Hey thanks for Squeezy!
I was ready to dig out one of my old perl scripts and painfully process
the JSON commands I needed, but I had the good idea to check out what
squeezy was about, and it's great.
It has helped me a lot.
I wanted (among other things) to reset a group of players and start them
as a syncgroup via a crontab. Yes, alarms can do sort-of-that, but a
script is better in my case.
I am not using discovery at all in squeezy.conf, neither for server nor
players. I found out that "-sync" wasn't working in this case
(player->{$pid} is not created at startup). Here is my patch (against
squeezy current, AFAIK):
Code:
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diff ./squeezy /home/admin/squeezy-master/squeezy
309,310d308
< #JPM
< if ( $#arg == 4 ) { push @{$group[$arg[1]]}, { name=>$arg[2],
pid=>$arg[4] }; next; };
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In addition, a config file must look like this :
Code:
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grep '^player' /usr/local/bin/squeezy.conf
playerdiscover no
player 0 zipp 192.168.1.161 aa:aa:b5:31:46:62
player 0 Berlin-Boombox 192.168.1.161 02:02:02:43:ef:99
...
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Other things I missed:
- Player "on" without actually starting: in the syncgroup if the
leader starts and only after the other players are started, there is
of rebuffering at start. I worked my way around by setting all players
in the group to "-play 'playlistplay://clear'" and then starting them.
Last, I load my chosen lead player with an actual playlist and the
group takes off nicely.
- FadeInSecs parameter in playlistplay: there is a "-sleep" command
that fades out, I would have liked a "-wakeup" equivalent. I tried
hacking another version of "-play" to handle something like
"-fadein_play randomplay://tracks 120" but only got back "squeezy
error: unknown argument (120)" and left it at that.
Again, thanks a lot for this utility. It works great and offers a great
balance of simplicity vs. features.
3 SB 3 Libratone Loop, Zipp Mini iPeng (iPhone + iPad) LMS 7.9
(linux) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput, Triode's BBC iPlayer by bpa
IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Server Power Control by Gordon
Harris Smart Mix, Music Walk With Me, What Was That Tune? by Michael
Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by
Erland Isaksson AirPlay Bridge by philippe_44 WeatherTime by Martin
Rehfeld Auto Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins.
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