Hi I couldn't quite get this to work for my needs. I think the main problem for me currently is that the Xbox version of Kodi has recently been updated and has load of bugs and problems that I'm having to circumnavigate.
I use
Plex Kodi Connect this adds the content from my local Plex Media Server so I can run it on the main Kodi player instead of the regular built in Plex addon which launches its own version. I do this mainly because I like to use the Kodi .m3u playlist editor to make playlists with both Plex Kodi Connect and the
YouTube addon content so that when played It goes straight through what I'd like to watch, and I prefer this so I don't have to launch multiple applications and navigate through several playlists that are constantly interchanging. I usually build the playlist before I go to bed and then have them automatically play with my home automation with Google Home at certain times of the day.
My goal is to use this addon so that when things automatically shutoff at night while I'm asleep it will track which video in the playlist I am on, and the specific time position of those videos, and then when things automatically come on in the morning it would continue playing from where it left off, hopefully with the playlist still intact and then once the video it picks up on finishes it will continue the playlist as normal, surviving through the reboot.
My first issue is with Plex Kodi Connect. As I mentioned before the service addon you've made (or continued to work on) just doesn't work with this addon, even though the content is added directly to my library. I'm not sure if this is because of the new 19.3 Matrix version update I'm using on the Xbox One, which has come packed with issues and wasn't working with addons at all until
this temporary fix was made. Or if the service addon just never worked with that addon in the first place.
Since you've mentioned in a previous post this service addon is not entirely meant to work with addons at all as per one of your previous posts "these things need to be properly in your library for it to set a resume point" and I'm not sure if Plex Kodi Connect is actually putting my content in the library or just making it appear as if it is, obviously it's not downloading the content to my Xbox, it streams it from my Plex Media Server but it appears in my main library as if it were on the device.
So basically I'm here to request a few features, generally that would be to have this Kodi Playback Resumer service addon work with video addons, as there is potential that I may use others down the road, and also that others may use for their own purposes. But if this is too big of a request then I would like it to specifically work with the YouTube addon above all. I would like to be able to have a full playlist of videos survive a reboot and continue from where it left off the next boot, and continue on as normal without losing the playlist, and hopefully the position of the video it saves on, so that it picks up right from where it left off (say there is an hour long video and it gets halfway through before the reboot I'd like it to continue after the reboot from halfway through).
Previous to the 19.3 Matrix update I was using (or trying to use) another addon on 18.9 Leia that no longer works since the new update requires python 3 instead of python 2. This addon was close to doing the things I needed but had a few problems mainly working with the YouTube addon's MPEG Dash feature. The addon is called
Kodi Resume and for the most part I was able to get this one to work beside it not working with MPEG Dash; it often did not resume the exact position of the video; the mute feature was broken and would often boot muted; and sometimes it would not reboot with a playlist just a single video. I figured I'd mention this addon so you can use the code if you could not come up with one yourself with the features I requested but obviously this code is in python 2 not 3, and I have little coding experience and therefore have no knowledge of how long it would take to use that code, rewrite it, and implement the features.
Also when adding YouTube videos to the .m3u playlist editor via the queue video button in the context menu, and saving it. Then replaying them, the videos play from the music playlist section rather than the video playlist section, that's an issue for the YouTube addon guys to fix but I thought worth mentioning since when using the aforementioned "Kodi Resume" addon it would boot in the music playlist menu with weird number lettering instead of the video names, which wasn't a problem for me because after a video would play the title would go back to normal. That is of course unless it booted with an MPEG Dash video then it would have a random assortment of characters and then something along the line of .dash after it (I'm misremembering) but that is another issue that could maybe be sorted out with your help.
So I figured if you're in the middle of a rewrite anyway, or even if you aren't, I would really appreciate the features I mentioned and I'm willing to help in whatever way is possible for me as I mentioned before I have little experience coding, and none in python.
Although I wouldn't mind if a few of these weren't possible or out of reach, and I'm aware that these things take time. I appreciate your continued efforts as I'm a longtime lurker.
Sorry if I messed up my reply or came off as rude or asking a lot for it is my first time posting and I'm not entire sure of how things work around here.
But whatever help would be greatly appreciated, and if you know of any other way to obtain my goals and could point me in the right direction that would also be appreciated as I've searched the internet and GitHub frequently for something along the lines of what I've asked for, and currently this is the newest and most recent posts of what I'm looking for.
Thanks again. And if you need me to clarify anything or have any other questions you may need me to answer I'll try to get back as quickly as possible, and I'll check every couple days/hours or so.
