Youtube live stream as alarm clock

Hey guys,

I just started using Kodi with LibreELCE, so sorry for stupid questions in advance.

I would like to set up Kodi in that way, that it autostarts with a youtube stream. I was able to install youtube addon. However, I'm not able to set the autostart procedure, which is described in the wiki (Autoexec Service - Official Kodi Wiki). First problem: I don't know how to create the files on kodi or transfer them to the right place. When I put the SD card in my Windows notebook, I don't have access to the folders I need.

Would be very happy if you can give me some advice.

Cheers,

OnkelHo

PS: Any other ideas to realize the project easier are very welcome!

Quote from Mario77

You need to ssh t your libreelec box..use something like Winscp for windows..

For your youtube video to start as alarm make a small script and run with cron..

something like this works fine..

Code

kodi-send --action="SetVolume(100)" # set desired volume 100 = 100%
kodi-send --action="PlayMedia(plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=your_youtube_video_id)"

Thanks, that was very helpful!

I managed to set up SSH.

Autoexec is out of date as I tried and read.

Thus, I created a python script containing your code (with set video ID) and uploaded it as "autoexec.py" in the userdata folder. This doesn't seem to work. So what is the mistake?

Furthermore, as I want to adjust volume after some time as well as brightness, is there a reference manual or tutorial where commands are collected and explained?

Thanks a lot!!!

That helped a lot!

• Yes, its a RPI
• I changed my plan of an alarm clock, but use a wifi socket to enable the power for my RPI. So finally I need to start the process after boot.
• I created the shell file and tried it --> works perfectly
• However, CRON works only after I restart it manually via SSH. Otherwise I get an error message regarding a time disparity:
• 
  ● cron.service - Cron daemon
  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cron.service; disabled; vendor preset Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-04-11 18:28:53 CEST; 2 years 2 months Process: 226 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /storage/.cache/cron/crontabs (code=ex Main PID: 230 (crond) Memory: 204.0K CGroup: /system.slice/cron.service └─230 /sbin/crond -f -S
  Apr 11 18:28:52 XXX systemd[1]: Starting Cron daemon...
  Apr 11 18:28:53 XXX systemd[1]: Started Cron daemon.
  Jul 10 23:01:51 XXX crond[230]: time disparity of 1182512 minutes det
  
  So at the moment the command @reboot bash /storage/Test.sh doesn't work, whereas when I restart CRON e.g. the code 0 0 * * * bash /storage/Test.sh works properly. I found a post SOLVED cron won't work which describes the same problem, but I wasn't able to figure out how to solve the problem... May you help one more time?

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Are you trying to make the script start at boot instead of alarm/cron?

Yes, after boot instead alarm. But why/how instead of cron? I thount using @reboot at the beginn of an cron command is doing exactly this or is there another way?

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systemctl restart cron

That works, but the crucial point is that I don't want to SSH on reboot as I want to wake up on reboot by livestream.

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adding cron timers to /storage/.cache/cron/crontabs/root

In this file there is the command @reboot /storage/Test.sh. But this command isn't executing (probably because of the time disparity)...

Quote from mglae

LibreELEC is using BusyBox's crond and feature FEATURE_CROND_SPECIAL_TIMES is not enabled.

That seems plausible. But how can I enable (install) it?

Quote from mglae

You have to build your own image.

But to prevent any races you should avoid timers and use autoexec.py for LE 9.2/Kodi 18 or the autoexec service you linked in the first post for LE 9.8/Kodi 19.

autoexec.py is not working. I tried:

import xbmc

xbmc.executebuiltin('RunScript("/storage/Fernsehwecker.sh")')

and safed the file in the userdata folder.

Also trying to execute the script via SSH gives an Error:

ImportError: No module named xbmc

I really just need a simple solution

Quote from mglae

So you are using LE 9.2?

RunScript() is to execute Python scripts from kodi, see List of built-in functions - Official Kodi Wiki

Use xbmc.executebuiltin('System.Exec(/storage/Fernsehwecker.sh)')

That work's! Woho! mglae and Mario77 thanks so much!

The only strange thing is that it only works if Debug-logging is turned on?!

Sooooo the addon is (after following the instructions, zip, edit install) not working. I don't see any reaction on startup. However, writing commands directly in the python autoexec.py works fine.

Only the connectivity problem persists. I changed "Wait for Network" to 120, but it sometimes still doesn't connect. If I reboot, everything works fine. So I thougt it is a good idea to check via python if network connection is established and if not --> reboot. Any idea how to check that via python?