bengaldave wrote:
> Hey thats interesting. Where can one see the download count?
Thats not the LMS download count. Its the number of new users
registering for my Alexa skills which I can see in the Amazon logs.
I think maybe the appearance of Darko's GOAT review for LMS explains the
5x increase in daily installs of MediaServer and LMS-lite over the past
month or so. I was wondering where all the sudden interest was coming
from :rolleyes:
Jim,
Looks like you can now list Juke Radio yourself without needing a custom
skill:
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2021/12/a-new-code-free-way-to-onboard-your-radio-station-on-to-alexa
If you want a screen then an Amazon Echo Show combined with the
MediaServer Alexa skill will allow you to play music sourced from LMS
via the Echo. You can then also play stuff like TuneIn or Spotify
without involving LMS at all. And you get the advantage of being able to
use it for all other
Jim,
If you want to take user-requests for Juke Radio, I can easily add an
intent to the skill to allow the user to say e.g.
User: "Alexa, ask Juke Radio to make a request"
Echo: "What would you like to suggest?"
User: "Night Moves, by Bob Seger" or "more Pink Floyd" or "less Justin
Bieber"
It's rather quiet here. Any status update for us, Jim?
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lssartin wrote:
> My booms (2) work great unless I move them, the power supplies require
> a jiggle for 10 minutes to come alive and stay good unless moved or
> vibrated.
That's usually an easy fix. The 'jiggle' problem is usually that the
male center pin on the boom itself no longer mates
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Just so you know, Echos with screens will show the cover-art and
metadata when you ask what's playing currently.
Plus, it's the *FLAC *variant that plays natively on the Echo so it
sounds as good as it gets on the newer models :cool:
It's zero setup other than just selecting the skill
d6jg wrote:
> Thats absolutely great Phil. Ill pm you in a minute.
>
> However the Juke reference in the name is nothing to do with a
> Jukebox. Its named after my Black Labrador dog who himself is so named
> after Little Walters classic blues harmonica instrumental called Juke.
> Youll
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I couldn't resist creating a beta skill for this :cool: It streams the
'FLAC in OGG container version' to the Echo for LOSSLESS playback (no
transcoding).
A jukebox background image shows on Echos with screens and there's even
a cute logo, but no metadata is displayed on Echos with
Do you want an Alexa skill for this? No commands, just open Juke
Radio?
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gordonb3 wrote:
> That's all hypothetical. I mean, how many SBs are really still out
> there? Would there really be someone thinking it might be worth while to
> reprogram e.g. a Tuya device to find and manipulate SBs through their
> exposed ports?
Oh sure. But never say never. The world is
gordonb3 wrote:
> As some already responded, your SBs sit in a private network. The point
> about this is not so much the firewall that sits between you and the
> dangerous internet, but that no public router knows how to direct
> traffic from any random machine on the internet towards any
phones, of course. But your testing puts my
> mind at ease a little, awesome that you did that, philchillbill.
Here's a link to where I published that script in the Domoticz Wiki in
2017:
https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Logitech_Media_Server#Using_Ambient_Light_Sensor_in_SB-Radio_and_SB
A few years ago, I wrote a shell script that I installed on my SB-Radio
to read out its internal light sensor and post that data to Domoticz in
a 5-second CRON. I could do that by SSHing into the Radio and by knowing
its a Linux-based device, I could find my way around on its file system
pretty
nervoteso wrote:
> is it easier than chromeclast streaming from nas with this skill? ii
> tried chromeclast on google home and it was full of problems
Try it for 7 days for free. Install is 2 mins.
philchillbill's
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
Thats an Amazon limitation, not mine [emoji854]
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It appears as a player LMS while playing. Not when offline. The reason
is that playback must be initiated by voice so having a permanent pseudo
player makes no sense.
No plugins are needed - just try a Stream command and the player will
magically appear.
nervoteso wrote:
> really? is iot possible to stream my squeezebox music stored on nas on
> alexa? is ity possible on google home?
No idea about Google Home, but for Alexa see
https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?111016-Announce-MediaServer-*certified*-Alexa-skill-for-LMS
or
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I just had a really wide grin on my face :cool: The Amazon Echo 'Auto' I
bought a year ago is finally supported in Europe so I set it up in the
car just now. Told MediaServer to "Stream something by Snow Patrol" and
Alexa obliged with a random playlist of 512 tracks.
The tortuous path:
bpa wrote:
> I think it may be necessary to characterise the "http capable client" a
> bit better ?
My original request to Philippe to take a look at the possibilities of a
lossless stream had a very specific http-client target in mind: Amazon
Echo endpoints.
While Echos could already handle
d6jg wrote:
> Bear in mind the cache reference will change on a clear and rescan
Yes, but that's not an issue as I'm retrieving the current coverid with
the tags:c parameter and not caching it myself so it's OK for it to be
mutable.
Great - makes life a lot easier if it can be pulled using cover.jpg
always. Thanks guys.
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The documentation for the CLI states as follows:
>
> The HTTP server can return cover art for songs using the track ID as
> returned by the CLI functions. If no cover art exists for the given
> song, the server returns special "no artwork" image. Please refer to the
> Artwork Setup
Not intending to hijack the thread, but would library support in
MediaServer be useful? List my libraries... Select default library...
