Not had chance to test it out on xbox yet but I just stumbled across this parental controls script. It says it's for "Xbox Media Center" which initially got me quite excited but it's actually intended for mainbranch by the looks of things.
Anyway if someone wants to see if it's xbox compatible it looks interesting.
Parental Controls Script
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Re: Parental Controls Script
Seems like a pretty cool feature... purely speculative, this would require (as briefly seen in the code - 1 min, at most) a service type of code as well as a hook into the plugin thats being ran... This means that the python script would have to be loaded into xbmc4xbox at all times in order to detect a change... This may be a bit of an issue, you know, with xbmc4xbox not having too much memory and all; also, this would be a b*tch when attempting to implement in an already existing library.
Having said that, it would not be all that difficult to create a custom window (with the ability to have existing views) to pull that data into an existing container from the library. In fact, I made a test whereby I can pull the ratings of any movies (with their counts) or tv shows and display them into a custom window; again, however, the problem is the memory, this is especially true for those that are greedy and love watching movies or tvshows at 720p. For local libraries, the python script would only need to be running whilst browsing; however, for addons and other things, this would have to be looped code to capture addon/script activation... probably beyond my knowledge, though not impossible.
Having said that, it would not be all that difficult to create a custom window (with the ability to have existing views) to pull that data into an existing container from the library. In fact, I made a test whereby I can pull the ratings of any movies (with their counts) or tv shows and display them into a custom window; again, however, the problem is the memory, this is especially true for those that are greedy and love watching movies or tvshows at 720p. For local libraries, the python script would only need to be running whilst browsing; however, for addons and other things, this would have to be looped code to capture addon/script activation... probably beyond my knowledge, though not impossible.
