nawar/kodi-cli

Kodi/XBMC bash script to send Kodi commands from the command line

kodi-cli's Issues

What do I set the hostname as?

I'm running kodi off my Raspberry pi and it's local IP is 192.168.0.15, so I set it as such, but this doesn't work.

play/pause for music

play/pause seems to work only for videos, not for music.

Print currently played item information

Hi!

Thank you for kodi-cli, it really makes my life simpler. 👍

One feature I'd like to see is a command that prints, in my terminal, information about the item being currently played. Something like:

If playing music:

$ kodi-cli --info
Artist - Song

If playing video:

$ kodi-cli --info
Video_name

Do you see where I am getting at?

Would you know how to add an option to play next track (video) from the playlist?

It could be a nice feature, and I did try reading about it, but I did not managed to get it working.
I did all the changes as I did when adding the volume control, and I used the following function:

function play_next {
 # Get Active players first
  output=`xbmc_req '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.GetActivePlayers", "id": 99}' true`
  player_id=`echo $output | parse_json "playerid"` 
  echo "Skipping to next item in playlist in the player with ID => $player_id"
  xbmc_req '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.GoNext", "params": { "playerid": '$player_id' }, "id": 1}' 
}

When I extracted and exectured the command on a command line, and I got "Method not found" error. The syntax should have been ok, because Player.Stop worked fine from command line.

Have you got any idea why it did not work?

Ability to send non-YouTube URLs

It would be great if I could use this to tell Kodi to fetch a video URL and play it.

'command not found' error when not configured

Without KODI_* variables or a .kodirc,

/usr/bin/kodi-cli: line 40: show_help: command not found

is shown instead of the help text. Given that the help text itself doesn't address configuration, would it be better to have a separate error message, or expand and move show_help() to make bash happy?

I was able to add volume control - are you interested in updating the script?

Thank you for a great script!

It helped me so much!

I did some searching and I was able to add volume control to your script, and it works like a charm mapped on a key press in fluxbox.

Would you be interested in adding it to your script?

Add to Queue Option?

could u add a queue option to add multiple youtube videos without stopping the current playing one.

something like
kodi-cli -q "https://www.youtube.com/watch?11111111"
kodi-cli -q "https://www.youtube.com/watch?2222222"
kodi-cli -q "https://www.youtube.com/watch?3333333"