[Announce] LMS Announce - play announcements / notifications

[Roland0]

Any progress on this?

Just released an update - give it a try.

[karlek]

Dear @Roland0,

thank you very much!

Now, the SB won't start the actual playlist, when it wasn't running before. Great!

One minor issue remains, yet: the SB doesn't get switched off after the announcement, when it was powered off before.
So: the stopped state will be reestablished afterwards, but not the power state.
That feels like a major work for a minor issue, so I'd totally understood, if you decided not to work on it.

Nevertheless, I like your plugin :-D
Best regards
karlek

[andyss]

The update works perfectly, thanks for that!

Does anyone know how to generate a playlist on the fly to use the pre-roll function?

Background:
I'm using Node-Red to generate TTS alerts and currently tried to send a pre-roll sound and synthesized alert. Doing it in node red sends two audio files which causes a currently playing track in SB to briefly play between the two files. Hope it's clear what I'm trying to say.

Thanks.

[Roland0]

Does anyone know how to generate a playlist on the fly to use the pre-roll function?

Why not use the method documented on the homepage?

[andyss]

Why not use the method documented on the homepage?

I would, but I'm trying to consolidate all my rules in Node-Red. I actually accomplished it by writing an m3u file after the TTS is generated and send the path to this plugin.

Works great.

Thanks again for this plugin.

A.

[Roland0]

One minor issue remains, yet: the SB doesn't get switched off after the announcement, when it was powered off before.
So: the stopped state will be reestablished afterwards, but not the power state.

Updated. Also added a "forcewake" parameter (default true).

[karlek]

Updated. Also added a "forcewake" parameter (default true).

Fixed.Thank You very much! :-)

I don't understand how forcewake=false should behave. Either if set to true or false, it still woke up my SB (and powered it off again, afterwards).

And sorry for the late reply. I wasn't able to download the new version persistent. LMS always threw it away because of mismatching digest.
Since I suspect my rather older version 7.9.3..., I made the step to 8.x, but to no avail and after that all seemed f*d up. This is something that has nothing to do with your Plugin – I'm pretty sure.

But it would be interesting, if I was the only one, who encountered the checksum problem.

I'm aware of others with similar issues, but I always thought, it had to with larger downloads or the internet provider, or so.

I finally catched the Download by a brute force shell script and copied the Plugin.pm in the directory under .../InstalledPlugins/...
Running fine now. :-)

Best regards anyway and thank you very much!

karlek

[Roland0]

I don't understand how forcewake=false should behave. Either if set to true or false, it still woke up my SB (and powered it off again, afterwards).

Tested with squeezelite only, maybe a HW player behaves differently.
If you want to help debug this:
on the server, edit the file LMSannounce/Plugin.pm and change lines 214-216 from:

		#my $clientpower = $targetClient->execute(['power', '?'])->getResults()->{'_power'};
		#my $clientpower = $targetClient->power();
		#$log->debug("client power: $clientpower alt: " . $targetClient->power() );

to

		my $clientpower = $targetClient->execute(['power', '?'])->getResults()->{'_power'};
		#my $clientpower = $targetClient->power();
		$log->debug("client power: $clientpower alt: " . $targetClient->power() );

(i.e. remove the # from the beginning of the lines 214 and 216)
restart LMS, set logging for plugin.lmsannounce to DEBUG, check the server logs for lines starting with:

handleJSONP cmd=
handleJSONP targetClient=
client power: 
announcement discarded

I finally catched the Download by a brute force shell script

the link is in the repository's repo.xml file, you can simply copy it from there

[andyss]

Thanks again for the plugin, works (almost) perfectly i my setup. Just wondering if it's possible to specify a volume level when sending an announcement to a player?

[Roland0]

Just wondering if it's possible to specify a volume level when sending an announcement to a player?

new version adds a volume parameter