Raspberry Pi Kodi Mediaplayer Box
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Raspberry Pi + TFT IPS Displays + Raspberry Pi OS
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Raspberry Pi startup scripts
Harddisk for Raspberry Pi & Co.
Raspberry Pi + Display Waveshare LCD 1024×600 HDMI Touch
Handbrake bug - Old MP4 videos with MP3 audio
Logo of Kodi
and the time.
Case for single-board computer (SBC) with similar GPIO positioning
like Raspberry Pi 4 B, ODROID-C4, ROCK PI 4 B, UP-Board, Tinker Board
like Raspberry Pi 4 B, ODROID-C4, ROCK PI 4 B, UP-Board, Tinker Board
KodiDisplyInfo is a little Python/Pygame program, which the Kodi Media Center JSON-RPC API uses to display actually information of the just running movies or music on the little TFT Display. Due to the disposition of limited quantity of pixels on the display, often 320x240 on 2.8" or 480x320 on 3.5" displays, only a few information such as runtime and title or thumbnail are displayed.
MediaPlayer Box hardware 2014:
Raspberry Pi 2 B + TinyLCD 3.5" + OpenDisplayCase + Hard drive.
Kodi and KodiDisplayInfo
running parallel on the
Raspberry Pi or UP Board.
MediaPlayer Box hardware 2016:
UP Board + Adafruit PiTFT 3.5" + OpenDisplayCase + Hard drive.
Change into the (sub)-directory "KodiDisplayInfo" and rename the file "sample.config.txt" to "config.txt". Then edit the file with an editor.
[CONFIG]
#Screen Modus: time (default), thumbnail
SCREENMODUS_VIDEO = thumbnail
#Time format: minutes (default), short (mm:ss), long (hh:mm:ss)
FORMATTIME_VIDEO = short
#Screen Modus: thumbnail (default)
SCREENMODUS_AUDIO = thumbnail
#Time format: short (mm:ss) (default), long (hh:mm:ss)
FORMATTIME_AUDIO = short
#Disk size {"NAME":"PATH"} -> JSON-Format: {"HDD1":"/mnt/HDFilme"}
LOCALMOUNTPATHS = {}
#Count Media (video,songs,album) {"NAME":"MEDIA"} -> JSON-Format: {"Movies":"video"}
LOCALMEDIATOTAL = {}
[DISPLAY]
# Possible resolutions: 320x240 (default) or 480x272 or 480x320
RESOLUTION = 480x320
# Set to your Framebuffer /dev/fb1 or /dev/fb2
FBDEV = /dev/fb1
# Write to fbdev: DIRECT or SDL_FBDEV (old)
WRITETODISPLAY = DIRECT
# Setting find unter: Kodi : System → Settings → Services → Webserver → Allow control of Kodi via HTTP
[KODI_WEBSERVER]
# Set it to localhost or IP (192.168.2.101)
HOST = localhost
# Port of the Kodi Webserver
PORT = 8080
# Username
USER = kodi
# Password
PASS =
[COLOR]
# Color for background
BLACK = 000000
# Color for font
WHITE = FFFFFF
# Color for error message
RED = FF0000
# Color for progress bar background
GREEN = 87D31E
# Color for progress bar improvement
ORANGE = E07018The call does not work via SSH! (pygame.error: Unable to open a console terminal)
NO KODI ACCESS! The webserver of Kodi must be activated and the access settings must be correct.
To run "KodiDisplayInfo" and "Kodi" parallel at boot you must setup a startup script.
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I fix KodiDisplayInfo with python 2.7 - i have no problems with my Waveshare 4.0" SPI XPT2046 display.
very thanks for your KodiDisplayInfo python/pygame software. Work fine in recalbox and good base for my recalbox ultimate box project with spi infos screen ;)
Hi Björn, I've followed the steps you gave. The program is working and giving the correct Kodi information. However this is not shown on the little TFT Display, but in a separate python/pygame window in Ubuntu. How do I get it to be displayed on the TFT Display? Bye the way, I noticed that my sound is also no longer working. So perhaps there is a problem with the UP board kernel.
I have currently no device here to test UP-Board and Ubuntu with KodiDisplayInfo. In two weeks I can look.
Hi there. It is working fine. No matter if I define fb1 or fb2 in the config file, the display is always showing on primary display (HDMI). TFT has no picture. Could you assist with that please? Tnanks in advance.
Is it possible to run kodi on another PC than KodiDisplayInfo?
I have tried setting webserver to IP of my kodi system but it isnt connecting.
I had also tried this. On the system where Kodi ran, the firewall was the problem.
Would this offer control of Kodi if I were using an adafruit 3.5 tft with touch for things like pressing play and pause or fast forward?
No, when kodi is started, the touch function is missing on the small tft.
Is it possible to get Kodi to output to dev/fb1 instead of dev/fb0? I want to play movies on the TFT.
Hi,
I have been looking out for something like this, but my main usecase is for showing the currently playing song info while steraming music from my NAS with Kodi (17).
Does it support showing info about artist / album / song while playing music?
/ Kenneth
Do you know if the info is extractable from Kodi? I am a programmer and have used a bit of Python....
18.08.2023 13:58 - maht
Tested it with raspberry pi4, raspbian 64bit and noname 3.5 tft (waveshare type), and it still work. Nontheless, i had to struggle a bit, find out that using this line at the begining of the script :
os.putenv('SDL_VIDEODRIVER', 'fbcon')
to force use of the tft screen make it works ! (without this line, pygame opened a pygame window in raspbian.)
It might help someone.