Sending a TCP message to turn on KODI with XBMCStarter

IvanDobsky · October 17, 2022, 4:57pm

A HA noob here. Still getting my head around this amazing tool.

I am trying to work out how to send a TCP Wakeup message to an app on a PC. Can’t work out how to format it. Please help.

I have a KODI system running on a PC. My HA is running via HassOS on a PI4.

I have the ability to use KODI in HA. Great Stuff.

What I would like to do is Start and Stop KODI’s app on the PC.

On the PC I use the same tool as I use with Yatse - that is “XBMCStarter”.

A small app that runs at startup on the PC that Yatse can talk to to start KODI via a magic packet.

I have been trying to work out how to mimic this in HA and failing. TCP? Curl? Command Line? I am at a loss. Read lots of forum, and hacked all kinds of attempts, without success.

Here is the C code that makes up XBMCStarter

github.com

NerdyProjects/XbmcStarter/blob/f942aad85836651225e252f508b6e97e352a225e/xbmcStarter.c

/*
     XbmcStarter - a general purpose network triggered startscript
     (C) 2014 by Matthias Larisch

     This file is based on the querystring example of libmicrohttpd
     (C) 2007, 2008 Christian Grothoff (and other contributing authors)

     This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
     modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
     License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
     version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

     This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
     Lesser General Public License for more details.

     You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
     License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
     Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

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Please help, what is the command I need to send to the PC? And how do I do that from HA?

IvanDobsky · September 12, 2023, 2:46pm

In case anyone else was trying to get this to work…

shell_command:
  start_kodi: "echo -n 'YatseStart-Xbmc' | nc -u -w1 192.168.0.88 5600"