Hi,
I would like to create a view for my kid, where he is presented with a selection of movies he can choose from and play via KoDi.
For this, I am missing one key ingredient:
How can I play a specific movie from my KoDi library? I would need to know if and where I can find a kodi movie ID which command I need to use to play it.
Can anyone help?
Please elaborate
The API is best asked about on the kodi forum.
oh, thanks so much…
OK, I figured out a working solution (not sure if it is the optimal way but it works):
Create RESTful Commands for each Kodi movie. One examples is as follows:
rest_command:
kodi_moviename:
url: 'http://KODIHTTPIP:KODIPORT/jsonrpc'
method: post
username: !secret kodi_username
password: !secret kodi_password
payload: '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"1","method":"Player.Open","params":{"item":{"file":"smb://YOURFILESHAREIP/PATH/FILENAME"}}}'
content_type: 'application/json'
Then create a script for each movie for manually triggering it via HASS GUI:
SCRIPTNAME:
alias: Play Movie ABC
sequence:
- service: rest_command.kodi_moviename
I then added SCRIPT Tiles to tileboard which are linked to the scripts created above and are represented by movie posters images.
Maybe this helps someone with a similar aim. Enjoy and feel free to give expert opinion on how to do it easier, as I am a hass n00b 
And I actually did find an easier method, by using the HASS kodi call method as script for each movie. So you don’t have to write the RESTful command, but only a script entry for each movie:
movie_xy:
alias: Play Movie XY
sequence:
- service: media_player.kodi_call_method
data:
entity_id: media_player.kodi
method: Player.Open
item:
file: "smb://YOURFILESHAREIP/PATH/FILENAME"
the only caveat with this approach, though, is that you must add the kodi component to the config yaml, whereas the RESTful command, directly would communicate with kodi.
But how to specify files that are already on the internal memory?
developer-tools/service: kodi.call_method
{
"entity_id": "media_player.kodi",
"method": "Player.Open",
"item": {
"file": "file:///home/xbian/lift.strm"
}
}
There is no error on home-assistant but an error on KODI.
I found the correct answer: /home/xbian/lift.strm
I know this thread is getting old, but I’m trying to take this idea a bit further. I would like to be able to say to my Google Home “Tell Kodi to play XYZ” and this will cause Kodi to play that movie. So far I have two scripts, one that searches for a movie with a given string and returns a single result with the movieid from the database, and another that plays a movie given a specified movieid. These two scripts work perfectly. The issue happens when I try to use an automation to run the second script based on event data from the first script. As far as I can tell the issue is that the template is returning a string instead of an integer but I’ve tried changing it to an integer and it doesn’t help. See relevant code below.
The two scripts
'1593263499843':
alias: Kodi Get Movie
sequence:
- data:
entity_id: media_player.living_room_tv
filter:
field: title
operator: contains
value: minions
limits:
end: 1
start: 0
method: VideoLibrary.GetMovies
service: kodi.call_method
'1593279336491':
alias: Kodi Play Movie
sequence:
- data_template:
entity_id: media_player.living_room_tv
item:
movieid: '{{ movieid|int}}'
method: player.open
service: kodi.call_method
The automation:
- id: '1593279263626'
alias: Kodi Play Movie
description: ''
trigger:
- event_data:
input:
method: VideoLibrary.GetMovies
event_type: kodi_call_method_result
platform: event
condition: []
action:
- data_template:
movieid: '{{ trigger.event.data.result.movies.0.movieid|int }}'
service: script.1593279336491
and here is the JSON response I get from the second script.
{
"event_type": "kodi_call_method_result",
"data": {
"entity_id": "media_player.living_room_tv",
"result": {
"code": -32602,
"data": {
"method": "Player.Open",
"stack": {
"message": "Received value does not match any of the union type definitions",
"name": "item",
"type": "object"
}
},
"message": "Invalid params."
},
"result_ok": false,
"input": {
"method": "player.open",
"params": {
"item": {
"movieid": "434"
}
}
}
},
"origin": "LOCAL",
"time_fired": "2020-06-27T19:42:26.248254+00:00",
"context": {
"id": "44a317e2601f4bd183e99b352abe675c",
"parent_id": null,
"user_id": null
}
}
In case this helps anyone:
i got @noogs approach to work by returning the file path from the search and modifying the Player.Open call accordingly (maybe there’s a more elegant version out there but this works):
Here is the final get movie script (notice the properties: object )
'1593263499843':
alias: Kodi Get Movie
sequence:
- data:
entity_id: media_player.living_room_tv
filter:
field: title
operator: contains
value: minions
limits:
end: 1
start: 0
properties:
- file
method: VideoLibrary.GetMovies
service: kodi.call_method
the automation just passes the path to the script:
- id: '1606993440700'
alias: OnMovieFound
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: kodi_call_method_result
event_data:
result_ok: true
input:
method: VideoLibrary.GetMovies
action:
- service: script.play_movie_in_kodi
data_template:
file: '{{ trigger.event.data.result.movies.0.file }}'
mode: single
and the script:
play_movie_in_kodi:
service: kodi.call_method
data_template:
item:
file: '{{ file }}'
method: Player.Open
entity_id: media_player.libreelec