I am using AirPlay bridge for a while now and replaced all my squeezelite based players for Airplay devices. This works really well so thanks for this great plugin.
Recently I started a hunt for devices in my house that use significant power on standby to reduce our total idle usage. Some of my airplay players are among the devices that use quiet a lot, and I did the following to mitigate this: - connected the power of the device to a on/off plug that is controlled by home automation (homeseer with your plugin). - In the Airplaybridge plugin I changed the "remove timeout" of those devices to -1 to make sure that the devices stay present in LMS even when they are cut off from power. - Configured an event in Homeseer to turn on the power switch when the device starts playing in LMS. - Configured an event in Homeseer to turn off the power switch when the device is turned off in LMS. This al works well, except for the fact that when I start playing trough LMS the device wont start playing when its physical startup process is completed. (In LMS it looks like it is playing but there is no sound) I found that the best way to "repair" this is leave it alone until the device is fully started and then press the previous or next button in the LMS interface. This is something that I could cope with but not the rest of my family ;) With this knowledge I changed the powerup event in my home automation software to execute the "previous" action on the LMS player 20 seconds after the powerup, but for some reason this is not the same as pressing "previous" in the webinterface and doesn't fix the playback. Now my question is what is the best route to proceed: - Is there a way to configure Airplay Bridge to "selfheal" this situation restoring playback without the need to intervene with "previos" or "next" commands? - Or is this not possible and should I proceed trying to initiate these commands trough my home automation? thanks again, Martijn. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Martinisoft's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63092 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105198 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
