Record light/LED for RPI 3/OSMC

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Did a search (can’t say it was absolutely thorough, tho) butnothing popped up.

I was curious about interest in a record light/LED (maybe 1 for each channel?) under OSMC/Kodi.

Most (if not all) commercial DVRs have a record light to indicate a recording is happening. Has anyone thought about or tried this?

Thx…cheers…

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There is none

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Sould be a matter of using some leds, bashscript with wiringpi and curl asking kodi for status with the json api.

Edit: There is also a kodi addon that could fire some bash scripts based on record status called xbmc callbacks.

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Update: Just came across this thread on Kodi forums in case anyone else is interested:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=151011

and discovered what looks like an official Kodi wiki that seems to “formalize” it (Yay!)

Kodi_Callbacks info on Wiki

@ActionA

I kind of figured there wasn’t. That’s why I asked. But thx for confirming.

@mcobit

I appreciate the input. The h/w is the easy part (w/all the dig. I/O accessible on a RPI 3). I was more interested in the s/w. Thx much for the suggestions and pointers. I’ll check it out and post back if I figure something out that’s workable (and reliable).

Cheers…