Squeezebox

Squeezebox is a skill for the Amazon Echo that provides control over a Logitech (Squeezebox) Media Server.

How To Use

Configuration:

• Copy the provided config.js-sample file and enter the required values to allow the skill to connect to your squeezebox server. Update the players array with the name of your Squeezebox players. Save as config.js.
• This should include the URL and credentials for your Logitech Media Server and the App ID of the Alexa skill created above
• Change directory to lambda/custom and run npm install to download npm dependencies.
• Switch back to the root directory and run create.cmd to produce models/{locale}.json, lambda/custom/info and to create the Dynamo database to persist player name across sessions.

Publish the Skill

With ask-cli

• See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13-tCdh8Y_E&feature=youtu.be for details of ask-cli
• Run ask init to setup you account credentials
• Set up .ask\config for your skill_id and endpoint/uri
• Run ask deploy to publish the skill and Lambda functions

Commands:

• Start Player Starts the named player using the last played song or playlist
• Stop Player Stops the named player
• Set Volume Sets the volume of the named player to the given level between 0 and 100
• Increase/decrease volume Increases or decreases the volume of the named player by 10
• Sync Players Syncs the first named player to the second
• Unsync Player Unsyncs the named player
• Whats Playing Returns information about the current song playing on the named player
• Name My Players Return a list of all the player names in your network
• Randomize Player Starts the named player using a random song
• Previous Track Plays the previous track using the named player
• Next Track Plays the next track using the named player
• Help List all the commands that can be said

Interactive Mode:

An interactive mode is supported where multiple commands may be issued in one session. The target player is remembered between requests so that it does not have to be specified. e.g.

• "Alexa open squeezebox"
• "select player1"
• "play"
• "set volume to 25"
• "exit"

Credits

• This skill uses an enhanced version of Piotr Raczynski's squeezenode Node.JS module. It has been modified to support basic HTTP authentication as well as some additional functionality