Last Updated or created 2024-02-29

Below is a solution when you want to stream IP camera’s in Kodi/Libreelec .

You can push these commands using Nodered, Bash script or whatever.

First make some camera scripts in your profile directory.

Examples:

# Kodi on Linux/Raspberry
# Place a file cam1.m3u in .kodi/userdata/profiles/(kodiprofile)/playlists/video/
rtsp://admin:secretpass@192.168.1.123:88/videoMain

#and another one in cam2.m3u (another example mjpeg example)
http://192.168.1.124:8000/stream.mjpg

#For windows it is in
C:\Users\(Username)\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\profiles\(kodiprofile)\playlists\video

Enable http access in Kodi and run the playlist using curl

curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.Open","params":{"options":{"shuffled":false,"repeat":"off"},"item":{"file":"special://profile/playlists/video/cam2.m3u"}},"id":"1"}' http://KODISERVERIP:8080/jsonrpc

A bash loop script

while true; do
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.Open","params":{"options":{"shuffled":false,"repeat":"off"},"item":{"file":"special://profile/playlists/video/cam1.m3u"}},"id":"1"}' http://KODISERVERIP:8080/jsonrpc
sleep 10
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"Player.Open","params":{"options":{"shuffled":false,"repeat":"off"},"item":{"file":"special://profile/playlists/video/cam2.m3u"}},"id":"1"}' http://KODISERVERIP:8080/jsonrpc
sleep 5
done