Kodi Mediaserver Support

[pvm]

I've seen the new Kod Mediaserver Support functionality

(not my screenshot)

I do not see my mediacenter is active as in the picture above.. Need special settings?

[Raspberry Piet]

Settings:

IP-adress of your Kodi machine and the port of the Kodi webserver.
When you have set username and password for the Kodi webserver, remove them as this is not (yet?) supported in Domoticz settings.


Edit: also works with username and password.
Add your username and password in front of the ip adress like this:
username:[email protected]

[pvm]

Ah fixed, needed to change my port number to 80 (running openelec, guess this is the default)

[BigDog]

where can you add kodi server i cant see it
is it in hardware?

[pvm]

Yes add hardware. This will result in new switches

[BigDog]

yes see it right now i havent updated yet

have updated and see it now

Thanks for the info

greetz

[Shyam]

What version is this on?

[remb0]

Latest beta

[Dnpwwo]

Nice workaround with the username:password, I've updated the hardware page with some help text.

(I don't have a u:p set so this worked by complete accident btw )

[Steven84]

Where can I find screen nodes? Can't get this to work...?? #noob

[Raspberry Piet]

Where can I find screen nodes? Can't get this to work...?? #noob

Setup=> Hardware then add "Kodi Media Server" , then use setup button. That's all.

[Raspberry Piet]

@Dnpwwo: Thank you for your effort to implement this functionality into Domoticz.
I really like it!
Till now i use the xbmc-kodi-status-in-domoticz script made by ChopperRob for this. (wich works very good!)
Maybe you can add same functions like that script. It changes user variables dependant on state from screensaver, profilename, mute, volume ..... etc.

[Dnpwwo]

There is still a fair bit of integration work that I want to do around core functionality: logging, device control, 'switch off' to name a few. I also want to move from polling (which it currently does) to listening.

After that I will look at integrating it into things like lua (and maybe even blocky). The challenge will be in ensuring that it sits comfortably with the existing functionality and that the capabilities are kept as generic as possible so that other Media Players could be added later (Plex, Sonos....).

I will probably try and stay away from User Variables if possible because, as I understand it, they really a mechanism to allow custom extensions to Domoticz via scripts not to support native implementations. Also, if I can expose properties in lua then people can update User Variables manually as (or if) required.

I've had a look at ChopperRob's script and would expect to expose similar details. Also want to be able to push messages and/or images to Kodi.

[Chopper_Rob]

If you would switch to the raw TCP port instead of the web api you can integrate a much better listening system. After connecting, KODI pushes all actions to the connected devices, so you would only need to listen and not poll. My script works the same way, this makes to reaction time very fast.

You can test this by connecting to the TCP port (9090) with a simple telnet client.

[tcviper]

Might aswell add support for Plex Media server? Would be very cool so you can see who and which friends are playing what.
A bit like what Plexwatchweb does.

[Raspberry Piet]

V2.2662: Kodi Log function is working! (would be nice to choose Log On/Off)

Shutdown doesn't work:

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2015-08-02 15:01:35.430 Kodi: (Kodi Slaapkamer) Switch Off: CanReboot:true, CanShutdown:true, CanHibernate:false, CanSuspend:true. Shutdown requested.
2015-08-02 15:01:35.439 Error: Kodi: -32700 - 'Parse error.' request '/jsonrpc?request={%22jsonrpc%22:%222.0%22,%22method%22:%System.Shutdown%22,%22id%22:1,}'

[Dnpwwo]

Thanks for reporting. I couldn't test this because when you run on top of Raspian all the shutdown options are 'false'. Try 2.2664 and let me know.

I'll turn the logging down as much as possible once I know things are working smoothly. Per hardware logging sounds like a good idea but would be quite a big job now so much hardware has been implemented.

[Raspberry Piet]

Updated to v2.2666, same error i'm affraid.

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2015-08-03 19:52:23.372 Kodi: (Kodi Slaapkamer) Switch Off: CanReboot:true, CanShutdown:true, CanHibernate:false, CanSuspend:true. Shutdown requested.
2015-08-03 19:52:23.376 Error: Kodi: -32700 - 'Parse error.' request '/jsonrpc?request={%22jsonrpc%22:%222.0%22,%22method%22:%22System.Shutdown%22,%22id%22:1,}'

This command i use in bash scripts to shutdown my Kodi machine:

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curl -v -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"System.Shutdown"}' http://user:[email protected]:8080/jsonrpc

Edit: Updated to v2.2673, Shutdown is working now! Thanks for fixing.

[Derik]

Is it perhaps possible to use kodi in the network, use like a sonos?
And then with a bleutooth device?

[Dnpwwo]

@Raspberry Piet, There was a fairly obvious spurious comma towards the end of the command. Crappy testing on my part. Glad it works now, thanks for letting me know.

@Derik, Not sure exactly what you looking to do with it. You can control it over the network, via http commands or UPNP and you can get remotes for most devices (there is even a primitive one even built into the latest beta for Domoticz)