Kodi remote in Homeassistant

Feature Requests
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Hello,

I want to have a centralized place where i can change channels and be able to remote control my house totally from HomeAssistant, therefore I am asking if it is not possible to update our kodi to use the following:

If I understand correctly it would be just a matter of adding the following functions within the component:

kodi.Input.Left()
kodi.Input.Right()
kodi.Input.Up()
kodi.Input.Down()
kodi.Input.Back()
kodi.Input.Down()
kodi.Input.Info()

Am I wrong? Is it hard to achieve?

Best Regards,
HP

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Could anyone support me on showing me the way to achieve this?

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Hi @HVPereira,

I’ve upvoted your request.
For the time being I’m using a shell_command:

shell_command:
  kodi_input_right: 'curl -u "username:password" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.Right\"}" "http://192.168.0.xx:80/jsonrpc"'
  kodi_input_left: 'curl -u "username:password" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.Left\"}" "http://192.168.0.xx:80/jsonrpc"'
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I use Panel Iframe to show KODI website in home assistant.

panel_iframe:
  kodi:
    title: 'Kodi'
    url: 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080'
    icon: mdi:kodi

I think this is really practical

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I thought about the same solution as well but i guess it would be better to have it fully integrated at least to know the states and which music to play etc…

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I am quite happy with it that way, as I mainly use it for Films and TV-Shows and I prefer to control Kodi by directly starting something rather than going through the menus of the TV frontend.
For that I prefer my Harmony remote :wink:
Seeing the panel_iframe in a tab would be nice though as proposed here.

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Actually I am quite impressed how nice the remote looks like on my phone. Maybe I’ll use that as well sometimes in the future.

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States are important to me as well. I enjoy the current integration and hope those Kodi/HASS states never go away since I have it in mind to automate dimming house lights when kodi is playing (as soon as I have money for Ikea Tradfri stuff lol). Adding some control buttons would be cool too though I suppose.

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hi, i add your code in my configuration file, but in the frame i can see the kodi “loading” page. i don’t use username and password in the kodi configuration, so the login is free.
any ideas?

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@nebbiadigiorno
actually I don’t know
It just works for me like that.
Do you use SSL. This is the only thing I would think of.

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@derdude1893 The strange thing is that the page works on the chrome web browser of the iPad, brut it doesn’t work on my pc chrome or On android chrome.

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Takes me a couple of refreshes on the PC. Zero luck on Android chrome.

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Same here, either doesnt load or spins alot. Hass is on SSL but kodi is not.

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It’s a shame Kodi does not support https. I am unable to use this because:

“If you are accessing Home Assistant over HTTPS using SSL, you cannot access HTTP sites through an iframe panel.”

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Here are the full set of shell commands I use in case anyone is interested. Note this is for the video player (id:1). For music (id:0) or picture (id:2) playback change the id.
I get error return codes of 52 in the log but it all appears to be working from the developer console, except “skip forward”. No idea why.

Change your user, password and ip address.

kodi_input_back: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.Back\"}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_input_contectx_menu: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.ContextMenu\"}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_input_down: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.Down\"}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_input_execute: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.ExecuteAction\"}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_input_home: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.Home\"}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_input_info: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.Info\"}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_input_left: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.Left\"}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_input_right: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.Right\"}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_input_select: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.Select\"}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_input_up: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Input.Up\"}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_player_fast_fwd: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":1,\"method\":\"Player.SetSpeed\",\"params\":{\"playerid\":1,\"speed\":\"increment\"}}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_player_play_pause: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Player.PlayPause\",\"params\":{\"playerid\":1},\"id\":1}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_player_rewind: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":1,\"method\":\"Player.SetSpeed\",\"params\":{\"playerid\":1,\"speed\":\"decrement\"}}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_player_skip_back: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Player.GoTo\",\"id\":1,\"params\":{\"playerid\":1,\"to\":\"previous\"}}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_player_skip_fwd: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Player.GoTo\",\"id\":1,\"params\":{\"playerid\":1,\"to\":\"next\"}}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'
kodi_player_stop: 'curl -u "user:passwd" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"Player.Stop\",\"params\":{\"playerid\":1},\"id\":1}" "http://ipaddress:8080/jsonrpc"'

EDIT, 4 years later: Don’t use these. It can all be done from the Kodi call_method now.

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I would like to use more than one Kodi player with the WEB UI thrue iframe, but ik can only handley one instance:

panel_iframe:

  kodi:
title: 'Kodi@chillroom'
url: 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:8080/'
icon: mdi:kodi
  kodi:
title: 'Kodi@woonkamer'
url: 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:8080/'
icon: mdi:kodi

Log Details (ERROR)

Testing configuration at /config
ERROR:homeassistant.util.yaml:YAML file /config/configuration.yaml contains duplicate key “kodi”. Check lines 55 and 59.

Is there a workarround/solution for this matter?

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Change the entity ids to something like,

kodi_chillroom:
  title: 'Kodi@chillroom'
  url: 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:8080/'
  icon: mdi:kodi

kodi_woonkamer:
  title: 'Kodi@woonkamer'
  url: 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:8080/'
  icon: mdi:kodi
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That did the trick, thanks!

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Hey, the same issue just came up.
Did you find a workaround to get the http kodi on the https hass.io?
Thanks in advance

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Any chances for a lovelace card for this? Would be great

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