Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
cliveb wrote:
> OK, making progress. I decided that all I really needed to do was switch
> the Meridian 218 on & off with the Squeezebox player,
Here's some code from my DenonSerial plugin that I think should help:
Code:
# outside/before initPlugin() is where I usually put this:
$serverPrefs = preferences('server');
# inside initPlugin() register to have your code run any time the power
status changes for any player:
$serverPrefs->setChange(\&powerChange, 'power');
# inside initPlugin you might also want to tell LMS to run some code when a
new player connects (after player reset, network disruption, etc):
Slim::Control::Request::subscribe( \&newPlayerCheck, [['client']],[['new']]);
# after initPlugin() define the powerChange() function
sub powerChange {
my ($pref, $val, $client) = @_;
my $id = $client->id(); # client ID, e.g. MAC address if normal Squeezbox;
use this to decide what to do / if you care
#$val will be 1 if the player just turned on, 0 if it just turned off
# do your work
}
# after initPlugin() define newPlayerCheck():
sub newPlayerCheck {
my $request = shift;
my $client = $request->client();
my $id = $client->id(); # client ID, e.g. MAC address if normal Squeezbox;
use this to decide what to do / if you care
#etc
}
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Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
Sorry to be late to the party, but if this plug-in is only for your own use in your setup, it might be easier to just ssh into the SBR and run a shell script on it on a cron schedule to turn your amp on/off together with the player. See my post from a few years ago on the Domoticz forum. It reads the Lux sensor in the SBR and updates Domoticz accordingly. Not quite your application but might give you some ideas to push from the SBR instead of push from LMS. https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server#Using_Ambient_Light_Sensor_in_SB-Radio_and_SB-Touch philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming radio doesn't play on Transporter
garym wrote: > Hi, I just tried that link and it played on my Transporter Thanks. > showed 128kbps AAC stream In the web interface, it shows that it's being transcoded to FLAC, though, doesn't it? JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112292 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming radio doesn't play on Transporter
Hi, I just tried that link and it played on my Transporter (running LMS 8.1.2 on rPi). I did notice that everytime I stopped, then restarted the station, it would show about 3 seconds of nothing, then start over at 0. But when it started over, it played fine and showed 128kbps AAC stream. It also showed the artist and song title as metadata. *Home:* Pi4B-8GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* rPi4B-4GB/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>foobar2000 *The Wild: *rPi3B+/pCP7.x/4TB>LMS 8.1.x>hifiberry Dac+Pro (LMS & Squeezelite) *Controllers:* iPhone11 & iPadAir3 (iPeng), CONTROLLER, Material Skin, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win10(64) *Files:* -Ripping-: dBpoweramp > FLAC; -Post-rip-: mp3tag, PerfectTunes, TuneFusion; -Streaming:- Spotify garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112292 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Streaming radio doesn't play on Transporter
Re-examining this... (I just gave up last year.) Here is the radio stream I'm trying to play on the Transporter, but get no audio. It shows about 3 seconds of progress in the web UI, then the counter resets to 0:00. Maybe someone else could try it? http://kuvo-ice.streamguys.org/kuvo-aac-128 Web page: 'KUVO 89.3 Denver' (https://www.kuvo.org/ways-to-listen/) It plays on my SB Radio, apparently natively. On the Transporter I see this info in the web interface: File Format: AAC Bitrate: 128kbps CBR (Converted to 705kbps FLAC) Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz URL: http://kuvo-ice.streamguys.org/kuvo-aac-128 I'm using the stock convert.conf and types.conf files, no changes to the streaming formats (shown in a previous post). Both faad.exe and flac.exe are in place and are the versions installed by LMS. I'm running LMS 8.2 beta, built May 30. JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112292 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
mherger wrote: > > After restarting LMS, here's what happens: > > You need to initialize the Settings in your plugin. Add > > use Plugins::M218::Settings; > > at the top of it, and in initPlugin() you do: > > Plugins::M218::Settings->new(); > > Instead of dealing with a pCP's folders I'd recommend you run LMS on > your local dev machine. This allows you to easily restart LMS without > having to copy files around etc. Got home from being out for the afternoon to see your very quick response, and tried your suggestion. Success! It was as simple as adding those extra lines into my plugin. I will now start looking at adding the additional configuration settings that it ought to have, and remove the hard-coded stuff. Thank you so much for your assistance, much appreciated. BTW, it's no problem for me to copy files to the pCP server using Samba, and restarting LMS is no hassle. I'm not planning to be a regular plugin developer, so this is all pretty much a one-off. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
Plus ... running LMS on Windows makes it harder to debug tricky things when (as I had to do to recently understand the Protocol Handler stuff better) I need to put extra tracing code in the core LMS. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
I don't like running a 2nd LMS on the same LAN because real players used by others in the house sometimes migrate to it and leads to turmoil. I do this all the time, in the office as well as at home. AFAIK original hardware would never switch server. squeezelite would pick whatever was available when starting and the "old" server wasn't available. But none of this should happen out of the blue. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
mherger wrote: > > My suggestion (which Michael has said before that he does not like > but > > it works great for me) ... > > But it's so much more complicated than needed... and risks to mess with > > the managed plugins folder. > > I never zip the files before release. I edit them right from inside > their folder where LMS picks them up whenever I restart LMS. I don't like running a 2nd LMS on the same LAN because real players used by others in the house sometimes migrate to it and leads to turmoil. So LMS on pCP is production and development ... and I tend to write the code in Windows using Notepad++ It does mean that I can only try out something new when no-one else is listening to stuff but that is not a big issue since it stops me spending inordinate amounts of time on it! Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