How would that be used in practice? Set an overall default library, one
per player, one per Echo... ?
chill wrote:
> Out of interest, does Alexa respond in that sort of situation? I know
> there'd be feedback if she did, so I know she's not the cause of this
> volume issue. But on my iPhone for instance, I'm unable to play a video
> that includes me saying 'Hey Siri', because Siri will
chill wrote:
> Ah, ok - I don't have any upnp players. My two pCPs both have the
> latest Squeezelite which I believe was released to fix an issue with
> inverted audio and the new balance control. I'm using neither of those
> options, and I believe my volume problem pre-dates that new version
d6jg wrote:
> But having told Alexa to play Abacab by Genesis you cant tell her to
> browse your library for something suitable to play afterwards. Like most
> women her knowledge of popular music from 1950s to date seems to be
> wanting in many areas. Prog rock being a significant lacking :)
>
Heuer wrote:
> In my experience voice is great at switching things on and off (lights
> ,TV, gas fire, gate, garage door, timers etc) but trying to adjust
> brightness, volume, channels or anything complicated is a chore. Amazon
> are now offering a button to replace voice so we are back to
I use Alexa to control LMS probably 80% of the time and iPeng for the
remaining 20%. But I have Echos in every room where I have SBs so a 1:1
relationship makes that pretty easy. They then double up to control all
the other smart stuff in my house.
I have my own skills for everything in the
mamema wrote:
> huuuh i'm a audiophile i'm not using replay gain.
As an audiophile, I presume you know that the music will sound better if
you use all lowercase letters in your tags?
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It's now live after Amazon certified the voice-model changes. The new
command goes by the keyword 'transpose'.
When you say "Alexa, transpose Kitchen and Library players" the
now-playing playlist queue/timestamp and player-volume levels are
swapped between the players in question.
mcduman wrote:
> hi philchillbill,
>
> i remember that even sony and philips recognized the shortcomings of
> the cd format and went on to introduce the sacd. why do you think that
> happened?
>
> anyways, i do not need to mention that i will upgrade to spotify hi-fi
&
mcduman wrote:
> actually, everything about cd format was kind of arbitrary in order to
> fit Beethoven's 9th in one single portable cd.
> (https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/why-is-a-cd-74-minutes/). it
> could have been 14 or 20 bits depending on how much fit in one cd. i am
> sure all
d6jg wrote:
> You can achieve a "swap" if you have a third player to act as a
> temporary place to put a playlist - it doesn't need to be connected to
> anything soundwise so could be on LMS
Swap is a good idea for the MediaServer skill. I dont need a 3rd player
to park as I can just save the
Apesbrain wrote:
> For those rooms where I plan to have proper hi-fi equipment, I'd still
> use a Squeezebox or Raspberry Pi emulator but for all the other rooms in
> my house, I might use Google or Amazon devices. It's amazing the first
> time you say, "Ok Google, play WCRB" or "Ok Google, who
If I use the jsonrpc command ['playlist', 'loadtracks',
'contributor.namesearch="Coldplay"'] it will always load all the
matching tracks in the same order. Is there any way to randomize the
order of the loaded tracks? Of course I can enable shuffle but that's a
player-level setting rather than
I have my music on a 2TB Samsung QVO series SSD which is not NVMe and is
probably actually the slowest current-generation SSD available. It's
still way, way faster than a spinning disk. QVO offers the best bang for
the buck in 2TB capacity. Overkill, sure. Nice, oh yeah !
mherger wrote:
> I could imagine that FTS and "fuzzy" search could result in a lot of
> false positives.
Yes, it very likely would. I was envisaging using this as a fallback
mechanism - first do a 'normal' text search and if that returns nothing
then do a DM search to get back something that I
One of the issues I face in developing the Alexa skills for LMS is that
I have to search your library -textually- based on the speech-to-text of
what Alexa thinks she -heard-. This can be problematic with
similar-sounding words like pair/pear, hear/here, knot/not, ate/eight,
flour/flower, etc. I
mherger wrote:
> > When using the JSON api to search through albums, a match is returned
> if
> > the search term matches *any *tag and not just the ALBUM name tag.
> For
> > example
>
> That's only the case if you're using the Fulltext Search plugin.
>
> > results are returned, but is there
When using the JSON api to search through albums, a match is returned if
the search term matches *any *tag and not just the ALBUM name tag. For
example
['albums', 0, 100, 'search: "thrillseekers" + "night music"',
'tags:Aal'] will return the Thrillseekers album "By your side (CDM)"
that has a
>
> Why would you need to do this anyway?
>
It has to do with streaming from LMS to an Alexa Echo endpoint. Right
now I create that player as something subsequently addressable via JSON
by POSTing to an external https LMS server address with
'/stream.mp3?player=Alexa' appended. It works, but
When the stream.mp3 endpoint is used, a webclient is automatically
created and it shows up as a player in the UI. Is there any JSON
api-command to create such a webclient and subsequently delete it?
philchillbill's
> I don't see a command to "Play XYZ artist" or a specific song.
Both commands exist - see the online docs:
https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/commandref/PlaySomethingBy.html#27
https://mediaserver.smartskills.tech/commandref/PlaySong.html#28
dmcdayton wrote:
> I hate to admit, its not just your kids. I've taken to playing on Echo
> for convenience instead of my good system. Siri and Google just SUUUCK
> but Alexa has magic juju beans somewhere because it just works. I'm
> listening to more music in my kitchen now on an Echo Show
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