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https://apps.athom.com/app/uk.co.icefusion.squeezebox
@RobinVanKekem ;
If you need anyone for testing new versions of the app, I volunteer.....I am able to install from github.
keep up the good work.
Gr. Remco
Any new on supporting Squeezebox as an audio output for Homey media?
If I can help in anyway, please let me know.
Squeezebox as a Homey Media player would be more then great. Iam not very fond of relacing all my players at home bij Sonos........
Gr. Remco
https://forum.athom.com/discussion/comment/691/#Comment_691
I see I can start/stop a playlist, start/pause squeezebox/control volume with your app. That's nice, but I want to do more. I use Squeezebox for internet radio and also connected it to Spotify.
1) Is it possible via this app to control these?
2)And is there active development on this app to include more features? When can we expect these?
Thx!
Can the Squeezebox be added to Homey Music?
Until then: no.
I tried to connect my squeezebox radio but it failed sofar.
probably doing something wrong.
Any suggestion will be appreciated
Haven't worked on this for ages. Feel bad, but time is so short. I'd love to get back to it as I still want it for myself too! In the meantime, let's see if we can get you running with what's currently there.
Question One - is this a Squeezebox Radio that connects to Logitech Media Server as I know they released another version that didn't use LMS. If it's that one, it won't be supported I'm afraid. The IP address you enter needs to be the IP of an LMS server, not the Squeezebox Radio. Not sure if we even could support it without an LMS server - maybe it might be possible when we get to integrate with Homey Music...
Mark.
you were right the IP address is of the provider. The squeezebox radio is connected to the LMS on my iMac.
The app does still work (though I am painfully aware I need to commit some time to improving the functionality it offers). You've also commented on github as an issue so I'll troubleshoot with you there to get you up and running.
Mark.
Now my next question is.
How do I use it? I can see in the discussion that I can start and stop music. I am aware it cannot do much yet but stopping the music with an Alexa voice command is OK for me. It will never be able to voice recognize and seach in my 2000 albums. Start, pause, volume. That is quite OK.
But how?
"Alexa, ask Homey to ......???"
What are the available commands?
Could the function to "stop" play be added with flow cards?
Today i can only "Pause" with a flow, my problem is that when someone press the same button (that activete the flow) it starts playing again.
Yes I should be able to add that for you (as it's a smaller feature) if you think it will be useful. I'd quite like to add "stop all" too, along with next and previous track.
I'll try and put some time into it soon.
Mark.
WHEN Microphone > Something was said containing "pause squeezeboxes" THEN Squeezebox pause card
Some default voice commands would definitely be a worthwhile addition to avoid needing to create a flow for every Squeezebox action.
However if you just want "Alexa, ask homey to pause squeezeboxes" then you should be able to create a flow to achieve that. You can also use the playlist card to have homey play music on the squeezebox as a morning alarm for example, or in response to a "party playlist" command or whatever it might be. I can give you some more guidance if you need it?
First I really appreciate your positive attention and I am deeply thankful.
I went and did exactly as you suggest. But then I run into issue that has nothing to do with your App. But I hope you or others can help anyway.
Anything I try to add in the Microphone card giving be a problem because I use words like Play, Stop, and Pause. There is a little triangle with an exclamation mark that says "Warning, This interferes with an existing speech command."
I have been playing a little with Flow. And it seems that any sensible normal command word in the English language cannot be used. This cannot be right. I must be doing something wrong.
But then I noticed a thing. It seems that the API that pauses the Squeezebox is a toggle. If you ask it to pause when already paused it starts.
So here is my simple advice for those that want to use the app for simple start and stop (like when the phone rings and you want to pause the music).
Make flow. Give it any name
As a Trigger select the Microphone and pick the card Something was said containing...
As test use the word "Squeeze"
And in the THEN column drag a Squeezebox item to it and pick the Pause Card.
If you want a nice noice answer sent to Alexa finally drag a Voice item to the THEN column, pick "Say Something" card and enter "Squeezebox is squeezing".
It seems those words are easy for Alexa to understand. And it is easy to remember the command because it has a certain humor to it. Squeezebox is squeezing ;-)
I hope this posting can help a newbie like me.
And thanks again mtudor for your kind support. It is rare to get such kind response on a geek dominated forum. You are outstanding. New rating with be posted.
Thanks for the thanks, I do appreciate it! Life is busy so I don't get as much time as I would like to spend on side-projects but knowing there's someone else using the app will hopefully motivate me to get back to it!
I think the message you are getting is probably because Homey Music will be using those keywords. It shouldn't mean anything other than you might get Homey doing two things in response to your command if you have Homey Music configured. Hopefully if I can figure out how to integrate HomeySqueezebox with Homey Music it might help with that problem though.
I'd recommend using a longer command like "Pause squeeze box" rather than just "Pause" as voice recognition tends to work better with longer phrases. Also note that I put a space between "squeeze" and "box" as those are the common words it will probably get from your command. You might find this page useful, which lets you both type speech commands AND see what Homey thinks you said: http://<your homey ip>/manager/speech-input/.
Given that @KennethLavrsen and @deedje both would like a non-toggling stop command I will see if I can get that done for you both... I like the idea of the ability to pause on phone calls
Mark.
I just want to say I'm also still very interested in getting my Squeezebox as standard for Homey Music. I think there are still quite a few people around having the Logitech Media server running and would like this to happen some time.
Hope you will find the time.
Marius
For those who may not be aware, the LMS 'spotty' Spotify plugin supports Spotify connect, there's a DLNA plugin which works great, and I think even airplay now works properly. Check out the latest at http://downloads.slimdevices.com.
That said, the squeezebox touch can potentially do even more than that, it can for instance be used as a Homey dashboard to control devices and display messages. The Domoticz plugin is capable of doing this, see http://domoticzcontrol.e-monsite.com/ (perl code).
Other interesting nodejs squeezebox github repo's:
https://github.com/piotrraczynski/squeezenode (with Spotify/Soundcloud integration)
https://github.com/legrosmanu/rest-api-squeezebox
Lots of possibilities. I have a couple of apps I need to update to SDK2 first, but food for thought in the meantime :-)