URL to Show Certain Views (Current New Movies) for home theater dynamic poster

[Untoten 306]

Basically like this:



The reason I ask is I am trying something similar and saw someone made one for Plex:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/226628/rel-plex-movie-poster-display

Edited March 21, 2018 by Untoten

[Luke 42077]

Maybe @@chef's creation will help: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/56753-complete-emby-module-for-magicmirror-smart-mirror/

[Jdiesel 1431]

Not to put @@chef on the spot but I'm sure he could whip something up no problem?. Have you seen his "magic mirror" project? I don't understand the Emby API enough to even take a crack at it but I'm sure there is a few people on the forms with the know how.

[Jdiesel 1431]

Maybe @@chef's creation will help: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/56753-complete-emby-module-for-magicmirror-smart-mirror/

 Beat me to it!

[Untoten 306]

Maybe @@chef's creation will help: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/56753-complete-emby-module-for-magicmirror-smart-mirror/

Oh wow that is incredible I definitely need to check this out. Amazing work @@chef!

 

But I still like the idea of showing the poster, not so much the low profile, text only part.

Edited March 21, 2018 by Untoten

[Jdiesel 1431]

Basically what you need to do is use a RPi to autostart Chromium browser in kiosk mode. You would need to create a simple webpage to authenticate and poll the information from Emby via the API. At least that is what I would do.

 

Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me can help you generate the API calls

[chef 3810]

Not to put @@chef on the spot but I'm sure he could whip something up no problem?. Have you seen his "magic mirror" project? I don't understand the Emby API enough to even take a crack at it but I'm sure there is a few people on the forms with the know how.

Perhaps a cross platform nodejs instance with electron (sound familiar... the theater).

 

You could then load it on any platform.

 

@@Untoten

For the magic mirror project I used a raspi 3.

 

This is definitely a project for raspi.

Also the screen could be portable, and hung like a picture where ever you want.

 

 

To make it even more interesting I'll build one with an extra monitor I have to see how it all goes together.

 

I was going to build an LCD window for my computer, but this is much more interesting.

Edited March 22, 2018 by chef

[Luke 42077]

do you even need an app? it's just a poster. you could do this with a web app/page.

[chef 3810]

do you even need an app? it's just a poster. you could do this with a web app/page.

Yep, full screen web page.

 

I'll make it

[chef 3810]

Hey @@Untoten

 

I almost finished this.

 

I have a question for you though.

 

Do you want the web browser to take care of the portrait rotate of the image or are you going to use a monitor that has been set to a portrait setting?

Edited March 24, 2018 by chef

[chef 3810]

Here is something I'm working on

 

It'll run on Pi, or whatever you want, It also does a pretty nice fade animation.

 

I'll make the "Now Playing" say: "Now Showing", and change where it is located. Maybe across the top. Can't tell in the image but that is 
"Emby Green"

 

 

Edited March 24, 2018 by chef

[Jdiesel 1431]

Nice! I have an old Android tablet I could hang on the door to the theater room. Would it be possible to include a progress bar too?

[chef 3810]

Nice! I have an old Android tablet I could hang on the door to the theater room. Would it be possible to include a progress bar too?

Yes, I believe it is possible.

[Diedrich 377]

Nice! I have an old Android tablet I could hang on the door to the theater room. Would it be possible to include a progress bar too?

I love that idea! Along with “Ends at xx:xx”, or something like that.

[chef 3810]

I love that idea! Along with “Ends at xx:xx”, or something like that.

Sure.

 

DateTime.Now + (RuntimeOfMediaItem - CurrentPositionOfMediaItem)

 

This is going to mean that the webpage is polling an Emby Endpoint. That should be okay though.

[Untoten 306]

Hey @@Untoten

 

I almost finished this.

 

I have a question for you though.

 

Do you want the web browser to take care of the portrait rotate of the image or are you going to use a monitor that has been set to a portrait setting?

Either or would work great.  The most plug and play option would be best.  

 

Here is something I'm working on

 

It'll run on Pi, or whatever you want, It also does a pretty nice fade animation.

 

I'll make the "Now Playing" say: "Now Showing", and change where it is located. Maybe across the top. Can't tell in the image but that is 

"Emby Green"

 

 

This looks awesome!   I guess after seeing this, a native, portrait setting would be great.  Just a full screen movie poster in portrait, "now showing' on top in cinema font.  I like the idea about ending at:xx:xx (maybe as a toggle option).  Maybe also a semi transparent clock on the top right?

Edited April 7, 2018 by Untoten

[karldonteljames 3]

I know this is an old topic, but was this ever completed?

I believe there was also another module for MMM under development to show latest movies on emby, is that still available?

Edited December 30, 2022 by karldonteljames

[Cheesegeezer 3104]

2 hours ago, karldonteljames said:

I know this is an old topic, but was this ever completed?

I believe there was also another module for MMM under development to show latest movies on emby, is that still available?

Search for @chef PosterApp, i think in tools and utilities section.

[karldonteljames 3]

I think I've found it but it looks like it is no longer available.

Thanks for your assistance @Cheesegeezer

[chef 3810]

It isn't there?

Hold on! I'll repost it.

 

[chef 3810]

@karldonteljames looks like it is still here: 

 

[karldonteljames 3]

I've got it thank you. Not sure I've got this correct or not, but everytime I open index.html it asks for the url, port number, followed by username and password and then the device i want it to follow?

It also shows all recently added posters, not just for movies that the selected user has access to, is that correct?

Thank again.

[Cheesegeezer 3104]

3 hours ago, karldonteljames said:

I've got it thank you. Not sure I've got this correct or not, but everytime I open index.html it asks for the url, port number, followed by username and password and then the device i want it to follow?

yes because it’s JavaScript it is not a secure platform so authentication needs to be done on every connection to the server 

3 hours ago, karldonteljames said:

It also shows all recently added posters, not just for movies that the selected user has access to, is that correct?

Thank again.

 

[karldonteljames 3]

Thank you. Is there a way of overriding this as i'll only be using it locally?