create an x-tra movies category in the menu

    All,

    After populating a movies folder, I've been thinking that it might be nice to make a difference between movies and animation movies (ie / eg, Pixar)

    The idea behind is to have an account for children with this very menu item enabled, so other movies would remain out of reach.

    Creating another menu item was easy (so I have now Movies, Animated, and Series), and having it pointing to a dedicated directory was easy as well.

    But I'd like to have a nice background made of fanart from animation movies and animation movies only.

    From what I've seen, the scrapper makes no difference between types of movies : am I right, or wrong ?

    I'd like to know if some people had the same kind of idea, and how they managed to implement it

    Thanks all, and warm regards

    Kodi support for user "profiles" isn't brilliant, but things that will make the quest easier are separating the movies into different sources. The scrapers don't differentiate on content but different users can have different sources available. You can also use the node editor add-on to create new nodes (items like 'recently added' and 'genres' are nodes) with source(s) used as node criteria making a "Kids Movies" node under Movies possible. Creating a top-level menu item requires either skin hacking or skins that allow menu items to be created. I've no idea which skins support that as I'm a committed Estuary user, but I believe some can do it.

    I didn' knew about the node editor and this looks a good point to start with : thanks.

    The UI I have choosen (untill then) is AeonNox, which supports top level menu items creation.

    I'm going to work with this and see what I'll get.