[Patrics83]

Hi,

I'm trying to display the outdoor temperature in Kodi home screen.
So far that works, but I want it to auto refresh every 5 minutes or lets say every minute to follow the clock.

Here's how I have done it.

outdoor.xml (This file is being updated every 5 minutes.)

PHP Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<includes>
    <variable name="outdoor">
        <value>1,0</value>
    </variable>
</includes> 


Home.xml

PHP Code:

...

<control type="label">
    <description>outdoor</description>
    <posx>20r</posx>
    <posy>60</posy>
    <width>200</width>
    <height>15</height>
    <align>right</align>
    <aligny>center</aligny>
    <font>font10</font>
    <textcolor>white</textcolor>
    <shadowcolor>black</shadowcolor>
    <label>Outdoor: $VAR[outdoor] °C</label>
    <include>Window_OpenClose_Animation</include>
    <animation effect="slide" start="0,0" end="-40,0" time="100" condition="Window.IsVisible(Mutebug)">conditional</animation>
</control>

... 


The problem is that the only way to refresh the $VAR is to reboot

Any help would be very much appreciated!

/Patric

[ronie]

well, it won't work like that.
Kodi only reads all xml files once, at startup.

instead, you'd need to create a python script
and have the script periodically update a window property.

script part:

Code:

xbmcgui.Window(10000).setProperty('outdoor', '1,0')

skin part:

Code:

<label>Outdoor: $INFO[Window(Home).Property(outdoor)] °C</label>

[Patrics83]

well, it won't work like that.
Kodi only reads all xml files once, at startup.

instead, you'd need to create a python script
and have the script periodically update a window property.

script part:

Code:

xbmcgui.Window(10000).setProperty('outdoor', '1,0')

skin part:

Code:

<label>Outdoor: $INFO[Window(Home).Property(outdoor)] °C</label>

Thanks a lot!

I will try to figure how to do that

[Patrics83]

Ok, so I managed to do it my dirty way. I don't have any education in programming so I tend to find my own ways of achieving my goal

This is my temperature python script that is being generated every 5 minutes by wget'ing a php script at my temp monitoring server.

PHP Code:

import xbmc, xbmcgui
HOME = xbmcgui.Window(10000)
xbmcgui.Window(10000).setProperty('Inne', '22,6')
xbmcgui.Window(10000).setProperty('Ute', '1,3') 


My Home.xml

PHP Code:

<control type="label">
            <description>Inne</description>
            <posx>20r</posx>
            <posy>60</posy>
            <width>200</width>
            <height>15</height>
            <align>right</align>
            <aligny>center</aligny>
            <font>font12</font>
            <textcolor>white</textcolor>
            <shadowcolor>black</shadowcolor>
            <label>Inne: $INFO[Window(Home).Property(Inne)] °C</label>
            <include>Window_OpenClose_Animation</include>
            <animation effect="slide" start="0,0" end="-40,0" time="100" condition="Window.IsVisible(Mutebug)">conditional</animation>
        </control>
        <control type="label">
            <description>Ute</description>
            <posx>20r</posx>
            <posy>75</posy>
            <width>200</width>
            <height>15</height>
            <align>right</align>
            <aligny>center</aligny>
            <font>font12</font>
            <textcolor>white</textcolor>
            <shadowcolor>black</shadowcolor>
            <label>Ute: $INFO[Window(Home).Property(Ute)] °C</label>
            <include>Window_OpenClose_Animation</include>
            <animation effect="slide" start="0,0" end="-40,0" time="100" condition="Window.IsVisible(Mutebug)">conditional</animation>
        </control> 


Now to find a way to execute the python script I linked it to the yellow button at my remote.
The script runs and the values are updated as well.... But how can I run this script every 5 minutes?

I was hoping a cronjob would do it but obviously that doesn't work since only kodi can handle this because of the "imports"...

EDIT: After a lot of reading I found a method that allowed me to use cronjob for the update task.

PHP Code:

*/5 * * * * kodi-send --action="XBMC.RunScript(/storage/scripts/temp.py)" >/dev/null 2>&1 


Only "problem" now is that the screen saver inactivates when the command is sent

If anyone has another (better) method that I should use instead, please let me know.

[MassIV]

Put something like the following in startup.xml or home.xml

<onload>Alarmclock(RefreshTemp,RunScript(/storage/scripts/temp.py),05:00,silent,loop)</onload>

[robweber]

That would work although I'd just wrap the thing into a service addon and make it less hacky. It would be pretty simple, just update that property, sleep for 5 minutes, and repeat until xbmc is shutdown.

[ronie]

Service_addons (wiki)

[Patrics83]

Put something like the following in startup.xml or home.xml

<onload>Alarmclock(RefreshTemp,RunScript(/storage/scripts/temp.py),05:00,silent,loop)</onload>

Thanks a lot!

That worked really well.

That would work although I'd just wrap the thing into a service addon and make it less hacky. It would be pretty simple, just update that property, sleep for 5 minutes, and repeat until xbmc is shutdown.

Oh, I found your thread now when you mentioned "service addon". I didn't know there was an addon like that util now...
I figured the only way to do this was by hacking.

I will for sure look into to your addon.

[Patrics83]

Service_addons (wiki)

Thanks!

It looks like I have to do something like that because my logs are filling up with this:

PHP Code:

10:17:03 261.442749 T:2667086912  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
10:17:03 261.443298 T:2667086912 WARNING: CPythonInvoker(2): Script invoked without an addon. Adding all addon modules installed to python path as fallback. This behaviour will be removed in future version.