Control KODI open source media center with Mycroft.ai
Utilize the kodi API and Python library for controlling the KODI open source media center with Mycroft.ai. The control is mostly geared towards videos/movies but is capable of handling cursor navigation as well. The Kodi Skill uses conversational dialog to help you to control your KODI instance more naturally.
- "ask kodi to play the movie guardians of the galaxy"
- "ask kodi to play the film planet of the apes"
- "ask kodi to play a random movie"
- "turn kodi subtitles on"
- "turn kodi subtitles off"
- "skip kodi forward"
- "skip kodi backward"
- "pause kodi"
- "pause the film"
- "re-start kodi"
- "stop the movie"
- "stop kodi"
- "set kodi volume to 100"
- "set kodi volume to 25"
- "show kodi movie information"
- "hide kodi movie information"
- "turn kodi notifications on"
- "turn kodi notifications off"
- "move the kodi cursor up / down / left / right / back / select / cancel"
- "move the kodi cursor right 3 times"
- "move the kodi cursor down twice"
- "update the kodi library"
- "clean the kodi library"
- "ask kodi to list recently added movies"
- "ask kodi to list the movies by genre"
- "ask kodi to list the movies by studio"
- "list kodi movie sets"
- "list kodi movies by title"
- "list kodi movies by actor"
- "list all kodi movies"
** If mycroft.ai locates more than one movie that matches your request it will permit you to itterate through your requests using conversational context.
- eg. "hey mycroft:"
- Request: "ask kodi to play the move Iron Man"
- Response: "I have located 3 movies with the name Iron Man, would you like me to list them?"
- Request: "yes" / "no"
- Response: "Iron Man, to Skip, say Next, say play, to play, or Cancel, to stop"
- Request: "next" / "skip"
- Response: "Iron Man 2"
- Request: "play" / "select"
- Response: "o-k, attempting to play, Iron Man 2"
If mycroft.ai locates the addon CinemaVision it will prompt the user if this addon should be used during the playback of the movie that was selected.
- Response: "Would you like to play the movie using cinemavision?"
- Request: "yes / no"
- Request: "ask kodi to play some Elton John from youtube
- Request: "ask kodi to Play the official captain marvel trailer from youtube"
- Request: "Stop kodi"
- PCWii
- Original work forked from https://github.com/Cadair/mycroft-kodi
Media
'#kodi, #Krypton #Leia, #mycroft.ai, #python, #skills #youtube'
Tested on platform_picroft (others untested)
- SSH and run: msm install https://github.com/pcwii/kodi-skill.git
- Configure Kodi to “allow remote control via HTTP”, under the Kodi settings:services
- Configure Kodi to “allow remote control from applications on other systems”, under the Kodi settings:services
- Under Kodi settings:services note the port number (8080)
- Configure home.mycroft.ai to set your kodi instance ip address and port number
Convert all kodipydent functions to json requests(Completed 20191021)Enable username and password support in webgui(Complete)Enable subtitle control(Complete)Enable library scanning / cleaning(Complete)Enable Support for cinemavision(Complete)Correct cinemavision dialog control(Complete)Enable kodi Volume Control(Completed 20191023)Enable movie skip fwd/rev(Complete)Enable random movie selection(Completed 20191021)Add play "from youtube" option for videos / music(Complete)Clean up decision tree, requires significant pruning;-)- Show a filtered list of movies when a play request returns multiple results (WIP)
- Add support for the CommonPlay Skill Infrastructure (Changed verbal requests 20191021)
- Investigate other play functions for music / episodes / pvr
- Investigate method to handle multiple KODI instances on network
Add a single stop command for all playing items(Completed 20191021)Change skill call trigger words to reduce CommonPlay conflicts(Completed 20191021)- Add the ability to cast any Kodi Library item to a chromecast enabled device (WIP 20191219)