Feature-Request: add possibility to implement a UI for addon

[fatshotty]

Hi, I would like to implement an EPG viewer UI such as channels list and timeline. Is it possible? can addon have a UI to show to user?

thanks

[jaruba]

No, but you could implement it in stremio-web (and maybe stremio-core) as a meta.behaviorHints perhaps, or maybe for the tv meta type

[fatshotty]

thanks @jaruba unfortunately I don't understand what u mean. Could you please explain what u mean with stremio-core and stremio-web ? Thanks

[jaruba]

the new Stremio apps are type agnostic, which means that the meta.type value should not influence the UI, in order to influence the UI from an addon's response, the behaviorHints should be used

for EPG, i would imagine that the metadata response from the addon would include something like:

meta.behaviorHints.epg = [
  {
    name: "Good Movie",
    logo: "https://example.com/good_movie.png",
    startTime: "Fri Apr 19 2024 11:00:00 GMT+0300",
    endTime: "Fri Apr 19 2024 11:00:00 GMT+0300"
  }
]

and the Stremio apps, if they support such a behavior hint, would translate this into UI elements on the metadata page of the app

Stremio Web is such a Stremio app that would require support for this behavior hint

Stremio Core is what handles the addon responses and sends them to the Stremio UI logic, i believe it does not have limitations when it comes to behaviorHints in particular, but I could be wrong

you would need to figure out how to implement it yourself though, i doubt i can be of more help than this