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---
layout: page
title: "Kodi"
description: "Instructions how to add Kodi notifications to Home Assistant."
date: 2016-09-12 16:00
sidebar: true
comments: false
sharing: true
footer: true
logo: kodi.png
ha_category: Notifications
ha_release: 0.29
---
The `Kodi` platform allows you so send messages to your [Kodi](https://kodi.tv/) multimedia system from Home Assistant.
To add Kodi to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:
### {% linkable_title Configuration %}
```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
platform: kodi
name: NOTIFIER_NAME
host: http://192.168.0.123
port: 8080
username: USERNAME
password: PASSWORD
```
- **name** (*Optional*): Name displayed in the frontend. The notifier will bind to the service `notify.NOTIFIER_NAME`.
- **host** (*Required*): The host name or address of the device that is running Kodi.
- **port** (*optional*): The port number, the default value is `8080`.
- **username** (*Optional*): The XBMC/Kodi HTTP username.
- **password** (*Optional*): The XBMC/Kodi HTTP password.
### {% linkable_title script.yaml example %}
```yaml
################################################################
## Script / Notify KODI
################################################################
kodi_notification:
sequence:
- service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
data:
title: "Home Assistant"
message: "Message to KODI from Home Assistant!"
data:
displaytime: 20000
icon: "warning"
```
#### message variables:
- **title** (*Optional*): Title that is displayed on the message.
- **message** (*Required*): Message to be displayed.
- **data** (*Optional*)
- **icon** (*Optional*): Kodi comes with 3 default icons: `info`, `warning` and `error`, an URL to an image is also valid. *Defaults to `info`*
- **displaytime** (*Optional*): Length in milliseconds the message stays on screen. *Defaults to `10000` ms*
To use notifications, please see the [getting started with automation page](/getting-started/automation/).