Quote:Embruary: To get the widget correctly, I had to first add the "Random Path (nonsense widget ID)" endpoint to my Favorites, then add that favorite to a custom widget, and then finally add that custom widget to the homescreen. After that, I clicked "Initialize Widgets" on the widget itself, and the widget initialized itself and loaded the first path. After that, I was able to force refresh the widget successfully, except for the label (which I was also able to fix easily in this case, but needs fixes in AutoWidget to be working reliably).

Xonfluence: If anyone's struggling, this also appears to be the way you have to do it in Xonfluence: Add the "Random Path" folder to your Favorites, and then create a widget from that favorite.

(2020-03-28, 23:22)drinfernoo Wrote: Have you ever been scrolling your homescreen widgets, wishing you didn't have to change them manually just to surface different content? Have you ever wondered why it seems like the "big box" streaming services never show you the same list of movies twice? Why can't Kodi work like this? It turns out... it can. 

Introducing: AutoWidget

I've been at this for a few months now, so AutoWidget is currently sitting at version 1.2.5, but I've had plenty of testers, and I think it's finally ready for a wide release, so let's get to it!

Basically, AutoWidget lets you define your own custom "groups" of widget paths, and then point any widget at that group, in order to get a widget that automatically changes its content every so often. In this way, you could have a widget that shows movies of a random genre... or one that shows shortcuts to each genre. You could have only a few widgets, but let them cycle through a large number of playlists or library nodes, allowing you to more easily surface more varied content, automatically.

You can also set up "shortcut groups", which function very much like a "submenu" or "category" widget, but completely managed by AutoWidget, and almost endlessly customizable.

I've made a video introducing it and running through most of the features of the add-on, as well:



To install it, simply add my GitHub URL as a file manager source: https://drinfernoo.github.io/
This source contains both the "stable" and "dev" repos for AutoWidget, but I only recommend installing the "stable" repo, in order to get official releases, rather than WIP builds.

For more information, check out: https://www.github.com/drinfernoo/plugin.program.autowidget/
To report bugs or request features: https://www.github.com/drinfernoo/plugin.program.autowidget/issues/

Enjoy!

(2020-03-29, 00:37)bsoriano Wrote:

(2020-03-28, 23:22)drinfernoo Wrote: Have you ever been scrolling your homescreen widgets, wishing you didn't have to change them manually just to surface different content? Have you ever wondered why it seems like the "big box" streaming services never show you the same list of movies twice? Why can't Kodi work like this? It turns out... it can. 

Introducing: AutoWidget

I've been at this for a few months now, so AutoWidget is currently sitting at version 1.2.5, but I've had plenty of testers, and I think it's finally ready for a wide release, so let's get to it!

Basically, AutoWidget lets you define your own custom "groups" of widget paths, and then point any widget at that group, in order to get a widget that automatically changes its content every so often. In this way, you could have a widget that shows movies of a random genre... or one that shows shortcuts to each genre. You could have only a few widgets, but let them cycle through a large number of playlists or library nodes, allowing you to more easily surface more varied content, automatically.

You can also set up "shortcut groups", which function very much like a "submenu" or "category" widget, but completely managed by AutoWidget, and almost endlessly customizable.

I've made a video introducing it and running through most of the features of the add-on, as well:



To install it, simply add my GitHub URL as a file manager source: https://drinfernoo.github.io/
This source contains both the "stable" and "dev" repos for AutoWidget, but I only recommend installing the "stable" repo, in order to get official releases, rather than WIP builds.

For more information, check out: https://www.github.com/drinfernoo/plugin.program.autowidget/
To report bugs or request features: https://www.github.com/drinfernoo/plugin.program.autowidget/issues/

Enjoy!

@drinfernoo , this is awesome, thank you! Will this work with any skin?

Regards,

Bart

EDIT: Never mind, you answered the question in your video

(2020-03-29, 01:06)dm21912 Wrote: Just having a play around now.

One request. Possibility to toggle the hiding of watched items in widgets. 

(This is something Skin helper service widgets can do which Is why despite my best efforts to move on - as im not sure its maintained that much anymore - i find myself still relying on them)

(2020-03-29, 00:59)drinfernoo Wrote:

(2020-03-29, 00:37)bsoriano Wrote:

(2020-03-28, 23:22)drinfernoo Wrote: Have you ever been scrolling your homescreen widgets, wishing you didn't have to change them manually just to surface different content? Have you ever wondered why it seems like the "big box" streaming services never show you the same list of movies twice? Why can't Kodi work like this? It turns out... it can. 

Introducing: AutoWidget

I've been at this for a few months now, so AutoWidget is currently sitting at version 1.2.5, but I've had plenty of testers, and I think it's finally ready for a wide release, so let's get to it!

Basically, AutoWidget lets you define your own custom "groups" of widget paths, and then point any widget at that group, in order to get a widget that automatically changes its content every so often. In this way, you could have a widget that shows movies of a random genre... or one that shows shortcuts to each genre. You could have only a few widgets, but let them cycle through a large number of playlists or library nodes, allowing you to more easily surface more varied content, automatically.

You can also set up "shortcut groups", which function very much like a "submenu" or "category" widget, but completely managed by AutoWidget, and almost endlessly customizable.

