Kodi for SmartThings [BETA]
Control and react to event changes from Kodi (formerly XBMC), your favorite media center software.
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Note: This is a BETA and there may be some issues – particularly with the eventing as it is dependent upon the SmartThings scheduler to ensure the event subscriptions stay fresh. Please review the IDE Live Logs when reporting issues as it’s helpful to have a copy of the logs/errors when reporting issues.
Unlike other Kodi implementations seen on the SmartThings platform, this solution works completely within SmartThings and does not require any additional plugins or middleware tools.
SmartThings Installation
There are two components needed for the Kodi integration to work.
SmartApp - used for discovery of the Kodi instances on your network …
After setting that up and adding your kodi to it (I’m using osmc on my pi 2 and 3), you can use it in CoRE but use it as a music player. You can trigger things based on the status which include playing paused and stopped.
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