View Full Version : Start a slideshow on XBMC startup?
markturnip
2008-01-18, 14:27
Is it possible to make a picture slideshow start-up immediately when XBMC loads? - I know it's possible to do it with music and you can make a screen-saver occur after a minute, but it would be good if the images appears strait away...
This is because I'm using XBMC to display photos on an HDTV - like one of those picture frames you can buy for rip of prices!
rtfm.
xbmc.slideshow builtin command
markturnip
2008-01-18, 22:13
Ok, thanks! - although my scripts don't seem to load, look here: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=30643
I can't understand why!? - Could it be cause I only have about 130mb left on my E: drive (where my XBMC is located)
markturnip
2008-01-20, 19:45
Is this the right idea?:
import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('xbmc.slideshow(smb:\\Mark:*** ***@192.168.0.3\\Shared_Photos\\)')
markturnip
2008-01-23, 02:35
Well for the time being I managed to make it work on a local directory -
#Import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('XBMC.RecursiveSlideShow(F:\\P ictures\\)')
That'll do for the time being, I hadn't used RecursiveSlideShow for the network share, so I guess i'll give that a shot another time.
Still, I feel I've achieved something!
smb paths use normal slashes
smb://foo/bar/