[dullard]

Hi,
I'm trying to understand the Action ID "seek".

From the Action ID wiki page:
Seek(##) A definable seek action, where ## is a number of seconds. For example, to make a seek action that goes forward 25 seconds use Seek(25), and to make a seek action that goes back 36 seconds use Seek(-36). (v15 Isengard addition)

So I tried:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Input.ExecuteAction","params":{"action":"seek(25)"},"id":1}

but it doesn't work. I get:
{"error":{"code":-32602,"data":{"method":"Input.ExecuteAction","stack":{"message":"Received value does not match any of the defined enum values","name":"action","type":"string"}},"message":"Invalid params."},"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}

Which I think is telling me that seek(25) isn't understood. Is it seek hasn't been implemented yet or I have my command set up incorrectly?

[axa88]

The documentation you want is for the jsonrpc API, not whatever these Action IDs are a part of...
http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6

Yes, your action value is not understood, that key's value should be of type Input.Action only,
http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6#Input.Action

As you see using Input.Execute does not have fine granularity seek control, what you really want is Player.Seek
http://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v6#Player.Seek
This will give you virtually full control of seeking

[tedMatk]

I'm having the same problem as dullard.

"whatever these Action IDs are a part of" is the parameter for "Input.ExecuteAction" in the JSON-RPC API. I have no trouble using Action IDs, for example, "PageUp" and "PageDown".

(Actually, I had a small problem as the action IDs are case-sensitive and must be in lower case, contrary to http://kodi.wiki/view/Action_IDs )

"Player.Seek" does not give "virtually full control of seeking", it seems limited to seeking to absolute timepoints (% or H:M:S) or to the deprecated small and big jumps. There is no arbritary relative seeking.

The "seek(##)" Action ID looks like the only way to do what we want, but it does not work with Kodi 15.2.