Lua and Kodi

[rickwilleme]

Just did. Hope they're able to find the root cause of this issue
https://github.com/domoticz/domoticz/issues/693

[Dnpwwo]

I don't believe this is a problem with the Kodi plugin but more a feature of the way events are handled within Domoticz itself

From memory, when a new event is submitted for a device it overrides events already in the queue under most circumstances. I believe this is prevent unexpected results if multiple events were sent to a device in rapid succession. At the end of the day, Domoticz is designed to handle simple devices like switches so sending streams of commands does not make sense.

That said, there are work arounds as shown here:

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commandArray = {}

-- loop through all the changed devices
for deviceName,deviceValue in pairs(devicechanged) do
    print ("Device based event fired on '"..deviceName.."', value '"..tostring(deviceValue).."'");
    if (deviceName=='Test Trigger') then
        commandArray[1] = { ['Lounge Kodi'] = 'Pause' }
        commandArray[2] = { ['Lounge Kodi'] = 'Set Volume 50 AFTER 3' }
    end
end

return commandArray

By specifically delaying the second command both are executed as the log shows:

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2016-06-12 18:05:23.419 Kodi: (Lounge Kodi) Sent command: 'Input.ExecuteAction pause'.
2016-06-12 18:05:23.903 LUA: Device based event fired on 'Lounge Kodi', value 'Unknown'
2016-06-12 18:05:23.419 (Kodi Servers) Lighting 2 (Lounge Kodi)
2016-06-12 18:05:26.913 Kodi: (Lounge Kodi) Sent command: 'Set Volume'.
2016-06-12 18:05:26.915 Kodi: (Lounge Kodi) Volume changed to 50.00000, Muted: false.
2016-06-12 18:05:26.973 Kodi: (Lounge Kodi) Volume set to 50.
2016-06-12 18:05:27.137 LUA: Device based event fired on 'Lounge Kodi', value 'Unknown'
2016-06-12 18:05:26.913 (Kodi Servers) Lighting 2 (Lounge Kodi)

Have a play with it but it seemed to me that delays of less than 3 seconds were ignored so maybe you can activate the plugin then schedule the pause.

Good luck

[dannybloe]

I agree that for commands that change the actual state of the device this is the best way to go. However, this fails with the 'execute script' command. That is a different beast and you should be able to just send a dozen of those and all of them should be executed. It's like the openURL command or sendNotification (with whatever syntax that is). They have to be queued and executed one by one. So yeah, for pause and play it doesn't make sense to have them execute all, just the last one.

[Plaagje]

Hi all,

I tried to play around with kodi and lua scripts and would like to pause my Kodi only when kodi is playing video's.
But i can only get to print the On and Off statuses and not Video Audio Photo or Paused...

I have 2 Kodi's (Kodi Livingroom, Kodi Bedroom)

This is my script:

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commandArray = {}

-- loop through all the devices and find the Kodi Mediaplayers
for deviceName in pairs(otherdevices) do
	Name = tostring(deviceName)
	name = deviceName:sub(1,4)
    if (name=='Kodi') then
		print (deviceName..":"..otherdevices[deviceName]);
		if (devicechanged['Doorbell_Switch'] == 'On' and otherdevices[deviceName] == 'Video') then
			commandArray[deviceName] = 'Pause'
		end
    end
end
return commandArray

The only status i see is:

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2017-04-01 17:15:03.275 LUA: Kodi Livingroom:On
2017-04-01 17:15:03.275 LUA: Kodi Bedroom:On

I can see the status on the dummy switch changing to Video




--EDIT--

when the status changes this show up in the log:



Anyone an idea or workaround?