Search skills to create a plugin for Pcp running on Pi4.

[Paul Webster]

it is also curious to see how the spaces are managed with %20 !

URL-encoding - very common when you do not want embedded spaces to confuse the parsing of data.

Accented chars also: Ga%C3%ABtan
What kind of coding is it ?

UTF-8 - from 2nd paragraph in the built-in documentation in LMS
"For strings, Logitech Media Server uses the UTF-8 character-set encoding."

Is it possible to configure it to ASCII ?

No. I expect you will be able to find a UTF8 handling library - or just map the few accented characters that you know you will see if you do not plan to make this available to anyone else.

[bpa]

dc%3Aa6%3A32%3A75%3A45%3A0a title WOULD%20I%20LIE%20TO%20YOU[/CODE]

it is also curious to see how the spaces are managed with %20 !
Accented chars also: Ga%C3%ABtan
What kind of coding is it ?
Is it possible to configure it to ASCII ?

It is known HTML encoding, HTML escaping, HTML URL encoding or percent encoding. https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

Two reason
1. Spaces are significant as a separator of keyword/parameters to distinguish from LMS values returned
2. Data from LMS is UTF8 and so non ASCII with accented/foreign characters (e.g. chinese ) are in values returned.

So HTML encoding so spaces and UTF8 characters in LMS returned values can be passed on accurately.

Ga%C3%ABtan = Gaëtan

[bpa]

The output is a little strange;
What does dc%3Aa6%3A32%3A75%3A45%3A0a mean ?

MAC address of ther player - %3A is a colon
dc%3Aa6%3A32%3A75%3A45%3A0a = dc:a6:32:75:45:0a

title ?

dc%3Aa6%3A32%3A75%3A45%3A0a title WOULD%20I%20LIE%20TO%20YOU

Response syntax - <MAC address><SP><responsetype><SP><VALUE>
dc:a6:32:75:45:0a title WOULD I LIE TO YOU


See in WebUI - Help (bottom Left) - Technical Information - Command line Reference

[PaulH]

It is known HTML encoding, HTML escaping, HTML URL encoding or percent encoding. [url]https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp[/url

I saw this thread about the LCD display, but in German. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...l=1#post816678
But it seems that into the readsq.py an UTF8/HTML decoding is done.
Is it possible to adapt it ?

Thanks

[bpa]

I saw this thread about the LCD display, but in German. https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...l=1#post816678
But it seems that into the readsq.py an UTF8/HTML decoding is done.
Is it possible to adapt it ?

I told you about readsq.py a many post ago.
It uses the Python library to decode the HTML encoded string into the internal Python string (which supports UTF8).

You're going in circles.
Output from a modified readsq has to go out on the serial port but as discussed earlier PCP micropython doesn't support threading or perhaps pyserial. Which is why "nc" is being used.

[PaulH]

I told you about readsq.py a many post ago.
It uses the Python library to deocde the HTML encoded string into the internal Pyhtoin string (which supports UTF8).

You're going in circles.
Output from a modified readsq has to go out on the serial port but as discussed earlier PCP micropython doesn't support threading or perhaps pyserial. Which is why "nc" is being used.

Ok, I will decode that on my HA.

[bpa]

Ok, I will decode that on my HA.

If it is Arduino based - there are many example C solution for URL decoding / percent decoding already available.