Create automation script in 2023

sharpordie · 3 May 2023 20:52

I haven’t used Kodi for a long time, I was waiting to have a DoVi support without using Android, it’s now almost the case.

I would like to do a small setup in bash to configure CoreELEC. Basically install addons and repos, edit XML files like sources.xml and the settings.xml files of some addons, configure kodi, … In the near future I would also like to install moonlight-embedded to be able to enjoy my big noisy game tower from my living room.

I had made a script that used curl, unzip and xmlstarlet for this, but is this still the way to go? Should I use kodi-send.py? Is it still supported ? Should I also use json-rpc? Is it still possible, I know there are protections to avoid backdoors from some addons.

There is my previous script:

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sharpordie/elecubator/blob/master/elecubator.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Script variables.
addon_folder="${HOME}/.kodi/addons"
current_file="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")/$(basename "$0")"
est_settings="${HOME}/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/skin.estuary/settings.xml"
gui_settings="${HOME}/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml"
media_folder="$(find /var/media -maxdepth 1 -type d | sort -r | head -1)"
qbt_settings="${HOME}/.opt/etc/qBittorrent_entware/config/qBittorrent.conf"
smb_settings="${HOME}/.cache/services/samba.conf"
sources_file="${HOME}/.kodi/userdata/sources.xml"
startup_file="${HOME}/.config/autostart.sh"

# Create the folder tree on the external drive.
if [ "${media_folder}" != "/var/media" ]; then
    mkdir -p "${media_folder}/Movies"
    mkdir -p "${media_folder}/Pictures"
    mkdir -p "${media_folder}/Series"
    mkdir -p "${media_folder}/Torrents"
    mkdir -p "${media_folder}/Torrents/Incomplete"

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vpeter · 4 May 2023 05:16

How should we know what best serve to you? Use what works.

sharpordie · 4 May 2023 07:32

I can’t find very good resources on kodi-send, and for me json-rpc seems redundant.

Can we do everything with kodi-send? I thought so, but it seems not.

I see in the wiki that you can add a favorite with json-rpc and Favourites.AddFavourite but nothing with kodi-send.

On the other hand, I see that you can install an add-on with kodi-send and InstallAddon(id) but nothing with json-rpc. Is it only the add-ons from the official repository or is it all addons, even from external repositories?

In other cases like to activate an addon, it is possible with the two methods, EnableAddon($addonid) for kodi-send and Addons.SetAddonEnabled for json-rpc.

In both cases, kodi will have to be running, so the use of curl, xmlstarlet and systemctl start/stop kodi will be necessary to persist settings.