[bionic187]

Hi all,

I want to do the following.

I have 2 folders on the raspberry pi.
Folder one has all the songs i wanted to be on repeat.
Folder 2 has a song that is fired by a schedule at a given time.

So, for example, when the pi boots up, by default, it plays the songs in the default folder repeatedly using this command
xbmc.executebuiltin('xbmc.PlayMedia("default","isdir")')
xbmc.executebuiltin('xbmc.PlayerControl(RepeatAll)')

Now say i set the schedule to go off at 14:00.
It will play the song.

Now here is the question :
How do i set it up so that when the scheduled song has completed playing, i then proceed to play all the default songs as usual

[bionic187]

Okay. I have seen some snippets of code that have an event called "onPlayBackEnded".

I have tried to insert this code, but the event does not fire.

Has anyone used this before? If so, what do i need to do to get the event firing?

Thanks

[pkscout]

I've not heard of that handle. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist of course, but I wonder if the code snippet you found is calling something internal to the script called onPlayBakcEnded.

I use xbmc.Player().isPlayingAudio() to check and see if the player is playing an audio file. If it isn't, that will return False. Put the test in a loop (I recommend sleeping the loop for a second or two just so you don't hammer XBMC with requests) and you should be good to go.

[removed151214]

onPlayBackEnded is part of xbmc.Player().

You still need to keep the script alive in a loop (this works best in services), but you can do something like the following to run a function in your script when playback ends or is stopped

Code:

class Player_Instance(xbmc.Player):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        xbmc.Player.__init__(self)
        self.function_to_run = kwargs['function_to_run']

    def onPlayBackEnded(self):
        self.onPlayBackStopped()

    def onPlayBackStopped(self):
        self.function_to_run()

Then in the main part of your script, create your player and pass in the function with something along the lines of

Code:

self.Player = Player_Instance(function_to_run = self._a_function)

_a_function should then be run at the end of playback, where you could take care of choosing what to automatically play next.