VLC init

Daemonize VLC for CCTV Mosaic
https://github.com/salbahra/Security-Camera-Viewer/blob/master/VLC-init

Kodi CCTV pop ups #2

I previously talked a using Kodi to show CCTV pop-ups, but I wanted to extend this to show on all active Kodi nodes (I have 4).

(Caveat - I'm no programmer, so most of this stuff is a hack, I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but this works to start with).

The first challenge was finding which nodes were active, to avoid timeouts to nodes which may be suspended. I found a package called 'avahi' which does local network discovery, so with a bit of tweaking, I was able to use this to spit out a list IP's


$ avahi-browse -raptl 2>/dev/null | egrep '_xbmc-jsonrpc.*192' | awk '{split($0,a,";"); print a[8]}' | sort | uniq

then it was a case of looping through the IP's and making the JSON RPC call to each Kodi node:

for line in iter(proc.stdout.readline, ''):
        str = '/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"Addons.ExecuteAddon","params":{"addonid":"script.securitycam","params":{"cam":"replace_with_your_cam_IP"}}}'
        req = urllib2.Request('http://' + line.replace("\n", "")  + str)
        try: f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
        except urllib2.URLError as e:
                print e.reason
        except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
                print e.reason
        print f.read()

As mentioned, there are probably tidier ways to do this, but it's a minimum solution right now.

Kodi command line screenshot

I keep forgetting how to do this, so making a note of it here to keep record

$ kodi-send --action="TakeScreenshot"

On OpenElec this dumps it out to Samba 'Screenshots' share for handy pickup.