Kodi control via IP

In a similar vein to my post about controlling a Yamaha AV amp via web requests, I've just been playing around with controlling Kodi. While we wait for the official fully fledged IP driver to be written you can do some basic control by turning on the JSON-RPC control interface in Kodi and running commands such as:

There's a nice discussion thread about JSON-RPC control here:  forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=157996

Andrew

A full featured Kodi IP driver was available in myServer 5 that will need to be ported to myServer 6.
Just need the time to do that.

Cool, I just started looking at it.  It will be interesting to see what the "full featured" driver for Kodi looks like, but for now, I just can't see using anything beyond navigation/control commands and power on/off.  I just don't think the remote screen is large enough to make browsing my library practical.

I don't anticipate browsing the whole library but if we're in the middle of watching a few TV series it would be nice to see a 'Now watching' list and jump straight into one like you can do from the Kodi main menu screen (at least in the skin we're using). If nothing else I could create a custom myServer scene and update it with whatever we're watching at the time for one click access.

Andrew

I run NextPVR on my server, and use Kodi as my client.  Having a button that goes straight to the Guide is good.  Also one for recorded TV.  Skipping forward by 12 hrs when viewing the Guide, and up/down by page is useful too.

MyMusic, MyMovies, and MyTVShows are useful, but not as critical, as they are just one click from the home page.

Basic playback controls are needed too.  I run Kodi on a Shield.  The Shield remote does not have a Stop button to stop playback.

 

Any chance of a Plex driver also?