kodi-remotecontrol 0.2.0

Python client for Kodi server

Python client for Kodi Server API

Author	Denis Machard [e-mail]
License	MIT
PyPI	https://pypi.org/project/kodi-remotecontrol/

This is a Python remote control for Kodi Server through the JSON-RPC HTTP or the Event Server API with minimal but sufficient basic controls.

Table of contents

• Installation
• Remote control
• UI navigation
• Player interaction
• Subtitle selection
• Audio track selection

Installation

pip install kodi_remotecontrol

Remote control

HTTP client

As prerequisite, go to System/Settings/Network/Services and activate Allow control of Kodi via HTTP.

from kodi_remotecontrol import HttpClient

# prepare remote control
kodi_ip = "10.0.0.200"
api_rc = HttpClient(api_host=kodi_ip)

Event client

As prerequisite, go to 'System/Settings/Network/Services' and activate Allow programs on other systems to control Kodi.

from kodi_remotecontrol import EventClient

# prepare remote control
kodi_ip = "10.0.0.200"
api_rc = EventClient(api_host=kodi_ip)

UI navigation

from kodi_remotecontrol import Navigation

# prepare remote control
kodi_ip = "10.0.0.200"
api_rc = EventClient(api_host=kodi_ip)

# ui navigation
nav = Navigation(api_rc=api_rc)
nav.press_enter()

Buttons	Description
press_up()	UP button
press_down()	DOWN button
press_left()	LEFT button
press_right()	RIGHT button
press_back()	BACK button
press_enter()	ENTER button
press_contextmenu()	CONTEXT MENU button

Player interaction

from kodi_remotecontrol import Player

# prepare remote control
kodi_ip = "10.0.0.200"
api_rc = EventClient(api_host=kodi_ip)

# player interaction
nav = Player(api_rc=api_rc)
nav.press_play()

Buttons	Description
press_play()	PLAY button
press_stop()	STOP button
press_pause()	PAUSE button
press_shuffle()	SHUFFLE button
press_previous()	PREVIOUS button
press_next()	NEXT button
press_info()	INFO button

Subtitle selection

from kodi_remotecontrol import Subtitle

# prepare remote control
kodi_ip = "10.0.0.200"
api_rc = EventClient(api_host=kodi_ip)

# subtitle selection
sub = Subtitle(api_rc=api_rc)
sub.press_show()

Buttons	Description
press_show()	SHOW button
select_next()	NEXT button

Audio track selection

from kodi_remotecontrol import Audio

# prepare remote control
kodi_ip = "10.0.0.200"
api_rc = EventClient(api_host=kodi_ip)

# audio track selection
aud = Audio(api_rc=api_rc)
aud.select_next()

Buttons	Description
select_next()	NEXT button