I've been using PSE since it was uhhhh, Home Theater Experience, back before Kodi was Kodi. I used Cinema Experience, which I'm pretty sure there was 1 more after before PSE started.

I used to go back and forth with the original author, and a few times with the CE author with 1 suggestion. The ability to select trivia for specific movies, so I could set up my trivia to tie in with the movies. Both said it was a good idea, and would consider it. Nothing ever came from it, so I would copy just the trivia for the movie I wanted into the trivia folder before I started XBMC. I stopped using Kodi for a chunk and came back to see you can now add conditions to your sequences. While I haven't tried it yet, this looks exactly like what I was suggesting both other authors should add. Well it looks like it can do a whole lot more actually.

This is my favorite XBMC Addon, I remember how sad I was every time it died and I was never sure if it would even come back. This new version is awesome and the added conditional elements are perfect. To me that was about all that HTE was missing, and 15 years later to finally see it is crazy.

I just want to thank Matt for the hard work and not letting CE, or whatever it was last called died. I have appreciated every programmer that picked up working on this when the last author let it die. And Kudos for the UI, I loved HTE but the UI was clunky and it was overly complicated to make sequences. Hopefully I'll be able to use PSE forever, I remember staying on an old buggy version of XBMC just because HTE was dead and wouldn't work with the newer versions lol. That's how much the plugin meant to me.

Hey @Quebert . Welcome back.

It's always great to hear from people that enjoy PreShow, and the versions prior to it. The conditions were developed by the person before me.

An upcoming versions of PreShow will include metadata so that you can display more relevant trivia. The goal is to create the conditions at the content level instead of at the sequence level so that you can use 1 sequence for a wide variety of content.

More specifically, the 1st version will look at rating and genres and deliver content that is a better match to your movie. For example, if you are watching an R rated horror movie you won't be getting Pixar trivia, and vice versa.

The latest version of PreShow in the repo already includes the 1st version of metadata for video bumpers.

I also have options for release year, director and cast to better refine the content, but that will be in development/testing for a long while.

Thanks for your post.