With this script you can control Kodi via Snips. You can control the player, start or search for movies, shows and music, open different windows of the Kodi gui or use the Kodi navigaton loop. This will start a Snips session automaticaly when the old session ends. The Snips hotword is now not necessary for a faster navigation through the Kodi gui. It is also possible to say only a part of the title and the script will search and display the result in the kodi gui, for all titles in the kodi library that contains the said word. The script checks if Kodi is reachable. When Snips detects the Hotword the Kodi player pauses so that you don't have to scream louder as the mediasound while talking to Snips. When the Snips session ends the Kodi mediaplayer will return to the previous state unless you told to stop, pause or play something else.
- Entities Injection to get the titles from Kodi media-library in the Snips assistant
- Play show
- Play (random) episodes of show
- Play movie
- Play songs from artist
- Play songs of specific genre
- Play album
- Search for shows and display results in gui
- Search for movies and display results in gui
- Search for album and display results in gui
- Search for songs from artists and display results in gui
- Set subtitles on/off
- Set shuffle on/off
- Play/pause
- Stop
- Next/previous
- Open gui window:
- Videos
- Shows
- Music
- Addon
- Useraddon
- Videoaddon
- Audiaddon
- Executableaddon
- Home
- Videoplaylist
- Musicplaylist
- Fullscreenvideo
- Kodi navigation loop
- Navigate through the gui (only while Kodi navigation loop)
- Left
- Right
- Up
- Down
- Pageup
- Pagedown
- Select
- Back
- Info
- Playlist
- Queue
- Close
- Togglewatched
- Parentdir
- Scrollup
- Scrolldown
For the script the following Snips-apps with slots are used:
- datenbank:
- hey Snips synchronise library
- play_movie:
- hey Snips start the movie iron man(slot)
- add the select_movie intent in case multiple titles will be found e.g. iron man 1, iron man 2, iron man 3
- slotname: movies
- slotvalue: -filled from injection
- select_movie:
- iron man 3(slot)
- this intent will only work if the session is keept alive with the customData "media_selected" when multiple movie titles are found. so it is possible to only say the movie name without hey Snips hotword.
- slotname: movies
- slotvalue: -filled from injection
- play_show:
- hey Snips play the show marvels iron fist(slot), hey Snips play a random(slot) episode of futurama(slot)
- slotname: shows
- slotvalue: -filled from injection
- slotname: random
- slotvalue: random +synonyms
- select_show:
- marvels iron fist, marvels luke cake....
- this intent will only work if the session is keept alive with the customData "media_selected" when multiple shows are found. so it is possible to only say the show name without hey Snips hotword.
- slotname: shows
- slotvalue: -filled from injection
- play_genre:
- hey Snips play pop(slot) music
- slotname: genre
- slotvalue: -filled from injection
- play_artist:
- hey Snips play songs by lady gaga(slot)
- slotname: artist
- slotvalue: -filled from injection
- play_album:
- hey Snips play album(slot) ...
- slotname: albums
- slotvalue: -filled from injection
- kodiNavigator:
- hey Snips start(slot) navigator
- slotname: startstop
- slotvalue: start, stop +synonyms
- kodiInputNavigation:
- up, left, okay, back
- this intent only works if the navigator loop started
- slotname: kodiinput
- slotvalue: (value, synonyms)
- left, links, nach links
- right, rechts, nach rechts
- up, hoch, nach oben
- down, runter, nach unten
- pageup, eine seite hoch, eine seite nach oben
- pagedown, eine seite runter, eine seite nach unten
- select, okay, öffnen
- back, zurück
- info, information
- playlist, öffne wiedergabe liste
- queue, in playlist einreihen, zur playlist hinzufügen, zur wiedergabeliste hinzufügen
- close, schließen
- togglewatched, wechsel gesehen status
- parentdir, ein ordner nach oben
- scrollup, scroll hoch, hoch scrollen, nach oben scrollen
- scrolldown, sroll runter, runter scrollen, nach unten scrollen
- kodiWindowNavigation:
- hey Snips open movies(slot)
- slotname: windows
- slotvalues: (value, synonyms)
- videos, Filme
- shows, Serien
- music, Musik
- addon, Add ons
- useraddon, benutzer addon
- videoaddon, video addon
- audiaddon, musik addon
- executableaddon, programm addon
- home, hauptmenü
- videoplaylist, video playlist, video wiedergabeliste
- musicplaylist, musik playlist, musik wiedergabeliste
- fullscreenvideo, zurück zum video, zurück zur wiedergabe, zurück zum film, zurück zur serie, zurück zur folge
- KodiPause:
- hey Snips papuse
- KodiResume:
- hey Snips resume
- KodiStop:
- hey Snips stop player
- KodiNext:
- hey Snips play next song/episode
- KodiPrevious:
- hey Snips play previous
- KodiShuffleON:
- hey Snips set suffle on
- KodiShuffleOFF:
- hey Snips set suffle off
- subtitles:
- hey Snips set subtitles off(slot)
- slotname: on_off
- slotvalue: on, off +synonyms
- search_show:
- hey Snips search show marvel(slot)
- slotname: shows
- slotvalue: -filled from injection
- search_movie:
- hey Snips search movie spider(slot)
- slotname: movies
- slotvalue: -filled from injection
- search_artist:
- hey Snips search artist eminem(slot)
- slotname: artist
- slotvalue: -filled from injection
- search_album:
- hey Snips search album relapse(slot)
- slotname: albums
- slotvalue: -filled from injection
The script uses the Eclipse's paho.mqtt library. https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.python
The Snips entities injection must be installed. https://docs.snips.ai/articles/advanced/dynamic-vocabulary
In kodi you must enable HTTP control: Settings/Services/Control > Allow remote control via HTTP must be enabled. Choose a Username, Password and Port
Change following values in the snips_remote.py:
- Kodi Username, Password, IP, Port
- MQTT server IP and Port
- Snips username
To start the scrip run the snips_remote.py