(2022-09-21, 23:00)ntilikp Wrote: The lack of such an option in Kodi is glaring, and repeatedly comes up as a beginner question.  

Over the years, community solutions have emerged but all come with significant flaws:  addons like script.skin.helper.widgets and script.embuary.helper attempt to generate a widget that mimics the behavior but are slow and buggy, if functional at all.  The Lazy-TV addon attempts to maintain a smart playlist for quicker load times, but smart playlist parameters don't allow for sorting the list in the expected order, and don't refresh automatically to reflect newly watched media.  

Broadening the optionality of smart playlists could resolve this issue.

(2022-09-22, 02:49)jbinkley60 Wrote:

(2022-09-21, 23:00)ntilikp Wrote: The lack of such an option in Kodi is glaring, and repeatedly comes up as a beginner question.  

Over the years, community solutions have emerged but all come with significant flaws:  addons like script.skin.helper.widgets and script.embuary.helper attempt to generate a widget that mimics the behavior but are slow and buggy, if functional at all.  The Lazy-TV addon attempts to maintain a smart playlist for quicker load times, but smart playlist parameters don't allow for sorting the list in the expected order, and don't refresh automatically to reflect newly watched media.  

Broadening the optionality of smart playlists could resolve this issue.

I am curious about your request.  Here's a screenshot of one of my Kodi instances running the default skin.  The In Progress Movies seems to align with what you are asking for.  Is the question sharing this information across Kodi instances ?  I use a bit different system to sync bookmarks and force the skin to update so you see the latest watched statuses.  Here's another library view using a slightly different smart playlist technology for the Last 100 played that haven't completed play (i.e. play counter is still 0).  I am curious how this differs with what you are looking for ?


Thanks,

jeff

(2022-09-22, 02:57)ntilikp Wrote: Sorry, I should have been clearer.  The screenshot you showed is for movies, and I'd like it for TV Shows -- I realize Kodi has the capability for adding an In Progress TV Shows smart playlist, but it links to the TV Shows themselves, and not the episode you left off on.  If you'll notice in the images I linked, the "continue watching" hub that's become industry-standard lists one episode from each in-progress TV Show which, when selected, plays that episode and then the following ones in that series.  I know of no way to achieve this behavior with Kodi.

The closest I've gotten is by setting a widget with the In Progress TV Shows smart playlist at the top of my home menu sorted by LastPlayed, and then setting "Select first unwatched TV Show season / episode" in Kodi's preferences.  This works, but still requires several clicks, and it seems odd that Kodi would fall behind on this feature that people have come to take for granted in media players.

(2022-10-11, 18:47)Dumyat Wrote: @ntilikp 
I thought I already had the kind of feature you're describing included on my current skin mod of Estuary for TV Episodes, but it must have been included on an earlier incarnation that I removed for some reason.
Anyway, I've updated the skin to include the feature again as I would also find it very useful. I'm pretty sure it's what you were wanting, but I'm not sure the next un-watched episode will be shown after the in-progress one has been watched. So, in that respect it's maybe not entirely what you were wanting. Screenshot and link to skin below:-

Skin-Link: 366117 (thread)



Might be of use to you.....
Cheers

(2022-10-12, 22:31)ntilikp Wrote: Here's how it appears for me, and it works with in-progress episodes as well, in case it's useful for you or anyone else

(2022-10-31, 00:28)beisat Wrote: Hey, thanks for the link.

Been looking for something like this and agree with everything you wrote on your first post! Having this feature as part of the default skin would be great. I used to use embuary just for this one feature, but it was a bit slow and broke with Kodi 19. The skin also installed so much other stuff I did not require. In the end, I didn’t feel like messing around with skins anymore and now just use estuary, but I still miss the feature.

If I may ask: what skin did you use the service.upnext with. Did you have to dl and install the addon as a zip? Is there some setup guide? If it’s lightweight and stable, I would love to try it.