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On OSMC, I have added several Samba shares from a NAS to the sources file and they can be played just fine. I am planning to write a bash script to automate the playing of videos from one of the sources. My question is about how to access the sources already saved to the OSMC sources file. I know I can access the videos using a syntax like this: “SMB:\192…” But is there another method that allows me to access the video through the saved sources in a script or do I have to use the SMB:\ directory everytime?
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pkscout
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If you're doing it in a bash script, you're probably stuck with OS level connections. I don't know of anyway offhand to access the Kodi sources from outside Kodi. If you write a Kodi addon there might be some pythonic way of doing it though.
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DaVu
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not so sure about how OSMC handles it, but I guess you are able to let the OS do the mount of SMB shares. If that's possible you able to access the files directly by a folder/mountpoint.
At least on other Linux distros you are able to start kodi from commandline. You are able to give a filename as a parameter, such as: kodi /path/to/video/file.mkv and Kodi will play that file directly after startup.
So yeah, it can either be done via bash script and for sure it also can be done via python.
