[Nawk]

Hi, i'm fairly new to Kodi and really appreciate anyone who can help me out.

Here's the situation. I've installed Kodi v17.1 on a windows machine (Intel NUC) and it works great, now i want it to autoplay from a shared folder locally on the machine, because it needs to play every video in this folder on loop 24/7 for digital signage.

I have almost achieved this using this python script

Code:

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('xbmc.PlayMedia("C:\Loopreel\","isdir")')
xbmc.executebuiltin('xbmc.PlayerControl(repeatall)')
xbmc.executebuiltin("Action(Fullscreen)")

This works well, however if i add new videos to the shared folder, i have to restart Kodi completely for it to play the new videos.

Is there a way to make Kodi check for new videos in the folder on every loop?

[brazen1]

Would probably require to rescan. This would require restarting but you don't restart and want it to recognize additions in real time.

Not sure but you could try Library Update add-on or Watchdog. These would not require a restart.

[nickr]

Updating your library does not require a restart.

A slightly more sophisticated script that loops forever but doesn't use the built-in repeatall would work, as it would re read the directory every time thorough the loop.

[Asakura]

i only managed to get this script working on an older version of Kodi. tried 17.1 and it kept showing error.

similarly, im also trying to get it to update the playlist without restarting