Restart Kodi from kodi

eg.wdtv · January 1, 2018 at 2:48 PM

Hello,

I know that to restart kodi from ssh, you have to use following command :

systemctl restart kodi

I would like to be able to trigger such a command from kodi but I did not manage to do it.

Python script :

import xbmc, xbmcgui

xbmc.executebuiltin('System.Exec(systemctl restart kodi)')

=> It does not work

And .sh file is :

systemctl restart kodi

It does not work neither.

Does anyone know how to make it work?

**vpeter** · January 1, 2018 at 3:31 PM

Try putting restart command

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systemctl restart kodi

in some shell script (for example /storage/restart_kodi.sh)

and then restart kodi from kodi itself with command

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systemd-run /storage/restart_kodi.sh

Maybe there is some better solution.

In keyboard.xml it needs to be used like

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<some_key>System.Exec("systemd-run,/storage/restart_kodi.sh")</some_key>

**zomboided** · January 1, 2018 at 4:26 PM

i suspect you're trying to restart as the kodi instance is stopping. I see the same behaviour if I kill kodi and quickly restart it.

Maybe fork a script that waits for the kodi process to finish and then restarts it?

eg.wdtv · January 2, 2018 at 8:25 PM

vpeter : it seems to work like that, thank you

I created restart_kodi.py that call shell script

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import xbmc, xbmcgui
xbmc.executebuiltin('System.Exec(systemd-run /storage/restart_kodi.sh)')

And trigger it from a key configured in