Powerful timers for KODI
I wanted to have a KODI addon that is a sleep timer, a doze timer, has several other timer slots and combines it with fading volume in and out over a certain period. Since I haven't found it I decided to program it by myself.
The result is a powerful timer addon.
- Unlimited timer slots. All of them can be quickly set up by using context menu
- single-click-setup for sleep and doze timers
- Timers can play any resource that it available in KODI, e.g. music folders, video files, TV/radio programs, slideshows, resources from 3rd party plugins, e.g. Zattoo channels.
- Timers can be set from TV / Radio EPG, One-click-setup from epg (Quick Timer)
- Different schedule modes: once, everyday, Mon-Fri, Fri-Sat, Sat-Sun, Sun-Thu, Mon-Thu, specific weekday and many more
- Date change is supported, e.g. from 23:30 (p.m.) until 1:30 (a.m.)
- Shuffle, repeat, 2 end modes, i.e. duration or specific time
- Actions related to media: start media and stop at end, just start media, start media at end, stop media immediately, stop media at end, power down system
- Linear fading in timer period: fade-in, fade-out, no fading. Min and max volume can be set for each timer
- Custom label for timer
- After KODI startup timers, that are in period, start retroactively although KODI was not running at start time. Fading volume is calculated correctly.
- Feature in order to prevent that display is turned off if KODI idles but is not in full screen mode
- MS Windows only: Feature in order to prevent that Windows displays lock screen if KODI idles
v3.9.0 (2023-11-11)
- Add new system action 'restart Kodi'
- Add new extra feature to prevent display off when audio is playing
- Bugfix: Prevent exception in fader context
v3.8.0 (2023-08-06)
- Context menu quicktimer: Added dialog if item is already scheduled and ask to replace or delete
v3.7.0 (2023-06-30)
- If you stop explicitly playback while a start-stop-timer is running there won't be another stop action anymore when this timer runs out.
- Added workaround that streamed video (probably mpeg-dash) immediately stops after timer has started (only happened if 'seek to correct time if timer starts belatedly' is activated)
v3.6.0 (2023-04-16)
- Smart shuffle mode for slideshows (try randomly to find folder that fits into timeframe)
- Fixed resuming slideshow at right position
- Fixed resuming of enclosing timers especially combination of concurrent media types like video, audio or slideshow
- Improved notifications and competitive behavior (introduced extra low priority)
v3.5.0 (2023-02-07)
- New feature: priority of timers and competitive behavior
- New feature: System action to put playing device on standby via a CEC peripheral
- Fixed issue so that favorites can be scheduled again
v3.4.0 (2023-01-10)
- New feature: Media action in order to pause audio or video, feature request #21
- Refactoring: moved state to timer object
- Reorganized setting levels (simple, standard, advanced, expert)
- Introduced logging (see kodi.log)
v3.3.2 (2022-12-01)
- Improved logging
v3.3.1 (2022-11-26)
- Bugfix: scheduled timers stop working that are scheduled after Sunday (week change Sun -> Mon)
- Refactoring
v3.3.0 (2022-10-08)
- Added fields for start and end time in order to schedule to the second (expert only)
- Improved scheduler that enables scheduling to the second, reduces CPU load and enables smoother fading
- Fixed Zattoo PVR support and other audio/video addons
v3.2.0 (2022-08-27)
- Unlimited amount of timers
- Added feature in order to pause timers for a certain period
- Set adequate label for playing items instead of internal path
- Added global configurable offset in order to perform timers ahead of time or later in time
- Changed context menu 'timers' for EPG
- Changed resume behavior if there are two parallel ending timers so that non-resuming timer wins and stops media
- Added dialog in order to abort system action
- Added help texts for all settings
v3.1.0 (2022-05-26)
- Added feature in order to schedule slideshows, program/script addons and favorites
- Free selection of weekdays
- Added feature for shuffling playlists
- Improved resuming, e.g. in case of media that is shorter than timer
- optimization and bugfixes, e.g. preview of playlists / folders
- covered and proved many timer scenarios and functionality with unit tests
v3.0.0 (2022-04-12)
- Support folders and playlists for scheduling, (feature request #7)
- Separated configuration of media and system actions, e.g. shutdown KODI
- Enable resuming media that has been stopped after timer has finished
- Enable repeating media and playlists
- Refactoring (rewrite of scheduler)
v2.1.2 (2022-02-09)
- Device wakeup (Issue #6): Explicitly activate CEC Source before player starts
v2.1.1 (2022-01-29)
- Improved behavior after update addon. No need to restart KODI anymore after update
- Improved prevention lock screen, no restart of KODI required anymore after setting has changed
- Refactoring: Usage of modern KODI API (read and write settings)
- Added timer actions, i.e. quit KODI, suspend system, hibernate system, shutdown system
- Minor bugfixes, e.g. displayed wrong timer no. in some dialogs
v2.1.0 (2021-11-20):
- Improved start and stop action in case that multiple timers are running in parallel, see also #5
- One-click-setup from epg (Quick Timer)
- Improved procedure of update state after one-time-timers have run out or settings have been changed
- Added 5 more timer slots
- Added feature in order to prevent that display is turned off if KODI idles but is not in full screen mode
- Migrated to new XML settings format
- Major refactoring, better structured code
v2.0.3 (2021-10-31)
- Fixed issue related to reset to default settings after one-time timers has finished
- Fixed issue that wrong pvr channel was taken from epg if some channels are deactivated in PVR
- Fixed key error after deactivating timer
v2.0.2 (2021-10-03)
- Improvement: prevent multiple fading action of overlapping fading timers. Strategy is 'First starts first served.'
- reset to default settings after one-time timers finished
- minor refactoring
v2.0.1 (2021-09-12)
- Bugfix: actions in settings dialog don't work, i.e. 'reset volume' and 'play now'
v2.0.0 (2021-07-18)
- Migration to KODI 19 (Matrix)
- Total refactoring of earlier version