2019-04-16, 17:37
Hi all
I'd like to add two additional screens to my Kodi setup. I have the software on my Windows 10 office PC, my Android 8 phone, OSMC on a Raspberry Pi3. Sadly no longer on my tablet, as this only has Android 4.
All of these connect to a central server for file storage, and a MySQL shared Kodi database.
I'd like to show my Google calendar as a screen. Even if it's just on the Raspberry Pi (OSMC / Linux). I can always just swap screens on the Windows PC.
The second page / screen I'd like to add, is to read some data from a MySQL database or generated webpage, and display some numbers / text from the result.
So far, I do not see any add-on's that support either, and I do not think Kodi can do this itself. I'd be targeting Kodi 18 I guess
I think I need to do this via Python on Kodi, and as an add-on? For the database read, do I do this directly from MySQL (Kodi already uses this for shared library) or do I create HTML or XML on the server, sending that to Kodi?
Any input on where / how to begin? Do I need to create an add-on, or can I do this another way?
Whatever tips would be appreciated
Thanks in advance
I'd like to add two additional screens to my Kodi setup. I have the software on my Windows 10 office PC, my Android 8 phone, OSMC on a Raspberry Pi3. Sadly no longer on my tablet, as this only has Android 4.
All of these connect to a central server for file storage, and a MySQL shared Kodi database.
I'd like to show my Google calendar as a screen. Even if it's just on the Raspberry Pi (OSMC / Linux). I can always just swap screens on the Windows PC.
The second page / screen I'd like to add, is to read some data from a MySQL database or generated webpage, and display some numbers / text from the result.
So far, I do not see any add-on's that support either, and I do not think Kodi can do this itself. I'd be targeting Kodi 18 I guess
I think I need to do this via Python on Kodi, and as an add-on? For the database read, do I do this directly from MySQL (Kodi already uses this for shared library) or do I create HTML or XML on the server, sending that to Kodi?
Any input on where / how to begin? Do I need to create an add-on, or can I do this another way?
Whatever tips would be appreciated
Thanks in advance