ioBroker Logitech Squeezebox Adapter over JSON/RPC-Protocol

Tests:

This is an alternative Adapter that uses the JSON/RPC-protocol to get data and send commands to the Logitech Media Server (LMS) for controlling connected devices like

native squeezebox,
raspberry pi with additional audio module and small linux based firmwares like picoreplayer or max2play.
with plugins chromecast, airplay or UPnP/DLNA-Devices

The LMS-Server can manage/provide very big music collections on harddrives or NAS, connect to different streaming providers like Spotify, Deezer, Soundcloud, shoutcast, tunein, napster, pandora, tidal and more

Why another Squeezebox adapter?

The existing adapter use telnet to access the LMS. The telnet has some disadvantages. The actual main web interface of the LMS also uses the rpc/json-protocol to get all needed informations or send commands to the server/players.

Features

most of data that the LMS-Service provides is available in the adapter
detailed information about the player status, song title, artist, album, artwork, playlist
many control features to play, pause, stop, forward,
rewind, repeat, shuffle, play favorite, jump to time
(absolute and relative) , jump to playlist index (absolute and relative),
power on/off and preset buttons
all favorites and all sub levels from server
many widgets for the iobroker-vis component are included to
create own control user interfaces (select player,select favorites, manage syncgroups, buttons for play/pause,fwd,rew, repeat mode and shuffle mode selection)

Installation

Install the package
Create an instance
Configure the Instance with the IP of the logitech media server and the port (normaly 9000)
start/restart the instance

Update

After installation or update, it may sometimes be necessary
to execute the following command if problems have arisen in vis-1

iobroker upload squeezeboxrpc

Provided states

Server

State	Description
`LastScan`	timestamp of last music scan
`PlayerCount`	Number of known players
`PlayerCountOther`	Number of known other Players
`PlayerCountSN`	Number of known SN Players
`TotalAlbums`	Number of all known Albums
`TotalArtists`	Number of all known Artists
`TotalDuration`	Sum playtime of all songs
`TotalGenres`	Number of all known Genres
`TotalSongs`	Number of all known songs
`SyncGroups`	Existing Syncgroups
`Version`	Version of `LMS`
`mac`	MAC-ID of the server
`uuid`	uuid of the `LMS`-instance

additional a defined button to refresh the favorites

button	Description
`getFavorites`	request all favorites from server

Favorites

For each favorite All attributes are read only

State	Description
`Name`	Name of the favorite
`hasitems`	indicates if this is a dir
`id`	id of the favorite
`image`	image/icon for favorite if available
`isaudio`	isaudio
`type`	Example types: link, text, audio, playlist
`url`	url of the track

All sub levels (subdirectories) of favorite are available.

Players

for each player The mode shows if you can change the value. the taken action is described at the attribute

State	mode	Description
`Alarms`	R/-	All registered Alarms for this player as JSON
`Album`	R/-	Name of the current album
`Artist`	R/-	Name of Artist
`ArtworkUrl`	R/-	url to the Artwork
`Bitrate`	R/-	Bitrate of the track
`Connected`	R/-	connectionstate of player (0/1)
`Duration`	R/-	Duration of the track
`Genre`	R/-	genre of the track
`IP`	R/-	IP of the player
`Mode`	R/-	play / pause / stop
`Playername`	R/-	Name of the Player
`PlayerID`	R/-	Player ID
`Playlist`	R/-	The actual Playlist as JSON
`PlaylistCurrentIndex`	R/W	go to a absolut position by specifying thetrackindex or go relative with a + or - at the beginning. Example 10,-3,+2
`PlaylistRepeat`	R/W	Repeat song(1)/playlist(2)/dont repeat(0)
`PlaylistShuffle`	R/W	shuffle playlist(1)/shuffle album(2)/dont shuffle(0)
`Power`	R/W	get/set Powerstate of player off(0)/on(1)
`RadioName`	R/-	Name of Radiostation
`Rate`	R/-	Rating of the song
`Remote`	R/-	If remote stream (1)
`SyncMaster`	R/-	ID/MAC of Syncmaster
`SyncSlaves`	R/-	ID/Mac of Players in Syncgroup
`Time`	R/-	elapsed song time
`Title`	R/-	song title
`Type`	R/-	type of media (eg MP3 Radio)
`Url`	R/-	Url of track / stream
`Volume`	R/W	get/set Volume of the player (0-100)
`state`	R/W	get/set play state: pause(0),play(1),stop(2)

