KODI RPC : Remotely Update Video Library

Here is a simple way to remotely start the Kodi's Video library update process
Of course, you can use the web interface to do so
If you don't want to open any program, you can create a script that will call the JSON RPC of Kodi

For Linux and Mac client systems :

#!/bin/bash

## Configure your XBMC RPC details here

XBMC_HOST=192.168.1.50

XBMC_PORT=8080

XBMC_USER=osmc

XBMC_PASS=osmc

function xbmc_req {

curl -s -i -X POST --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d "$1" http://$XBMC_USER:$XBMC_PASS@$XBMC_HOST:$XBMC_PORT/jsonrpc

}

# Scan

xbmc_req '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.Scan" ,"id": "mybash"}';

echo "

";