Description:

Automatically play and turn off background tv show with RPi. (Great for people who sleeps with the tv on.)

Prerequisite:

• Raspberry PI with OSMC installed.
  • Guide for Windows here
• SHOWNAME_bookmark.dat ( contain the index of the last episode played by osmc )
• SHOWNAME_episodelist.dat ( contain the names of all the video files in a list)
• SHOWNAME_mem.dat ( contain data for RRF scheduling )
• currentplaylist.dat
• Video files (must be playable by kodi)
• Python2 NumPy
• ffmpeg to get video durations.

Install:

• Instruction to login
  • Note: It's better to install locally than over SSH as this may take a while.
  1. Clone this repository to $HOME which should be /home/osmc/.
  2. Run installation script:

     cd OSMC-Automation
     ./install.sh
     

Features:

• Python script will take the bookmark number and read that number of lines in playlist.dat.
• From that position it will create a list of the next 9 episode ( if reach the end, loop over).
• Random episode mode as also been added.
• Variable playlist size based on time of day.
  • Shorter playlist during night time.
  • Longer playlist during day time.
• Shutdown time dependent on playlist size and total episodes duration.
• Random-First-Fit Scheduling for minimal overlapping between playlists.
  • Record episodes as it is played instead of all at once.