Kodi - Auto update/clean libraries

[manne]

Hi

Is there a way to auto update the library every x hours or every day?
Today I have to manually update the library through the menu.

I want a way to clean and update the library every xx hours or xx days.

I'm running the lastest Kodi on Raspberry Pi2 (Jessie)

Regards
Manne

[manne]

I found this:
https://superrepo.org/kodi/addon/service...utoupdate/

Will check it out later and report.

Also found that you could rund cron job/watchdog but many people had some troubles with it.

[Mike]

I am pretty sure updating and cleaning are separate functions. I know you can update the library if you have the Kodi web server enabled (I have a python script for it somewhere). Cleaning is a more thorough function that removes files from the database that are no longer there.

Python would probably the be easiest way to do this 

executebuiltin(CleanLibrary(database))

http://kodi.wiki/view/List_of_Built_In_Functions

http://mirrors.kodi.tv/docs/python-docs/.../xbmc.html

Here is a sample, make sure to pip install simplejson

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
#HTPCGuides.com script to clean library
settings = {
   'hostname': '127.0.0.1',
   'port': '99',
   'username': 'HTPCGuides',
   'password': 'password'
}

http_address = 'http://%s:%s/jsonrpc' % (settings['hostname'], settings['port'])
username = settings['username']
password = settings['password']

try:
   import json
except ImportError:
   import simplejson as json
import urllib2, base64

class XBMCJSON:

   def __init__(self, server):
       self.server = server
       self.version = '2.0'

   def __call__(self, **kwargs):
       method = '.'.join(map(str, self.n))
       self.n = []
       return XBMCJSON.__dict__['Request'](self, method, kwargs)

   def __getattr__(self,name):
       if not self.__dict__.has_key('n'):
           self.n=[]
       self.n.append(name)
       return self

   def Request(self, method, kwargs):
       data = [{}]
       data[0]['method'] = method
       data[0]['params'] = kwargs
       data[0]['jsonrpc'] = self.version
       data[0]['id'] = 1

       data = json.JSONEncoder().encode(data)
       content_length = len(data)

       content = {
           'Content-Type': 'application/json',
           'Content-Length': content_length,
       }
 
       request = urllib2.Request(self.server, data, content)
       base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password)).replace('\n', '')
       request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)

       f = urllib2.urlopen(request)
       response = f.read()
       f.close()
       response = json.JSONDecoder().decode(response)

       try:
           return response[0]['result']
       except:
           return response[0]['error']


xbmc = XBMCJSON(http_address)
xbmc.executebuiltin(CleanLibrary(database))

[lorddark462]

I use this addon for auto update and auto clean.

http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:XBMC_Library_Auto_Update

[manne]

(Nov 02, 2015, 05:59 PM)lorddark462 Wrote: I use this addon for auto update and auto clean.

http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:XBMC_Library_Auto_Update

Thanks, just installed it and configured it to clean the library every 6h on refresh.
Will see how it does the job.

[Yveske]

With XBMC Library Auto Update you can also add a cron job so you can have it run when you are not using your media center. Mine always start once a day at 18.00 h because then I'm not using my htpc for sure.
You could also use Yatse or Kore on android, there it's just one tap in the menu.

[manne]

(Dec 23, 2015, 04:03 PM)Yveske Wrote: With XBMC Library Auto Update you can also add a cron job so you can have it run when you are not using your media center. Mine always start once a day at 18.00 h because then I'm not using my htpc for sure.
You could also use Yatse or Kore on android, there it's just one tap in the menu.

I'm using it and one called Watchdog Auto update library. Works good as far as I can see.

[Yveske]

I used to use Watchdog as well but replaced it by letting Sonarr and CouchPotato connect to Kodi and start an update after downloading something.

[Mike]

@Yveske this is what I do too and it seems much faster for updating. Depending on how often you delete items from your collection or add hard drives/change locations cleaning regularly can be a good idea.

[manne]

Sonarr or couchpotato doesn't update kodi. It's kodi who looks at the library and updates. The two add-ons for kodi does the job for me. When I remove a file from my collection the add-ons in kodi removes the file from the library collection.

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