XBMC¶

Requirements¶

You only need one or more XBMC (12 a.k.a. Frodo or above) with System-Settings-Service “Allow programs on other systems to control XBMC” enabled.

Configuration¶

plugin.conf¶

[xbmc]
    class_name = XBMC
    class_path = plugins.xbmc

items.conf¶

[living]
    [[xbmc]]
        type = str
        xbmc_host = xbmc.home
        # xbmc_port = 9090
        xbmc_listen = state
        [[[title]]]
            type = str
            xbmc_listen = title
        [[[media]]]
            type = str
            xbmc_listen = media
        [[[volume]]]
            type = num
            xbmc_listen = volume
            xbmc_send = volume
        [[[mute]]]
            type = bool
            xbmc_listen = mute
            xbmc_send = mute

xbmc_host¶

This attribute is mandatory. You have to provide the IP address or host name of the XBMC system.

xbmc_port¶

You could specify a port to connect to. By default port 9090 is used.

xbmc_listen¶

You could assign the following values to xbmc_listen:

volume a numeric value (0 -100)
mute a bool flag
title a string with the name of the movie, song or picture
media a string with the current media type (Video, Audio, Picture)
state current state as string (Menu, Playing, Pause)

xbmc_send¶

The following xbmc_send attributes could be defined to send changes to the system:

volume a numeric value (0 -100)
mute a bool flag

logic.conf¶

Functions¶

This plugin provides the function to send notification messages to xbmc. notify_all(title, message, picture) to send the notification to all xbmc systems and extends the item with the notify method. The picture attribute is optional.

sh.xbmc.notify_all('Phone', 'Sister in law calling', 'http://smarthome.local/img/phone.png')
# or for a dedicated xbmc
sh.living.xbmc.notify('Door', 'Ding Dong')