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PreShow Halloween 2023 - Enjoy the Feature Film View File Submitter Matt Submitted 10/17/2023 Category Holiday Bumpers  

Happy Halloween from PreShow Experience View File Submitter Matt Submitted 10/16/2023 Category PreShow Videos  

I don't have any easy ideas. I'll look into it further and see if I can come up with something.

Nice. I also watched Totally Killer and the original TCM. Totally Killer was sort of funny for 80s comparison to today, but was just sort of middle of the road. My wife had never seen TCM and after watching it I asked what the thought. She said "There was a LOT of screaming." I couldn't argue with her about that. What has been your favorite things you've watched?

I don't have a gradient light strip, so I haven't looked into this. Can you set up a scene for your strip and activate that? I didn't see any references to gradients in the developer site https://developers.meethue.com/develop/hue-api-v2/

@Enermax You mentioned local movies and trailers. I'm not sure where you are in the process of setting up PreShow, so here is an overview of what you need to do to create a sequence for trailers a & audio format bumpers. Open PreShow Experience in your addons. If you haven't set up your content folder, click the settings button in the top right and add the content folder with the first item in the general tab in the settings. If you are only wanting to use local trailers, while in settings go into the trailers tab and make sure that only 'Trailers: PreShow Trailers Folder" is selected. Copy your trailers to the "Trailers" folder in your PreShow content folder. Go to this site and download the Audio Format Bumpers Starter Set. Extract them to your "Audio Format Bumpers" folder in your PreShow content folder. Now create a new sequence in PreShow. It's the top left button. Click the Edit sequence button. Add a module for Trailers Edit the trailers module to select the number of trailers that you want to show. Move the cursor to the right and add a module for Audio Format Bumpers. Move the cursor to the right and add a module for Feature. Hit escape and go back to the main menu to save the sequence. It's the 3rd button from the top left. Play the sequence in the editor just to make sure it works. Now go to movies open the information context menu and select PreShow Experience to show your trailers and audio format bumpers before your movie. If this works and is how you want things going forward, you can go into the settings under the Playback tab and click "hide queue editor." Let me know if you have any issues.

@starslayer74The PreShow code to launch the python file didn't work and needed to be modified. I fixed that, but then I realized the Tuya code from the other site won't work as is. What do you normally use to control your Tuya bulbs?

Can you send me a log file?

I just watched a trailer for it and it looked terrible. It could be fun with the right audience though. Some of my favorite movie experiences are of crap movies that inspire audience feedback. What's the link to your podcast?

Here's my best guess on how to make this work: Download tuya-bulb-control-main.zip, PreShow.py, and Tuya.pseaction below. Unzip tuya-bulb-control-main.zip and place it somewhere that your system can access. Move PreShow.py to that folder. Edit PreShow.py and change the following to the correct details: CLIENT_ID = '' SECRET_KEY = '' DEVICE_ID = '' REGION_KEY = '' Move Tuya.pseaction to the Actions folder in your PreShow Content directory. Edit "python://path/to/script.py" to the location of PreShow.py. Test the action. I don't know if that will work and I can't do anything to test it. If it does work, it won't do what you want it to do, but that's right now we just want to see if it does anything. If it works, we can figure out how to make it do what you want afterwards. Let me know how it goes. And if there's anyone else with Tuya bulbs, please let us know so that we can get more people to help test. tuya-bulb-control-main.zip PreShow.py Tuya.pseaction

It's October with a Friday the 13th, so it's ultimate horror month for me. I recently got 4ks of some classics, The Exorcist & The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that I'm looking forward to watching. I'm also looking forward to seeing Talk to Me. Return is great. Send more paramedics. I wouldn't classify House and Sleepaway Camp as "terrible" horror movies. They may not be great, but both are enjoyable movies. What's your opinion of the movies you mentioned?

Can you set up access to the API, using the instructions from the link you shared? Step 1: CLIENT_ID and SECRET_KEY Register or Login on Tuya. Create a cloud development project Cloud -> Project. After successful creation, you will receive the Client ID and Secret Key. Step 2: DEVICE_ID Install Tuya Smart app or Smart Life app on your mobile phone. Go to Cloud -> Link Devices page. Selecting a tab Link Devices by App Account. Click Add App Account and scan the QR code with Tuya Smart app or Smart Life app. Now you can go to devices Cloud -> Device List and copy Device ID. Notes: Try to select a your region if devices are not displayed. Step 3: Request access to API calls Go to Cloud -> API Group and enable Authorization management, Device Management and Device Control. We can hopefully use the python script if you can get things set up. The challenge with anything with anything like this is that if I don't have it I can't test it to figure out how to make it work. The only Tuya thing I have is luckily Hue compatible. Let me know if you get this set up and I'll suggest your next steps.

You need to use an action. Integrating it is on my to-do list.

What specific files are you referring to?

Yes, hd-trailers.net was pulling from apple. I don't think there are any other places with downloadable trailers that are regularly updated. There are ad heavy sites that will allow you to download trailers, but they are a bit of a pain. Please let me know if anyone finds a site with regularly updated non YT trailers. We are working on another solution inside of PreShow that is the only reliable non YT place that I can find. Places don't like to have their content crawled, so this will unfortunately be an ongoing or repeating issue.

Time for the next milestone release for Kodi 21 "Omega". Slightly delayed this time around compared to what we were striving for, however we are happy to announce the arrival of Alpha 3. This is a major release, so, as you'd expect, it comes with many new features. However, with a core change to FFmpeg 6.0, there is a very good chance that some regressions may occur. As such, please be aware that installing this will most likely break things, and we'd really like your help at that point to identify the problems and get them fixed. Please raise Github issues with full debug logs to help us resolve any issues you wonderful testers come across. A further 176 Pull Requests have been merged since Alpha 2 - fixing issues, adding features, and improving Kodi. So... what's actually changed? Estuary A change to Estuary to add "more..." to size-limited lists has been made by @ksooo. The effect of this can be seen in homescreen widgets that have more than 15 items. A number of changes to support video information for Movie Sets and TV Seasons has been made. FFmpeg @popcornmix has made several fixes to our FFmpeg library usage. This has gone through several iterations now, and has affected seeking and playback to various degrees. Hopefully, the last of these regressions has now been squashed, but please do let us know if you experience any further regressions around playback using FFmpeg. Filesystem @thexai has changed the chunk size of data requests for local media, increasing it 64kb to improve data throughput. Games @garbear continues to improve the gaming interface of Kodi. Changes around player management/assignment have been made in https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/23548. Have a read of that PR for more details/info. General @ksooo has continued his whack-a-mole approach with issues regarding menu usage across the Kodi codebase. 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The Apple iTunes Movie Trailers site has been shut down. Because of this iTunes trailers in PreShow will no longer work. I'll post more when there is additional news.

I consolidated some stuff in the activity dropdown. Hopefully the link you want is there.

Thanks for pointing that out. I was trying to fix something else on the site and it apparently broke the menu. I think it is fixed now.

PreShow Halloween Castle Bumper View File Submitter Matt Submitted 08/24/2023 Category PreShow Videos  

PreShow Halloween Experience Enjoy the Scary Movie View File Submitter Matt Submitted 08/24/2023 Category PreShow Videos