I've made a video introducing it and running through most of the features of the add-on, as well:



To install it, simply add my GitHub URL as a file manager source: https://drinfernoo.github.io/
This source contains both the "stable" and "dev" repos for AutoWidget, but I only recommend installing the "stable" repo, in order to get official releases, rather than WIP builds.

For more information, check out: https://www.github.com/drinfernoo/plugin.program.autowidget/
To report bugs or request features: https://www.github.com/drinfernoo/plugin.program.autowidget/issues/

Enjoy!

@drinfernoo , this is awesome, thank you! Will this work with any skin?

Regards,

Bart

EDIT: Never mind, you answered the question in your video  

Currently, the only skin I know it won't work with is Aeon TAJO, as it's integration with Skin Shortcuts is... shaky at best

I'm also aware that it probably won't work with the "fallback" and/or "global" widgets many skins allow you to set... but I had an idea earlier today in how I can get around that in the near future

EDIT: For what it's worth, between myself and my testers, I know it's been tested successfully with Aura, AuraMOD, Aeon Nox: SiLVO, Arctic Zephyr 2, Arctic Horizon, and Titan BINGIE. I have suspicions that it may not work with Estuary Mod, but I haven't tested it  

(2020-03-29, 01:14)bsoriano Wrote:

(2020-03-29, 00:59)drinfernoo Wrote:

(2020-03-29, 00:37)bsoriano Wrote: @drinfernoo , this is awesome, thank you! Will this work with any skin?

Regards,

Bart

EDIT: Never mind, you answered the question in your video  

Currently, the only skin I know it won't work with is Aeon TAJO, as it's integration with Skin Shortcuts is... shaky at best

I'm also aware that it probably won't work with the "fallback" and/or "global" widgets many skins allow you to set... but I had an idea earlier today in how I can get around that in the near future

EDIT: For what it's worth, between myself and my testers, I know it's been tested successfully with Aura, AuraMOD, Aeon Nox: SiLVO, Arctic Zephyr 2, Arctic Horizon, and Titan BINGIE. I have suspicions that it may not work with Estuary Mod, but I haven't tested it  

@drinfernoo , I maintain Amber.  I just tested shortcuts widgets with Amber and it works great, thank you! I will be testing a lot more in the coming days.  

Regards,

Bart

(2020-03-29, 01:13)drinfernoo Wrote:

(2020-03-29, 01:06)dm21912 Wrote: Just having a play around now.

One request. Possibility to toggle the hiding of watched items in widgets. 

(This is something Skin helper service widgets can do which Is why despite my best efforts to move on - as im not sure its maintained that much anymore - i find myself still relying on them)

That is a per-skin feature that I have no control over. If your skin has a "hide watched" option, it should affect AutoWidget-fed widgets just the same as any other. Autowidget has no interaction with the actual content in the widgets, only which widgets are shown. 

(2020-03-29, 01:24)dm21912 Wrote:

(2020-03-29, 01:13)drinfernoo Wrote:

(2020-03-29, 01:06)dm21912 Wrote: Just having a play around now.

One request. Possibility to toggle the hiding of watched items in widgets. 

(This is something Skin helper service widgets can do which Is why despite my best efforts to move on - as im not sure its maintained that much anymore - i find myself still relying on them)

That is a per-skin feature that I have no control over. If your skin has a "hide watched" option, it should affect AutoWidget-fed widgets just the same as any other. Autowidget has no interaction with the actual content in the widgets, only which widgets are shown. 

hmmm interesting. SHS has it built into the widget settings.. maybe it wasnt actually doing anything, or only in some skins..



whats more likely is this lockdown has made me stir crazy. I spent most of today thinking it was sunday

(2020-03-29, 02:08)Rijs43 Wrote: Hi,

Great addon.. one suggestions.. I have lets say 10 lists as a 'Movie widget'.. possible to have for each list a 'sort by' option? i.e. (years descending). Because if I point 10 widgets on home page to this 'Movie widget' I can only sort all of the 10 lists the same but not individual..

(2020-03-29, 03:45)jdig4240 Wrote: Would this possibly work in skins like Xonfluence? In Xonfluence you would add a widget by adding the section to favorites then choosing the favorite as a widget in skin settings.

(2020-03-29, 03:52)drinfernoo Wrote:

(2020-03-29, 03:45)jdig4240 Wrote: Would this possibly work in skins like Xonfluence? In Xonfluence you would add a widget by adding the section to favorites then choosing the favorite as a widget in skin settings.

Hard to say for sure until I try it out, but you're welcome to try! What I will say, is that if the skin doesn't have Skin Shortcuts as a dependency, it 99.99% won't work. 

(2020-03-29, 04:29)jdig4240 Wrote:

(2020-03-29, 03:52)drinfernoo Wrote:

(2020-03-29, 03:45)jdig4240 Wrote: Would this possibly work in skins like Xonfluence? In Xonfluence you would add a widget by adding the section to favorites then choosing the favorite as a widget in skin settings.

Hard to say for sure until I try it out, but you're welcome to try! What I will say, is that if the skin doesn't have Skin Shortcuts as a dependency, it 99.99% won't work. 

Close, but errors when initializing widget. https://vimeo.com/401772937