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kenrad · 2013-09-17, 05:35

I am running Frodo and was wondering if it is possible to control it from the commandline. I have an extensive home automation system and all of the pieces of the system communicate though command line arguments. My home automation system is run primarily with Voice recognition and I would love to add XBMC to the system. I ahve it running now but cant communicate from the Home automation software. What I would like ot be able to accomplish is simple command play, pause, stop, and also be able to select a movie with voice recognition "PLAY (movie title) Just wondering if this is possible and where I could get he needed info to make it work.

Thank you for you time

Ken

**teeedubb** · 2013-09-17, 05:39

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=JSON-RPC_API

kenrad · 2013-09-18, 03:15

Can I get some examples of how to send the commands from the command line. I'm really new to JSON and I'm not getting it at all. I simply want to set up command lines that will start a specific movie title from the command line. if I could get an example of the command I'm sure that I could modify it from there

I really appreciate the help

Thanks Ken

**lrusak** · 2013-09-18, 03:55

you can also use the xbmc-send command in conjunction with the built in functions List_of_built-in_functions (wiki)

eg. xbmc-send --host=192.168.1.106 --port=9777 --action="ActivateWindow(Music)"

**teeedubb** · 2013-09-18, 04:29

I can post some examples when I get home, but honestly Google is your friend - there's loads of examples in these forums and on the net.

Not sure how you would go converting speech to text for movie titles though, maybe a tablet with zbmc remote app would be better suited.

kenrad · 2013-09-21, 04:57

Please post the examples if you could. Trying to get all the info I can before starting this project

Thanks Ken

nickr · 2013-09-21, 05:08

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=JSO...I/Examples

**teeedubb** · 2013-09-21, 05:28

curl --data-binary '{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.Scan", "id": "mybash"}' -H 'content-type: application/json;' http://192.168.1.32:9191/jsonrpc

kenrad · 2013-09-26, 04:55

(2013-09-18, 03:55)lrusak Wrote: you can also use the xbmc-send command in conjunction with the built in functions List_of_built-in_functions (wiki)

eg. xbmc-send --host=192.168.1.106 --port=9777 --action="ActivateWindow(Music)"

Is this ability still available in Frodo 12.2 I was thinking that was gone and replaced with the json interface

nickr · 2013-09-26, 05:31

Works with frodo.

nickr · 2013-09-26, 10:22

spammer, reported.

kenrad · 2013-09-27, 04:44

I have been playing around with the JSON stuff and I think this is what I need or at least Im getting close. but its still not working im thinking that this Json command sent from my browser should play the selected movie Huh

192.168.1.9:808/{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.Open","id":1,"params":{"item":{"movieid":47}}}

could some one please let me know what I am missing that it doesn't respond to the command.

also how can I find out what the ID numbers are for all the different moives in my library?

Thanks in advance

Ken

chris3801 · 2016-04-02, 23:28

Hello just wondering if you came to a resolution to this. I will ukd love to implement this myself.

Thanks
Chria