Post JSON to XBMC (KODI)

[Chrishiscox Chris]

I am attempting to go one stage further than queryimg my kodi servers. I have three of them, and would like to set them to party mode using a json statement.

If I type in browser address bar the following: (note chrome auto formats it to safe characters, which i think I need for SendHttpGet or Post.

http://10.0.24.2/jsonrpc?request={%20%22jsonrpc%22:%20%222.0%22,%20%22method%22:%20%22Player.Open%22,%20%22params%22:%20{%20%22item%22:%20{%20%22partymode%22:%20%22music%22%20}%20},%20%22id%22:%201%20}

This is my rule, which doesnt work.

rule "Set Party Mode on Kodi"

when 

Item kodi_party_music received command

then

switch(receivedCommand) {

case 0 : {sendCommand(XBMC_OpenMedia, "http://10.0.24.2{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params": { "item": { "partymode": "music" } }, "id": 1 }")}

case 1 : {sendHttpPostRequest("http://kodi:kodi...@10.0.24.2/jsonrpc?request={%20%22jsonrpc%22:%20%222.0%22,%20%22method%22:%20%22Player.Open%22,%20%22params%22:%20{%20%22item%22:%20{%20%22partymode%22:%20%22music%22%20}%20},%20%22id%22:%201%20}")}

case 2 : {sendHttpGetRequest("http://kodi:kodi...@10.0.24.8/jsonrpc?request={%20%22jsonrpc%22:%20%222.0%22,%20%22method%22:%20%22Player.Open%22,%20%22params%22:%20{%20%22item%22:%20{%20%22partymode%22:%20%22music%22%20}%20},%20%22id%22:%201%20}")}

case 3 : {sendHttpGetRequest("http://kodi:kodi...@10.0.24.7/jsonrpc?request={%20%22jsonrpc%22:%20%222.0%22,%20%22method%22:%20%22Player.Open%22,%20%22params%22:%20{%20%22item%22:%20{%20%22partymode%22:%20%22music%22%20}%20},%20%22id%22:%201%20}")}

}

end

I have also tried the xbmc bindings, which open files etc, but oes nothing when Ido the following:

case 1 : sendCommand(kodiDVR_OpenMedia,"partymode")

Any body got bright idea?

Thanks

Chris 

[Chris Hiscox]

I have tested with Curl, and that seems broken too!

I send executeCommandLine("curl --user kodi:kodi1989 --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary '{ "id": 1, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params": {"item": { "partymode": "music" } } }' 'http://10.0.24.7/jsonrpc'

and the response I get from the log is

14:53:13.989 ERROR o.o.c.s.ScriptExecutionThread[:50]- Error during the execution of rule 'Set Party Mode on Kodi': The name 'id' cannot be resolved to an item or type.

 I have tried replacing the " with %22 , and preceding with a \. Still same error.

How can I pass a string with double quotes in  it via openhab -  I can see openhab is confuised and thinks the " indicates another item.

Any suggestions?

Chris

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[Marcel Erkel]

Hi,

Not sure if this issue is still valid, but the following works for me:

I used http://www.freeformatter.com/url-encoder.html to URL-encode the following json:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.Open","params":{"item":{"partymode":"music"}},"id":1}

which resulted in the following output:

%7B%22jsonrpc%22%3A%222.0%22%2C%22method%22%3A%22Player.Open%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22item%22%3A%7B%22partymode%22%3A%22music%22%7D%7D%2C%22id%22%3A1%7D

I then created the following rule:

rule "Set Party Mode on Kodi"
when

    Item kodi_party_music changed
then
    var String json = "%7B%22jsonrpc%22%3A%222.0%22%2C%22method%22%3A%22Player.Open%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22item%22%3A%7B%22partymode%22%3A%22music%22%7D%7D%2C%22id%22%3A1%7D"
    sendHttpGetRequest("http://kodi:kodi...@10.0.24.7/jsonrpc?request=" + json)
end

This works for me.

Using executeCommandLine with curl and escaping the " using a backslash like \" did not result in any errors in the openhab.log but neither did it work. When I traced using Wireshark on my laptop where Kodi was running, no tcp/ip packets arrived. I then tried using the full path to the curl command, but that also did not work.
What did work was putting the command in a shell script and executing the shell script but I think the sendHttpGetRequest method is a much cleaner approach.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Marcel

P.S. Make sure that the Webserver in Kodi is indeed running on port 80 and not 8080.

[wolffromthenorth]

Any update on this as i'm trying to do the same thing and i'm not succeeding.

i would like to execute a addon script in xbmc wich i can do with a json request as described, works from the browser but not in openhab.

please help