Get info about your next airing TV Shows in Kodi Version 7.x - renewed version by marcelveldt using the new TVDB api
Based on the original work and contributions by Ppic, Frost, ronie, `Black, phil65 and offcourse WayneD
I am very busy currently so I do not have a lot of time to work on this project or watch the forums. Be aware that this is a community driven project, so feel free to submit PR's yourself to improve the code and/or help others with support on the forums etc. If you're willing to really participate in the development, please contact me so I can give you write access to the repo. I do my best to maintain the project every once in a while, when I have some spare time left. Thanks for understanding!
How to use this addon in your skin:
For all shows that are airing today, the script will set the window properties listed below.
Window(Home).Property(NextAired.%d.*):
Label (tv show name)
Thumb (tv show icon)
AirTime (eg. 'Wednesday, Thursday: 9:00 pm')
Path (tv show path on disk)
Library (eg. videodb://2/2/1/ or videodb://tvshows/titles/1/)
Status (eg. 'New Series'/'Returning Series'/'Cancelled/Ended')
Network (name of the tv network that's airing the show)
Started (airdate of the first episode, eg. 09/24/07, 'Mon, Sep 24, 2007', etc.)
Classification (type of show, eg. Reality, Mini-Series, etc. Data is also in Genre.)
Genre (genre of the show)
Premiered (year the first episode was aired, eg. '1999')
Country (production country of the tv show, eg. 'USA')
Runtime (duration of the episode in minutes)
Fanart (tv show fanart)
NextDate (date the next episode will be aired)
NextDay ("nice" localized format for NextDate, eg. "Wed, Jun 11" or "Mon, Jan 26, 2015")
NextTitle (name of the next episode)
NextNumber (season/episode number of the next episode, eg. '04x01')
NextEpisodeNumber (episode number of the next episode, eg. '04')
NextSeasonNumber (season number of the next episode, eg. '01')
LatestDate (date the last episode was aired)
LatestDay ("nice" localized format for LatestDate, eg. "Wed, Jun 11" or "Mon, Jan 26, 2015")
LatestTitle (name of the last episode)
LatestNumber (season/episode number of the last episode)
LatestEpisodeNumber (episode number of the last episode)
LatestSeasonNumber (season number of the last episode)
AirDay (day(s) of the week the show is aired, eg 'Tuesday')
ShortTime (time the show is aired, eg. "20:00" or "8:00 pm")
Art(poster) (tv show poster)
Art(banner) (tv show banner)
Art(fanart) (tv show fanart)
Art(landscape) (tv show landscape - if available)
Art(clearlogo) (tv show logo - if available)
Art(clearart) (tv show clearart - if available)
Art(characterart) (tv show characterart - if available)
Replace %d with a number, start counting from 0. E.g. Window(Home).Property(NextAired.0.Label)
Totals:
Window(Home).Property(NextAired.*):
Total (number of running shows)
TodayTotal (number of shows aired today)
TodayShow (list of shows aired today)
Running one of these commands in your skin will provide you with per-show information:
RunScript(script.tv.show.next.aired,backend=True)
RunScript(script.tv.show.next.aired,tvshowtitle=The TVShowTitle Show Name)
The first tells the script to run in the background and provide next aired info for the focussed listitem (it exits when "Window.IsVisible(10025)" is no longer true). The second should be run once for every show-name change. Both provide info back to the skin via Window(Home).Property(NextAired.FOO) values (see above for a list of all the FOO values that are set).
You can use !IsEmpty(Window(Home).Property(NextAired.NextDate)) as a visibility condition -- if that is empty, then no other NextAired data will be around for the current show.
example code:
<control type="group">
<visible>!IsEmpty(Window(Home).Property(NextAired.NextDate))</visible>
<control type="label">
<posx>0</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>800</width>
<height>20</height>
<label>$INFO[Window(Home).Property(NextAired.NextTitle)]</label>
</control>
<control type="label">
<posx>0</posx>
<posy>20</posy>
<width>800</width>
<height>20</height>
<label>$INFO[Window(Home).Property(NextAired.NextDate)]</label>
</control>
</control>
The backend option can be specified as 2 space-separated numbers to specify
how many ListItems should be checked and turned into corresponding NextAired properties.
