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Muzak

Muzak is a skill for the Amazon Echo that provides control over a Logitech (Squeezebox) Media Server.

How To Use

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
  • cd to 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"

Credits

  • 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