[jarrah31]

Hello,

Does anyone know if you can start playing a Smart Playlist from a keyboard shortcut please?

My plan is to then link this shortcut to a programmable Logitech remote for easy playback.

Thanks.

[mwkurt]

You could probably do this with EventGhost and the XBMC2 plugin for it.

Mark

[Ned Scott]

I think it's something like this:

See http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Key...on_keymaps

Add a key in global that looks like this

<k>ActivateWindow(Videos,special://videoplaylists/name.xsp)</k>

Where "name" is the name of the smart playlist.

[jarrah31]

Hi Ned,

Thanks for the great suggestion, it almost does what I'm after!

Pressing the keyboard shortcut (after configuring as suggested) does indeed take me to the playlist, but I was hoping it could just start playing the media straight away.

Do you or anyone else know how I can automatically start playing content within a smart playlist just by pressing a keyboard shortcut please?

Thanks.

[Ned Scott]

I think it can be phrased like a script or something. Basically, XBMC will need to do two steps, load the playlist, then play. SmartPlaylists normally work like a folder in XBMC and don't have a direct play option. It should still be possible to play it from a keyboard shortcut using a script. I'm just not sure how to make one.