Expose the next episode of a currently watching series as a skin propierty

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Hi TV-Series Team!

I know that the title I've chosen it's not really clear, but let me explain 
myself a little better. This is something that I've been thinking about for 
some time and today, while I was having a look at XBMCs forum, I found this 
thread:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=113702

It simply consists in exposing the next episode of the series that you have 
been watching lately as a skin property. In my opinion this "list" is more 
useful than the recently added episode list we normally use in basichome of all 
skins and will save us some "clicks". If you have some free minutes please have 
a look at the thread because I think that the feature can be really 
interesting. 

What do you think? How difficult is to implement it?

Many thanks for all your hard work and best regards,

Aitor

PS: Should I post this feature request here or in Fanart Handler plugin page?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by riturr...@gmail.com on 3 Nov 2011 at 7:18

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The next episode airdate is only going to be in the tvseries database if you 
enable 'Download episode information for whole series'.

Saying that, LMHandler could get that information easily and present skin 
properties for it. 

Original comment by damien.haynes@gmail.com on 3 Nov 2011 at 10:41

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Hi Damien!

Many thanks for your answer, but I think that you haven't understood very well 
what I was asking for, sorry. This is not related with the "next episode 
airdate", I'm talking about exposing the next episode of the series that you 
are watching right one. As an example:

Imagine that three days ago you saw The Walking Dead 1x01-1x02 and 24 7x12. Two 
days ago you saw again one episode of 24 (7x13), the first episode of HIMYM 
(1x01) and Two and a half men 2x04. Tonight you saw HIMYM 1x02 and The Walking 
Dead 1x03.

With my feature proposal you could have in Basichome (or wherever skinners 
want) a list named "Next to watch" with:

The Walking Dead 1x04
HIMYM 1x03
Two and a half men 2x05
24 7x14

It's just a fast and nice way for continue watching your series without going 
through all the skin, really simple.

Anyway, I will post this also in LMHandler's page and we will see if Cul8er 
likes the idea, although he's a little bit quiet lately.

Thanks for all your work and best regards ;)

Original comment by riturr...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2011 at 1:48

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Yes, we already have API for recently watched so as long as option for download 
all info is enabled the info for those episodes next air date could be 
retrieved.

Original comment by damien.haynes@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2011 at 1:04

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Added API in r1877 e.g.

List<DBEpisode> episodes = DBEpisode.GetNextWatchingEpisodes(3);

This will return a unique set of most recently watched series that have a next 
episode in tvseries database.

Original comment by damien.haynes@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2011 at 1:21

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