Posts by awiouy

    Well i could think of one thing. When i have a party at my Home it would be nice to show the playlist/current song on the TV screen, so if others add music to the playlist they and all other non-djees can follow it on the screen...;-)

    One other techical thing.
    I have compared the alsa sound quality with the volumio/spotify connect sound....it looks like the volumio version has better soundquality. More brighter in the frequenties or better dynamic range...don't know how to explain this exactly. Both are set to 320.

    Thank you for this interesting lead.
    Do you know where I can find the source of volumio, especially how it calls spotify-connect-web?


    Hey Awiouy,

    Great plugin man! Exactly what I had in mind when I started the thread in "feature requests" and it saves me an extra RPI for audio.
    Would it also be possible to view the details of the currently played song in Kodi besides the webserver?

    Hello!

    I would not have been aware of spotify-connect-web without your feature request.
    Thank you for pointing it out.

    As for displaying details of the currently played song in Kodi, it is certainly possible.
    My skills in Kodi/Python are however quite limited, and I will therefore leave it to someone else.

    Moreover:
    - you can already get these details from your Spotify app and from the web user interface
    - spotify-connect-web can play music (via a sound system) when the display (the tv) is turned off
    - spotify-connect-web is still alpha, and therefore is likely to change/die

    It is therefore doubtful that this feature is worth the effort

    Is there detailed info in WebGrab++.log.txt?
    That file should be in the addon's home folder


    Is the after.sh shell script starting auto when webgrab finished with grabbing channels and mdb postprocessing?


    Yes ;)
    The service runs at startup subsequently every 6 hours.
    If it exists, before.sh is called at the beginning of the service.
    If it exists, after.sh is called at the end of the service.

    Hello Coastal!

    LibreELEC is a Linux distribution underlying Kodi.
    This behaviour might therefore be worth a bug report with Kodi itself.
    This mentions: Change the preferred extension for metadata import/export files from .nfo to .xml as standard for XBMC.

    I hope I have helped

    Hello Marciano!

    Thank you for the positive feedback. You just confirmed that a recent version of Mono builds and runs static for all LibreELEC projects. I am happy about this, and I hope it will stay that way.

    WebGrab+Plus indeed creates guide_wgp.xml, but it is then copied into guide.xml and mediaportal.xml by xmltv_time_correct and WP2MP. Refer to guide.xml and mediaportal.xml rather than guide_wpg.xml, whose state is transient while WebGrab+Plus is running, which may last quite a long time.

    A preferred option is for consumers to access http://guide.xml/mediaportal.xml at the LibreELEC/webgraplus producer, eg at smb://libreelec.local/userdata/addon_data/service.webgrabplus/guide.xml.

    If that is not possible, create after.sh shell script in smb://libreelec.local/userdata/addon_data/service.webgrabplus/after.sh, eg to mount a destination and copy http://guide.xml/mediaportal.xml to that destination.

    I hope this has helped you

    EDIT:
    To mount a smb share on linux, adapt the command below to your needs:

    Code
    mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWD //192.168.1.88/shares /mnt/share


    @awjouy

    Thanks for your work. I was looking for something like this for a while.

    I tried your addon on RPi3 and playback works fine but sadly the sound was very damped and did not sound very nice at all. I used the highest bitrate.

    Hello Gerrit!

    Thank you for the feedback.

    What sound interface are you using? Onboard via jack?

    Onboard audio sounds clunky, indeed, and you may have a better experience with an external sound card.

    It would be nice to have reports about sound quality with external sound cards.

    The service also has a web server, on port 4000 of your LibreELEC device. You can get useful info from there (eg are userid/password correct)

    Hi awiouy,

    why is it not possible for the addon to send sound to HDMI and headphone, like kodi can do it? Is it to difficult to code?
    For my case it is enough to get the sound over headphone, so i am only interested in the reason.

    Hello Cruiser!

    I am glad to see you on this thread ;)

    On Raspberry Pi, Kodi and spotify-connect-web use distinct sound architectures (pulse audio for Kodi, alsa for spotify-connect-web).
    I am not aware that alsa is able to playback via hdmi and jack (this documentation suggests that hdmi and jack are exclusive).
    If you find out a way, please let me know, and I will gladly implement it

    Cheers

    Hello soeren!
    I am glad to hear that the addon is working for you!
    Enjoy!

    The web server is documented in the links of the first post. I found it rather useless, until now. Thank you for the pointer!
    I take your feedback into account, for further improvement.
    I will experiment with avahi, if no one beats me at it,


    I have added a NAS as a source via File Manager, but where is it mounted so that I can see the path in SSH? I want to be able to cd to that path (to the NAS) via PuTTY.

    Thanks.

    Kodi network sources are not visible from shell. Either use Kodi to access it, or mount the share in shell.