Searching a CLI tool

[DoXer]

Hi,
I'm looking for a DOS command line tool to submit commands via TCP/IP to Squeezeserver.


Any suggestions?

Regards
DoXer

[pippin]

Dos ?!? 2012? The year in which "intelligent" forum software won't even let me write that in all capital letters anymore...

[DoXer]

With DOS I mean the commandline of MS OSes like Windows 7, XP....

Or how do you call the COPY, DIR... commands?

[epoch1970]

The old style CLI offered by the server works with something such as telnet or netcat.

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.ph...dia_Server_CLI

Anything able to open then write to a TCP/IP socket should work.

Beware of encoding issues, and decoding on the way back.
IMHO this interface is less reliable than the "current" JSON interface: you have to do your own error handling, both at transport and application levels. Using some JSON library most of that comes free.

EDIT: Ok I saw your answer to Pippin's remark. Find the JSON toolkit of your choice and you'll be fine. I guess it is a matter of language preference. I've been using the CLI with Perl, socket or JSON styles.

[epoch1970]

With DOS I mean the commandline of MS OSes like Windows 7, XP....

Or how do you call the COPY, DIR... commands?

I would say this is called the "windows shell". That's a command line interface to the windows O.S. (and it's been designed to mimic DOS)

DOS was, in itself, - err, is - an O.S. Lowmem, highmem and all that is long gone by now.

[erland]

I'm looking for a DOS command line tool to submit commands via TCP/IP to Squeezeserver.

Not sure if something is available in Windows out of the box, telnet probably is, but else you can download and use netcat according to the following page:
http://www.nicobaumgartner.ch/blog/?p=237

[pippin]

putty would be the most common tool under Windows. At least that's what it was when I was still using Windows, which was, admittedly, a while ago...

[gharris999]

My SCCLITool.exe is exactly what you want. Part of the SCPowerTool package. Download it from here:

http://code.google.com/p/srvrpowerct...t.exe&can=2&q=

Use example: batch file to trigger a scan for new on a separate server:

scan_for_new.cmd

@echo off
set LMS_NAME=squeezenas
set LMS_MACADDR=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
set LMS_IP=192.168.1.222
set LMS_CLIPORT=9090
set BROADCASTIP=192.168.1.255
set NETMASK=255.255.255.0

:checkwake
echo Checking %LMS_NAME% status..
ping %LMS_IP% -n 1 -w 10 >NUL 2>&1

if errorlevel 1 goto wakeup
goto awake

:wakeup
echo %LMS_NAME% is asleep...attempting to wake it up..
rem Wakeup the server..
SCWOLTool.exe %LMS_MACADDR% %BROADCASTIP% %NETMASK% 7

sleep 18
goto checkwake


:awake

rem Rescan the whole library:
rem echo %LMS_NAME% is awake...initiating db wipe and rescan.
rem SCCLITool.exe wipecache -q -w 0 -h %LMS_IP% -p %LMS_CLIPORT%

rem Scan for new music:
echo %LMS_NAME% is awake...initiating scan for new music.
SCCLITool.exe rescan external -q -w 0 -h %LMS_IP% -p %LMS_CLIPORT%

PS: the complete C source code to the tool is at that site too.

[gharris999]

Also, if you need to return and process data from the server in a windows batch file, pay attention to what epoch1970 says about encoding issues.

In your batch file, with windows 7, you can change to a UTF8 code page and do something like this:

test.cmd:

@echo off
rem change to UTF8 codepage:
chcp 65001

rem query the server for some data and save it to a file:

scclitool.exe albums 0 500 new -w3 -t -h %LMS_IP% -p %LMS_CLIPORT% >temp.txt

rem I believe that temp.txt will be ansi encoded.  At least with my tests, all the diacritics 
rem appeared to be correct and notepad.exe reported that the file was ansi.
rem I'm not sure why simple redirection should result in a UTF8 to ansi translation.

rem (the -t arg to scclitool.exe un-percent-encodes the query output from the server).

rem process or extract data from temp.txt  (I'm a big fan of sed.exe for jobs like this).

rem do something with the data 

rem clean up
del temp.txt