The playlist provide actual the following attributes if available in LMS. Somme attributes depends of the type of songs (stream/file/...) All attributes are read only

Attribute	Description
`Album`	Name of the current album
`Artist`	Name of Artist
`ArtworkUrl`	url to the Artwork
`Bitrate`	Bitrate of the track
`Duration`	Duration of the track
`RadioName`	Name of Radiostation
`Rate`	Rating of the song
`title`	song title
`Type`	type of media (eg MP3 Radio)
`url`	Url of track / stream
`index`	index of the song in the playlist
`id`	id of the song

additional defined buttons:

Button	Description
`btnForward`	Next song
`btnRewind`	Previous song
`btnPreset\_\*`	1-6 buttons to define in player or server
`cmdGeneral`	a general command field to send commands to the player. every field must enclosed by quotation marks. parameters musst be seperated by comma. Example: "play","1"
`cmdPlayFavorite`	to play a favorite set the id of the favorite
`cmdPlayUrl`	to play a url´example "http://50.7.77.114:8101/;"
`cmdGoTime`	jump to a absolut position by specifying a number of seconds or jump relative with a + or - at the beginning of the seconds. Example 100,-50,+50

Remarks on Datapoints depending of the Setting TPE2 in LMS

Depending on the setting, different MP3 tags are delivered to the data points. The capitalized names are the names of the mp3 tags

Setting TPE2 in LMS	Artist	Albumartist	Trackartist	Band
as a band	ARTIST	empty	TRACKARTIST	ALBUMARTIST
as the performers of the album	ALBUMARTIST	ALBUMARTIST	empty	empty

It should also be noted that after a change in the LMS, the entire library must
be searched and indexed again, and a song must be stopped and restarted
before the LMS delivers other data.

Further API documentation

For more information visit the CLI-documentation:

https://github.com/oweitman/LMS-CLI-Documentation/blob/master/LMS-CLI.md

Widgets

Player button bar

All players that are integrated into your Logitech Media Server can be selected
using this widget. After selecting a squeezerpc.? instance, the available
players are displayed in the widget.

Attributes

Group	Attribute	Description
SqueezeboxRPC instance	General group	Select an instance of the squeezeboxrpc adapter. Only these are recognized as valid here.
Widget format	General group	The widget type can be selected here. The "formatbutton" type has the full range of functions and also works with the SyncGroup widget. The "formatselect" type is a simple selection box. The player name or an individual text is used as the name.
Display index	General group	Individual buttons can be hidden or displayed in a different order by deleting the button’s index. To hide them, simply delete the respective index position, including the comma. Index numbers are displayed on the respective button in edit mode if edit mode help is enabled.
Line break in CamelCase	General group	If the player name is written in CamelCase, a line break can be activated here so that the player name appears larger on the button.
Edit mode help	General group	If this help is activated, index numbers are displayed on the respective button, and the “transparency” setting in the button settings has no effect.
Image width	button settings	Image width of a button
Image height	button settings	Image height of a button
Transparency	button settings	If the button is not activated, it is hidden against the background. 0 = Invisible, 1 = Fully visible
Border width	button settings	Border width in pixels around the button
Border display	button settings	Type of border display, e.g., solid, dashed.
Normal border color	button settings	If the button is not activated, it is shown by this color.
Border color active	button settings	If the button is activated, it is shown by this color.
border-radius	button settings	A radius in pixels can be entered here for curved border corners.
Background color	button settings	Background color for text
Image	button[x]	An image can be defined individually here. The image takes precedence over the text.
Text	button[x]	Text can be defined individually here. The image takes precedence over the text.

