Script directory and additional Main Menu action

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Hello,

i have two questions…

  1. I want to perform a script when the system goes in suspend mode. In LibreELEC there is a sleep.d directory for such scripts. Is it in OSMC also possible to perfor a script when switching in suspend mode?

  2. It is possible to perform a shell command (or script) additional when i select a certain main menu button (select “PVR & Live TV” button -> perform default ActivateWindow(TVGuide) + shell command or script)?

Thanks in advance!

2

Hi

  1. See [HOWTO] Vero 4K / 4K: Performing actions programatically on Standby and Wakeup

  2. Yes, you could write a Python script and map it to be invoked. The easiest way would be with Keymap Editor

3

Keymap editor does not support calling any scripts. If you open that add-on it will actually destroy any that were manually created. Furthermore the use case being asked about, invoking an additional action when a main menu item is selected, is not something that can be affected with a keymap anyway. AFAIK this is something that would have to be done by customising a skin.

If someone wanted to make a custom button on their remote to perform the function they could do this manually by putting everything in an external script (you can only map a single action to a key) and keymapping to that. In the script they could use a kodi-send --action="ActivateWindow(TVGuide)" to bring up that menu along with whatever else their doing with the script.

4

Thanks for your replies!

The additional command or skript should only kill the process that holds the network connection to the tvheadend server. Now i have seen that this process is unfortunately the kodi process itself:

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo netstat -pn | grep 192.168.0.200:9982
tcp        0      0 192.168.0.202:36456     192.168.0.200:9982      ESTABLISHED 2562/kodi.bin

What would you recommend to stop this network connection, maybe stop and start the tvheadend client addon via a command on suspend and wakeup?

I need to stop this network connection in suspend, otherwise my tvheadend server (other machine) is running all the time and can’t switch to suspend itself.

5

You can use connmanctl to disable the used technology (Ethernet or wifi) and re-enable afterwards.

6

Unfortunately i have currently no python knowledge at all but will learn the basics if it is necessary for further adjustments.

Can you tell me how i can run the connmanctl command in a phyton script?

osmc@osmc:~/.kodi/userdata$ cat wake.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import xbmc
#sudo etherwake
sudo connmanctl enable ethernet
osmc@osmc:~/.kodi/userdata$ python wake.py
  File "wake.py", line 4
    sudo connmanctl enable ethernet
                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
7

Hi Try:

#!/usr/bin/python
import xbmc
import os

#sudo etherwake
os.system('sudo connmanctl enable ethernet')

Thanks Tom.

8

Thats works perfect - thanks!

I have now already created my wake/standby and menu scripts.

My (hopefully) last problem is that i dont know how to set these scripts as menu action. I dont find them when i adjust the menu actions in the customize menu section.

9

Just enter the absolute path to the scripts - did it! :slight_smile:

10

Everything works fine, but i have two questions to optimize:

  • how to avoid the tvheadend during i watch something
  • it is also possible to deactivate and activate the tvheadend client addon instead of deactivate and activate the network?
11

It should be possible. Take a look at: Disabling addon by command

12

Thanks for your reply.

How can i run the xbmc.executeJSONRPC command? I have tried to import xbmc like described in your howto, but get a error:

osmc@osmc:~/.kodi/userdata$ python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 3, in <module>
    import xbmc
ImportError: No module named xbmc
13

Hi,

It needs to called from within kodi. I would map it to a keyboard key or a remote, so for example:

~/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/keyboard.xml:

<keyboard>                                                                  
      <F11>XBMC.RunScript(special://home/test.py)</F11>                      
      <F12>XBMC.RunScript(special://home/test.py)</F12>    
</keyboard>

Thanks Tom.

14

If that doesn’t work you could try this format which I have used successfully.

<keyboard>                                                                  
      <F11>RunScript(/home/osmc/test.py)</F11>                      
      <F12>RunScript(/home/osmc/test.py)</F12>    
</keyboard>
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xbmc.executeJSONRPC(’{“jsonrpc”:“2.0”,“method”:“Addons.SetAddonEnabled”,“id”:7,“params”:{“addonid”: “%s”,“enabled”:false}}’ % CHOICE)

The command disables the addon with id 7, correct? How can i find out which id’s are assigned to the installed addons?