kodicmd is an interactive commandline tool for kodi mediacenter. Its main purpose is to manage one or more kodi installations remote via commandline. With the current version it's possible to remotecontrol kodi, browse movies also you can gather or change video library. Settings can be managed too and Library-Scan can be triggered. The main goal of the tool is a easy way to automate tasks on kodi and to bring it into monitoring. With this tool in background you are/will be able to create scripts to make special configurations and or setup a new installed kodi.

1. check out the code

$ git clone https://github.com/tobias-d-oe/kodicmd.git

2. install it

$ cd kodicmd
$ sudo python setup.py install

There are multiple ways to use kodicmd. The easyest way is to start kodi without any parameter and use the interactive shell. Within this interactive shell you can use the tab-key to autocomplete commands and content.

$ kodicmd
Welcome to kodicmd, a command-line interface to kodi.

Type: 'help' for a list of commands
      'help <cmd>' for command-specific help
      'quit' to quit

kodicmd> whoamitalkingto
osmc @ 192.168.0.40 (http://192.168.0.40:80/jsonrpc)
kodicmd> system_getplatform
RaspberryPi
kodicmd> system_setvolume 77
kodicmd> system_getvolume
77
kodicmd> settings_getsettings locale.timezone
locale.timezone = Europe/Berlin
kodicmd> settings_getsettings debug.extralogging
debug.extralogging = True
kodicmd> settings_setsettings debug.extralogging false
{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":true}
kodicmd> settings_getsettings debug.extralogging
debug.extralogging = False
kodicmd> system_getproperty Window(home).Property(NewsCenter.Bundesland)
Bayern
kodicmd> exit

An other way is to start kodicmd with commandline optinons:

$ kodicmd system_setvolume 55
$ kodicmd system_getvolume
55
$

Third way is to pipe in commands

$ echo -e "system_setvolume 63\nsystem_getvolume\nexit\n" | kodicmd

It is still in developement state, comitters are welcome!

• addon_count
• addon_detail
• addon_enabled
• addon_execute
• addon_getnamebyid
• addon_getpropertybyid
• addon_list
• addon_listbroken
• addon_listdisabled
• gui_activatewindow
• gui_getproperty
• media_exportvideolibrary
• media_scanvideosources
• media_sourceslist
• movie_count
• movie_getdetails
• movie_list
• movie_listgenre
• movie_play
• movie_setdetail
• player_getactiveplayer
• player_playpause
• player_stop
• rc
• rc_text
• settings_getsettings
• settings_resetsettings
• settings_setsettings
• system_connect
• system_getapiversion
• system_getbuild
• system_getkernel
• system_getname
• system_getplatform
• system_getproperty
• system_gettime
• system_getversion
• system_getvolume
• system_ismuted
• system_mutetoggle
• system_ping
• system_quit
• system_setvolume
• whoamitalkingto