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@Ghostdivision - do you have cron?

There's probably other scripts that can automate add-on execution but I've added such support to Texture Cache Maintenance utility:

Code:

cron@12:00: ./texturecache.py exec script.artwork.downloader silent=true mediatype=movie
cron@12:30: ./texturecache.py exec script.artwork.downloader silent=true mediatype=tvshow

and subsequently pre-loading your cache won't hurt either:

Code:

cron@01:00:./texturecache.py c video

Alternatively, you can write a script that is able to detect when each AD run has finished so that calls to AD can be run serialised without any delay.

Here's an example bash script that I use which initiates a video library scan, followed by calls to AD for movies then tvshows, and finally the texture cache is pre-loaded if any new items have been added (either a full library pre-load or just incremental depending on whether AD has added any new items).

Code:

#!/bin/bash
LOGFILE=/var/log/xbmcscan.log

function _log {
  [ -z "$1" ] && echo >> $LOGFILE || $PRINTF "$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"): $1\n" >> $LOGFILE
}

function waitForAD {
  XBMC="/mnt/share/xbmc/rpi1/Storage/.xbmc"
  XBMC_LOG="${XBMC}/temp/xbmc.log"
  AD_REPORT="${XBMC}/userdata/addon_data/script.artwork.downloader/downloadreport.txt"

  tail -fn0 "${XBMC_LOG}" | \
    while read line; do
      if [ -n "$(echo "$line" | grep "Artwork Downloader: script stopped")" ]; then
        kill $(ps -o pid,args | grep -v grep | grep "tail -fn0 ${XBMC_LOG}" | awk '{ print $1 }') 2>/dev/null
        break
      fi
    done

  echo $(grep -e '^ - Total Artwork: 0$' "${AD_REPORT}" | awk '{ print $4 }')
}

NEWITEMS=0

_log "$(/mnt/share/bin/texturecache.py update 2>/dev/null)"
VSCAN="$(/mnt/share/bin/texturecache.py vscan 2>/dev/null)"
RESULT=$?
_log "$(echo "${VSCAN}")"

/mnt/share/bin/texturecache.py exec script.artwork.downloader silent=true mediatype=movie
NEWITEMS=$(($NEWITEMS + $(waitForAD "movies")))
/mnt/share/bin/texturecache.py exec script.artwork.downloader silent=true mediatype=tvshow
NEWITEMS=$(($NEWITEMS + $(waitForAD "tvshows")))

if [ ${NEWITEMS} -ne 0 ]; then
  _log "New AD items downloaded - performing a full cache pre-load"
  _log "\n$(/mnt/share/bin/texturecache.py c movies 2>/dev/null)"
  _log "\n$(/mnt/share/bin/texturecache.py c tvshows 2>/dev/null)"
elif [ ${RESULT} -ne 0 ]; then
  _log "No new AD items - performing a partial cache pre-load"
  _log "\n$(/mnt/share/bin/texturecache.py lc movies 2>/dev/null)"
  _log "\n$(/mnt/share/bin/texturecache.py lc tvshows 2>/dev/null)"
else
  _log "Skipping cache pre-load - no new artwork items added"
fi

touch /tmp/texturecache.lastrun

/mnt/share/bin/texturecache.cfg:

Code:

xbmc.host=192.168.0.202
userdata=/mnt/share/xbmc/rpi1/Storage/.xbmc/userdata
cache.castthumb = yes
logfile=+/tmp/texturecache.log
lastrunfile=/tmp/texturecache.lastrun

I run this script automatically on a remote FreeNAS system that I rsync new media to, so it only runs once the new media has hit the remote server - a Raspberry Pi running OpenELEC with its /storage partition mounted on NFS is connected to the NAS.