Logitech Media Server

[philchillbill]

It shouldn't restart the song but should continue from the time index that was playing (it's deliberately saved). Do the line-endings in your script match your operating system? They can be <CR>, <LF> or both. I had this issue myself at some stage while testing the script but forget how I resolved it in the end and what was causing it. It was related to the noplay:0 and noplay:1 somehow. What version of LMS are you running?

[freakshock]

I just started using LMS.
I added it to Domoticz succesfully and am able to power player (chromecast) on/off and pause playing via blockly.
The remote in the Domoticz GUI however does not work and looks like this:

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I tried updating my domoticz but that does not help. I'm on version 3.8434 right now.
Does anyone know how to solve this?

[philchillbill]

I've updated the alerts-playing perl script in the LMS wiki entry to auto-delete the temporary playlist and to play a pre-chime sound before the actual audio message is played. The overall code is tidier now also.

https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Logitech_ ... ox_Players

[philchillbill]

I've added a new section to the LMS wiki about reading out the internal light-sensor in the SB Radio and SB Touch with Domoticz. You can find it here:

https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Logitech_ ... d_SB-Touch

[chatainsim]

I just started using LMS.
I added it to Domoticz succesfully and am able to power player (chromecast) on/off and pause playing via blockly.
The remote in the Domoticz GUI however does not work and looks like this:
domremotegray.jpg
I tried updating my domoticz but that does not help. I'm on version 3.8434 right now.
Does anyone know how to solve this?

I have the same issue.

[DutchHans]

Me too...

[gijsje]

Me 3
Any solution for an empty remote??

[kllngtme]

I've added a new section to the LMS wiki about reading out the internal light-sensor in the SB Radio and SB Touch with Domoticz. You can find it here:

https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Logitech_ ... d_SB-Touch

Nicely done!

[MsbS]

Me 3
Any solution for an empty remote??

Same here, Win10 Firefox, but I noticed the buttons appear correctly when you hover over them (then disappear again).

[capman]

For anybody interested in playing alert sounds or TTS messages from Domoticz on a Squeezebox, I've edited the wiki and added a section with a working perl script to do this. Enjoy !

https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Logitech_ ... ox_Players

How can I install this with domoticz running on my synology ? Perl is also installed. It's like I can't install the perl modules with 'cpan'.

[EdwinK]

Since some time I notice that the Logitech Media Server is shown as disconnected on the domoticz tiles. I don't get any song titles or anything at all. When I'm using the Dashticz frontpage, the mediaplayer is shown, and can be used to stop/play/forward music, but still not titles are shown.

When looking at the 'current states':

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Time and date seems to update.

[philchillbill]

How can I install this with domoticz running on my synology ? Perl is also installed. It's like I can't install the perl modules with 'cpan'.

CPAN on Synology is not easy to configure. I love my Synology (and have a big and fast one), but it's not a great machine to play on because its BusyBox Linux is pretty lame. That's why I run my Domoticz on a NUC under Ubuntu where I have much more flexibility. So sorry, I can't help you on that.

[kllngtme]

Logitech is working fine from Domoticz.

I am trying to control my players from blockly, On, Off, is working fine. But playing a playlist or setting a volume level is not working.
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What should I change?

Did you end up figuring this out? I'm trying to setup a blockly event to play a playlist as well but can't get it going.

[havnegata]

Logitech is working fine from Domoticz.

I am trying to control my players from blockly, On, Off, is working fine. But playing a playlist or setting a volume level is not working.
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What should I change?

Did you end up figuring this out? I'm trying to setup a blockly event to play a playlist as well but can't get it going.

I am not sure, but setting volume I think you need LUA for, but playing playlists you should use:

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This is the url:
http://192.168.1.107:9000/status.html?p ... 2.168.1.15
The first ip-address and port is for your LMS. My playlist is named "test" and yhe last ip-address is for your Squeezebox

This is my LUA for setting volume. It pretty much does the same as the blockly apart from the volume-thing:

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commandArray = {}

time = os.date("*t")
--mellom kl 05 og 10
if (time.hour >= 5) or (time.hour <= 11) then
if ((otherdevices['JUL'] == 'On') and (otherdevices['Squeezebox Radio'] ~= 'On') and (uservariables ['Squeezebox'] == 0) and (devicechanged['StueNord_bevegelse'] == 'Motion')) then
print('Det er julaften!')
commandArray[1]={['Squeezebox Radio']='On'}
print('Radioen er påslått')
commandArray[2]={['OpenURL']='http://192.168.1.107:9000/status.html?p0=playlist&p1=play&p2=jul2&p3=192.168.1.15'}
print('Radioen spiller')
--commandArray[3]={['Squeezebox Radio']='Play'}
commandArray[4]={['Squeezebox Radio']='Set Volume 75'}
print('Høyere volum')
commandArray[5]={['Variable:Squeezebox']='1 AFTER 5'}
end
elseif (devicechanged['SomeoneHome'] == 'Off') then
commandArray['Variable:Squeezebox']='0 AFTER 20'
end

return commandArray

I'm no coder so the elseif part is not working, but playing the playlist works!

