Openhab 2 & Kodi

lons · February 3, 2017, 12:36pm

Hello

I try the Kodi Binding and everything works perfect.
Except the Kodi state for "Stop"
My rule knows the state “Play” & “Pause” but the state “Stop” doesnt work (it takes my rule for “Pause”).

My rule:

rule "Adjust living room lighting when XBMC starts/stops"
when
    Item KodiKeller_Kontrolle changed
then
    var String stateKino = KodiKeller_Kontrolle.state.toString()
  if (Xbmc_Kino_EA.state == ON){    
    switch (stateKino.lowerCase) {
		case "play" : {
                     Kino_ColorGroup1_Brightness.sendCommand(0)
                     Kino_ColorGroup2_Brightness.sendCommand(0)
                     Kino_ColorGroup3_Brightness.sendCommand(0)
                     Kino_ColorGroup4_Brightness.sendCommand(0)
                }
		case "pause" : {
                     Kino_ColorGroup1_Brightness.sendCommand(50)
                     Kino_ColorGroup2_Brightness.sendCommand(50)
                     Kino_ColorGroup3_Brightness.sendCommand(50)
                     Kino_ColorGroup4_Brightness.sendCommand(50)
		}
                case "stop" : {
    		      callScript("langzeitdimmer_kino")
		     }
    }
  }
end

What can i do?

Thanks, Marcel

MHerbst · February 3, 2017, 5:17pm

The Kodi binding uses the “Player” item type. This item type only has a pause function (see https://www.eclipse.org/smarthome/documentation/concepts/items.html). AFAIK there is an enhancement request to provide a separate channel to execute stop requests.

lons · February 3, 2017, 11:37pm

Openhab see no difference between pause and stop…
Thats not good to hear.
Does the old XBMC Binding work or have it the same problem?

kvoit · February 4, 2017, 8:32am

As a workaround: I solved this with the Script plugin on Kodi side. My Kodi issues MQTT commands on states. This is probably a little more complicated, but on the other hand, you have much more access to Kodi.

MHerbst · February 4, 2017, 9:17am

Instead of using MQTT it should be possible to send request via curl to Kodi. Here is an example: Kodi / XBMC Library Rescan via Button

I will create an enhancement request for Kodi to add a channel to stop the player.

pail_frank23 · February 4, 2017, 10:53am

The stop channel is aready there since around 3 weeks

lons · February 5, 2017, 9:17am

Ok, but how can i get the state of the stop channel?

“Item Xbmc_Kino_Stop changed to Stop” or
"Item Xbmc_Kino_Stop changed to ON" doesnt work.

How can i get this in my rule to turn on lights when Kodi stops the playback?

THANKS

Andrew_Pawelski · February 19, 2017, 11:33am

1 to find this out as well - as a test I have the state showing in my sitemap and it never shows stop, only play and pause (in caps as well - yuck)

Also noticed that the showtitle channel does not clear - always shows the last one played.

I guess the above comment about the smarthome comment also explaings why the player control doesnt have a stop button - wonder why this is the case I cant see why a basic media function like stop isnt included?

mattias_mansson · February 25, 2017, 12:08pm

Have the same issue, play, pause works fine, but the stop channel doesn’t update if I stops from my Kodi remote. I have no idea why the stop has its own channel btw, why not put it in control like the rest?

micware · February 26, 2017, 4:54pm

Hi

Has someone already found a solution for this?
I can make a switch with the stop cannel

But i can not use it in a rule to put my lights at 100%

I have tried to check if mediatype is empty in my rule! (as a workaround)

That is not working, or my syntax is incorrect .

rule "Kodi stop light 100%"

when

      Item myKodi_mediatype != null

then

        E1Lachter1_Dimmer.sendCommand(100)

end

Any advice or ideas are welcome

lfs_alp5 · February 26, 2017, 5:15pm

Think this should work:

rule "Kodi stopped or playing"
when
	Item myKodiMediaType changed
then
	if (myKodiMediaType.state == "") {
		logInfo('Kodi','Kodi has stopped')
 	} else if (myKodiMediaType.state != null) {
 		logInfo('Kodi','kodi is playing something')
 	}
 end

Edit: But I do agree that it makes little sense not to have a “STOP” state for the Player item

micware · February 26, 2017, 8:41pm

Thanks for your advice,

I tried the code below, but its not working

rule "Kodi stopped or playing"

when

	Item myKodi_MediaType changed

then

	if (kodi:kodi:740d21d3:stop.state == "") {

		logInfo('Kodi','Kodi has stopped')

		E1Lachter1_Dimmer.sendCommand(100)

 	} else if (kodi:kodi:740d21d3:stop.state != null) {

 		logInfo('Kodi','kodi is playing something')

 		E1Lachter1_Dimmer.sendCommand(100)

end

mayby the code is conflicting,with the code bellow
becouse when i press stop Kodi_State.state wil be pause en set my lights to 10%

and the rule “Kodi stopped or playing” must set my lights to 100%

rule "Adjust living room lighting when Kodi starts/stops"

when

    Item Kodi_State changed

then

    var String stateKodi = Kodi_State.state.toString()

     switch (stateKodi.lowerCase) {

		case "play" : {

                     E1Lachter1_Switch.sendCommand(OFF)

                     E1LTafel_Switch.sendCommand(OFF)

		case "pause" : {

			         E1Lachter1_Dimmer.sendCommand(10)

end

lfs_alp5 · February 26, 2017, 8:56pm

You must define the mediatype channel as an item first, like:

kodi.items file:

String  myKodiMediaType "Mediatype [%s]"				{ channel="kodi:kodi:740d21d3:mediatype" }

And then the rule file:

rule "Kodi stopped or playing"
when
	Item myKodiMediaType changed
then
	if (myKodiMediaType.state == "") {
		E1Lachter1_Dimmer.sendCommand(100) // Kodi has stopped playing
 	} else if (myKodiMediaType.state != null) {
 		E1Lachter1_Dimmer.sendCommand(0) // Kodi is playing
 	}
 end

micware · February 26, 2017, 9:11pm

You are right,

I think I mixed some things up
Was defined in my item file as

String myKodi_mediatype     "Mediatyp [%s]"         { channel="kodi:kodi:740d21d3:mediatype" }

But not in my rule

wil try to correct en test this some other day .

thx for now

mattias_mansson · March 2, 2017, 4:29pm

Thanks for the workaround, will try it tonight. Still hoping for a real solution though. Is it solved if I would download the latest version or not?

pgruetter · March 8, 2017, 12:19pm

Did the solution work for you? If I’m correct, I tried something similar and it didn’t work for me.

pgruetter · March 8, 2017, 12:20pm

Did you ever get around creating that enhancement request? Where can I sign up

MHerbst · March 9, 2017, 6:46pm

The media player control was not changed but the Kodi bindings contains now a separate stop channel. Don’t remember when it was introduced but the current snapshot builds contains this channel

pgruetter · March 10, 2017, 9:21am

That’s great to hear, so far I only need the stop functionality in Kodi so I’m looking forward to trying that out. Thanks!

pgruetter · March 10, 2017, 8:13pm

The stop channel doesn’t work properly for me. I can stop playback by sending ON to the stop channel. But when I stop playback in kodi directly, the channel doesn’t update in OH2.
Also nothing in the event log, I see that player, title and type for example change, but stop does not.

But in Paper UI under Control, I see that Kodi has a Stop switch so I assume it is supported?