[variab1e]

I have the addon structure written and I had supposed if I had just dropped it into the addon directory it would have shown up as an option within services (it is a service). But no such luck. What step am I missing in having Kodi detect the add-on I wrote?

[ronie]

can you post a download link to your addon so we can have a look?

[Martijn]

you need to restart Kodi for starters after you put it there

[variab1e]

It seems to have appeared

[ronie]

I did restart, I looked in the running addons and only settings is there. I may be missing something?

It is just a bare service, I was just trying to get to a point where I could develop.

But here is the bare bones I have

so looks like it's installed correctly, but just doesn't auto-run on startup?

will have a closer look.

[variab1e]

The add on is now there.

But yes, the service does not seem to run. I am tailing the log file.

[ronie]

start by removing the first line in service.py

Code:

//kodi

[variab1e]

Ah yes wrong comment style...

Code:

#kodi

#tail -f /home/osmc/.kodi/temp/kodi.log

import time
import xbmc

if __name__ == '__main__':
    monitor = xbmc.Monitor()

    while True:
        # Sleep/wait for abort for 10 seconds
        if monitor.waitForAbort(10):
            # Abort was requested while waiting. We should exit
            break
        xbmc.log("hello addon! %s" % time.time(), level=xbmc.LOGDEBUG)

But still nothing in the logs...

[ronie]

it's working fine at my end after i removed the comment.

have you enabled debuglogging in kodi?

[variab1e]

I've gotten past that, now with debugging enable.

Is there a way to restart the service without rebooting the entire system?

I tried:
kodi-send --action="XBMC.RunPlugin('plugin://service.control_red')"

The id in settings is in fact "service.control_red" it even says so in the logs when it boots initially.

But I get
ERROR: Unable to find plugin service.control_red'

When I had tried:
kodi-send --action="XBMC.RunAddon('service.control_red')"

I would get:
ERROR: RunAddon: unknown add-on id ''service.control_red'', or unexpected add-on type (not a script or plugin).

Is it possible, or should I just keep rebooting to test?

[variab1e]

It would appear that:

kodi-send --action="XBMC.RunScript(service.control_red)"

Did it. Yay.

Maybe that will help someone else.