xbmc

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Kodi/XBMC node controller

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This module uses XBMC JSON-RPC Api V6 to provice a rich and simple API to communicate with XMBC instances.

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The xbmc module contains the following classes:

  • XbmcApi : API wrapper of available actions, notifications and media handling
  • TCPConnection : TCP Client to communicate with XBMC

Basics

All classes are created asynchronously.

All classes are sharing an EventEmitter instance. XbmcApi.on and XbmcApi.emit are wrappers to the shared PubSub. For instance:

In CoffeeScript :

{TCPConnectionXbmcApi} = require 'xbmc'
 
connection = new TCPConnection
  host:    '127.0.0.1'
  port:    9090
  verbose: true
xbmc = new XbmcApi
xbmc.setConnection connection
 
xbmc.on 'connection:open',                        -> console.log 'Connection is open'
xbmc.on 'connection:data'(data)                 -> console.log 'Received data:',         data
xbmc.on 'connection:notification'(notification) -> console.log 'Received notification:'notification

In JavaScript :

  var Xbmc = require('xbmc');
 
  var connection = new Xbmc.TCPConnection({
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    port: 9000,
    verbose: false
  });
  var xbmcApi = new Xbmc.XbmcApi;
 
  xbmcApi.setConnection(connection);
 
  xbmcApi.on('connection:data', function()  { console.log('onData');  });
  xbmcApi.on('connection:open', function()  { console.log('onOpen');  });
  xbmcApi.on('connection:close', function() { console.log('onClose'); });

TCPConnection uses a deferred (promise) mechanism. Following two examples are both working:

{TCPConnectionXbmcApi} = require 'xbmc'
 
connection = new TCPConnection
  host:    '127.0.0.1'
  port:    9090
  verbose: true
 
xbmc = new XbmcApi
xbmc.setConnection connection
 
# run actions after received a 'connection:open' event 
xbmc.on 'connection:open'->
  xbmc.message 'Hello World'
connection = new TCPConnection
  host:    '127.0.0.1'
  port:    9090
  verbose: true
 
xbmc = new xbmcApi
xbmc.setConnection connection
 
# enqueu actions so they are called a soon as connection is opened 
xbmc.message 'Hello World'

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