Kodi (On/Shutdown) automations not working

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I looked through several previous posts here, but it was unclear if anyone got this working.

As above, I am trying to set up automations to turn on and shutdown a Kodi box. I followed the guide for the automations. Hopefully, someone else can share some tips.

Here is my automations.yaml [updated]

- id: '1661306317495'
  alias: kodi_turn_on
  description: 'Kodi: turn on'
  trigger:
  - platform: device
    device_id: 3ff4f8b23626591a9adf701582858245
    domain: kodi
    entity_id: media_player.kodi_9c18780de34aae3fb9a983f5c86b8be6
    type: turn_on
  condition: []
  action:
  - service: script.turn_on
    data: {}
  mode: single
- id: '1661306445047'
  alias: kodi_turn_off
  description: 'Kodi: turn off'
  trigger:
  - platform: device
    device_id: 3ff4f8b23626591a9adf701582858245
    domain: kodi
    entity_id: media_player.kodi_9c18780de34aae3fb9a983f5c86b8be6
    type: turn_off
  condition: []
  action:
  - service: kodi.call_method
    data:
      method: System.Shutdown
  mode: single
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Your first automations does not seem to make sense.

For the kodi_turn_on automation you have:
Trigger: kodi media player turning on
Action: Shut down kodi host.

So this will shut down kodi as soon as you turn it on. I’m pretty sure you don’t want to do that.

For the kodi_turn_off automation:
Trigger: kodi media player turning off
Action: shut down kodi host.

Better. But does the media player turn off or does its state become idle. That’s what mine do.

FYI: there’s no point redacting your device or entity ids. They are no use to anyone.

3

Thanks for pointing out the kodi_turn_on error. Not sure what happened there. I corrected my automations.yaml. I still haven’t seen any changes in Kodi History outside of when I play/pause media.

4

When you run the actions manually does the action work?

5

I tried stopping Kodi via HA media player without success. Also manually triggering the automations did not change the KODI state. It remains paused.

6

Then the integration is not set up correctly.

Did or did not?

7

I can play/stop media, but the turn off button on the media player does nothing.

My bad. Did not change the KODI state.

8

not sure if this is a path for you I built a switch that powers on and turns off my kodi which is on a PC running windows I then just use the automation to turn the switch on or off as needed

  - platform: wake_on_lan
    # mac: "10:BF:48:71:58:63"
    mac: "D4:5D:64:B3:1A:FE"
    name: HTPC
    host: 192.168.1.129
    turn_off:
      service: kodi.call_method
      data:
        entity_id:  media_player.htpc
        method: System.Shutdown
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[quote=“Paulsy, post:7, topic:453697”]

Stopping is not the same as turning off. Please try to describe your issue accurately.

I believe your automation issue is that you have not specified which media player to shut down. You need to provide an entity id, try this:

  - service: kodi.call_method
    data:
      entity_id: media_player.kodi_9c18780de34aae3fb9a983f5c86b8be6
      method: System.Shutdown
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[quote=“tom_l, post:6, topic:453697”]

You are correct. Adding the entity_id fixed my shutdown problem.

Now I have to work on the WOL power on.

12

Thanks for sharing this! The shutdown script works perfectly. Now I just need to add the WOL.