I am Noob - Daily change of playlist m3u file

rcruzmar · August 18, 2016 at 3:20 PM

Hello to all.

I am a fairly new LibreElec user. I am looking for a direction so I can further understand how to work with LE. I am running LE on a RPi 3B with a playlist set to autostart. There are a couple of things I would like to do.

1. Change the playlist content on a daily basis. I have a web service which returns the playlist to be played for any given day. Upon LE system boot up, I need to access the web service, retrieve the playlist of the day. Once playlist is retrieved, I can copy it to the proper folder.

2. From the playlist I could also determine if I am missing any videos. Once identified I would like to download them into their proper folders as well. I am not sure if LE provide this capability? I know that missing files in the playlist are skipped.

3. Any documentation I could read which will help me further understand how LE works when booting?

These steps need to happen BEFORE the autoplaylist executes.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

**lrusak** · August 18, 2016 at 5:36 PM Official Post

I would write an autoexec.py python script to do what you want.

Autoexec.py - Official Kodi Wiki

Otherwise no, the functionality you want isn't implemented natively.

rcruzmar · August 19, 2016 at 1:32 AM

@Irusak... Thanks for pointing me in the proper direction.

Now, if I am able to solve the video upload situation. Know of any download software which could automate the process of downloading files?