Play a Playlist m3u in Crontab

Quote from Roberto

Hi,

my name in Roberto and I try simply to start a playlist.m3u whith contab but I don't know the name of standard player of Libreelec (no Vlc or other)

I need to play a playlist every one minute.

Now I am using Cron XMBC

*/1 * * * * (command to play???) myplaylist.m3u

Can you help me?

Thanks

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kodi-send --action='PlayMedia("/storage/.kodi/userdata/playlists/music/myplaylist.m3u")'

Installing Milhouse Texture Cache Maintenance Utility may assist you in achieving what you wish to perform via crontab.

In addition to its primary role, utility has a number of very useful options such as:-

• exec - Execute specified addon, with optional parameters
• play - Play specified item (local file, playlist, internet stream etc)

As you query was interesting to me I looked for and found suggestion to use utilty, from this old thread post in Kodi forum.

(not tried it myself, but sounds like it should work)

Roberto

Libreelec has cron builtin..you don't really need cronxbmc..

Just tested this and it works fine for what you need..

Play playlist every minute:

* * * * * kodi-send --action='PlayMedia("/storage/.kodi/userdata/playlists/music/yourplaylist.m3u")'

Quote from Roberto

Thanks work now. Wonderful!!!

Is there a method to check if playlist is playing to avoid to run again and again my playlist ? (in cronjob of course)

Sorry for my stupid questions

Thanks again for your support.

maybe try autoexec.py

import xbmc

xbmc.executebuiltin( "PlayMedia(/storage/.kodi/userdata/playlists/music/yourplaylist.m3u)" )

xbmc.executebuiltin( "PlayerControl(repeat)" )