[havnegata]

* Added state 'Disconnected' when device (or App) is unavailable

This is a great plugin for Domoticz, thank you! I have a situation where a couple of my players get disconnected from LMS and the only way to connect them again to LMS is to power cycle them. I'd like to automate this process with the help of Domoticz and power switches. However, if I look at Blocky, the status of the disconnected player is shown as "Stopped". Do I need to / can I use Lua instead to act on only disconnected players? Having never done anything with Lua, any pointers on where to start? Thanks again!

edit: that was easy enough (not sure how elegant the solution but it works )

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commandArray = {}
if (devicechanged['Squeezebox Radio'] == 'Disconnected') then
        print('Squeezebox Radio detected as disconnected - power cycling')
        os.execute('/home/pi/domoticz/scripts/[script to set "SB Radio Power" off via Telldus Live]')
        commandArray['SB Radio Power'] = 'On'
end
return commandArray

I've set on delay of 20 seconds for "SB Radio Power" so it does not turn it back on immeadiately after, I guess even a few seconds would be enough. Furthermore I assumed I cannot execute both Off and On for the same device in same command array, thus calling the script directly first.

@Nautilus, Would you care to share the script for turning the radio off? I have the same problem

[Nautilus]

@Nautilus, Would you care to share the script for turning the radio off? I have the same problem

Hi,

the "script" I was pointing to in the text you quoted was for my 433Mhz power plug that at the time I was controlling via Tellstick Net. So that part was to switch the power of completely, not just turn it off. Since then I've gotten RFLink so I can control the plugs directly from Domoticz and also improved the network at our home so actually I don't suffer from the disconnect problems anymore.

But if you clarify a bit more what it is that you want to achieve (as I guess it is not about controlling 433Mhz plugs via Tellstick Net? ) I can try to help...

[philchillbill]

You can turn off a player via a HTTP command using this syntax:

http://192.168.1.1:9000/status.html?p0= ... 0:18:e8:3c

power_on /power_toggle will also work in place of power_off.

However, Logitech recommends using the JSON RPC construct instead of HTTP. You can look at the wiki on LMS at my entry on playing alerts to see how this can be done from perl. Should be trivial to rewrite to Lua or Bash.

[havnegata]

You can turn off a player via a HTTP command using this syntax:

http://192.168.1.1:9000/status.html?p0= ... 0:18:e8:3c

power_on /power_toggle will also work in place of power_off.

However, Logitech recommends using the JSON RPC construct instead of HTTP. You can look at the wiki on LMS at my entry on playing alerts to see how this can be done from perl. Should be trivial to rewrite to Lua or Bash.

Thanks!

[Nautilus]

You can turn off a player via a HTTP command using this syntax:

http://192.168.1.1:9000/status.html?p0= ... 0:18:e8:3c

power_on /power_toggle will also work in place of power_off.

However, Logitech recommends using the JSON RPC construct instead of HTTP. You can look at the wiki on LMS at my entry on playing alerts to see how this can be done from perl. Should be trivial to rewrite to Lua or Bash.

Thanks!

A good overview of the http api for LMS: http://tutoriels.domotique-store.fr/con ... -http.html

[havnegata]

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However, Logitech recommends using the JSON RPC construct instead of HTTP. You can look at the wiki on LMS at my entry on playing alerts to see how this can be done from perl. Should be trivial to rewrite to Lua or Bash.

No coder, but trying to read your perl script, is this portion related to rebooting my Squeezebox somehow?:

sub checkOnOffline {
my ($idx, $checkfor)=@_;
$ua=LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->timeout(5);
$retrieve=$ua->get($url{domo}.'/json.htm?type=devices&rid='.$idx);
$res=$retrieve->decoded_content;
if ($retrieve->is_success) { $jres = decode_json $res } else { warn "checkOnOffline: ", $retrieve->status_line };
$state=$$jres{result}[0]->{Status}; # 'On', 'Off', 'Open', 'Closed', 'Disconnected' etc
if ($state=~m/\b$checkfor\b/) { $status=1 } else { $status=0 };
return $status;
}

sub squeezeAlert {
my ($player, $prechime, $tts)=@_;
$client=new JSON::RPC::Client;
$playerid=$players{$player}{mac}; $idx=$players{$player}{idx};
$offline=&checkOnOffline($idx, 'Disconnected'); if ($offline) { return };
&logMessage("SQUEEZEALERT: played alert '$tts' on player $player");
# Get current player state so it can be restored when alert is finished
$res = $client->call( $url{lms}, { method => 'slim.request', params => [ $playerid, ['power', '?'] ] });
if ($res->is_error) { warn "squeezeAlert:", $client->status_line; return };
$jres = $res->jsontext; $jdata=decode_json $jres; $power=$$jdata{result}{_power};