Kodi background process

[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 …