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Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Thursday 07 June 2018 14:13
by Dnpwwo
@Brutus,
The python plugin uses a different command set to the native implementation.
I've documented it on github:
https://github.com/dnpwwo/Domoticz-Kodi-Plugin
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Thursday 07 June 2018 15:11
by Brutus
That explains a lot

I need to use "Trigger"
Going to change my scripts tonight.
Thnx for your answer.
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Thursday 07 June 2018 18:21
by Brutus
So I changed my scripts. The "Trigger" Favorites works great.
But the Volume doesn't. That command isn't changed:
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commandArray['Kodi TV Woonkamer'] = 'Set Volume 100'
The Log says it works:
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2018-06-07 18:17:20.530 (Kodi) onCommand called for Unit 1: Parameter 'Set Volume', Level: 100, Connected: True
Using the manual remote control you can change the volume.
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2018-06-07 19:00:23.003 (Kodi) Update 2:'80' (Kodi - Volume)
2018-06-07 19:00:23.446 (Kodi) Update 2:'82' (Kodi - Volume)
Am I doing something wrong?
Greetings
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Friday 08 June 2018 5:20
by Dnpwwo
@Brutus,
You are sending the command to the wrong device. The plugin creates 4 devices , one of them is the 'Volume' device (Unit #3). Assuming ''Kodi TV Woonkamer" is what you named the hardware then try:
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commandArray['Kodi TV Woonkamer - Volume'] = 'Set Volume 100'
If you renamed the 'Volume' device to something else you will obviously need to use its new name
You should see some thing like this in the log:
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2018-06-07 18:17:20.530 (Kodi) onCommand called for Unit 3: Parameter 'Set Volume', Level: 100, Connected: True
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Friday 08 June 2018 8:48
by Brutus
@Dnpwwo
That makes sense but still nothing changes:
Command:
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commandArray[1]={['Kodi - Volume'] = 'Set Volume 75'}
Log:
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2018-06-08 08:41:50.148 (Kodi) onCommand called for Unit 3: Parameter 'Set Volume', Level: 75, Connected: True
Devices:

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Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Friday 15 June 2018 22:52
by jake
@Dnpwwo:
Have you had time to look into my 'crash log' o Domoticz after the Kodi plugin didn't find Kodi for a second?
jake wrote:I am running the last version of the Kodi plugin, 2.5.6
Today my Domoticz crashed: these are the last lines in the log:
First:
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(Kodi Woonkamer) Device has disconnected
(Kodi Woonkamer) Update 9:'Screensaver' (Kodi Woonkamer - Status)
(Kodi Woonkamer) Update 20:'20' (Kodi Woonkamer - Source)
(Kodi Woonkamer) Update 2:'100' (Kodi Woonkamer - Volume)
(Kodi Woonkamer) Update 0:'0' (Kodi Woonkamer - Playing)
then a couple seconds later:
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Error: Plugin: Connection Exception: 'resolve: Host not found (authoritative)' connecting to 'onHeartbeat:9090'
(Kodi Woonkamer) Connect directive received, action initiation failed.
Domoticz received fatal signal 11 !...
/home/pi/domoticz/domoticz() [0x2522b8]
/home/pi/domoticz/domoticz(_Z14signal_handleri+0x4c) [0x252370]
/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6(__default_sa_restorer_v2+0) [0x76cb3180]
The weird thing is that nobody used/started Kodi at all today. Kodi is running fine on it's own pi as well.
A restart of Domoticz got things rolling again, but a plugin crashing the whole setup wasn't what I had in mind today

Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Friday 15 June 2018 23:00
by jake
@Dnpwwo
You introduced the nice 'Rewind' feature that I use every time a Kodi video or audio starts while the receiver is still off.
I put the stream on 'pause', start/boot the receiver and rewind the playing stream, not to miss the start.
This works fine for 'Audio' (it rewinds and starts playing from 0.00), but 'Video' always keeps paused. Both 'audio' and 'video' trigger the same log registration, but for 'video' I always manually have to hit 'play' again (it also hasn't rewinded to 0:00)
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2018-06-15 22:43:17.073 (Kodi Woonkamer) onCommand called for Unit 4: Parameter 'Rewind', Level: 0, Connected: True
Could it be something in the plugin that doesn't properly rewind 'video', that it differs from 'Audio'?
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Saturday 16 June 2018 6:10
by Dnpwwo
@jake,
Theoretically it should work for every media type, the decription of the Kodi method is "
Seek through the playing item" for the active player. The rewind method just does a seek to "
0" which should be pretty robust in theory so I'm surprised you are having issues.
A couple of questions/suggestions:
- One potential difference between audio and video is often duration. Could you try a short video (song length) or long audio (movie length) stream to see if stream length is a factor?
- Does seeking in general work on your video streams using the "Playing" device?
- You could try changing line 426 in plugin.py to be
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self.KodiConn.Send('{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.Seek","params":{"playerid":' + str(self.playerID) + ',"value":{ "hours":0, "minutes":0, "seconds":0, "milliseconds":0}}}')
to move from a percentage based rewind to a time based one. (I haven't tried this and the doco is far from clear so it may be incorrect)
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Saturday 16 June 2018 21:11
by jake
@Dpnwwo
I don't have a long audio and short video at hand.
Shuffling around during a video with the 'playing' device works fine, backwards, forward, no problem
I updated line 426 with the revised code, but the behaviour stays the same
The rewinding action for video is executed partly, because it does rewind the video to 0:00. It only doesn't start to play.
It doesn't make a difference whether I start a local video file or a video stream from an add-on like youtube or 'uitzending gemist', the Dutch replay service from the national television.
Anyhow, since I saw that the video file was properly rewinded, I added a 'Play' command with a 1 second delay (dzVents) to the rewind command. This works fine for video and doesn't seem to hurt (stutter) for audio.
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Monday 18 June 2018 17:49
by poudenes
Hi All,
I get this error sometimes and then a Signal 11 error:
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2018-06-18 16:59:02.375 Error: Plugin: Connection Exception: 'resolve: Host not found (authoritative)' connecting to 'onHeartbeat:9090'
2018-06-18 16:59:02.375 (Kodi) Connect directive received, action initiation failed.
2018-06-18 16:59:02.376 Error: (Kodi) 'onConnect' failed 'AttributeError':''str' object has no attribute 'Address''.
2018-06-18 16:59:02.376 Error: Domoticz received fatal signal 11 !...
2018-06-18 16:59:02.379 Error: /home/pi/domoticz/domoticz() [0x25458c]
2018-06-18 16:59:02.379 Error: /home/pi/domoticz/domoticz(_Z14signal_handleri+0x4c) [0x254644]
2018-06-18 16:59:02.379 Error: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6(__default_sa_restorer+0) [0x76c0a6b0]
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Monday 18 June 2018 17:53
by jake
Last night my domoticz crashed again on the same symptoms with the Kodi plugin. I have already put the "time out of lost devices" on 'false' before this crash.
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Monday 18 June 2018 23:53
by jake
Tonight domoticz crashed again on Kodi. It is really a pity that the whole system goes down on a hiccup in a single plugin. In winter time I am running a virtual thermostat from domoticz. Downtime has effects by then

. (on the WAF for sure)
In the meantime I now enabled all debugging on the Kodi plugin to have a better record at the next crash.
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Sunday 26 August 2018 7:30
by bizziebis
The plugin doesn't work anymore in the latest beta (V4.9946)
The log is flooded with
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2018-08-26 07:14:13.140 Error: (Kodi Python Beneden) 'onMessage' failed 'AttributeError':''dict' object has no attribute 'decode''.
2018-08-26 07:14:13.140 Error: (Kodi Python Beneden) ----> Line 638 in '/home/pi/domoticz/plugins/Domoticz-Kodi-Plugin/plugin.py', function onMessage
2018-08-26 07:14:13.140 Error: (Kodi Python Beneden) ----> Line 149 in '/home/pi/domoticz/plugins/Domoticz-Kodi-Plugin/plugin.py', function onMessage
2018-08-26 07:14:13.140 Error: (Kodi Python Beneden) 'onMessage' failed
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2018-08-26 07:23:05.297 Status: PluginSystem: Started, Python version '3.5.3'.
It was working on a version of 7 July.
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Sunday 26 August 2018 8:34
by Dnpwwo
The currently maintained Kodi plugin is here:
https://github.com/dnpwwo/Domoticz-Kodi-Plugin
Can you give that one a try and let me know if there are any issues
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Sunday 26 August 2018 9:24
by bizziebis
Yes, I was using that already. Updated it this morning but it didn't work. But I see you updated it again and now it works

Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Sunday 26 August 2018 11:08
by Dnpwwo
Yeah, I forgot to push the change.
Worked for me but no one else

Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Tuesday 28 August 2018 12:10
by poudenes
Hi All,
Version: 4.9957
Build Hash: edc90313
Compile Date: 2018-08-28 06:55:18
dzVents Version: 2.4.7
Python Version: 3.7.0 (default, Aug 28 2018, 09:30:30) [GCC 6.3.0 20170516]
After a clear reinstall of domoticz (because of a usb-stick failure) i get this error after restart domoticz
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2018-08-28 10:07:14.722 Status: (Kodi) Started.
2018-08-28 10:07:14.912 Status: (Kodi) Entering work loop.
2018-08-28 10:07:14.913 Status: (Kodi) Initialized version 2.6.4, author 'dnpwwo'
2018-08-28 10:07:14.916 Error: (Kodi) 'onStart' failed 'ValueError':'invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'null''.
2018-08-28 10:07:14.916 Error: (Kodi) ----> Line 629 in '/home/pi/domoticz/plugins/Domoticz-Kodi-Plugin/plugin.py'
2018-08-28 10:07:14.916 Error: (Kodi) ----> Line 92 in '/home/pi/domoticz/plugins/Domoticz-Kodi-Plugin/plugin.py'
and see this error while running domoticz:
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2018-08-28 10:09:23.326 (Kodi) Unhandled exception in onHeartbeat, forcing disconnect.
2018-08-28 10:09:23.328 (Kodi) Device has disconnected
Can this happen because of install latest Python 3.7.0?
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Sunday 02 September 2018 20:25
by Holland
@poudenes
Had exactly the same issue.
Solved by removing the Kodi plugin directory, and I cloned it again.
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Monday 24 September 2018 19:25
by jake
Domoticz crash because of error in Kodi plugin (version 2.5.6):
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2018-09-24 17:16:13.064 Error: Plugin: Connection Exception: 'resolve: Host not found (authoritative)' connecting
2018-09-24 17:16:13.064 (Kodi Living) Connect directive received, action initiation failed.
2018-09-24 17:16:13.064 Error: Domoticz received fatal signal 11 !...
2018-09-24 17:16:13.066 Error: /home/pi/domoticz/domoticz() [0x254670]
2018-09-24 17:16:13.066 Error: /home/pi/domoticz/domoticz(_Z14signal_handleri+0x4c) [0x254728]
2018-09-24 17:16:13.067 Error: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6(__default_sa_restorer_v2+0) [0x76c48180]
BTW, Kodi is still running fine.
Re: Python plugin: Kodi
Posted: Tuesday 25 September 2018 19:04
by jake
Within 24hr, I experienced the same kind of error, with a slightly different log report:
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2018-09-25 18:34:39.809 (Kodi Living) Connected successfully to: 192.168.1.31:9090
2018-09-25 18:34:39.867 (Kodi Living) Update 2:'100' (Kodi Living - Volume)
2018-09-25 18:34:40.212 Error: Domoticz received fatal signal 11 !...
2018-09-25 18:34:40.227 Error: /home/pi/domoticz/domoticz() [0x254670]
2018-09-25 18:34:40.227 Error: /home/pi/domoticz/domoticz(_Z14signal_handleri+0x4c) [0x254728]
2018-09-25 18:34:40.227 Error: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6(__default_sa_restorer_v2+0) [0x76ce7180]
2018-09-25 18:34:40.227 Error: /home/pi/domoticz/domoticz(_ZN7Plugins16CPluginTransport16VerifyConnectionEv+0x28
2018-09-25 18:34:40.227 Error: /home/pi/domoticz/domoticz(_ZN7Plugins7CPlugin7Do_WorkEv+0x19c) [0x5b504c]
2018-09-25 18:34:40.227 Error: /home/pi/domoticz/domoticz() [0x7e2258]