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I am busy working on an update. I will check this out as soon as I am finished.

Hey man, Thanks for the feedback. I will have another look at the code, the widget may need to be refreshed.

I have added the steam banners under the Kodis banner layout, any theme using banners will be able to use the files. I have added a button that can be toggled in the settings menu that will allow you to only show games with boxart available. you will need to update the BigBox Database inside the addon. I have added a contect menu to hide platforms, right clicking on a platform under the platform list or pressing c will allow you to disable the the platform. the platform can be re enabled under the removed platforms menu.

The Movie Scraper creates a search on the Title so additional information should not be necessary. how are the Movies named in LaunchBox? can you send me your LaunchBox data folder so I can check on my side?

hi Tony i an aware of the issue i am busy investigating how to solve it. the problem is with displaying some unicode charactets like left quotations.

yes i should update the origonal post. i will get around to it this weekend.

Yes and no. its meant to launch games on android and linux devices, but the goal is not to replicate the look. the goal is to be able to unplug your LaunchBox hard drive and insert it into a machine not running windows and still be able to play your games. it is supposed to be a little bit pretty and functional but not meant to be a replacement for LaunchBox and not meant to look the same.

On android devices it converts the command used to run the game. retroarch.exe -L "cores/stella_libretro.dll" "%ROM_PATH%" becomes /system/bin/am start --user 0 -a android.intent.action.MAIN -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER -e ROM "%ROM_PATH%" -e LIBRETRO /data/data/com.retroarch/cores/stella_libretro_android.so -e CONFIGFILE /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.retroarch/files/retroarch.cfg -e IME com.android.inputmethod.latin/.LatinIME -n com.retroarch/.browser.retroactivity.RetroActivityFuture

yes this is possible. believe it or not it is already doing this. if it identifies that you are ising retroarch it will pass the parameters found in the emulator file. these commands need to be converted though because they are not in the same place across platforms also linux and android use .so and not .dll. i will be looking into the conversion again though.

Hey Guys, Sorry I havent updated this Project in a while, I have been trying my hand at the new plugin system. I am going to start doing some work on Friday night so if anyone has any suggestions ,features they want to add or bug fixes please let me know. I will be adding the steam banners under Kodis banner path. any theme that supports banner views should use this setting. I will be adding an option under setting to only display games with artwork.

a new version has been uploaded. it now has support for media that already exists.

Sorry you are most certainly correct. what i was refering to is my python code does not support smb shares as i have not written a way to handle these sources. Kodi most certainly does support smb shares.

The best way would be to mount the network share in you fstab to create a mount point under /mnt/NetworkShare. then add the /mnt/NetworkShare to kodi and point the addon to the bigbox exe. I may be wrong depending on the linux distro but smb shares are not working because the python code cannot convert the path. if you where using Ubuntu or Ubuntu based Distribution this would be the procedure. set up mount point using Disk Utility. I am running Xubuntu so I had to install the utility with this command sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility this is a picture from google because my Linux machine is not on at the moment but you get the idea Install Retroarch using the following command sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libretro/testing sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install retroarch* libretro* Install the addon and Point it to your bigbox.exe using the google example it would be something like. /mnt/0EC2439A6E2BFCA6/Games/LaunchBox/BigBox.exe then open the addon and run Update. this will scan the data folder and generate a database of games. it will set the games path using the data extracted from the data folder. if a platform is not working it is most likely due to the addon not knowing which emulator command to use. you can replace these commands by editing this file. /home/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.bigbox/resources/linuxcom.xml there are a few example overrides in there already but I am always looking for people to post there files so I can add them to the addon. the alternative way would be to copy your LaunchBox folder and Roms to the device, keeping it in the same folder structure. Please let me know if you run into any problems so I can attempt to fix the bugs.

yes this is possible, I will be doing some work on this after office hours. My update schedule is as follows. add the ability to check if the artwork files exists in the movies path and set the media in launchbox. find a way to read the nfo file and set the details accordingly. better handling of movies with the same or similar name and create an option to choose the correct movie.

it is possible to store this but i am not sure what to put it under. i cound create a custom value but i dont know of a them that implements this. the other way i can do it is add it under the discription, so it would be above the plot.

yes and no. the plugin has support for banners if your custom theme supports it but i have not implemented steam banners yet. i will add this for you in the next release.

Hey I have had a look at your data folder. the problem is coming from some of your pc games being listed as unknown platform. this is leaving the xml as <Platform> <LocalDbParsed>false</LocalDbParsed> <Name /> <Developer /> <Manufacturer /> <Cpu /> <Memory /> <Graphics /> <Sound /> <Display /> <Media /> <MaxControllers /> <Folder /> <Notes /> <VideoPath /> </Platform> the addon is erroring out because it cannot determine the platform. the only way to fix this at the moment is to remove those lines from the xml file. even once you have done this it will constantly tell you that the Unknown Platform.xml was changed since the last update and ask if you want to update the database. I will try and implement some error checking if the Platform Title is blank in the future. my best recommendation for now is to have a look at what games are in the Unknown Platform.xml delete the Unknown Platform.xml and import those games again under windows. attached you will find you data folder where i removed those lines from the platforms and deleted the xml labled unknown platform. i also replace the right quotation mark on Sid Meier’s as this is not supported in the addon it now looks like this Sid Meier's. I do think that the unknown platform xml is there by mistake and is not actually being used by launchbox. to be safe always backup your data folder before doing anything. Data.zip

looks like it picked up a problem writing to the sql database. can you send me your data folder so I can try it on my side.

you source was added to the repository. thanks again for allow me to share this.

Movie Scraper Plugin View File This Plugin Is Currently Broken Downloads Information and Images for Movies. Thanks to @superfurry for the insperation(he created the Movie Launcher in this thread) thanks to @Nielk1 for assistance with the forms, you do amazing work and are always there to lend a hand. this Plugin uses the Fanart.TV Api and omdbapi to scrape images and details. simply add movies to your LaunchBox collection. Right Click on the Movie or Multiple Movies Select Scrape Movie. you may need to hit f5 to refresh the images. you can find this sourcecode and others at https://github.com/slipsystem/LaunchBox-Plugin-Examples BUY ME A BEER Submitter slipsystem Submitted 05/13/2017 Category Third-party Apps and Plugins

There is a menu item to Launch BigBox, unless you are using a different operating stem then this item is disabled.

yes of course