We frequently set up a collection of 10 to 20 slides as a pre-show before our programming for 30 or so minutes using the Slideshow module. However, we encounter the slideshow limitation: once all the slides have been displayed once, the slideshow ends, regardless of the total duration set. To achieve our desired length, we duplicate and manually number the slides, which is quite cumbersome when looking to keep the same rotation order over and over.

Would it be possible to add a “loop” option to this module? This would allow the slides to restart either in alphabetical order or in a continuous random order, while keeping the background music uninterrupted. We believe this feature would also be beneficial for the Trivia module when the trivia set has been shown in its entirety.

Thanks for considering this request!

Best,
Spires

You should be able to combine it with the command module to make it loop.

Let me know if you need help setting that up.

Hmmm... tried a loop command in the sequence, but that doesn't satisfy this request as the music stops and restarts, potentially playing the same songs again (we have plenty of music in the library.) Maybe I'm missing another method. Thank you.

I'll look at it when I get time, after the current dev round is completed.

From my perspective, if you are repeating content then you are playing something in the background and it is ok if the music stops and potentially repeats the same music. I would just put some sort of other element in the loop with it so that there more natural flow to it. For example, play the slideshow and then a random short video and then come back to the slideshow.

If you want to make this work now the way you described, make copies of your slideshow images and then use bulk rename utility to renumber them. You can figure out how long you want it to be and just add enough files to process that amount of time. I use that utility a lot and really like it.

@Matt - Regarding slideshows, we can't seem to figure out what commands the volume of the module. There isn't a volume setting in the module itself and there isn't a volume setting in the Playback section of the app settings. Thought maybe it was tied to Trivia, but it's not. Seems to come through at about 50% volume or something lower than 100%.

If this isn't directly settable in the app, is this something we can manually "tweak" in the app folder outside of Kodi?

That's a good catch. I don't think there is a volume control for slideshows.

All of the volume controls are in playbook in module volumes. I'll add slideshow controls there.

Thanks for letting me know about this.