Favorites button bar

You can use this widget to select all of the favorites that have been
created in your Logitech Media Server. After selecting the Player widget, the available favorites are displayed in the widget.

Group	Attribute	Description
Player widget	General group	Select the Player widget.
Display index	General group	Individual buttons can be hidden or displayed in a different order using the index.
Edit mode help	General group	If this help is activated, index numbers are displayed on each respective button.
Image width	button settings	Image width of a button
Image height	button settings	Image height of a button
Transparency	button settings	If the button is not activated, it is hidden against the background. 0 = Invisible, 1 = Fully visible
Border width	button settings	Border width in pixels around the button
Border display	button settings	Type of border display, e.g., solid, dashed.
Normal border color	button settings	If the button is not activated, it is displayed with this color.
Border color active	button settings	If the button is activated, it is displayed with this color.
border-radius	button settings	A radius in pixels can be entered here for curved border corners.
Background color	button settings	Background color for text
Image	button[x]	An image can be individually defined here. The image takes precedence over the text.
Text	button[x]	Text can be individually defined here. The image takes precedence over the text.

Play Button

The play button starts or stops the music on the selected player.
To prepare, you must connect the button to the player widget.
The button has its own graphics (SVG),
alternatively you can also select your own graphics.

Attributes for Play button

Group	Attribute	Description
Player Widget	General group	Selection of the player widget.
Pause image	General group	Image for pause
Play image	General group	Image for play
Stop image	General group	Image for stop
fillcolor	SVG settings group	Fill color of the button
strokecolor	SVG settings group	Color for the border
strokewidth	SVG settings group	Width of the border in pixels

Forward

The Forward widget allows you to skip forward in the current track.
The button can be configured to skip forward by a specific amount
of time if the player supports this feature.

Attributes for Forward button

Group	Attribute	Description
Player widget	General group	Selection of the Player widget.
Step size	General group	Specifies the amount of time in seconds to skip forward.
Button label	General group	Customizable label for the button.
Button icon	General group	Selection of an icon for the button, e.g., for skipping forward.

Rewind

The Rewind widget allows you to jump back in the current track.
Similar to the Forward widget, a time period can be set.

Attributes for Rewind button

Group	Attribute	Description
Player widget	General group	Selection of the Player widget.
Step size	General group	Specifies the time period in seconds by which to jump back.
Button label	General group	Customizable label for the button.
Button symbol	General group	Selection of a symbol for the button, e.g., for jumping back.

Repeat

The Repeat widget allows you to activate or deactivate the repeat function
for the current track or playlist if this function is supported by the player.

Attributes for Repeat button

Group	Attribute	Description
Player widget	General group	Selection of the Player widget.
Button label	General group	Customizable label for the button.
Button symbol	General group	Selection of a symbol for the button, e.g., for repeat.
Repeat mode	General group	The mode can be selected here, for example single repeat (track) or list repeat (playlist).

Shuffle

The Shuffle widget enables or disables shuffle for the current playlist,
if this feature is supported by the player.

Attributes for Shuffle button

Group	Attribute	Description
Player widget	General group	Selection of the Player widget.
Button label	General group	Customizable label for the button.
Button icon	General group	Selection of an icon for the button, e.g., for shuffle.
Enabled state	General group	Color or style of the button when shuffle is enabled.

Volume

The Volume widget displays the current volume level of the player and
allows you to adjust the volume.

