things!).
It's a tool to display Kodi now playing info using the line display of a SB2/Sb3/Classic Squeezebox. Basically, the idea is that it will be like LCDProc but using a Squeezebox display. If you're not using Kodi, it will just fall back to displaying the standard Date and Time stuff.
This alpha version displays only one thing so far - time remaining on the currently playing video (only) file.
To install:
In LMS Settings -> Plugins add my repo URL:
Code:
http://github.com/bossanova808/repository.squeeze.bossanova808/raw/master/staging/repo.xmlHit apply. reload that page, and you should now see XSqueezeDisplay -> tick that and it will prompt you to restart LMS - do so.
Once restarted, XSqueezeDisplay should be in your active plugins list, so click settings on right and fill those in with your Kodi json details (IP address, port, username and password or leave those last two blank if you don't use authentication). Note the two template lines at the bottom are currently not used so just leave them empty!
Apply the settings (bottom right).
Now - RESTART your LMS again.
Check the end of the LMS log and you should see something like:
*** XSqueezeDisplay *** Kodi endpoint is http://user:[email protected]:80/jsonrpc (user:password will be missing if you don't use one).
Now on your kodi machine, play a video. You should see the display change to something like (if in two line mode):
Playing
12:05PM [-45:12] - and the timer on the right ticking down as each second passes.
...the goal here is to get a few folks to try it to make sure it generally works. If it does, and there is some interest, I can make it more general fairly easily and add support for info like the name of the episode playing etc.
....and @nickr thanks for answering those things etc above, I don't always get the email notifications for some reason...
