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

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

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

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - platform: kodi
    name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    host: 192.168.0.123

• 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 HTTP port number. Defaults to 8080.
• proxy_ssl (Optional): Connect to kodi with HTTPS. Defaults to false. Useful if Kodi is behind an SSL proxy.
• username (Optional): The XBMC/Kodi HTTP username.
• password (Optional): The XBMC/Kodi HTTP password.

{% linkable_title Script example %}

kodi_notification:
  sequence:
  - service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
    data:
      title: "Home Assistant"
      message: "Message to KODI from Home Assistant!"
      data:
        displaytime: 20000
        icon: "warning"

{% linkable_title 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.