Attributes for Volume button

Group	Attribute	Description
Player widget	General group	Selection of the Player widget.
Volume step size	General group	Specifies the step size for increasing or decreasing the volume.
Maximum volume	General group	Sets the maximum value for the volume, e.g., 100.
Volume bar main color	General group	Color for the area of the bar that represents the current volume.
Volume bar background color	General group	Color for the area of the bar that is not covered by the volume.
Button icon	General group	Selection of an icon for the volume control.

SyncGroup button bar

This widget can be used in conjunction with the player widget to control
the synchronization of the players with each other. Most of the settings for the number of buttons, labels or images are taken
over by the player widget. To prepare, you must connect the button to the player widget. After selecting a player in the player widget, the current synchronization
is visible in the SyncGroup widget. The sync status is shown using the various adjustable colors. The player selected in the player widget cannot be selected in the SyncGroup widget. If a player is selected in the SyncGroup widget that is already in
another group, it is automatically removed from this group.

Attributes for SyncGroup button

Group	Attribute	Description
Player widget	General group	Selection of the player widget.
Border width	button settings	Border width/border width in pixels around the button.
Border display	button settings	Type of border display, e.g. solid, dashed.
Border color - Not in group	button settings	The button gets a border with this color if the player is not in a group.
Border color - In group	button settings	The button gets a border with this color if the player is in a group with the selected player.
Border color - In other group	button settings	The button gets a border with this color if the player is in another group.
border-radius	button settings	A radius in pixels can be entered here for curved border corners.
Background color	button settings	Background color for text.

Playtime bar

The playtime bar visually shows the progress of the song currently being played,
provided that a total running time (duration) is provided by the server.
This is usually not the case with online streams. The width of the bar
corresponds to 100% of the playing time of the song. By clicking on a point on
the bar you can jump to the desired point in the song.
To prepare, you must connect the button to the player widget.

Attributes for Playtime bar

Group	Attribute	Description
Player widget	General group	Selection of the player widget.
Bar main color	General group	The background color of the bar for times not yet played.
Playtime color	General group	The color of the bar for times played.
Frame width	General group	Frame width/border width in pixels around the button.
Border display	General group	Type of border display, e.g. solid, dashed.
Border color	General group	Color of the border around the bar.
border radius	General group	A radius in pixels can be entered here for curved edge corners.

String/character string

Display of player-specific character strings. To prepare, you must connect
the button to the player widget.

Attributes for String

Group	Attribute	Description
Player widget	General group	Selection of the player widget.
Player Attribute	General group	Selection list of all available attributes of a player.
Test text	General group	Text that should be displayed in the editor for testing purposes.

Number

Display of numbers with additional formatting options. To prepare,
you must connect the button to the player widget.

Attributes for Number

Group	Attribute	Description
Player widget	General group	Selection of the player widget.
Player Attribute	General group	Selection list of all available attributes of a player.
Prepend HTML	General group	Text or HTML code that is placed in front of the number.
Append HTML	General group	Text or HTML code that is appended to the number.
Test text	General group	Text that should be displayed in the editor for testing purposes.
Character after comma	Advanced settings	Number of decimal places.
Comma as separator	Advanced settings	A comma is used to separate the decimal places.
Thousands separator	Advanced settings	For large numbers, a separator is inserted every 3 places.

Playlist

Display the playlist from the server. If you click on an entry the playlist is loaded and the player starts. The widged dosent refresh automaticly, you have to press the refreshh button.

Attributes for Playlist

Group	Attribute	Description
Player widget	General group	Selection of the player widget.

