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Solved: Taking a screenshot
4th Oct, 2016, 06:35 PM
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Taking a screenshot
I'm running Kodi 16.1 on a Raspberry Pi. I would like to be able to take a screenshot of the Kodi screen
from the CLI (i.e. an SSH session).

With XBMC on OpenELEC I could use the command "xbmc-send.py -a TakeScreenshot".

The same command on XBian silently fails. The script /usr/local/bin/xbmc-send.py exists, this sends the command
to UDP port 9777. I can see that the process kodi.bin is listening on port 9777, but as far as I can tell no screenshot is taken.

Is there a way to take a screenshot (with xbmc-send or otherwise)?

Thanks
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4th Oct, 2016, 09:16 PM
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RE: Taking a screenshot
Did you have set default screenshot folder in Kodi settings?

If not, you have to add path and filename to the command like this:

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xbmc-send.py --action="TakeScreenShot(/tmp/myscreenshot.png)"

Just tested it, works like a charm Smile
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5th Oct, 2016, 01:36 PM
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RE: Taking a screenshot
(4th Oct, 2016 09:16 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  Did you have set default screenshot folder in Kodi settings?

If not, you have to add path and filename to the command like this:

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xbmc-send.py --action="TakeScreenShot(/tmp/myscreenshot.png)"

Just tested it, works like a charm Smile


Works perfectly for me too. Problem solved, thanks for your help
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