I have never got the script working with perfect synchronization of all connected players. Sometimes they worked and most of the time one or two lost part of the sound. Probably due to a not so good WIFI connection. So what I do now is call the script multiple times, for each player once. That works ...

Here you go. Use it at your own risk. #!/usr/bin/perl # Plays a text-to-speech (TTS) alert on a Squeezebox, temporarily interrupting any music that's playing and then restoring # An optional pre-chime doodle is played to first get our attention # THIS VERSION ASSEMBLES/DISASSEMBLES TEMPORARY ...

Well, if somebody can use this, feel free to contact me.
This is more a 'hack' then probably good Perl programming.
And as such maybe not suitable as a public example, without a review.

Got it working. Before the rest of the code in the sub, I test which players are seen (and connected!) by LMS with <serverstatus>. Those players go into a new array @players2, which is then used by the rest of the sub. To prevent a further crash of the script it's also needed to check if a player ...

Do you know if there is a way to 'catch' this error in Perl?
Now it just exits the script with an error in the shell.
I mean, the errors which break the script like <serverstatus> or <connected> when the player is forgotten.

First of all, thank you for the scripts! They are excellent examples to work from. I use them with Domoticz to play announcements in the house for certain events. Like door bell, garage door opens/closes, etc. Very useful. I thought I had a solution with the <playerid> connected ? command. This ...

Thanks for the pointer, I can work with that.

Are the RPC commands available the same as explained in the LMS webpages technical information -> Command Line Interface?

Thanks for your reply. I can't change the fact that some of the players I have will be switched off at some moment in time. What would be ideal is to test the @players array first for which players are online according to LMS. Then (re)fill the @players array with the switched-on players and then ...

Hi, I use the second variant (sync groups ) of the Perl script on: https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server Had to use the JSON Legacy Client version. LMS is running at a different machine then Domoticz. Everything works ok, except when I switch one of 3 squeezebox players I use, to off ...

Ah, I understand now.
Changed the option to 'device' and that fixed it. No more errors in the log.
Thanks!

Thanks for your reaction. That's the funny thing. The error is seen every minute in the log, but the script only runs when the Door bell (Deurbelknop_achter) is pushed. The second device (Silence) is a 'normal' toggle switch in Domoticz, which prevents the os.execute script to run at times when ...

Lua newbie here. The script works but generates every minute an error in the log. Not sure why. This error: 2022-01-20 18:45:00.931 Error: EventSystem: in Achterdeurbel_trigger: [string "-- ..."]:8: attempt to index a nil value (global 'devicechanged') Is generated bij this script: -- -- Script ...