Kodi Recently Added Media for Home Assistant

Home Assistant component to feed Upcoming Media Card with Kodi's recently added media.

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Pre-Installation
  • HACS Install
  • Manual Install
• Configuration
  • Configuring via YAML
  • Configuring via Integrations
  • Card Configuration
• Upgrading from configuration.yaml to UI integration
• Known Issues

Installation

Pre-Installation

NOTE: This component only works with Home Assistant version 0.115 and above. Additionally Kodi must be setup via the UI in the integrations section of the Home Assistant configuration.

HACS Install

1. Search for Kodi Recently Added Component under Integrations in the HACS Store tab.
2. Install the card: Upcoming Media Card
3. Add the code to your configuration.yaml using the config options below. See Conifuring via YAML. (This is deprecated and it's recommended to add the integration via the Home Assistant Integrations if you are using >= v2.0.0. See Configuring via Integrations)
4. Add the code for the card to your ui-lovelace.yaml, or via the lovelace dashboard.
5. You will need to restart after installation for the component to start working.
6. Configure your sensor.

Manual Install

1. In your /config directory, create a custom_components folder if one does not exist.
2. Copy the kodi_recently_added folder and all of it's contents from to your custom_components directory.
3. Restart Home Assistant.
4. Configure your sensor.

Configuration

Configuring via YAML (Deprecated: See Configuring via Integrations)

key	required	default	description
host	yes	--	The host Kodi is running on. This is the same host that was configured when adding the Kodi integration via the UI.
hide_watched	no	false	Indicates if watched media should be skipped or not.

The host is the same host you entered when configuring Kodi via the integrations page.

Sample configuration.yaml:

sensor:
  - platform: kodi_recently_added
    host: 10.1.1.2
    hide_watched: true

  - platform: kodi_recently_added
    host: 10.1.1.3

Configuring via Integrations

1. Navigate to the Integrations page under the Configuration section.
2. Click the button to add a new integration and search for Kodi Recently Added Media.
3. Select which instance of Kodi you would like to use and click Submit.
4. 2 entities will automatically be created. One tracks your recently added tv shows and is named sensor.kodi_recently_added_tv. The other tracks your recently added movies and is named sensor.kodi_recently_added_movies.

An Options button will appear on the integration. Clicking this will allow you to toggle additional options. Currently the only option is whether or not the sensor should ignore watched media or not. By default it does not.

Card Configuration

Sample for ui-lovelace.yaml:

- type: custom:upcoming-media-card
  entity: sensor.kodi_recently_added_tv
  title: Recently Added Episodes
  image_style: fanart

- type: custom:upcoming-media-card
  entity: sensor.kodi_recently_added_movies
  title: Recently Added Movies
  image_style: fanart

Upgrading from configuration.yaml to UI Integration

1. Remove any sensors in your configuration.yaml that reference the kodi_recently_added platform.
2. Restart Home Assistant.
3. Navigate to the Integrations page under the Configuration section.
4. Click the button to add a new integration and search for Kodi Recently Added Media.
5. Select which instance of Kodi you would like to use and click Submit.
6. 2 entities will automatically be created. One tracks your recently added tv shows and is named sensor.kodi_recently_added_tv. The other tracks your recently added movies and is named sensor.kodi_recently_added_movies.

Known Issues

Below is a list of known issues that either can't be fixed by changes to the component itself due to external factors.

Artwork does not load when using the upcoming-media-card

One reason this could occur is if you setup you Home Assistance instance to use SSL and your Kodi instance does not use SSL. When the upcoming-media-card tries to load the artwork it will fail to do so since modern browsers do not allow loading insecure requests. See #6 for more details and possible workarounds.

Genres, ratings and studios don't show up for TV Shows

Currently genres, rating, and studio are only populated for Movies. This is a limitation of the data Kodi stores for TV shows.