2014-04-18, 22:35
I want to get the XBMC picture slideshow screensaver to show different sets of images on different occasions.
On idle the screensaver currently shows the contents of a folder on SD card called "movieposters". I've got other image sets (such as "familyphotos", "tvfanart") in other folders.
I suppose with scripting and cron there are a few ways of going about this?
I'm a noob, but I want to learn, never wrote any Python but have written PHP before so understand some basic principles
I've thought about writing a script to rename the folders every hour, or have several versions of the screensaver add-on's settings file and rename those to change which is active?
It might be more elegant to edit the slideshow screensaver script and introduce a random element - if that's possible?
It would be nice if at the same time I can alter the same script to command the USB hard disk to spin down.
Which way do you recommend that I go about this?
On idle the screensaver currently shows the contents of a folder on SD card called "movieposters". I've got other image sets (such as "familyphotos", "tvfanart") in other folders.
I suppose with scripting and cron there are a few ways of going about this?
I'm a noob, but I want to learn, never wrote any Python but have written PHP before so understand some basic principles
I've thought about writing a script to rename the folders every hour, or have several versions of the screensaver add-on's settings file and rename those to change which is active?
It might be more elegant to edit the slideshow screensaver script and introduce a random element - if that's possible?
It would be nice if at the same time I can alter the same script to command the USB hard disk to spin down.
Which way do you recommend that I go about this?
