meta-kodi

V 0.3

This repository contains supporting material for NEEO-Metadriver to control Kodi-applications over HTTPC (POST).

Installation:

Installation.

The consists of activating the CoreDriver called KODI in .meta. This is just a matter of goi g ibnto the .meta recipe on your remote or phone with neeo-app, then:

• going to Libary.
• Find KODI in the list and click it
• Select Activate driver
• Go back, select Danger zone then restart meta.
• After one minute, you can add a KODI-device through the NEEO-gui (or the NEEO-app on your phone).

Discovery

This driver uses autodiscovery of your kodi-devices, so make sure your KODI is started before adding the device. In the NEEO-Settings, go to devices, then do an add device. Then type KODI as search argument. NEEO will find "Ton&JAC .meta KODI". Select this driver, then click "Next". meta will search for KODI-instances and display the result. Select an instance and assign it to the correct room.
The following shortcuts are handy, but you casn select the ones you like: Widgets: -Menu&Back Buttons:

• Subtitle
• SyncSub Directories
• TVShows
• MOvies/Moviesets Switch: ShowThumbnails

If you want to make changes to the NEEO-buttons in this driver, you can use the file Kodi-json and activate this via the user activation folder.

Supported buttons and functions

This is the third release of Kodi-driver. It contains all you normally need to control a Kodi player, but this release adds browsing directories on your KODI-instance.
The second release adds discovery of Kodi devices, so no IP-configuration is required anymore
The following Buttons are defined and mapped to functions in Node-RED:

• "POWER OFF"; will shutdown the system where Kodi-player is running (itm will actually call the dialog that allows shutdown)
• "VOLUME UP" & "VOLUME DOWN"
• "CURSOR UP", DOWN, LEFT & RIGHT"; navigating the cursor
• "PAGE UP & DOWN"; navigating an entire page
• "CHANNEL UP & DOWN"; same as "PAGE UP & DOWN" (doesn't work, probably doesn't work on mediaplayer)
• "PLAY"; context-aware... while playing: pause and play, otherwise "select"
• "STOP"; stop the current player
• "SYNCSUB"; Opens window for synchronizing the subtitles (start earlier or delay them); back to exit
• "SUBTITLE"; Opens the subtitle-submenu. Allows browsing, downloading, enabling subtitles
• "PAUSE"; pause or play while playing
• "BACK"; exit a submenu or go up one level in a list/window dialog
• "MENU"; context-aware... while playing: activates OSD, otherwise "context menu"
• "SELECT"; general select
• "TVShows"; Future use with directories on the NEEO-remote.
• "Movies"; Future use with directories on the NEEO-remote.
• "Music"; Future use with directories on the NEEO-remote.
• "LANGUAGE" & "AUDIO": These buttons should (not able to test yet) swtich the Audio-language if multiple exist
• "MUTE TOGGLE"; silence the player.

New in this release are 4 directories:

• TVShows: Directory that opens KODI library and shows all the TVShows that are defined.
• Movies: Directory that opens KODI library and shows all the Movies that are defined.
• Moviesets: Directory that opens KODI library and shows all the Movies that are defined within MovieSets.
• VideoSources: Directory that opens KODI library for all the VIDEO-sources. Then you can browse each source as a file-explorer. Browsing through directories is currently limited to 7 levels deep because of technical and practical limits.

For Movies and TVSHows, a Checkmark is shown if all underlying elements are shown. Thumbnails are shown when KODI has them defined. Internally, KODI uses the actual video-file to show a thumbnail; currently, they can not be shown in the directory. If you feel this annoying, you can switch off thumbnais with the switch "Thumbnails".

To-Do:

• Fix 7 levels limit