Automatic reproduction of a Folder in kodi kypton 17.6

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    Hello everyone, how are you?

    It's my first post and the first time I use raspberry (in my case it's a raspberry pi 3 b +) and I have to do a small project as a final part of my final project.

    I tell them what I have to do to see if they can help me. I have to make my Raspberry with Libreelec 8.2.5 and kodi (with the AppTV skin) automatically play videos from a folder without having to do anything but put the videos in the required folder.

    I get the videos to be played continuously but through a playlist, without it I am not able to do anything.
    If you can tell me if that is possible and how I would thank you.
    A greeting and thanks in advance,
    JuMa4:)

    Edited once, last by JuMa4 (April 10, 2019 at 4:16 PM).

    • Official Post

    If you have a static content in your folder, you can use an autostart script to play the playlist for that folder.

    If you have dynamic content in your folder, it's more difficult. Then you have to deal with playlist updates, and how to deal with already playing files. My suggestion for dynamic content is to upload a new playlist together with every new video file.

    Quote from Da Flex

    If you have a static content in your folder, you can use an autostart script to play the playlist for that folder.

    If you have dynamic content in your folder, it's more difficult. Then you have to deal with playlist updates, and how to deal with already playing files. My suggestion for dynamic content is to upload a new playlist together with every new video file.

    Good morning,

    Thanks for ur opinion xD, but i can,t use a playlist for the folder. I need to play all videos in folder without playlist.

    It´s supposed to be to put in a shop window a TV that plays the videos and if the owner just has to put the videos in the folder through FTP (in my project I have to use Filezilla). The owner isn´t supposed to know how to make playlist or does he want lo tearn how to make them.

    The project is quite demanding xDD

    P.D: Sorry for my English ^^

    Quote from Da Flex

    OK, that's doable, too. Write a Python script, which permanently scans the existing files of your folder, and plays them. You can autostart that script after RPi boot by using "/storage/.config/autostart.sh".

    Good Morning, Da Flex, thanks for your help. I will try to do today. Have a nice weekend ^^