toccata10 / kodi-screensaver-picturegrid

A Picture Grid Screensaver for Kodi

This is a Kodi screensaver addon for Kodi 19 Matrix.

Motivation

Inspiration comes from the Multi Slideshow Screensaver created by sphere. See the relevant thread on kodi forum.

I loved the GridSwitch effect in which I could display randomly my video fanarts in a 3x3 grid. Unfortunately, this addon doesn't work anymore on Kodi 19 Matrix.

So, it was a great opportunity for me to learn how to create a simple addon.

Credits

• Thanks to Zag and its screensaver example

• And thanks to Ronie and its screensaver.picture.slideshow from which I learnt a lot a re-used some code.

Installation

You can either download the latest release as a zip, then install it with Settings>Addons>Install from ip File

Or you can copy the folder to your kodi installation. On Linux, it's ./kodi/addons

This was tested only on Linux and Android.

Final Words

• This is a hobby project. Main goals are to learn kodi programming and to display my holiday pictures in a cool way.
• Exif orientation is ignored for now. (implemented in v1.0.6)
• I have some random slowdowns when used on my Video Fanarts collection, but I didn't spot the culprit yet.