For example, if you specify "backend=-2 3" then the ListItem(-2).TVShowTitle,
ListItem(-1).TVShowTitle, ListItem.TVShowTitle, ListItem(1).TVShowTitle,
ListItem(2).TVShowTitle, and ListItem(3).TVShowTitle shows will all be turned
into NextAired(-2).PROPERTY through NextAired(3).PROPERTY values.
Note that if the list is shorter than the number of requested values, some of the items will be left unpopulated in a balanced manner (first forward then back). For instance, if there are only 2 items in the list you'd get N & N(1), 3 items: N(-1) & N & N(1), 4 items N(-1) & N & N(1) & N(2), etc. (up until the lower and upper limits are reached).
The default if no numbers are specified is the same as "backend=0 0" (no extra values would be provided beyond NextAired.PROPERTY).
If you run the script without any options (or if it's started by the user), the script will provide a TV Guide window.
This window is fully skinnable -- see script-NextAired-TVGuide.xml and script-NextAired-TVGuide2.xml (the latter is the today-week guide).
A list of required IDs in script-NextAired-TVGuide.xml, which is used if the user has selected the traditional, Monday-week guide:
200 - container / shows airing on Monday
201 - container / shows airing on Tuesday
202 - container / shows airing on Wednesday
203 - container / shows airing on Thursday
204 - container / shows airing on Friday
205 - container / shows airing on Saturday
206 - container / shows airing on Sunday
8 - in case all the containers above are empty, we set focus to this ID
(which is typically a settings-button of some kind).
If the user chooses to include more than 7 upcoming days (including today), then episodes from the next week are included after this week's episodes for each day. You can color them differently using the SecondWeek property (the example skin uses 2 different background colors).
A list of required IDs in script-NextAired-TVGuide2.xml, which is used if the user has selected the new, Today-week guide:
200 - container / shows aired Yesterday
201 - container / shows airing Today
202 - container / shows airing Today+1
203 - container / shows airing Today+2
204 - container / shows airing Today+3
205 - container / shows airing Today+4
206 - container / shows airing Today+5
207 - container / shows airing Today+6
208 - container / shows airing Today+7
209 - container / shows airing Today+8
210 - container / shows airing Today+9
211 - container / shows airing Today+10
212 - container / shows airing Today+11
213 - container / shows airing Today+12
214 - container / shows airing Today+13
215 - container / shows airing Today+14
8 - in case all the containers above are empty, we set focus to this ID.
If the user chooses to include fewer than the full 15 upcoming days (including today) and/or to disable Yesterday, then the skin should be prepared to hide the days that aren't enabled (the *.Weekday, *.Wday, and *.Date values below will be unset for any disabled containers).
Various Window(home) vars that we provide (some are more useful in just one of the 2 xml files, but all are always set):
For the following date values, the user can choose between the traditional number values (e.g. 12/31/99) and a nicer format (e.g. "Sun, Dec 31"). The format is consistent across values, allowing you to (for example) string- compare a show's NextDate value against the TodayDate (or YesterdayDate) to substitute the string for "Today" (or Yesterday).
Today's date and a localized word for "Today":
Window(home).Property(NextAired.TodayDate)
Window(home).Property(NextAired.TodayText)
Yesterday's date and a localized word for "Tomorrow":
Window(home).Property(NextAired.TomorrowDate)
Window(home).Property(NextAired.TomorrowText)
Yesterday's date and a localized word for "Yesterday":
Window(home).Property(NextAired.YesterdayDate)
Window(home).Property(NextAired.YesterdayText)
The date for the lists (Monday==1, Sunday==7):
Window(home).Property(NextAired.1.Date)
...
Window(home).Property(NextAired.7.Date)
For the following container values, only the ones that are enabled by the user will have a set value. For instance, if the user has selected 7-days in a today-week grid w/o yesterday, only properties 201..207 would be set.
The day-of-the-week name for each container (not abbreviated).
Window(home).Property(NextAired.200.Weekday)
...
Window(home).Property(NextAired.215.Weekday)
The abbreviated day-of-the-week name for each container:
Window(home).Property(NextAired.200.Wday)
...
