Automation - add-ons/plugin.video.vrt.nu GitHub Wiki

De Nederlandse vertaling is beschikbaar via Automatisatie.

You can make Kodi perform actions on startup by creating an autoexec.py file in your Kodi userdata directory.

On a typical Linux system this path would be:

• ~/.kodi/userdata/autoexec.py

On a typical Windows system this path would be:

• C:\Users\your-user\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\autoexec.py
• %AppData%\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\autoexec.py

Add the statements below to this autoexec.py file.

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('RunAddon(plugin.video.vrt.nu)')

You can also go directly inside one of the menus, by specifying an action:

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('RunAddon(plugin.video.vrt.nu,/livetv)')

If you would rather like to start playing a specific Live TV stream, you can use:

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('PlayMedia(plugin://plugin.video.vrt.nu/play/id/vualto_een_geo)')

If you like to jump to a specific menu remotely, you can use JSON-RPC for running a menu. There are two calls that can be used for this, Addons.ExecuteAddon or GUI.ActivateWindow.

Using Addons.ExecuteAddon:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "Addons.ExecuteAddon",
    "params": {
        "addonid": "plugin.video.vrt.nu",
        "params": ["/programs/tik-tak/2019/"]
    },
    "id": 1
}

Or when using curl:

$ curl -X POST -H "content-type:application/json" http://kodi01:8080/jsonrpc -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Addons.ExecuteAddon", "params": {"addonid": "plugin.video.vrt.nu", "params": ["/programs/tik-tak/2019/"] }, "id": 1}'

Using GUI.ActivateWindow:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "GUI.ActivateWindow",
    "params": {
        "window": "videos",
        "parameters": ["plugin://plugin.video.vrt.nu/programs/tik-tak/allseasons"]
    },
    "id": 1
}

Or when using curl:

$ curl -X POST -H "content-type:application/json" http://kodi01:8080/jsonrpc -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "GUI.ActivateWindow", "params": {"window": "videos", "parameters": [ "plugin://plugin.video.vrt.nu/programs/tik-tak/allseasons" ]}, "id": 1}'

We implemented a function that plays the latest episode of a tv show or program. You can call this function through the Kodi JSON-RPC API

Using JSON-RPC the payload would be:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "Player.Open",
    "params": {
        "item": {
            "file": "plugin://plugin.video.vrt.nu/play/latest/het-journaal"
        }
    },
    "id": 1
}

For instance with curl:

$ curl -X POST -H "content-type:application/json" http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params": {"item": {"file": "plugin://plugin.video.vrt.nu/play/latest/het-journaal" }}, "id": 1}'

You can call this method with every tv show on VRT NU. You can find tv show names in the VRT NU URLs. For instance:

• De Columbus: https://www.vrt.be/vrtnu/a-z/de-columbus/2/de-columbus-s2a6/

The tvshow name is the part right after /a-z/, in this case de-columbus

You can also play a program by providing the channel and date/time it was aired. You can just provide a channel with a start date/time and the program that matches best is returned. Providing a stop date/time is optional.

• timestamp format: ISO 8601 Notation yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss (example: 2019-09-29T11:00:00)
• channels: een, canvas, ketnet

Using JSON-RPC the payload would become:

{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "method": "Player.Open",
    "params": {
        "item": {
            "file": "plugin://plugin.video.vrt.nu/play/airdate/een/2019-09-29T11:00:00"
        }
    },
    "id": 1
}

For instance with curl:

$ curl -X POST -H "content-type:application/json" http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params": {"item": {"file": "plugin://plugin.video.vrt.nu/play/airdate/een/2019-09-29T11:00:00" }}, "id": "1"}'

The different actions are found in the main plugin entry source code: https://github.com/add-ons/plugin.video.vrt.nu/blob/master/resources/lib/addon.py

Possible actions include:

This API is included in v2.0.0

• Autoexec.py on Kodi website
• The Kodi JSON-RPC API
• Examples using Home Automation
  • https://github.com/add-ons/plugin.video.vrt.nu/issues/293#issuecomment-500122864
  • https://github.com/add-ons/plugin.video.vrt.nu/issues/513