Smartthings kodi (xbmc) Amazon echo

[Stabu (Chad Cunningham)]

Anyone get Amazon echo to controll kodi? Would be awesome if I could play, stop, ask to play a current name of show EP.

[bruceouellette]

I would also be very interested in this

[Christopher_Murphy]

Me too. I can’t find anything on doing this

[jad2121]

[OBSOLETE] Kodi Manager - playing status and control

Update: github repo changed. This is a SmartApp which allows you to control Kodi, where HTTP control has been enabled. Controlling Kodi through SmartThings has the additional benefit that you are also be to trigger events in SmartThings based on events in Kodi, or visa versa. Such as ‘Someone is at the door, pause playback’, or ‘Kodi is playing, dim the living room lights’. Install the ‘Kodi Manager’ SmartApp from your mobile device, specify your Kodi IP and Kodi login details. This will then create a device for that kodi device. In order to accomplish this the app exposes URL endpoints including a security token for each event type and provides them to the user in a easy to copy/paste format (no more messing with REST endpoint examples and php files). Those endpoints need to be cal…

[Jason_Fay (Jason F)]

I just found this: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=258165

Does exactly what you want, but you have to mess around in an Amazon developer account (they’ll let you sign up for one, though - it’s easy) and build a skill. They make it pretty straightforward to do it.

I believe this should still work fine with the various ST/Kodi apps people have been building around here - those appear to be good for things like lighting control based on the state of Kodi (or conversely, Kodi control based on the state of things that ST is reading from - like pause when a doorbell rings and whatnot).