[Jakester34]

The lack of bars might be a problem with your lcd compatibility with LCDsmartie as I am sending the LCD smartie bars function. You can try it on a line and see if you see the real bars or not.

$Bar([value],[maxvalue],[barsize])

I think the title not showing is a kodi bug. In previous versions of kodi the title was filled in now it is blank.

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.OnPlay","params":{"data":{"item":{"title":"","type":"movie"},"player":{"playerid":1,"speed":1}},"sender":"xbmc"}}