Hi,
Thanks for the patches and info,
I would think pid not being defined is an artifact of no player
discovery, it should probably be populated if missing before certain
commands,
>From memory the sync command is one of the few that requires a player id
and will not take a name(server end).
The smooth take off for sync groups we can also look at,
The wake option is probably only a minor tweak.
I will dig out my dev kit.
Phill.
epoch1970 wrote:
> 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:
--------------------
> > diff ./squeezy /home/admin/squeezy-master/squeezy
> 309,310d308
> < #JPM
> < if ( $#arg == 4 ) { push @{$group[$arg[1]]}, { name=>$arg[2],
pid=>$arg[4] }; next; };
--------------------
> >
> In addition, a config file must look like this :>
Code:
--------------------
> > 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
> ...
--------------------
> >
>
> 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
> a bit of rebuffering. 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 gently.
- 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.
>
> EDIT. I can achieve fade-in with the stock functions " squeezy -zipp
> -json 'playlist play randomplay://tracks Program 60' " -- Great!
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