Sending commands to LMS via iOS app shortcuts

[Shau]

Hello everybody,

beginner here with just some basic knowledge of coding, so please bear with me.

From what I read online there is an API for the LMS that can be interacted with via Json. You can even find the documentation online with several different commands.

What I would like to make are different shortcuts I can use on my phone. For the start for example to activate standby for one of my squeezeboxes. Problem is I donÂ’t know how the syntax has to be to make it work.

For standby the command according to CLI documentation would be <playerid> power <0|1|?|>

If somebody can show me the coding for standby, that would greatly help me. If it is even possible.

Thanks in advance guys

[mherger]

> What I would like to make are different shortcuts I can use on my phone.
> For the start for example to activate standby for one of my
> squeezeboxes. Problem is I donÂ’t know how the syntax has to be to make
> it work.

You'll have to send a POST request to http://yourlms:9000/jsonrpc.js (or
whatever the port and/or host it is you're using). I'm not sure you can
do this with shortcuts, I'm not familiar with it. You'd have to ask this
else where.

> For standby the command according to CLI documentation would be
> <playerid> power <0|1|?|>

The body for this request would be:

{"id":0,"params":["00:04:20:...",["power", 1]],"method":"slim.request"}

Where you put the player's MAC address instead of 00:04:20....

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Michael

[Shau]

> What I would like to make are different shortcuts I can use on my phone.
> For the start for example to activate standby for one of my
> squeezeboxes. Problem is I donÂ’t know how the syntax has to be to make
> it work.

You'll have to send a POST request to http://yourlms:9000/jsonrpc.js (or
whatever the port and/or host it is you're using). I'm not sure you can
do this with shortcuts, I'm not familiar with it. You'd have to ask this
else where.

> For standby the command according to CLI documentation would be
> <playerid> power <0|1|?|>

The body for this request would be:

{"id":0,"params":["00:04:20:...",["power", 1]],"method":"slim.request"}

Where you put the player's MAC address instead of 00:04:20....

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Michael

Hi Michael,

thanks for the advice. I tried several options today but unfortunately could not get it to function. Therefore I will ask on another forum for help. Nevertheless I will reply in this tread if I find a solution.

[karlek]

You should elaborate, what exactly you already tried. :-)

Works for me via my RasPi:

1. Shortcuts
2. "+"
3. Scripts
4. ... SSH ...
5. credentials for SSHing into my RasPi
6. script:
   

   curl -X POST -d '{ "id": 1, "method": "slim.request", "params":["00:04:20:xx:xx:xx", ["power", 0]]}' 192.168.178.37:9000/jsonrpc.js

Be sure that

• you have the right and matching pairs of paranthesis.
• the letters in the MAC-adress are all lower case

[karlek]

Got it now working straight from iPad to LMS:

1. New Shortcut
2. Choose "Web"
3. From Web Requests choose "Get Contents of URL"
4. Follow my picture story
   
   • URL has to start with http://
   • Headers are not necessary
   
   

[karlek]

See also there.

[Shau]

Got it now working straight from iPad to LMS:

1. New Shortcut
2. Choose "Web"
3. From Web Requests choose "Get Contents of URL"
4. Follow my picture story
   
   • URL has to start with http://
   • Headers are not necessary
   
   

Thanks Karlek,

really appreciate your help. I found an even easier way to get the commands working with some help on reddit:

You make a text function with the json command (like Michael suggested). So in this case this would be {"id":0,"params":["00:04:20:...",["power", 1]],"method":"slim.request"}.
Then you also use "get contents of URL" function but instead of selecting "json" as request body you choose "file" and select the text.
As header you write "Content-Type" and "application/json.

Hope this will help others that are trying to make it work.

[karlek]

Thanks for your comment, Shau.
For a static command your way seems indeed easier.
After I tried my first solution above, I got interested and wanted more.
See here for a more dynamic Shortcut:

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...-mit-Shortcuts

I posted the link to my german post because of your screenshot.