My suggestion (which Michael has said before that he does not like but it works great for me) ... But it's so much more complicated than needed... and risks to mess with the managed plugins folder. I never zip the files before release. I edit them right from inside their folder where LMS picks them up whenever I restart LMS. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
Cache/Installed/Plugins is only used for plugin managed by Plugin manager downloaded from repositories. Cache/InstalledPlugins is managed, Cache/Plugins is not. It's LMS Plugins folder on pCP. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
After restarting LMS, here's what happens: You need to initialize the Settings in your plugin. Add use Plugins::M218::Settings; at the top of it, and in initPlugin() you do: Plugins::M218::Settings->new(); Instead of dealing with a pCP's folders I'd recommend you run LMS on your local dev machine. This allows you to easily restart LMS without having to copy files around etc. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
My suggestion (which Michael has said before that he does not like but it works great for me) ... Make a real plugin package and a repo file ... and host the repo file on a web server somewhere. Configure your LMS to use that (private) repo file and let it install into Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins/ Then when you want to try out some changes ... simply use WinSCP to copy over the changed files into that folder (overwriting what LMS put there) and restart LMS (no need to update the install.xml at this point). If you uninstall the plugin then LMS will remove all of the files ... so always make the changes that you think you want to keep on your desktop system. To do it 100% properly you could package up each speculative change and update install.xml, make a new zip file and update the repo file (new checksum and version) but that is a lot of extra work to do while you are trying out small changes. There is scope for confusion ... particularly after you have made an official release where you try something out and then forget to push an official update to the zip/repo ... but since you have not released anything to the outside world yet then this does not really matter. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute, scala, jazzfm etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
bpa wrote: > Cache/Installed/Plugins is only used for plugin managed by Plugin > manager downloaded from repositories. > > If you look at WebUI Settings/Information - it lists the plugins > directories. - you'll see a number of directories including > Cached/InstalledPlugins/Plugins and Slim/Plugin. > > Manaully installed user plugins (what you want) go into a *Plugins* > directory at a top level (exact location depends on OS) - do not > install in Slim/Plugin as that is for LMS supplied plugins. On my LMS server (running on piCorePlayer, so the OS is piCore Linux), WebUI/Settings/Information lists these plugin folders: /USR/LOCAL/SLIMSERVER/CACHE/INSTALLEDPLUGINS/PLUGINS, /USR/LOCAL/SLIMSERVER/PLUGINS, /USR/LOCAL/SLIMSERVER/CACHE/PLUGINS So I presume that I should put my plugin into */usr/local/slimserver/Plugins* - but no such folder exists. Is it that LMS is prepared to use plugins if the folder happens to be there, but that the folder may not exist? Can I just create that folder and put my plugin there? (I don't want to just try it without some reassurance, in case it breaks LMS). Transporter -> ATC SCM100A cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
mherger wrote: > > I think it would be good to share your code if you wanted some qualified > > help. It's hard to follow what you do by your descriptions only. OK, I've zipped up what I've created and attached it here. I placed all of these files in the /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/Plugins directory. After restarting LMS, here's what happens: - The plugins tab on the LMS web interface shows the new plugin as active, and it has a Settings link - Clicking the Settings link results in *404 Not Found: plugins/Extensions/settings/plugins/M218/settings/player.html* - The plugin is available on a SB3 via the Extras menu, and I can enable/disable it as hoped - When it's enabled on the SB3, it works as expected I think if someone can help me figure out how to integrate the player.html and Settings.pm files, I may have a chance of enabling the plugin on other players (eg. SBR, Squeezelite, etc) mherger wrote: > > > I tried moving my new plugin to > > /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins (which is where > > PowerSave was installed), but that didn't help. > > Don't mess with that folder. It's managed by LMS' plugin manager. It > doesn't like to get confused by you adding/removing stuff there. OK, understood. I only tried there because that's where I found the PowerSave plugin. +---+ |Filename: M218.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34932| +---+ Transporter -> ATC SCM100A cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
cliveb wrote: > OK, understood. I only tried there because that's where I found the > PowerSave plugin. Cache/Installed/Plugins is only used for plugin managed by Plugin manager downloaded from repositories. If you look at WebUI Settings/Information - it lists the plugins directories. - you'll see a number of directories including Cached/InstalledPlugins/Plugins and Slim/Plugin. Manaully installed user plugins (what you want) go into a *Plugins* directory at a top level (exact location depends on OS) - do not install in Slim/Plugin as that is for LMS supplied plugins. bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114585 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] LMS Plugin Development
So I took a look at the PowerSave plugin (which I already have active on the SBR) and noticed that it includes a PLAYER.HTML file that presents the various options in the LMS Settings web interface, and a SETTINGS.PM file that looks like it processes the settings selected in the PLAYER.HTML page. So I built a simple equivalent and placed it with the rest of my plugin. After restarting LMS, a SETTINGS option appeared next to my new plugin, but clicking it results in: Code: 404 Not Found: plugins/Extensions/settings/plugins/M218/settings/player.html I think it would be good to share your code if you wanted some qualified help. It's hard to follow what you do by your descriptions only. I tried moving my new plugin to /usr/local/slimserver/Cache/InstalledPlugins/Plugins (which is where PowerSave was installed), but that didn't help. Don't mess with that folder. It's managed by LMS' plugin manager. It doesn't like to get confused by you adding/removing stuff there. ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
