MQTT addon for Kodi =================== Written and (C) 2015 Oliver Wagner <owagner@tellerulam.com> Provided under the terms of the MIT license. Overview -------- This is a Kodi addon which acts as an adapter between a Kodi media center instance and MQTT. It publishes Kodi's playback state on MQTT topics, and provides remote control capability also via messages to MQTT topics. It's intended as a building block in heterogenous smart home environments where an MQTT message broker is used as the centralized message bus. See https://github.com/mqtt-smarthome for a rationale and architectural overview. Dependencies ------------ * Kodi 14 Helix (or newer) * Eclipse Paho for Python - http://www.eclipse.org/paho/clients/python/ (used for MQTT communication) [](https://travis-ci.org/owagner/kodi2mqtt) Automatically built addons can be downloaded from the release page on GitHub at https://github.com/owagner/kodi2mqtt/releases Settings -------- The addon has three settings: * the MQTT broker's host name or IP address (defaults to 127.0.0.1) * the MQTT broker's port. This defaults to 1883, which is the MQTT standard port for unencrypted connections. * the topic prefix which to use in all published and subscribed topics. Defaults to "kodi/". Topics ------ The addon publishes on the following topics (prefixed with the configured topic prefix): * connected: 2 if the addon is currently connected to the broker, 0 otherwise. This topic is set to 0 with a MQTT will. * status/playbackstate: a JSON-encoded object with the fields - "val" for the current playback state with 0=stopped, 1=playing, 2=paused - "kodi_playbackdetails": an object with further details about the playback state. This is effectivly the result of the JSON-RPC call Player.GetItem with the properties "speed", "currentsubtitle", "currentaudiostream", "repeat" and "subtitleenabled" - "kodi_playerid": the ID of the active player - "kodi_playertype": the type of the active player (e.g. "video") * status/progress: a JSON-encoded object with the fields - "val" is the percentage of progress in playing back the current item - "kodi_time": the playback position in the current item - "kodi_totaltime": the total length of the current item * status/title: a JSON-encoded object with the fields - "val": the title of the current playback item - "kodi_details": an object with further details about the current playback items. This is effectivly the result of a JSON-RPC call Player.GetItem with the properties "title", "streamdetails" and "file" The addon listens to the following topics (prefixed with the configured topic prefix): * command/notify: Either a simple string, or a JSON encoded object with the fields "message" and "title". Shows a popup notification in Kodi * command/play: Either a simple string which is a filename or URL, or a JSON encoded object which correspondents to the Player.Open() JSON_RPC call * command/playbackstate: A simple string or numeric with the values: - "0" or "stop" to stop playback - "1" or "resume" to resume playback (when paused) - "2" or "pause" to stop playback (when playing) - "next" to play the next track - "previous" to play the previous track See also -------- - JSON-RPC API v6 in Kodi: http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6 - Project overview: https://github.com/mqtt-smarthome Changelog --------- Please see service.mqtt/changelog.txt for the change log