Logitech Squeezebox - examples of how to use the API in HA

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Hello,

I using LMS and squeezelite addons running on Raspberrypi 4 with homeassistant.

I have added my music folder to lms, the songs plays fine.

Please guide how to play a particular folder/album using automation.

Kindly reply

38

I would advise you to try some of the examples in this tread.

39

Thanks a lot for this example.

Can you you please guide me how to play a music folder ?

service: squeezebox.call_method
target:
  entity_id:
    - media_player.squeezelite_ha_addon_2_2
  device_id: []
  area_id: []
data:
  command: playlist
  parameters: 
     - musicfolder
     - Enigma

I tried this but it didnt work.

40

In order to help you, please read this.

41

You will need to know the full path to your given music folder item as seen by Logitech Media Server (LMS). This will derive from whatever you added to the basic settings as your media folder when you set LMS up:

service: squeezebox.call_method
target: 
  entity_id: media_player.<your_player_here>
data:
  command: playlist
  parameters:
    - add # Adds folder to end of playlist. Can also be 'play' (clears entire playlist), or 'insert' (inserts it as next item)
    - "/path/to/your/music/folder/Enigma"

To be extra sure, wrap your folder path in quotes if it contains spaces.

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42

Thank you… it worked…

43

I ran into a related problem and wrote a long read about it with examples of how to use the LMS API in HA. Maybe it can help you.

How to play random mix from a specific folder using Home Assistant

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44

Hello everyone,

Plz guide how to sort a playlist by title using homeassistant service call?

45

Hi @python, i just implemented the HA Squeezebox integration and connected it to my LMS. This seems to be working fine.
But currently i’m missing “Favorites” and “My Apps”. I see in your screenshot that you were able to add “Favourites”. Can you help me how to achieve this.
I’m new to HA so only
experience via the web console so far.

46

I have no idea why would you miss favourites, i have not done anything special to see it.

47

What you see in the screenshot is not the Home-Assistant gui but the LMS material desktop gui.

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48

OK, i got confused, it’s clear now.

In HA i see this when i let the LMS plugin add the different players and i select one:

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And in here, if i select “Browse Media (Blader door Media)” i cannot see my LMS “favorites” or “my apps” like i have on the players or via SqueezePlay.

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Anyone using the HA LMS integration knows if this is possible?

49

No at the moment lms favorites are not supported.
There is a featurerequest and here to do so.

50

Would you mind sharing your code for playing from Favorites? I’m failing to get this to work.

alias: BBC Radio 6 Music
sequence:
  - action: squeezebox.call_method
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.office
    data:
      command: favorites
      parameters:
        - play
        - BBC Radio 6 Music
description: ""
51

For anyone interested and using the BBC Sounds App in LMS. I achieved the desired result by creating a script and then using a button to call the script

alias: BBC Radio 6 Music
sequence:
  - action: squeezebox.call_method
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.office
    data:
      command: playlist
      parameters:
        - play
        - >-
          sounds://_LIVE_bbc_6music
description: ""
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52

Hey. To use favorites, I do this in my automation:

action:
  - data:
      command: favorites
      parameters:
        - playlist
        - play
        - item_id:0

Item 0 being the first in the list. Works perfectly.

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53

FYI - I added favorites support to the media browser in HA last month

54

I’ve seen it and using it. A big thanks!

55

We’ll have a new Search action soon as well that allows you to search various items - e.g. Albums, Artists etc., including favorites as well.

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56

We have a PR in now to add search and play actions. Subject to approval, but fingers crossed for 2024.12

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