Using Kodi as a giant menu on a small screen
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Hi, I'm doing a project which involves writing a python service/daemon that dose certain things. This will run on a raspberry pi. Attached to the pi will be a 5 inch display to be viewed from a distance of about 10 feet (couch to TV distance). I need to run a menu on this display and operate it with a remote. I'm thinking writing a kodi plugin for this would be a good way to. When selecting an item on the menu the plugin would call an API on the pyhton daemon to do something.

Is it possible to write a plugin that loads when kodi loads and takes up the entire screen?

How would you approach this? Where should start? Or dose something similar already exist?

Basically the project is a home theater automation project. Happy to share more detail if anyone is interested.

Cheers,
Rhys
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service addons are automatically started when kodi starts:
http://kodi.wiki/view/Service_addons

you can use the WindowXML class to create your own fullscreen window:
https://codedocs.xyz/xbmc/xbmc/group__py...__xml.html
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