Kodi background process

[feliupol]

Hello. Is there any way to reduce kodi background process CPU usage? Would be nice to have it stoped while HDMI isn’t plugged in. What would be the “politest” way to kill him? Would a killall broke it?

[SimonO]

Im almost sure I saw a thread a few weeks back about a script that shut down kodi when no HDMI signal was detected, will see if I can find the thread again.

Found it:

[HowTo] for auto quit/start kodi based on TV status

Hi, if you are like me, and want to turn kodi off when tv is off and turn back on when tv is on here is a bash script for it (it works for me on rpi2+osmc, also worked earlier with rpi+raspbmc obiously wiht a minimal change) PS: this is for LG tv, as you can see in the code. you can see waht is your tv with the command: /opt/vc/bin/tvservice -n and then replace GSM-LG_TV in the script with your version of tv. Put this script into a file and add to crontab like: crontab -e and: @reboot …

[DBMandrake]

If you want to stop kodi politely use:

sudo systemctl stop mediacenter

Detecting when HDMI is not connected I’m not sure about though…

[feliupol]

Thank you anyway, it worked for me with initctl. Is systemctl something new of another version?

[feliupol]

Thanks, that looks great! I’ll try it this weekend

[SimonO]

I tried the script a few weeks back and at least on my Sony TV the output of tvservice did not change when the tv was in standby so it only shut down kodi when the HDMI cable was unplugged.

[ActionA]

are you running Raspbmc or OSMC??

[feliupol]

I’m running raspbmc, but the official page, redirects the forum header to here. I haven’t worked on the raspberry for years and then I only knew raspbmc, i’ll take a look on osmc (The screenshots look fabolous)

[ActionA]

http://forum.osmc.tv/ The subforum for Raspbmc is there at the old forums. Only selecting OSMC subforum there will redirect here.

In the meantime enjoy!