I’m building a telegram bot. I use OSMC in Kodi shell. When I run Kodi, I run a script. And I want to add a command to play music or a movie. Through the bot I can run all the commands that can be used in the terminal. But I don’t know which command runs the movie or music playback. Could you tell me please what command Kodi is launching films. Thanks
You can use the command “kodi-send” instead of json calls. Up to you
I do not understand how to do(
for Example
I have video file /home/osmc/test.mp4
And I want this video to start 1 minute after kodi starts.
#Python Code
import xbmc
def runVideo():
#I do not understand what code to write in this function
…
time.sleep (60)
runVideo()
This my post. I read this document but still didn’t understand how to do it
Kodi-send is a command in shell:
And here is a list of actions:
If I understand you correctly, it should turn out this way? ->
#Python Code
import xbmc
def runVideo():
kodi-send --action=PlayMedia(/home/osmc/test.mp4)
time.sleep (60)
runVideo()
What language are you writing your bot in? What you posted above it a mix of bash and python.
I write on phyton. But I do not understand how to write code for phyton to run a video file.
I’m not a python programmer, but this is what I understand a way to do it:
xbmc.PlayMedia(/home/osmc/test.mp4)
Here’s a python example that can run from any system, not just on the OSMC box:
#!/usr/bin/python
# Requirements:
# sudo apt install python-pip
# pip install kodi-json
from __future__ import print_function
from kodijson import Kodi
filename = '/path/to/file.mkv'
host = 'osmc.local' # Can also be localhost
port = '8080'
# Connect to kodi.
kodi = Kodi('http://{}:{}/jsonrpc'.format(host, port))
# Start playing the file
r = kodi.Player.Open({'item': {'file': filename}})
if 'error' in r:
print("Item failed to play: {}".format(r['error']['message']))
if 'result' in r:
print("Result: {}".format(r['result']))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “tg.py”, line 18, in
r = kodi.Player.Open({‘item’: {‘file’: filename}})
File “build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/kodijson/kodijson.py”, line 97, in hook
File “build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/kodijson/kodijson.py”, line 63, in execute
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py”, line 110, in post
return request(‘post’, url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py”, line 56, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 488, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 609, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py”, line 487, in send
raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host=‘localhost’, port=8080): Max retries exceeded with url: /jsonrpc (Caused by NewConnectionError(’<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x76719350>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused’,))
I have error
many thanks!
I fixed your code because the port was causing an error.
You helped me a lot)
Thank you all for your help
You did not ‘fix’ my code, you configured it to work in your environment
Glad to have been able to help, have fun with your project!