The widget itself has very little formatting. For self formating there are some predefined css-classes:

CSS-class	description
plcontainer	Class name assigned to the ul-tag
plentry	Class name assigned to the li-tag
plrefresh	Class name assigned to the refresh-li tag
pltext	Class name assigned to the playlist name

The following CSS for the vis-css tab can serve as an example:

Dark-mode

.plentry {
    border: 1px #505050 groove;
    margin:1px 0px;
    padding:5px;
    background-color:#202020;
}
.plrefresh {
    padding:5px;
}
.plentry:hover {
    background-color:#404040;
}
.plrefresh svg {
    color:#cccccc;
}
.plrefresh svg:hover {
    color:#ffffff;
    filter: drop-shadow(0px 0px 1px #87ceeb);
}

Light-mode

.plentry {
    border: 1px #b0b0b0 groove;
    margin:1px 0px;
    padding:5px;
    background-color:#c0c0c0;
}
.plrefresh {
    padding:5px;
}
.plentry:hover {
    background-color:#e0e0e0;
}
.plrefresh svg {
    color:#444444;
}
.plrefresh svg:hover {
    color:#000000;
    filter: drop-shadow(0px 0px 1px #87ceeb);
}

SendTo-Befehle

cmdGeneral

This command can be used to send any command to the LMS server to receive a response.

Example:

All Playlists:

async function main() {
  let data = await sendToAsync("squeezeboxrpc.0", "cmdGeneral", {
    playerid: "",
    cmdArray: ["playlists", "0", "999", "tags:us"],
  });
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data));
}
main();

All Favorites:

This command is used internally by the adapter to load the favorites.

async function main() {
  let data = await sendToAsync("squeezeboxrpc.0", "cmdGeneral", {
    playerid: "",
    cmdArray: ["favorites", "items", "0", "999", "want_url:1", "item_id:"],
  });
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data));
}
main();

Further options and detailed descriptions of the parameters are contained in the following CLI documentation:

CLI-Documentation

Todo

more testing/fixing
reduce dependencys to other packages (squeezenode)
more configuration to optionaly turn features on/off to improve memory and performance
add playlist widget
add browse widget to browse in LMS-Menu
add player controlled circle knob widget
stop playing if favorite button is pressed again.
cmdGeneral für Server.
add telnet communication to get push events from the server to
optimize the polling
implement a command state to place user individual commands (via json)
for server and player
implement more control features (select playlist pos to play,ffwd,frew,
jump to a time position in song,repeat song,random song)
~~add the playlist to playerdata as json array~~
~~add artwork (station-logo/playlist-cover) for favorites~~
~~implement more levels (subdirectories) of favorites~~
~~autodiscover logitech media server~~

Changelog

WORK IN PROGRESS

fix spelling of iobroker upload squeezeboxrpc in readme

1.5.1 (2024-11-29)

improve documentation
remove margin from plcontainer
improve textoverflow with ellipsis
adjust initial widgetsize of playlist widget
repair attributes for playlist widget
add light mode css for playlist widget

1.5.0 (2024-11-28)

Switch to iobroker/eslint
New widget playlist

1.4.0 (2024-11-27)

fix some missing objects errors
sanitize more playernames in syncgroups
add sendTo Command "cmdGeneral"
sanitize more the playername
improve translation
if trackartist is avail then write to artist if empty
improve handling for artwork_url
move widget documentation from html to markdown
adjust responsive tab style
improve attribute widgets
change TPE2 handling once more
jsonConfig add sizing options for differenz screen sizes
test implementation of TPE2 handling. switch in settings
add datapoints album_artist, track_artist, artistOriginal

1.3.17 (2024-10-23)

add edit button to the vie index field of favorites widget

1.3.16 (2024-10-23)

fixed icons of the favorites widget

1.3.15 (2024-08-09)

due to a adapter checker issue i have to remove the release 1.3.13 from npm. but changes from 1.3.13 are included in 1.3.14

1.3.14 (2024-08-05)

fix formatting

1.3.13 (2024-08-05)

revert the fix for artist handling due to negative effect of spotify

1.3.12 (2024-08-05)

improve cmdGoto handling by kairauer, close PR #74
fix issues from adapter checker
integrate squeezenode lib

1.3.11 (2024-08-05)

update adapter structure and switch to jsonconfig

1.3.10

getalbumartist as artist if setting of TPE2/TPE3 in LMS are changed"

