add more info to now playing items

resources/lib/play_utils.py

@@ -211,8 +211,8 @@ def playFile(play_info):
 def setListItemProps(id, listItem, result, server, extra_props, title):
     # set up item and item info
     thumbID = id
-    eppNum = -1
-    seasonNum = -1
+    episode_number = -1
+    season_number = -1
 
     art = getArt(result, server=server)
     listItem.setIconImage(art['thumb'])  # back compat
@@ -227,17 +227,44 @@ def setListItemProps(id, listItem, result, server, extra_props, title):
     for prop in extra_props:
         listItem.setProperty(prop[0], prop[1])
 
+    item_type = result.get("Type", "").lower()
+    mediatype = 'video'
+
+    if item_type == 'movie' or item_type == 'boxset':
+        mediatype = 'movie'
+    elif item_type == 'series':
+        mediatype = 'tvshow'
+    elif item_type == 'season':
+        mediatype = 'season'
+    elif item_type == 'episode':
+        mediatype = 'episode'
+
+    if item_type == "episode":
+        episode_number = result.get("IndexNumber", -1)
+
+    if item_type == "episode":
+        season_number = result.get("ParentIndexNumber", -1)
+    elif item_type == "season":
+        season_number = result.get("IndexNumber", -1)
+
     # play info
     details = {
         'title': title,
-        'plot': result.get("Overview")
+        'plot': result.get("Overview"),
+        'mediatype': mediatype
     }
 
-    if (eppNum > -1):
-        details["episode"] = str(eppNum)
+    tv_show_name = result.get("SeriesName")
+    if tv_show_name is not None:
+        details['tvshowtitle'] = tv_show_name
 
-    if (seasonNum > -1):
-        details["season"] = str(seasonNum)
+    if episode_number > -1:
+        details["episode"] = str(episode_number)
+
+    if season_number > -1:
+        details["season"] = str(season_number)
+
+    listItem.setUniqueIDs({'emby': id})
 
     listItem.setInfo("Video", infoLabels=details)
 

service.py

@@ -315,6 +315,30 @@ remote_control = settings.getSetting('remoteControl') == "true"
 if remote_control:
     websocket_client.start()
 
+'''
+def getNowPlaying():
+
+    # Get the active player
+    result = xbmc.executeJSONRPC('{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "Player.GetActivePlayers"}')
+    result = unicode(result, 'utf-8', errors='ignore')
+    log.debug("Got active player: {0}", result)
+    result = json.loads(result)
+
+    if 'result' in result and len(result["result"]) > 0:
+        playerid = result["result"][0]["playerid"]
+
+        # Get details of the playing media
+        log.debug("Getting details of now  playing media")
+        result = xbmc.executeJSONRPC(
+            '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "Player.GetItem", "params": {"playerid": ' + str(
+                playerid) + ', "properties": ["showtitle", "tvshowid", "episode", "season", "playcount", "genre", "uniqueid"] } }')
+        result = unicode(result, 'utf-8', errors='ignore')
+        log.debug("playing_item_details: {0}", result)
+
+        result = json.loads(result)
+        return result
+'''
+
 # monitor.abortRequested() is causes issues, it currently triggers for all addon cancelations which causes
 # the service to exit when a user cancels an addon load action. This is a bug in Kodi.
 # I am switching back to xbmc.abortRequested approach until kodi is fixed or I find a work arround
@@ -340,6 +364,8 @@ while not xbmc.abortRequested:
                 last_content_check = time.time()
                 checkForNewContent()
 
+        #getNowPlaying()
+
     except Exception as error:
         log.error("Exception in Playback Monitor: {0}", error)
         log.error("{0}", traceback.format_exc())