Muzak is a skill for the Amazon Echo that provides control over a Logitech (Squeezebox) Media Server.
Configuration:
- Create an Alexa skill to use to connect to your server using the provided files in speechAssets. Note: you will need to modify Players.txt to match the names of the players in your network and use it to populate a custom slot.
- Edit the provided config.js file and enter the required values to allow the skill to connect to your squeezebox server
- This should include the URL and credentials for your Logitech Media Server and the App ID of the Alexa skill created above
- Download and install https://github.com/lordpengwin/squeezenode in a local directory of muzak called node_modules/squeezenode-lordpengwin
cdto the node_modules/squeezenode-lordpengwin directory and execute 'npm install'. This should download and install the dependencies that squeezenode needs.
Publish the Skill
- Create a function in Amazon Lambda
- In the muzak top level directory Zip up the files to upload to Lambda zip -r muzak.zip muzak.js config.js node_modules
Commands:
- Start Player
Starts the named player using a random play list of songs - Stop Player
Stops the named player - Set Volume
Sets the volume of the named player to the given level between 0 and 100 - Increase/decrease volume
Increases or decreases the volume of the named player by 10 - Sync Players
Syncs the first named player to the second - Unsync Player
Unsyncs the named player - Whats Playing
Returns information about the current song playing on the named player
Interactive Mode:
An interactive mode is supported where multiple commands may be issued in one session. The target player is remembered between requests so that it does not have to be specified. e.g.
- "Alexa open muzak"
- "select player1"
- "play"
- "set volume to 25"
- "exit"
- This skill uses an enhanced version of Piotr Raczynski's squeezenode Node.JS module. It has been modified to support basic HTTP authentication as well as some additional functionality