[Confusionist]

Yesterday I upgraded xbmc to Kodi (2:14.0-1~wheezy) on my Raspberry Pi (running Raspbian). Now I cannot control Kodi anymore using my phone (Nexus 5 running Yatse). The problem seems to be that the necessary servers aren't launched: if I look at what ports my raspi is listening, it's just:

Code:

root@pi:/home/kodi/.kodi# netstat -tanp
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:9090          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      6531/kodi.bin  
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2668/sshd      
tcp        0    288 192.168.1.46:22         192.168.1.53:32965      ESTABLISHED 6441/sshd: pi [priv

So 9090 is only listening on localhost and nothing is listening on 8080, so there is nothing for Yatse to connect to.
I have edited /home/kodi/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml (while Kodi was shut down) so it says:

Code:

<services>
        <airplay default="true">false</airplay>
        <airplayios8compat default="true">true</airplayios8compat>
        <airplaypassword default="true"></airplaypassword>
        <airplayvolumecontrol default="true">true</airplayvolumecontrol>
        <devicename default="true">pi</devicename>
        <esallinterfaces default="true">true</esallinterfaces>
        <escontinuousdelay default="true">25</escontinuousdelay>
        <esenabled default="true">true</esenabled>
        <esinitialdelay default="true">750</esinitialdelay>
        <esmaxclients default="true">20</esmaxclients>
        <esport default="true">9777</esport>
        <esportrange default="true">10</esportrange>
        <upnpannounce default="true">true</upnpannounce>
        <upnpcontroller default="true">false</upnpcontroller>
        <upnprenderer default="true">false</upnprenderer>
        <upnpserver default="true">true</upnpserver>
        <useairplaypassword default="true">false</useairplaypassword>
        <webserver default="true">true</webserver>
        <webserverpassword default="true"></webserverpassword>
        <webserverport default="true">8080</webserverport>
        <webserverusername default="true">kodi</webserverusername>
        <webskin default="true">webinterface.default</webskin>
        <zeroconf default="true">true</zeroconf>
    </services>

but no dice (I edited the file, because I cannot control Kodi by keyboard either, although direct keyboard access to the raspi works fine otherwise).

Does anyone know what may be going on and how I can get Kodi to allow json-rpc control from Yatse again? Possibly re-enabling keyboard control so I can change the settings via the Kodi menus may be a way out.

The only WARNINGS in kodi.log are:

Code:

12:36:09 T:3035607040  NOTICE: start dvd mediatype detection
12:36:09 T:2958181392  NOTICE: Thread DetectDVDMedia start, auto delete: false
12:36:11 T:3035607040 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "PVR.Details.Channel"
12:36:11 T:3035607040 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "PVR.Details.ChannelGroup.Extended"
12:36:11 T:3035607040 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "GUI.Property.Value"
12:36:11 T:3035607040 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "Setting.Details.SettingList"
12:36:12 T:2918904848  NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false
12:36:12 T:3035607040  NOTICE: initialize done

[dandnsmith]

Looks like you've nothing for port 8080, for either tcp or tcp6
I can control two different versions (13.2 and 14.0) with YATSE - which may have 8080 as its default

On the other hand, I can also use the keyboard, so maybe its the step to 14.0-1 which has done it (I tend to keep updating off until I see no complaints being raised)

[Confusionist]

I've no idea what was wrong, but I've since decided to switch to xbian and the fresh reinstall made all problems go away. Kodi 14.1 worked fine there.

[wrxtasy]

Check the port settings in:

Kodi > Settings > Services > Webserver - Port number

Matches the port number in the XBMC App or Yatse settings on your Nexus.