[stafio]

Based largely off of the Random Movie script for skins, I have created a script to play a random television show episode from your library. You can filter by un-watched and the television series.

Source: https://github.com/stafio/xbmc-random-episode/

For my own use, I have added an option to use the script under TV Shows in the default Confluence skin. Here are the changes I made for this:
- Edit the IncludesHomeMenuItems.xml file in the skin.confluence/720p directory (The location on an Ubuntu install is: /usr/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/720p)
- Under the section <include name="HomeSubMenuTVShows"> add the following:

Code:

<!--  Random Episode Script  -->
<control type="button" id="90177">
<include>ButtonHomeSubCommonValues</include>
<label>Random Show</label>
<onclick>RunScript(script.randomepisode,prompt=True)</onclick>
<visible>System.HasAddon(script.randomepisode)</visible>
</control>

Just before:

Code:

<control type="image" id="90177">
<width>35</width>
<height>35</height>
<texture border="0,0,0,3">HomeSubEnd.png</texture>
</control>

Note that you will need to change the id of the last control to 90178 since the script is now using 90177.

[babybaby1988]

can i play randomly from my files (i.e. drive) instead from a scrapped library?
got lotsa documentary which cannot be indexed..

[stafio]

No, the script only works off of the videos in your library.

[stafio]

The script has now been updated for Gotham. The only notable change for the user is that when selecting a series, the titles are sorted ignoring any leading "The " in the series name.

https://github.com/stafio/xbmc-random-ep...master.zip

Extract the directory in the zip to your xbmc/addons directory and re-name the extracted directory script.randomepisode