1.3.9

fix error with deleting favorites
fix wrong type for datapoint

1.3.8

fix forward button widget

1.3.7

fix object creation of states in player modul

1.3.6

fix object creation of states

1.3.5

fix object creation for favorites

1.3.4

fix object creation for favorites / * center widgets in sidebar

1.3.3

repair imageproxy for image datapoints of favorites

1.3.2

fix for Alarm contains only enabled Alarms

1.3.1

fix problem with git dependency url

1.3.0

fix problem wit setting own icon in player widget / * add infos about
alarms to a player datapoint

1.2.1

fix small issue in last version

1.2.0

improve handling of imageproxy artwork

1.1.0

make request of favorites configurable

1.0.1

change setstate/createobject logic
fix role and type for Mode-state
update tests
update dependency versions
improve io-package.json

1.0.0

prepare for stable repository

0.8.32

the adapter function iobroker.deleteChannel didnt works as expected.
It didnt delete the whole subtree of states. now i implement my own delete function

0.8.31

change behaviour of deleting favorites

0.8.30

change from the issue of the adapter checker

0.8.29

optimize handling of player state power and connected

0.8.28

add advanced signaling function with telnet and fix some more authorization
issues with LMS

0.8.27

initialization for the new calctype property if empty in volumebar

0.8.26

more improvement and fixing at volumebar / remove playlist widget from
master. not ready yet

0.8.25

fixing css-settings on volumebar

0.8.24

volumebar didnt get events between the segments, change clickevent and calculation

0.8.23

adjust dependencies to remove vulnerabilities in dependend packages.
also remove travis due of unresolvable build-failures for win+node10/12

0.8.22

due to iobroker.controller 2.0 a command in the api changed (socket to vis.conn._socket)

0.8.21

add command für playing urls

0.8.20

remove node v6 test setting

0.8.19

shorten news history

0.8.18 (2019-06-27)

last minute changes.

0.8.17 (2019-06-26)

add more widges: playtime bar, string, number, datetime, image.
add button margin to player and favorite widget, improve editing of viewindex.
do some refactoring.

0.8.16 (2019-06-24)

resolve a cross browser issue for firefox. the style.
font attribute is empty and you have to construct the font string by yourself

0.8.15 (2019-06-19)

minor issue with not ready states

0.8.14 (2019-06-19)

add syncgroups as new server-datapoint,add syncgroup widget,/ change some jquery event logic

0.8.13 (2019-06-16)

rename widgetset from squeezeboxrpcwidgets to squeezeboxrpc

0.8.12 (2019-06-16)

sync version with npm

0.8.11 (2019-06-15)

try to integrate the widgets into the main adapter

0.8.10 (2019-05-15)

another try to fix the EADDRINUSE error of the server discovery

0.8.9 (2019-05-15)

try to fix the EADDRINUSE error of the server discovery

0.8.8 (2019-05-14)

make discover configurable

0.8.7 (2019-05-11)

more control features (select playlist pos to play,ffwd,frew,jump to/ a time position in song,repeat song,random song)

0.8.6 (2019-05-10)

move some configuration options into seperate tabs

0.8.5 (2019-05-08)

change serverdiscovery interval method, remove some double cmd lines,/ additional minor changes advised from eslint

0.8.4

move some files to lib directory

0.8.3

close port for discovery on unload

0.8.2

sync version with npm

0.8.1

set compact mode flag

0.8.0

implementation of compact mode, change version to represent a realistic/ feature completness

0.0.9

debug options are now configurable

0.0.8

More playlist attributes + remove trailing and leading spaces from source

0.0.7

Add the playlist to each player as json

0.0.6

More config options

0.0.5

All levels/subdirectories of favorites are now available in iobroker

0.0.4

added the cmdPlayFavorite for each player

0.0.3

repair the no-data symbols for buttons in vis

0.0.2

added autodiscovery

0.0.1

initial release

License

MIT License

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