Description

Keeps track of every video you watch on Kodi (XBMC).

Dependencies

• bash >=4.0
• coreutils
• diffutils
• gawk
• sed

Installation and Setup

The included Makefile will install the script and optional systemd service/timer. Users of Arch can use the PKGBUILD instead. All others can simply:

$ make
# make install

If you are NOT using the systemd service, the script expects to have write access to /var/log/kodi-watched.log so you will need to manually create this file and change the ownership of it to the user who shall run the script:

# touch /var/log/kodi-watched.log
# chown myuser:mygroup /var/log/kodi-watched.log

• Optionally change the LOG variable to reflect another path (this is the log file Kodi generates).
• Optionally change the FINAL variable to reflect another path (this is final we generate with all the watched content).

Usage

The extracted output is saved to the directory you specify in the script itself and simply shows the date/time and file name that was viewed.

It is most useful to run the script at some interval. The included systemd timer unit will do so once hourly.

# systemctl enable kodi-logger.timer
# systemctl start kodi-logger.timer

Example log

Thu Jul 18 10:50:01 AM 2013 /media/DVD_Rips/Sopranos/Season_3/3x01-Mr._Ruggerios_Neighborhood.mkv
Thu Jul 18 12:50:01 PM 2013 /media/DVD_Rips/Sopranos/Season_3/3x02-Proshai_Livushka.mkv
Thu Jul 18 10:50:01 PM 2013 /media/DVD_Rips/Sopranos/Season_3/3x03-Fortunate_Son.mkv
Fri Jul 19 08:20:01 PM 2013 /media/DVD_Rips/Movies/There_Will_Be_Blood.mkv
Sat Jul 20 08:30:02 PM 2013 /media/DVD_Rips/Movies/The_Girl_With_the_Dragon_Tattoo_2011.mkv