[Hitcher]

Superseded by the Skin Widgets Addon post 4th Oct 2012.

Based on Nuka1195's RecentlyAdded script.

Uses -

• Alternative to Recently Added items (ie Welo's 'Random Items')
  
• Additional to Recently Added items (ie Fusion's 'Featured Items')
  

Parameters (separated by &) -

PHP Code:

limit=#         ; # to limit returned results (default=5)
unplayed=True   ; True to return only items (not supported for albums) that have not been played (default=False)
trailer=True    ; True to play the trailer (if available) (default=False)
alarm=#         ; # number of minutes before running again (default=Off) 


For example -

PHP Code:

XBMC.RunScript(script.randomitems,limit=10&unplayed=True&alarm=30) 


will return 10 random, unplayed movies, episodes and songs every 30 minutes.


Labels -

PHP Code:

"RandomMovie.%d.Title"
"RandomMovie.%d.Rating"
"RandomMovie.%d.Year"
"RandomMovie.%d.Plot"
"RandomMovie.%d.RunningTime"
"RandomMovie.%d.Path"
"RandomMovie.%d.Trailer"
"RandomMovie.%d.Fanart"
"RandomMovie.%d.Thumb"
"RandomMovie.Count" 


PHP Code:

"RandomEpisode.%d.ShowTitle"
"RandomEpisode.%d.EpisodeTitle"
"RandomEpisode.%d.EpisodeNo"
"RandomEpisode.%d.EpisodeSeason"
"RandomEpisode.%d.EpisodeNumber"
"RandomEpisode.%d.Plot"
"RandomEpisode.%d.Rating"
"RandomEpisode.%d.Path"
"RandomEpisode.%d.Fanart"
"RandomEpisode.%d.Thumb"
"RandomEpisode.Count" 


PHP Code:

"RandomMusicVideo.%d.Title"
"RandomMusicVideo.%d.Year"
"RandomMusicVideo.%d.Plot"
"RandomMusicVideo.%d.RunningTime"
"RandomMusicVideo.%d.Path"
"RandomMusicVideo.%d.Artist"
"RandomMusicVideo.%d.Fanart"
"RandomMusicVideo.%d.Thumb"
"RandomMusicVideo.Count" 


PHP Code:

"RandomAlbum.%d.Title"
"RandomAlbum.%d.Year"
"RandomAlbum.%d.Artist"
"RandomAlbum.%d.Path"
"RandomAlbum.%d.Fanart"
"RandomAlbum.%d.Thumb"
"RandomAlbum.%d.Rating"
"RandomAlbum.Count" 


PHP Code:

"RandomSong.%d.Title"
"RandomSong.%d.Year"
"RandomSong.%d.Artist"
"RandomSong.%d.Album"
"RandomSong.%d.Path"
"RandomSong.%d.Fanart"
"RandomSong.%d.Thumb"
"RandomSong.%d.Rating"
"RandomSong.Count" 


PHP Code:

"RandomAddon.%d.Name"
"RandomAddon.%d.Author"
"RandomAddon.%d.Summary"
"RandomAddon.%d.Version"
"RandomAddon.%d.Path"
"RandomAddon.%d.Type"
"RandomAddon.%d.Fanart"
"RandomAddon.%d.Thumb"
"RandomAddon.Count" 


Download:
XBMC EDEN: http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/eden-pre/...ndomitems/
Frodo Nightly Builds: https://github.com/XBMC-Addons/script.ra.../downloads

IF YOU HAVE ANY ISSUES, ALWAYS INCLUDE A FULL Debug Log WITH YOUR REPORT

Thanks to ppic and ronie for all the updates.

[mcborzu]

I'm just getting the same 3 movies while testing this out?

At the moment I'm running it in startup.xml, also have run it as that 8999 button -

PHP Code:

<control type="button" id="10">
            <description>trigger</description>
            <onfocus>ReplaceWindow(Home)</onfocus>
            <onfocus>XBMC.RunScript(script.randomitems,limit=10&amp;unplayed=True)</onfocus>
            <texturenofocus>-</texturenofocus>
            <texturefocus>-</texturefocus>
    </control> 


And this is the property fields:

<label>$INFO[Window.Property(RandomMovie.1.Title)]</label>
<label>$INFO[Window.Property(RandomMovie.2.Title)]</label>
Etc..

Am I missing something?

[ronie]

i only tested it briefly a while ago and had the same issue.
furthermore, random episodes did not work for me...they all returned empty.

random songs worked fine though.

[Hitcher]

Sorry guys, I forgot to mention you need &amp;random=True because I couldn't work out how to set it to 'true' as default - I know next to nothing about Python.

If anyone knows how to fix this then please let me know and I'll get it updated.

[igotdvds]

For systems that run all the time, is there a way to make this run every 24 hours?

[ppic]

i don't understand what the problem is ?
can you explain, if i catch it, i'll take a look

[igotdvds]

i don't understand what the problem is ?
can you explain, if i catch it, i'll take a look

I must be retarded or something, did I ask a dumb question. lol

I was just wondering since some people leave their HTPC on all the time, was it possible to make the script run every 24 hours without them having to shutdown xbmc. I have it running in startup.xml.

[Hitcher]

I think he was talking about my problem with making it default to true so we don't have to add 'random=True' to the parameters.

For your problem you could use the 'AlarmClock' function.

[igotdvds]

I think he was talking about my problem with making it default to true so we don't have to add 'random=True' to the parameters.

For your problem you could use the 'AlarmClock' function.

Such as:

<onfocus>AlarmClock(Random,XBMC.RunScript(script.randomitems,limit=10&amp;unplayed=True&amp;random=True),24:00[,silent])</onfocus>

[ppic]

ho ok !!!

so hitcher, you want random=True if not specified in parameter ?
so still allow to pass random=False if you don't want random

[Hitcher]

ho ok !!!

so hitcher, you want random=True if not specified in parameter ?
so still allow to pass random=False if you don't want random

As it's for random items only I'd like to remove the need to add anything.

Thanks.

[ppic]

ha !!!
ok !!!

should be easy so far, i'll check that and keep you in touch

[ppic]

http://pastebin.com/nQMESKKM

try this

[Hitcher]

Works perfectly, thanks.

If you have the time do you think you could implement the alarm function that was used in the RecentlyAdded script that would help igotdvds to set a 24 hour check?

Cheers.

[ppic]

well i don't know this function, i'll try and see