[horvathg]

Hello guys,

first of all thank you for the addon! We really like it! It also helps me a lot, to disconnect my tv from internet.
My probelm is, when we use it to listen to music, the lighting of the tv bothers us. For this I wish the screensaver would start. However as a video is playing it is not possible. As a work around, I thought there should be a switch somewhere in the options, when True, tells kodi that it can go on with screensaver like when it is playing music. I thought "Audio only" would do exactly this, however it does not.

I tried to modify the code. I hoped to tell Kodi, that the current context is Files and not video (reason was to copy the option, making sure it exists). For this I added the corresponding line in settings.xml (which appeared and I was able to switch it) and added some changes to provider.py, set_content_type function so it looks like this:

python:


    def set_content_type(self, context, content_type):

        if context.get_settings().get_bool('youtube.enable.screensaver.during.video', True):

            content_type == kodion.constants.content_type.FILES



        context.set_content_type(content_type)

        if content_type == kodion.constants.content_type.VIDEOS:

            context.add_sort_method(kodion.constants.sort_method.UNSORTED,

                                    kodion.constants.sort_method.VIDEO_RUNTIME,

                                    kodion.constants.sort_method.DATE_ADDED,

                                    kodion.constants.sort_method.TRACK_NUMBER,

                                    kodion.constants.sort_method.VIDEO_TITLE,

                                    kodion.constants.sort_method.DATE)

        context.log_error('setting is: %s, context_type: %s' % (str(context.get_settings().get_bool('youtube.enable.screensaver.during.video', True)),content_type))

Although the log messages appear as I hope they should, the screensaver cannot be started neither as in Preview screensaver, nor when the timelimit elapses. This lead me to the realization that it is not that simple. What else should be changed?

Although not mentioned here, I also modified const_settings.py and abstract_settings.py to add a function to get the value of the given setting. Later I haven't used it. I also added the necessary string to en_us but as my local settings does not match, it didn't appear.

Thank you for your answer in advance!
Best regards
horvathg