Support of Thumbnail, Fanart in Movie or Episode

[SenseiMiaow]

Hello brainwave9,

In my Fork i've added support for Thumbnail and Fanart to display when you want to play a Movie or Episode. You're welcome to add this piece of code to youre own.

https://github.com/DJXFMA/SiriProxy-XBMC

Kind regards, DJXFMA

[SenseiMiaow]

You have to add thumbnail to the fields, properties in library for the movie or episode. require 'cgi' on top of siriproxy_xbmc.rb and also make variables host and port available everywhere:

require 'cgi' require 'cora' require 'siri_objects' require 'xbmc_library' require 'chronic'

class SiriProxy::Plugin::XBMC < SiriProxy::Plugin

def initialize(config)
    appname = "SiriProxy-XBMC"
    @host = config["xbmc_host"]
    @port = config["xbmc_port"]
    username = config["xbmc_username"]
    password = config["xbmc_password"]

And use this for displaying the image within the play functionality for movie or episode.

                say "Now playing \"#{movie["title"]}\"", spoken: "Now playing \"#{movie["title"]}\""

                #Now playing Movie with Thumbnail
                encImgUrl = CGI.escape(movie["thumbnail"])
                imgUrl = "http://#{@host}:#{@port}/image/" + encImgUrl
                    object = SiriAddViews.new
                    object.make_root(last_ref_id)
                    answer = SiriAnswer.new("\"#{movie["title"]} (#{movie["year"]})\"", [
                      SiriAnswerLine.new('logo', imgUrl)
                    ])
                    object.views << SiriAnswerSnippet.new([answer])
                    send_object object

                @xbmc.play(movie["file"])

[Deanmv]

Nice addition!

[SenseiMiaow]

Thanks! And it looks great, and it works great. Also I want to display the fanart + genres and rating. But that will come.

Should also use code to detect if the value of thumbnail is filled or not. But I think that XBMC should have all thumbnails available. I'm also trying to find out how to get the current played item to display also with thumbnail. But I can't get it to work as for now.

First I get the current active player Id then I use Player.GetItem with player Id. But not sure why the data stays nill.

[SenseiMiaow]

I've added a lot of new code in to the Fork I am working on. Feel free to use any of my code. I've added a better handling for recent movies, recent episodes with thumbnails offcourse! Also a new function now playing which will show the current played item (episode, movie).

I can also add fanart, but it doesn't look that great in horizontal view.