openHAB for Kodi

mampfes · November 12, 2015, 4:42pm

Hi,

I created an user interface add-on for the multi platform media center SW Kodi (formerly XBMC) to control an openHAB instance from within Kodi. You can watch the state of your openHAB items, get updates for items that have changed, and set the state of items. It uses the openHAB REST API to get/set items and widgets states.

Limitations:
Updates of the top level page (a.k.a. homepage) don’t work - probably due to a openHAB issue (see also notes in https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/REST-API). I have been thinking about a workaround but as I don’t need it I didn’t implement that so far.

Installation:

Download latest zip file from https://github.com/mampfes/script.module.openhab/releases and copy it into a path that is accessible from your Kodi box. In Kodi open Settings → Add-ons → Install from zip file -> Navigate to the ZIP file and install it. The add-on depends on the requests add-on which should be automatically installed if it is missing on your machine so far.
Open the add’on’s settings dialog and adjust at least the Server Address and Sitemap options (see screenshot below). Note that you can also use the Select Sitemap... action to get a list of sitemap’s on your openHAB server, but you have to enter and store (using the OK button!!!) the server address once before the add-on is able to get the correct list from your openHAB server.

Sources:
The sources can be found here: https://github.com/mampfes/script.module.openhab

Screenshot using openHAB’s demo configuration:

Please let me know if you interrested in this add-on.

Best regards

mampfes

Mikey · November 12, 2015, 4:56pm

That is pretty cool, will have a look at it this weekend.

mampfes · November 12, 2015, 9:12pm

New version 1.0.1: Improved error and strange group widgets handling. Have fun.

mampfes

gonium · November 13, 2015, 11:37am

Cool. Quick question: I’m running Kodi on my Amazon Fire TV. Are there any obstacles to using it on an android-based device such as the ATV?

Thanks,
-Mathias

mampfes · November 13, 2015, 12:40pm

No, I don’t think so. As it is pure Python, it should run on every platform that runs Kodi.

mampfes

tinaught · December 19, 2015, 11:26pm

Very cool, thank you. Any plans to get it in official kodi repository?

Nicola_Reina · December 20, 2015, 12:12am

Great Job.
Will be testing asap

mampfes · December 21, 2015, 3:22pm

Yes, if anyone could confirm that it is basically running on his/her system.

mampfes

Nicola_Reina · December 21, 2015, 7:06pm

wrong strucutre of addon… kodi on win10

mampfes · December 22, 2015, 6:32am

Did you use the prepared ZIP file from https://github.com/mampfes/script.module.openhab/releases/download/V1.0.1/script.module.openhab_V1.0.1.zip? Don’t use GitHubs Download ZIP button on the front page because this creates a ZIP file which can’t be used for installation.

mampfes

Nicola_Reina · December 22, 2015, 12:40pm

you are right.
Now works.
rather it installs.
next error…
I cannot rach my openhab (“check ip”). No sitemap loaded.
I will let you know

silvereagle · February 19, 2016, 7:01pm

I downloaded v1.01 and installed under KODI Jarvis RC3.
==> addon error
I had to fix addon.xml imports. Also I installed manually the OpenELEC settings addon and the Mimic skin for Kodi.

After that it works really good. All I saw were some glitches due to font size and skin behaviour.

mampfes · February 22, 2016, 7:08am

Thanks for the update. Could you please send me or check’in the updated
file?

Regarding the display glitches: Currently I rely on the default Confluence
skin definitions. But as these may change from release to release it would
be better to copy the definitions to have a stable layout.

2016-02-19 20:06 GMT+01:00 Thilo Richard bot@community.openhab.org:

ptmuldoon · February 22, 2016, 6:38pm

This is pretty cool and I’ll look to try it out this weekend as well.

Can anyone maybe confirm if you can view any security or other IP based camera’s within Kodi? I have a couple of Foscam’s currently setup in Openhab and be kinda neat to see them through Kodi.

d0t · February 22, 2016, 8:41pm

@ptmuldoon - while this isn’t OpenHAB specific, you might want to have a look at this addon for XBMC/KODI. Pretty cool to have it automatically popup the video feed in KODI when motion is detected!

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karsten_kaiser_1971 · February 25, 2016, 7:21pm

Hi,

Tried to install on osmc v16.

Received following errors :

20:18:47 221.989700 T:1958003248 DEBUG: CAddonInstaller: installing from zip '/home/osmc/plugins/script.module.openhab_V1.0.1.zip’
20:18:47 221.998886 T:1491071984 DEBUG: CAddonInstallJob[script.module.openhab]: requires xbmc.gui version 5.3.0 which is not available
20:18:47 221.999725 T:1491071984 ERROR: CAddonInstallJob[script.module.openhab]: Die Abhängigkeit auf xbmc.gui in Version 5.3.0 konnte nicht aufgelöst werden.
20:18:47 222.006149 T:1958003248

Any idea?

Cheers
Karsten

mampfes · February 25, 2016, 8:00pm

Hi, please use latest release 1.0.2 with jarvis (Kodi 16) support.

Regards

mampfes

2016-02-25 20:26 GMT+01:00 karsten kaiser bot@community.openhab.org:

karsten_kaiser_1971 · February 26, 2016, 9:21am

ok great thanks for quick change!

simple sitemaps seem to work - but bigger ones that load in android or on Chrome with no issues are not loading so far.

Cheers
Karsten

silvereagle · February 27, 2016, 1:35pm

here are my changes to the adon.xml:

<import addon="xbmc.python" version="2.24.0"/>
<import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.10.0"/>
<import addon="script.module.requests" version="2.9.1"/>

Osmii · March 14, 2016, 6:35pm

Tested on the latest release of OSMC, and its working OK! Even video feed!