Mezzmo Kodi Add-on Automation

[Peter]

The addon uses arguments to determine the folder/playlist to browse so if you could pass objectID as 3 then this would browse the video folder. Line 953 in mezzmo.py in the addon shows how this is used.

[jbinkley60]

The addon uses arguments to determine the folder/playlist to browse so if you could pass objectID as 3 then this would browse the video folder. Line 953 in mezzmo.py in the addon shows how this is used.

Peter. Thanks. I'll look into this but how would I tell the Addon to use the Mezzmo server then pass the video folder argument ? When the Addon starts it is on the server screen not at the playlist / folder level.

[Peter]

You would need to pass the argument of 'mode' as 'server' and 'contentdirectory' as the URL to the content directory api in the server. Have a look at line 951 in mezzmo.py. You could use addon.getSetting and addon.setSetting to retrieve and store the URL of the previously used server so that you can just pass mode=server and if contentdirectory is null or empty you can load the last server.

[jbinkley60]

Ok, it took a bit of work but I've come up with a solution for launching directly into the video content directory via Autoexec.py. Here's an example:


import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin("ActivateWindow(10025,plugin://plugin.video.mezzmo/?contentdirectory=http://serverIP:53168/ContentDirectory/control;mode=server;objectID=taz1l0z1l13)")


ServerIP is your Mezzmo server IP address or DNS name (i.e. The 192.168.0.10 or mezzmo.mydomain.com)
The taz1l0z1l13 is the ID of your main video folder. Peter can better explain this.

How I found the video folder ID was by going into the Kodi Mezzmo AddOn, creating a favorite for the video folder in Kodi. Then drop out to the Kodi userdata folder, find the favourites XML file and open with Wordpad or similar. Inside the XML file you will find the ObjectID in XML format similar to what was posted at the top of this thread.

If you want to go to the main server folder and select video, music or pictures then leave the objectID section out:


import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin("ActivateWindow(10025,plugin://plugin.video.mezzmo/?contentdirectory=http://serverIP:53168/ContentDirectory/control;mode=server)")


I hope this helps.

[Peter]

Great work Jeff, thanks for posting the information.