As the title may not so clearly explain, When a user logs out (to the login screen) the WebServer service stops, which breaks the connection to the official iOS remote (the remote me & my famailys familys use)
this issue does not affect android users to my knowlegde because as joethefox said
Quote:the different between the two is that the android remote is using the event server for the remote part while the ios app is using the json-rpc api. There are two candidate solutions: the ios app switches from json to the event server for the remote control, or something should be done on XBMC side to allow json calls during this task.
I would like to see either:
- Kodi add support for a system wide WebServer Setting/Enabling
- Kodi iOS Remote switched to Event Server
& as a bonus - Kodi iOS Remote add a profiles screen & intelligent Library Updating (on the iOS app) so when a user logs in they do not need to refresh each category. (eg. scrolling to the top of TV Shows) & when a user logs out the app shows no librarys.
I have been struggling to use Kodi with profiles & iOS Remote this way for years, as most searches will show people searching for a solution since at least 2013/12.
I have tried enabling the webserver via the advancedsettings.xml hoping that it would enable it at the login screen but with no luck.
Any time i or someone else accidentally logs out i have to reboot Kodi, or in most of my cases the Raspberry Pi.
I Currently use Kodi with 3 users throughout the house with the help of Emby Syncing everything. Emby has an option to update when no users are logged on, which in my situation, is never. Therefore i have an emby add-on set to reboot it every night (potentially interrupting my viewing).
On every Kodi install in my house i currently have to:
- Use the “Kodi Callbacks” Add-on for each user to “ActivateWindow(loginscreen)” (or soething along those lines) after an idle timeout. That way i keep the connection with iOS Remote.
- Have Kodi Auto-login with my account at startup & Kodi Callbacks opens the login screen once it starts up (but unfortunately my library stays selectable from the iOS Remote app.)
- Set a Shortcut in the iOS Remote app to “Activate a specific window” to go to the “loginscreen”, so i dont need to wait for the timeout if i want to switch users.
- Go to each library on the iOS Remote & scroll up to refresh every time i switch users.
- Set different colors on each users interface (Kodi 17b1) so i know who is logged in when shown the login screen (so people don’t play media using the wrong profile)
This is really tedious & feels so hacky for something that i feel should have been built into kodi/iOS for years.
This is an amazing piece of software that ive been using since the “Xbox Media Center” days, but unfortunately it seems that if your primarily an iOS user (theres a lot of us!) then your SOL.
tags: logout logoff log off disconnect disconnected disconnecting profile web server apple iphone ipad ipod touch control