Autorefresh a running slideshow

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to run a picture slideshow from a dropbox folder on my monitor. The goal would be to check the source folder every x minutes and then re-start the slideshow. I found this posted back in 2006, but I'm not entirely sure where to place/how to execute the script.

(2006-05-23 03:40)Nuka1195 Wrote:  the global time variable and the time module are conflicting. renaming the variable time to time would work.

but there is another issue of it locking up after you exit the slideshow.

i just got rid of the threading. after you exit the slideshow, select the script again to stop it.

Quote:import xbmc
from time import sleep
from os import listdir

minutes = 5
picfolder = "f:\\pictures"

l1 = []
while 1:
 l2 = listdir(picfolder)
 if (l1 != l2):
   xbmc.executebuiltin('xbmc.slideshow(' + picfolder + ')')
   l1 = l2
 for seconds in range(minutes * 60):
   sleep(1)

Could anyone help me out?