Announce: Material Skin

[cpd73]

Craig,

If (for Squeezelite-X), I wanted to remember the state of expandedNowPlaying between runs, how would I read that setting? I don't see anything in localStorage, so is there a variable or something I can read?

R Greg Dawson

Sorry, there is no setting - Material does not persist this.

[rgdawson]

Sorry, there is no setting - Material does not persist this.

Ha, well, I looked pretty hard, but figured I was too ignorant to figure it out. I was hoping I could just execute a Javascript function from within my app and return a variable, like toolbar.nowPlayingExpanded or something, but I could not make such a thing work. I don't need it persisted by Material if I can somehow figure it out. If I can do that, then I can persist it myself and pass action=expandNowPlaying/true as needed when I start up. And then if I can do that, I can remove a user setting from my app, which would no longer be needed.

Greg

[cpd73]

Ha, well, I looked pretty hard, but figured I was too ignorant to figure it out. I was hoping I could just execute a Javascript function from within my app and return a variable, like toolbar.nowPlayingExpanded or something, but I could not make such a thing work. I don't need it persisted by Material if I can somehow figure it out. If I can do that, then I can persist it myself and pass action=expandNowPlaying/true as needed when I start up. And then if I can do that, I can remove a user setting from my app, which would no longer be needed.

Greg

If you are injecting JS into Material, you should be able to access its variables so the following might work:

bus.$on('nowPlayingExpanded', function(expanded) {
    // Save value of expanded
});

[Heinerbub]

Changing Theme

Hello I am new to this forum and have also just started with an LMS.
First of all, thanks for the great skin.
I use the visualisation in my Smarthome wall tablet. There the LMS interface is displayed in an iframe.
The theme of my display changes according to the time (light/dark). I would like to change the material theme of the LMS as well.

Is it therefore possible to change the theme, e.g. via a simple http call? e.g. serveradress:9000/material/?cmd=xxx
Many thanks for your support

[cpd73]

Hello I am new to this forum and have also just started with an LMS.
First of all, thanks for the great skin.
I use the visualisation in my Smarthome wall tablet. There the LMS interface is displayed in an iframe.
The theme of my display changes according to the time (light/dark). I would like to change the material theme of the LMS as well.

Is it therefore possible to change the theme, e.g. via a simple http call? e.g. serveradress:9000/material/?cmd=xxx
Many thanks for your support

Yes, you can specify the theme on the URL. e.g.:

http://SERVER:9000/material/?theme=dark
http://SERVER:9000/material/?theme=light
http://SERVER:9000/material/?theme=darker
http://SERVER:9000/material/?theme=black
http://SERVER:9000/material/?theme=dark-colored
http://SERVER:9000/material/?theme=light-colored
http://SERVER:9000/material/?theme=darker-colored
http://SERVER:9000/material/?theme=black-colored
http://SERVER:9000/material/?theme=windows/dark/Windows-10-Dark
http://SERVER:9000/material/?theme=linux/dark/Adwaita-Dark

You can also specify the colour to be used:

http://SERVER:9000/material/?theme=light,purple

[rincage]

Display Material Skin on a Google Home/Nest device

I have a Google home/nest hub device sat right next to my hi-fi set up. Does anyone know how I can get it to browse to my material player at http://192.168.0.5:9000/material/

I know it has a browser on the device, but you can't just load it, you have to somehow navigate to it with your voice. And even if I do, is there a way to "bookmark" it so I can get back to it again?

[slartibartfast]

I seem to remember a while back there was an issue with multi CD albums. I think I've found another one. If I select the first track of the second CD and try to "play album starting at track" playback starts from the second track. Selecting "play now" works OK. I think this only affects the first track of the second CD as selecting the first track of the first CD works properly and selecting the second track of the second CD also works properly. Having tried a three CD set it also affects the first and second track of the third CD.

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[cpd73]

I seem to remember a while back there was an issue with multi CD albums. I think I've found another one. If I select the first track of the second CD and try to "play album starting at track" playback starts from the second track. Selecting "play now" works OK. I think this only affects the first track of the second CD as selecting the first track of the first CD works properly and selecting the second track of the second CD also works properly. Having tried a three CD set it also affects the first and second track of the third CD.

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Yeah, really stupid coding error! Will be fixed in next release, thanks for reporting.

[castalla]

I have a Google home/nest hub device sat right next to my hi-fi set up. Does anyone know how I can get it to browse to my material player at http://192.168.0.5:9000/material/

I know it has a browser on the device, but you can't just load it, you have to somehow navigate to it with your voice. And even if I do, is there a way to "bookmark" it so I can get back to it again?

