Squeezebox controller

Posted by on 11 June 2010 | 0 Comments

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I can't find any simple apps for controlling my Squeezebox Boom. There used to be a Firefox plugin, but it seems development of that has stalled and it won't work with the versin of firefox I'm running. There is the web-interface to the squeezebox server, and while that does everything, it still needs you to find the relevant tab/window to be able to control the player.

Ideally, I was looking for a simple taskbar widget for Ubuntu which would allow me to start/stop/forward/back the tracks on my Squeezebox, but alas there was none.

So I made one.

This is far from ideal, it's poor coding, it's ugly....

but it works

It's written in Python, and using the egg.trayicon feature from python-gnome2-extras, and works by simply sending a 'GET' request to the web interface on my squeezecenter server. I've removed references to the player ID frpom the URL to make it easier, but that means it only controls the current player.

Set your own serverurl and it should be good to go.

It works fine for your own tracks, but for some reason, it won't advance when using some streaming content, and yet back,play and stop works fine.

#! /usr/bin/python
serverurl = 'http://10.67.2.8:9000'
import gtk
import egg.trayicon # egg == python-gnome2-extras
import urllib2
fwurl = serverurl+'/status.html?p0=playlist&p1=jump&p2=+1'
bkurl = serverurl+'/status.html?p0=playlist&p1=jump&p2=-1'
stopurl = serverurl+'/status.html?p0=stop'
playurl = serverurl+'/status.html?p0=play'

def callforward(widget, ev):
urllib2.urlopen(fwurl)

def callstop(widget, ev):
urllib2.urlopen(stopurl)

def callplay(widget, ev):
urllib2.urlopen(playurl)

def callback(widget, ev):
urllib2.urlopen(bkurl)


fwtray = egg.trayicon.TrayIcon("TrayIcon")
fwbox = gtk.EventBox()
fwlabel = gtk.Label(">>")
fwbox.add(fwlabel)
fwtray.add(fwbox)

stptray = egg.trayicon.TrayIcon("TrayIcon")
stpbox = gtk.EventBox()
stplabel = gtk.Label("[]")
stpbox.add(stplabel)
stptray.add(stpbox)

plytray = egg.trayicon.TrayIcon("TrayIcon")
plybox = gtk.EventBox()
plylabel = gtk.Label(">")
plybox.add(plylabel)
plytray.add(plybox)


bktray = egg.trayicon.TrayIcon("TrayIcon")
bkbox = gtk.EventBox()
bklabel = gtk.Label("<<")
bkbox.add(bklabel)
bktray.add(bkbox)

fwtray.show_all()
stptray.show_all()
plytray.show_all()
bktray.show_all()


fwbox.connect("button-press-event", callback)
stpbox.connect("button-press-event", callstop)
bkbox.connect("button-press-event", callforward)
plybox.connect("button-press-event", callplay)

gtk.main()

Maybe someone else can make it prettier, or just generally improve on it, but this will do me for now.

 


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