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page Kodi Instructions how to add Kodi notifications to Home Assistant. 2016-09-12 16:00 true false true true kodi.png Notifications 0.29

The Kodi platform allows you so send messages to your Kodi multimedia system from Home Assistant.

To add Kodi to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

# 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 %}

################################################################
## 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.