A dashing widget which displays the currently playing song on a squeezebox player.

README.md

Logitech Squeezebox Now Playing

Preview

Description

Squeezebox Now Playing is a a Dashing widget which which displays now playing information from a Logitech Squeezebox player.

Usage

Install the widget using dashing install 9714028 or do it manually: Copy squeezebox.rb to the '/jobs' directory. Create a folder called squeezebox under /widgets. Copy squeezebox.coffee, squeezebox.html and squeezebox.scss into /widgets/squeezebox.

Add the following code snippet to your dashboard .erb file:

<li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="2" data-sizey="2">
   <div data-id="now-playing" data-view="Squeezebox" data-title="Squeezebox"></div>
</li>

Settings

Edit the two constants at the beginning of squeezebox.rb:

• LMS_URL: URL to your Squeebox Server (also known as Logitech Media Server). f.e.: http://myhomeserver:9000
• SB_PLAYER_ID: ID of the player, can be the IP address or the MAC address. This information can be found on the webinterface under "Settings".

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squeezebox.coffee

class Dashing.Squeezebox extends Dashing.Widget

  ready: ->
    # This is fired when the widget is done being rendered

  onData: (data) ->
    # Handle incoming data
    # You can access the html node of this widget with `@node`
    # Example: $(@node).fadeOut().fadeIn() will make the node flash each time data comes in.

squeezebox.html

<h1>Squeezebox Now Playing</h1>
<div class="cover-image-holder">
    <img class="cover-image" data-bind-src="artwork_url" />
</div>
<div data-bind="current_title"></div>
<div data-bind="artist"></div>
<div data-bind="title"></div>

<i class="icon-background icon-music"></i>

squeezebox.rb

require 'json'
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

LMS_URL = 'http://my-sbserver:9000'
SB_PLAYER_ID = 'my-player-mac-or-ip'

def slim_request(params)

  form_data = { 'id'     => 1,
                'method' => 'slim.request',
                'params' => params,
  }

  uri = URI.parse(LMS_URL + '/jsonrpc.js')
  http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)

  request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
  request.body = form_data.to_json
  response = JSON.parse(http.request(request).body)

  return response['result']

end

def send_to_widget(artist, title, current_title, artwork_url)
  send_event 'now-playing', { artist: artist,
                              title: title,
                              artwork_url: artwork_url,
                              current_title: current_title }
end

SCHEDULER.every '5s', :first_in => 0 do

  player_status = [ SB_PLAYER_ID, [ 'status', '-', 1, 'tags:cgABbehldiqtyrSuoKLNJ' ] ]
  data = slim_request(player_status)

  if data['player_connected'] == 1
    case data['mode']
        when 'play'
            if data['playlist_loop'][0].has_key?('album')
              title = data['playlist_loop'][0]['album']
            else
              title = data['playlist_loop'][0]['title']
            end
            send_to_widget(data['playlist_loop'][0]['artist'], title, data['current_title'], LMS_URL + '/' + data['playlist_loop'][0]['artwork_url'])
        when 'pause'
            send_to_widget('paused', '', data['current_title'], LMS_URL + '/imageproxy/paused')
        when 'stop'
            send_to_widget('stopped', '', '', LMS_URL + '/imageproxy/stopped')
        else
    end
  else
    # player is not connected
    send_to_widget('squeezebox is disconnected', '', '',LMS_URL + '/imageproxy/disconnected')
  end

end

squeezebox.scss

.widget-squeezebox h1 {
  font-weight: bold;
}

.widget-squeezebox {
  background: #00ff99;
}

.widget-squeezebox .cover-image {
  width: 150px;
  height: 150px;
}