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Hey there,

I'd like to get the channels of my kodi setup and present the logos of each channel on a web interface. So I'm basically calling:

PHP Code:
{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "PVR.GetChannels", "params": {"channelgroupid" :2,"properties":["channel","channeltype","thumbnail","broadcastnow","broadcastnext"]]} 

And I receive the thumbnails as below:

Quote:"thumbnail": "image://%2fhome%2farch%2flogos%2fenen%2flogos%2frtp1.png/"

Does anyone know how can I use this logo on a webpage? I assume there is some method to serve the path above through http?
I just get lost on the documentation. By inspecting other apps I can't find out any other call appart to the one I posted above.

Thanks in advance

It seems that according to: http://kodi.wiki/view/Webserver

The image should be called this way:

http://<your ip>:<configured port>/image/<url encoded image:// path>

Just for reference, what I was trying to do was to present the logos of my own channels on a webpage. So basically, any json-rpc command would be executed from python (from kodi itself), without knowing anything about the webserver setup. This placed a problem because the json api returns a thumbnail value that can only be retrieved if passed to the webserver. Since the python addon doesn't know anything about the webserver (user,pass,port,etc) it's a no go.

So my solution was to find out first the settings of the webserver by calling getsettings:

PHP Code:
import xbmc,json

#small hack to grab webserver endpoint for texture conversion

webserver_ipaddr = xbmc.getIPAddress()
webserver_port = ''
webserver_username = ''
webserver_password = ''
webserver_isenabled = False
json_response = xbmc.executeJSONRPC('{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Settings.GetSettings","params":{"level":"expert"},"id":25}')
decoded_data = json.loads(json_response)
for setting in decoded_data["result"]["settings"]:
    if setting["id"] == "services.webserver": webserver_isenabled = setting["value"]
    if setting["id"] == "services.webserverport": webserver_port = setting["value"] 
    if setting["id"] == "services.webserverusername": webserver_username = setting["value"] 
    if setting["id"] == "services.webserverpassword": webserver_password = setting["value"] 
    
if webserver_isenabled:
    if webserver_password == '':
        webserver = 'http://'+webserver_ipaddr+':'+str(webserver_port)+'/image/'
    else:
        webserver = 'http://'+webserver_username+':'+webserver_password+'@'+webserver_ipaddr+':'+str(webserver_port)+'/image/'
else:
    webserver = ""

#Now we have a callable webserver url, get all the logos for groupid 2

json_response = xbmc.executeJSONRPC('{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "PVR.GetChannels", "params": {"channelgroupid" : 2,"properties":["channel","channeltype","thumbnail","broadcastnow","broadcastnext"]}, "id": 1 }')
decoded_data = json.loads(json_response)
tvchannel_dict = {}
for channel in decoded_data["result"]["channels"]:
    try: 
        if webserver != '': tvchannel_dict['thumb'] = webserver + urllib.quote(channel["thumbnail"])
        else: tvchannel_dict['thumb'] = ""
    except: tvchannel_dict['thumb'] = "" 

Marked as solved.

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