[Announce] LMS Announce - play announcements / notifications

[kidhazy]

Specifying a player isn't currently implemented, unfortunately. I thought about supporting this (that's why the player id can be passed as a parameter), but never got around to actually adding the functionality to the plugin.

Roland0 - have you looked at supporting player selection since you wrote this back in 2018?

I was just directed to this plugin and was looking to see if there had been any updates.

If not, I may look to see if there's anything that can be reused from gwendesign's announcement script from here https://www.gwendesign.com/slimserve...m#announcement

Thanks.

[edwin2006]

Would be interesting to get this working. Hi, kids. Dinnertime

[Roland0]

have you looked at supporting player selection since you wrote this back in 2018?

Just released a new version, which includes player selection. Not really well tested, since I run a single player setup atm.

[kidhazy]

repo/website may be down at moment https://www.nexus0.net/pub/sw/lmsannounce/repo.xml

[Roland0]

repo/website may be down at moment https://www.nexus0.net/pub/sw/lmsannounce/repo.xml

should be up again - the hosting provider had a couple of hours downtime for some infra sw updates.

[kidhazy]

Just released a new version, which includes player selection. Not really well tested, since I run a single player setup atm.

Couldn't get it to direct to a particular player. Though it did go to a different player than the other day.

FYI, what I do is grab the MAC address of the player from the Squeezebox Settings Info panel, and then replace all the ":" with %3A

So, player 00:04:20:1e:49:e6 becomes:
http://<IP ADDRESS>:9002/plugins/LMSannounce/js.html?cmd=announceFile&file=%2Fvolume1%2FMusic%2 Fdoorbell.mp3&playerid=00%3A04%3A20%3A1e%3A49%3Ae6

Am I calling it correctly?

Any issues with upper/lower case?

Any logfiles I can check?

Thanks.

[Roland0]

FYI, what I do is grab the MAC address of the player from the Squeezebox Settings Info panel, and then replace all the ":" with %3A

So, player 00:04:20:1e:49:e6 becomes:
http://<IP ADDRESS>:9002/plugins/LMSannounce/js.html?cmd=announceFile&file=%2Fvolume1%2FMusic%2 Fdoorbell.mp3&playerid=00%3A04%3A20%3A1e%3A49%3Ae6

Am I calling it correctly?

Looks ok at first glance.

Any logfiles I can check?

Switch logging to debug in WebUI>Settings>Advanced>Logging>plugin.lmsannounce and check server.log for Plugins::LMSannounce::Plugin messages, esp the following:

handleJSONP cmd=  pid=
handleJSONP targetClient=
player specified () not found, falling back to

[kidhazy]

Here's what I see with debug on.

http://<ipaddres>:9002/plugins/LMSannounce/js.html?cmd=announceFile&file=%2Fvolume1%2FMusic%2 Fdoorbell.mp3&playerid=00%3A04%3A20%3A1e%3A51%3A88

[19-07-27 19:58:39.4161] Plugins::LMSannounce::Plugin::handleJSONP (193) handleJSONP cmd=announceFile pid=00:04:20:1e:51:88
[19-07-27 19:58:39.4358] Plugins::LMSannounce::Plugin::handleJSONP (202) handleJSONP targetClient=00:04:20:1e:51:88
[19-07-27 19:58:39.4362] Plugins::LMSannounce::Plugin::announceFile (307) announceFile called: file=/volume1/Music/doorbell.mp3
[19-07-27 19:58:39.6172] Plugins::LMSannounce::Plugin::__ANON__ (315) announceFile: plid=12574
[19-07-27 19:58:39.9425] Plugins::LMSannounce::Plugin::__ANON__ (321) announceFile: time=56.6126691188812 repeat:0
[19-07-27 19:58:40.1485] Slim::Formats::Playlists::Base::playlistEntryIsValid (126) Warning: file:///volume1/Music/My%20Playlists%20(Squeezebox)/%EF%BB%BF%23EXTM3U found in playlist:
	file:///volume1/Music/My%20Playlists%20(Squeezebox)/announceTTS.m3u doesn't exist on disk - skipping!
[19-07-27 19:58:40.1491] Slim::Formats::Playlists::Base::playlistEntryIsValid (126) Warning: file:///volume1/Music/%EF%BB%BF%23EXTM3U found in playlist:
	file:///volume1/Music/My%20Playlists%20(Squeezebox)/announceTTS.m3u doesn't exist on disk - skipping!
[19-07-27 19:58:40.7944] Plugins::LMSannounce::Plugin::playlistLoadedCallback (266) playlistLoadedCallback called for cmd playlist load_done
[19-07-27 19:58:49.3187] Plugins::LMSannounce::Plugin::playlistStoppedCallback (240) playlistStoppedCallback called for cmd playlist stop
[19-07-27 19:58:49.3195] Plugins::LMSannounce::Plugin::playlistStoppedCallback (245) playlistStoppedCallback: playerid=00:04:20:1e:51:88 tmppls=tempplaylist_00042012371c time=56.6126691188812
[19-07-27 19:58:49.6051] Plugins::LMSannounce::Plugin::__ANON__ (250) playlistStoppedCallback: resume done

[edwin2006]

Could this be the problem?
file:///volume1/Music/My%20Playlists%20(Squeezebox)/announceTTS.m3u doesn't exist on disk - skipping!

[kidhazy]

Could this be the problem?
file:///volume1/Music/My%20Playlists%20(Squeezebox)/announceTTS.m3u doesn't exist on disk - skipping!

Could be - but I can't trace the plugin script as to why it's trying to hit a TTS playlist when I've called it with a filename ie. cmd=announceFile

The file I specify "announceFile called: file=/volume1/Music/doorbell.mp3" exists and plays.