Matt

@FlexThat was a mislabeled file. Nature's Fury is for Dolby Atmos and is available here: Thanks for catching the issue.

@NightWatcherTheater I'll have to think about this. I think I understand what you are asking, but the solution may be overly complicated. Other than the delay, there's technically nothing wrong with sending Hue lights the same command. If they are already at a certain brightness there's no visible change. Do you often play movies without chapters?

I have continued to work on this and have added a new setting for Kodi's listed aspect ratio. My issue with this setting, and the reason that I didn't go this route originally, is that I don't know if it is correct. Unless you use TMM as @hslansky suggested or have your videos cropped and recompressed like @Epitaph's list, they will all be 1.78 : 1 as that's what a full frame blu-ray with black bars is. I have made the assumption that if you use nfo files, Kodi will have already scraped the data from them and we can just use that. So there is now a sub-setting for this in PreShow to select how you want it handles. I'm not sure if that's the right wording, but Kodi has a character limit on the settings, and to explain it properly requires scrolling. And then I've modified the IMDB selection option to give the user some more control. Originally I tried to make it so that it would pick the most likely option for movies that list multiple options. That worked for the majority of cases, but not all. There are some that aren't labelled correctly, and then there's always the multi-aspect movies. Now you'll get a pop-up so that you can select which one you want.

Thanks for the suggestion @hslansky & @Epitaph. My goal is to always make a solution that works without the need for other applications. I'll explore other options in the future and already have plans to do some work with nfo files, which may offer better options for a few processes.

@FlexMake sure you restart kodi after installing PreShow. The context menu doesn't load until after a restart. Or install a skin that supports PreShow. Here's a link to the skins that I've worked on to make PreShow compatible: https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/7-skins/ The skin in the images is Aeon Nox: Silvo

@ervau 0.3.0 isn't official yet. Because there are so many underlying elements that have been changed, I'm doing a couple rounds of testing with it. The next version of it will have the updated action files. Here's a link to the previous version, which broke Kodi trailers and trivia:

@marius Thanks for the suggestion. As of this version, they are just global options in the settings and can't currently be customized per movie.. The main thing that I'm doing is adding he underlying code so that this sort of functionality is possible. The next step is to have people test it to see if the functionality has issues. I think last chapter does a good job for a significant percentage of movies. My ultimate goal is to make it time based with community support, so that if 1 person puts in the correct location of the credits that it will work for everyone else. I also have work to do on action files within sequences, but that's a ways off.

I think that the file you want to edit is DialogNotification.xml.

Are you trying to show an image for the intermission with GUI.ShowNotification? If so, I think that the only image in the notification is the icon.

One of the changes in 0.3.0 is the addition of new locations for actions. As shown in the image above, the action category in the PreShow settings now has 4 new possible locations for actions. These are: At the beginning of the PreShow sequence Before the feature At the last chapter At the middle chapter The beginning of a PreShow & before the feature should simplify sequences for people that have specific automations before their movies. Before the feature happens after ratings. The last chapter provides some option for automations at the credits. I know this won't work for all films, or all video files. It also require that the file have more than 1 chapter. The middle chapter is for people that want a pre-planned intermission in the middle of the movie. I decided to use chapter instead of time based with the hopes that you'll be at the beginning of a scene and not in the middle. There are no new features related to intermissions in this build, other than the action trigger. Note that both chapter points are checked every few seconds, so the action may not trigger exactly at the chapter change.

I haven't tested youtube links, but will look into it.

The kodi trailer issue was reported in the discord ane has been fixed. I am testing a couple other things that have been reported and will post an update for it as soon as I can.

Skin: Confluence for PreShow Experience in Kodi 21 View File This is a modified version of Confluence for use with PreShow Experience in Kodi 21 Submitter Matt Submitted 04/28/2024 Category Skins  

The code that you want is something along the lines of: sleep://3600000 http://username:password@ip#:8080/jsonrpc {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Input.ExecuteAction","params":{"action":"playpause"},"id":0} sleep://600000 http://username:password@ip#:8080/jsonrpc {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Input.ExecuteAction","params":{"action":"playpause"},"id":0} Add other functions a you want. Make sure you have your system set up to allow this in settings > services > control.

Skin: Estuary for PreShow Experience in Kodi 21 Omega View File This is a modified version of the skin Estuary for use with PreShow Experience in Kodi 21 Omega. Submitter Matt Submitted 04/28/2024 Category Skins  

Damn, 37 is young.

This won't fix your problem, but as a recommendation to people that may see this, please turn off app auto updates on the shield. I am still mad about it modifying my system after I had it dialed in and not being able to quickly get it working perfectly again.

There will be a new action setting for the last chapter in the next version. I'll look into other time based options at a later date.

It is. I also PMed it to you yesterday.