[sparklyballs]

Apologies if this has already been covered but can i make a suggestion if it hasn't ?


Seeing as a current use for headless version of kodi is in a mysql setup (i know it's gonna be phased out at some stage) and the only current way to change those settings is through advancedsettings.xml, can one be generated with a headless install by default so it just needs editing to suit.

That's not right, all settings can be changed via JSON-RPC however that's not very end user friendly, and not many of the remote app & webui app devs have picked up on this, the only one might be the official iOS remote app. Settings management via JSON is something we should perhaps promote more in preparation for headless.

I wasn't aware that it could be changed through JSON, but definitely agree on the not very user friendly aspect.

I do hope that the advancedsettings.xml file will still be read, (if not created) or a default webui baked in will give us access to change various settings etc....

whilst if settings were possible through 3rd party apps, i think it would be inifinitely more preferalbe to be able to do it "inhouse" easily without any reliance on 3rd party stuff.

Although, and this is purely from my personal perspective, this JSON setting up of mysql settings could be something i could make use of in a docker for unraid, and on that i have some questions.

can JSON take variables cos i could pass them through from template based docker app on unraid and then not worry about user-friendiless at all.

what are the JSON "commands" (don't know the proper term) to change mysql settings, ip, port, user, pass, etc.....

and lastly, although not directly related to this, what is a good test that kodi.bin is up and ready to accept JSON etc.... cos of the way docker works would need to know this before attempting to pass commands to it, currently i just sleep for 45 seconds before sed'ing advancedsettings.xml. it's not very elegant.