[Znax]

I'm trying to figure out how to make a single request that triggers Kodi to play the latest added episode of a TV-Show without first issuing a command to list the episodes of that show.
The usage would be in a home automation scenario to trigger a request from a third-party physical or software device to start playing a particular show.
I'm imagining something like "Google, show me XYZ", "Alexa, play my favourite show" or "Hey Siri, play XYZ"

I'm stuck trying to figure out this: http://192.168.XYZ.XYZ:8080/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.Open","params":{??????????}

Known and preconfigured in the command would be the tvshowid but not the id of the latest episode.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this?

[krad23]

Sorry to hijack this thread, but what would be the params to play a specific movie or episode by ID ?

[Znax]

I'm guessing it's similar to this but replace item file with id.

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"Player.Open","params":{"item":{"file":"/storage/PATH/TO/FILE"}}}

[krad23]

Thanks, I know how to do it by file path, but I want to do it by ID, and all combinations I tryed with id, movieid, episodeid, didn't work

[Lunatixz]

https://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API <<< Behind the curtain

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=172734 <<< Handy utility for experimentation.

[Znax]

Thanks!

I've had a look at the API doc (a lot), but the question remains if you can do it in one API call. I know I can get items, Playlist.Insert, then Player.Open but that is three calls instead of one, with the need to capture variables.

[Lunatixz]

Thanks!

I've had a look at the API doc (a lot), but the question remains if you can do it in one API call. I know I can get items, Playlist.Insert, then Player.Open but that is three calls instead of one, with the need to capture variables.

 The info you need is all in the doc

https://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v8#Player.Open

I'd use the playlist "videodb://recentlyaddedepisodes/" if this doesn't work, create a "xsp" smartplaylist.
and the parameter "position:0"

[Znax]

Ah, that's a good idea! Thx, will give it a try!

[imperimus]

No single command but can be achieved in 3 commands; Get Show ID, Get Next Episode, Play.

An extract from the controller I am building for Voice Controls via OpenHAB/Alex/Google Home:

php:


$shows = json_decode(kodiGetTVShows($subject),true);

$episode = json_decode(kodiGetTVEpisodes($shows['result']['tvshows'][0]['tvshowid'], false, 1),true);

kodiPlayTVEpisode($episode['result']['episodes'][0]['episodeid']);

Full Source Code for my work so far.