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Videos View? - Crab Ragu - 2025-04-11
I'm migrating from plex with Croneter's excellent plexkodiconnect addon.
One thing I really liked about plexkodiconnect was that I could browse my media sources in the "Videos" section of the default kodi skin and it would use the info from the kodi database. I was wondering if the jellyfin addon can do that too?
For example, I keep my movies in /media/Movies/ and each directory in there is one movie. Such as /media/Movies/Filmname 1920/filmname 1920 1080p dd51 x264.mkv
When viewing the /media/Movies source, each directory shows as the movie from the kodi database instead of the directory name.
I did a basic install of the jellyfin addon with native mode. Everything seems to work correctly through the "Movies" section of the default kodi skin (database is populated and I can play back movies), but browsing the source in "Videos" section just shows the raw directory names.
FWIW, I am using identical pathnames on both the jellyfin server and the kodi client.
If it should work, I will keep poking at it. I just want to know if it is expected to work so I don't waste effort trying to do something impossible.
RE: Videos View? - Crab Ragu - 2025-04-18
Answering my own question - as of now, no the kodi jellyfin addon does not support showing info from the database when browsing a media source.
I am neither a python programmer nor an sql programmer, but using a database explorer I was able to see that plexkodiconnect populates the movie.c22 and movie.c23 fields which contain pathname info, but the jellyfin addon does not. According to the kodi database documentation here https://kodi.wiki/view/Databases/MyVideos those are required to make it work.