Seems that there's no way to set a default start page or bookmark.

[slartibartfast]

I have a Google home/nest hub device sat right next to my hi-fi set up. Does anyone know how I can get it to browse to my material player at http://192.168.0.5:9000/material/

I know it has a browser on the device, but you can't just load it, you have to somehow navigate to it with your voice. And even if I do, is there a way to "bookmark" it so I can get back to it again?

This might help

https://support.google.com/assistant/thread/232545/i-can-t-get-the-google-assistant-to-open-a-specific-webpage-or-url-on-my-phone-or-smart-display?hl=en

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[castalla]

This might help

https://support.google.com/assistant/thread/232545/i-can-t-get-the-google-assistant-to-open-a-specific-webpage-or-url-on-my-phone-or-smart-display?hl=en

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Got it working on Echo Show via Silk browser... opens at last viewed page.

[Redrum]

Play Podcast Episodes In Order

This was asked in another new thread https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...31#post1037831 and I know how to do 99% of it in material. stuck on the 1%. It's something I'd like to know how to do too.

The question is to be able to initiate play of multiple episodes of podcasts in order. When a subscribed thread is loaded, it is loaded recent on top, oldest on the bottom, so (where S is Season and E is episode)

S3 E3
S3 E2
S3 E1
S2 E3
S2 E2
S2 E1
S1 E3
etc.
The question is how to play S1 E1 -> S3 E3.

In material I am able to select the subscription to list the episodes, select say S3 E3, then shift select S1 E1, selecting them all, then add to the queue. Viola, except the order in the queue remains the same, last is first. Any easy way to flip it? I can drag and drop, and that's probably fine for, say a seasons worth....

Or, is there an easy way to do this and I am trying to figure out how to make a harder way?

Jim

[cpd73]

The question is how to play S1 E1 -> S3 E3.

I guess what is required is way to sort podcast episodes; latest first, or oldest first. Perhaps this could be a configuration setting of the Podcast plugin? That way it would be the same for all UIs.

I could add a sort option for Material, but I would need a way to know the current list is a list of podcast episodes. I don't personally use podcasts, but will give this some thought.

[Redrum]

I guess what is required is way to sort podcast episodes; latest first, or oldest first. Perhaps this could be a configuration setting of the Podcast plugin? That way it would be the same for all UIs.

I could add a sort option for Material, but I would need a way to know the current list is a list of podcast episodes. I don't personally use podcasts, but will give this some thought.

I didn't see anything in the podcast plugin settings, but maybe that is a more appropriate place to address any proposed changes. For Material, I was thinking of a "swap queue order" button, that is made visible when you make a selection in the queue (like the "remove from queue" button) but it feels like a hack (although an elegant one...) so it's not a request.

I have subscribed to a new podcast that has had multiple seasons, so alot of time there is 50+ episodes in the list. I think my brain, and the other poster thought how can I play they bottom up? The reality though is, do you really need to add 50+ episodes, 50+hours to the queue? So, I am thinking if there is, say 10 in a season, add them to the queue (or build a playlist), drag and drop to reorder, done. Next season, do the same.

Craig, btw, I think I ran into something that might be intentional, or might not be. Its very ticky tacky, so just noting it, not expecting you to care

To recreate (on PC) - In the list of episodes, or tracks, if click an item, pulldown->select, item is selected. You then go to select a range, go to another item, say 10 items away, then hold down control <by mistake> and click the item, it selects both, as it should. But you realize you wanted shift, so you unclick the second, then hold down shift, click the second, and it behaves like control. You have to unselect both the first and the second, then do it over with shift before it behaves as expected.

To summarize, if you select a range and make a mistake by either holding down control, or just clicking a second item, you have to unselect all items before you can select a range with the shift key. You can't keep the first selected.

Jim

[cpd73]

To recreate (on PC) - In the list of episodes, or tracks, if click an item, pulldown->select, item is selected. You then go to select a range, go to another item, say 10 items away, then hold down control <by mistake> and click the item, it selects both, as it should. But you realize you wanted shift, so you unclick the second, then hold down shift, click the second, and it behaves like control. You have to unselect both the first and the second, then do it over with shift before it behaves as expected.

When you select an item material remembers its index, and when you shift+select the next it selects from this previous to new index. When you unselect an item the remebered index is forgotten. The only way to work-around that would be to remember the order of selected items.

I guess I could make ctrl+select the same as shift+select? This would be different to how (e.g.) windows handles select, but then Material is already different (by not needing ctrl+select to select an item if another is selected).

[Edit] For the next release I have made ctrl+select the same as shift+select.