Window(home).Property(NextAired.215.Wday)
The date for each container in a "nice" format, with just the month name and
day num (e.g. "Feb 14" & "14 Feb" are 2 typical localized formats):
Window(home).Property(NextAired.200.Date)
...
Window(home).Property(NextAired.215.Date)
A list of available infolabels:
ListItem.Label (tv show name)
ListItem.Thumb (tv show thumb)
ListItem.Title (name of the airing next episode)
ListItem.TvshowTitle (tv show name)
ListItem.Studio (name of the tv network that's airing the show)
ListItem.Genre (genre of the show)
ListItem.FirstAired (airdate of the episode)
ListItem.Runtime (duration of the episode in minutes)
ListItem.Episode (episode number of the next episode)
ListItem.Season (season number of the next episode)
ListItem.Art(poster) (tv show poster)
ListItem.Art(banner) (tv show banner)
ListItem.Art(fanart) (tv show fanart)
ListItem.Art(landscape) (tv show landscape - if available)
ListItem.Art(clearlogo) (tv show logo - if available)
ListItem.Art(clearart) (tv show clearart - if available)
ListItem.Art(characterart) (tv show characterart - if available)
ListItem.Property(AirTime) (eg. 'Wednesday, Thursday: 9:00 pm')
ListItem.Property(Path) (tv show path on disk)
ListItem.Property(Library) (eg. videodb://2/2/1/ or videodb://tvshows/titles/1/)
ListItem.Property(Status) (eg. 'New Series'/'Returning Series'/'Cancelled/Ended')
ListItem.Property(Network) (name of the tv network that's airing the show)
ListItem.Property(Started) (airdate of the first episode, eg. 09/24/07, 'Mon, Sep 24, 2007', etc.)
ListItem.Property(Classification) (type of show, eg. Reality, Mini-Series, etc. Data is also in Genre.)
ListItem.Property(Genre) (genre of the show)
ListItem.Property(Premiered) (year the first episode was aired, eg. '1999')
ListItem.Property(Runtime) (duration of the episode in minutes)
ListItem.Property(AirsToday) (will return 'True' if the show is aired today, otherwise 'False'; deprecated alias: "Today")
ListItem.Property(NextDate) (date the next episode will be aired)
ListItem.Property(NextDay) ("nice" localized format for NextDate, eg. "Wed, Jun 11" or "Mon, Jan 26, 2015")
ListItem.Property(NextTitle) (name of the airing next episode)
ListItem.Property(NextNumber) (season/episode number of the next episode, eg. '04x01')
ListItem.Property(NextEpisodeNumber) (episode number of the next episode, eg. '04')
ListItem.Property(NextSeasonNumber) (season number of the next episode, eg. '01')
ListItem.Property(LatestDate) (date the last episode was aired)
ListItem.Property(LatestDay) ("nice" localized format for LatestDate, eg. "Wed, Jun 11" or "Mon, Jan 26, 2015")
ListItem.Property(LatestTitle) (name of the last episode)
ListItem.Property(LatestNumber) (season/episode number of the last episode)
ListItem.Property(LatestEpisodeNumber) (episode number of the last episode)
ListItem.Property(LatestSeasonNumber) (season number of the last episode)
ListItem.Property(AirDay) (day(s) of the week the show is aired, eg 'Tuesday')
ListItem.Property(ShortTime) (time the show is aired, eg. "20:00" or "8:00 pm")
ListItem.Property(SecondWeek) (1 == show is in the second week of the Monday-week Guide, otherwise 0)
Totals are available using the window properties listed above.
All other IDs and properties in the default script window are optional and not required by the script.
To force an update of the nextaired database ahead of its next scheduled time:
RunScript(script.tv.show.next.aired,force=True)
To force an update as well as reset all the existing data (forcing a fresh scan of everything) use the reset option:
RunScript(script.tv.show.next.aired,reset=True)
The force update and reset options are also available in the addon settings.
To force the update of a single show (re-reading all its data), it can be added via a button like this one:
<control type="button" id="550">
<label>$LOCALIZE[24069] $LOCALIZE[4]</label>
<include>DialogVideoInfoButton</include>
<onclick>RunScript(script.tv.show.next.aired,updateshow=$INFO[ListItem.Label])</onclick>
<visible>Container.Content(tvshows)</visible>
</control>