anyone fluent in Kodi JSON RPC API?

[snagglewest]

I know this is a bit outside the NextPVR realm, but I'm hoping some of you smart folks who are fluent in Kodi might be able to help me out.

I'm running Kodi 17.5 and found a neat little addon script which when triggered opens a small overly of a security camera and then closes it after a set period of time. The script works great, but it needs to be triggered from a JSON RPC API command to kodi from an external source. My security camera system has the capability of executing a command on motion detection and which works, but the only way I've found to trigger it is with a http command.

Code:

http://192.168.1.20:8081/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Addons.ExecuteAddon","params":{"addonid":"script.securitycam"},"id":"1"}}

It works, but the drawback is it opens a browser session every time the VSR triggers it. So that led me down the path of looking for a cleaner solution which brought me to curl...

I've googled for hours and spent the better part of the last 2 evenings trying to get this to work to no avail. Here's the curl command I've come up with but it kicks an error. It's somewhere in the parameter string I think (note the id:null should be a 1). I've tried every conceivable combination of quotes, double quotes, no quotes, single quotes to no avail... for the life of me I can't figure it out.

Code:

C:\PROGRA~1\curl\bin\curl.exe -s -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Addons.ExecuteAddon","params":{"addonid":"script.securitycam"},"id":1}}' http://192.168.1.20:8081/jsonrpc

Code:

{"error":{"code":-32700,"message":"Parse error."},"id":null,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}

I'm guessing it's something simple, but I'm to the point of admitting defeat. I'm way outside of my knowledge zone and I'm in desperate need of some help, anyone got any ideas? Just thinking out loud as I typing this, maybe I'm on the wrong track? I'm not married to curl, if ther's another way to reach the same goal I'm all ears!

[jcole998]

FWIW, but I believe that the final curly-brace is not paired and should be dropped. Also the 1 in "id":1 should be quoted: "id":"1".

Hope this helps.

[snagglewest]

Just to close the loop on this and maybe help someone else who stumbles onto this post, I finally got it working. It seems curl, at least the windows version, is really picky in the http formatting. Encoding the url is the secret which made everything work.

Code:

curl -g 192.168.1.20:8081/jsonrpc?request=%7B%22jsonrpc%22%3A%222.0%22%2C%22method%22%3A%22Addons.ExecuteAddon%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22addonid%22%3A%22script.securitycam%22%7D%2C%22id%22%3A1%7D

[mvallevand]

Are you sure it is curl? You might need to escape the quotes with a ^ in any command line.

Martin

[snagglewest]

You may be right Martin, but at least encoding the url worked. At this point I'm just happy to get it working!