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An Unusual Request: Video Alarm - wwitv - 2022-08-21
Does anyone know of a way to use a Firestick + Kodi to basically play a video?
What I'm trying to do is set up an IOT alarm that would turn on my projector and play a video on the wall.
In theory, it would like this:
- Alarm off Google Home/Play/phone would trigger my IOT to turn on the projector + firestick (this is the easy part)
- Kodi is launched with some sort of command to play a specific playlist or video (not sure how to do this part)
Just wondering if anyone's done this or seen something similar with Kodi?
RE: An Unusual Request: Video Alarm - DaVu - 2022-08-22
(2022-08-21, 03:01)wwitv Wrote: Kodi is launched with some sort of command to play a specific playlist or video (not sure how to do this part)
If the system is able to trigger a
curl-command, you can do nearly anything with Kodi via JSON. Even playing a video or a playlist. Just just have to be sure that the curl-command is only triggered after Kodi and the projector is up and running. The curl-command produces an exit-code. So you could probably do that by putting it in a while-loop. Not sure how flexible your home-automation system is in that case. Just have a look here:
https://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API