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Hi all,

In the Kodi logs I can find the following information (I report just some examples):

• 13:01:22.568 T:1958416384 NOTICE: Running on Open Source Media Center 2017.07-1, kernel: Linux ARM 32-bit version 4.9.29-9-osmc
  

• 16:49:59.316 T:1693747968 NOTICE: Running on Sony D5103 with Android 4.4.4 API level 19, kernel: Linux ARM 32-bit version 3.4.0
  

• 21:21:51.228 T:140684478301440 NOTICE: Running on LibreELEC (community) - Version: devel-20170528113803-r25683-g24c82c134 8.0, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 4.9.29
  

• 15:59:49.744 T:139682791762304 NOTICE: Running on Ubuntu 17.04, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 4.10.0-26-generic
  

• 23:14:15.226 T:5472 NOTICE: Running on Windows 10, kernel: Windows NT x86 64-bit version 10.0
  

Which is the command in python for which I can retrieve the "Running on" information?

Thanks in advance for any help!

You mean you want to read this info from the Kodi log file? Look here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html

Hi Roman,

Thanks for your answer.

Sorry, I was not clear enough. I mean to obtain that information (in particular the bolded text) from an add-on; I was wondering which python or xbmc command I need to use. I have tried platform(), but is not the right way to go.

Hello,

If you are just looking to find out what the operating system regardless of the os version, than You could use os.system() from the python os module, you can look up more here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1325...-in-python

Thanks but I'm looking for something more....the command you pointed out is the one that I'm actually using.

To be more clear, I'm not able to understand when LibreELEC, OSMC or similars are running, despite from the logs it looks that is possible (first and third bullets in my initial post)...so I was wondering about the command used to retrieve that information.

Any additional help is really appreciated

Boolean visibility conditions can tell you if you are running on special platforms like Raspberry or Android. https://codedocs.xyz/xbmc/xbmc/group__py...cb79caef6f
Other than that and Python's platform module there's no other way to detect a platform from addon perspective. Or parse a the log file.

this should return (more or less) what you're after:

(2017-08-10, 23:02)ronie Wrote: [ -> ]this should return (more or less) what you're after:

Code:

xbmc.getInfoLabel('system.osversioninfo')

Thanks ronie, I will give it a try!

(2017-08-10, 23:02)ronie Wrote: [ -> ]this should return (more or less) what you're after:

Code:

xbmc.getInfoLabel('system.osversioninfo')

Maybe there is something wrong, but calling that command, the result is "Busy"...

The code I used is:


Any idea?

don't know why, but apparently it takes a bit of time for kodi to retrieve this info.
adding a bit of sleep should give a proper result.

(2017-08-11, 23:31)ronie Wrote: [ -> ]don't know why, but apparently it takes a bit of time for kodi to retrieve this info.
adding a bit of sleep should give a proper result.

Code:

xbmc.getInfoLabel('System.OSVersionInfo')
xbmc.sleep(100)
label = xbmc.getInfoLabel('System.OSVersionInfo')
xbmc.log( "[%s] - %s" % ( addonName, label ) )

That solved the issue! Thanks a lot!

i have the same problem with xbmc.getInfoLabel('System.OSVersionInfo') always return BUSY
and the workaroud with xbmc.sleep does not work

how can i get the device name??

2019-06-09 10:58:58.142 T:6162  NOTICE: Running on HUAWEI FRD-L09 with Android 8.0.0 API level 26, kernel: Linux ARM 64-bit version 4.4.23+

also tryied os.uname but not return  huawei frd....
this is the content:
('Linux', 'localhost', '4.4.23+', '#1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 10 16:03:40 CST 2018', 'aarch64')

@CastagnaIT did you found any workaround for this?

(2022-04-12, 18:38)-Dis Wrote: [ -> ]@CastagnaIT did you found any workaround for this?

after two year its difficult to remember why i need it
however only for android case you can use android system prop eg.

python:
model = subprocess.check_output( ['/system/bin/getprop', 'ro.product.model'])

no other solutions

@CastagnaIT @-Dis have you tried what Python itself reports?

There's os.name, platform.version(), sys.platform, os.uname(), maybe others.

Edit: also, if anyone just wants to know what platform you're on, there's the xbmc.getCondVisibility() function with the System.Platform.(...) names:
- https://kodi.wiki/view/List_of_boolean_c...ons#System
- https://github.com/dersphere/script.xbmc...on.py#L143