Homegate & Squeezecenter

I am running Squeezecenter on a ReadyNAS Duo, Homegate on a Sahara touch. Squeeze is controlled by the Squeezebox touchscreen interface on the Sahara directed through Amplifiers synchronised in various locations.

This all works pretty well, but the main use of the Squeeze is selecting specific radio stations and playlists. It would be much more convenient to do this via specific buttons in Homegate (ie: Button for Radio National, button for News Radio or whatever station). This can be done by sending commands through the CLI (command line interface) using sockets. It would allow the selection of a station via one button in Homegate, rather than three of four 'touch' commands via the Squeezebox web interface.

Just wondered if anyone else has done this as a few simple examples of any type of commands sent to the Squeezebox using Homegates' socket commands will help enormously.

Thanks

Andrew

 

Thanks Nick!

I'll have to learn how to use the search facility a little better.....

 

That's one of the reasons I wanted to 'speed' things up by trying to create shortcuts to some of the more common things I do with SqueezeCenter.

The interface is frustratingly slow at times even though I've upgraded my ReadyNAS to 1GB RAM and 2 1TB disks. I also stream survelliance camera images using Mobotix cameras (motion sensitive) to the NAS but this is not significant traffic.

I am wondering if the problems I am having are related to the version that runs on the ReadyNAS. I can open the port and send commands and the log shows them arriving correctly, but I am not getting any return information. When I ran the utils from the link you provided I had the same issues. It provided the currently playing song, but not consistently and did not update properly.

I think I'll have to try the server again on a PC rather than the ReadyNAS. Are you running Squeezecentre at all or did you abandon it?

 

Ashleigh, thanks for the info. It's been years since I've used these utils....a walk down memory lane.

CPU usage seems ok. Squeezecenter-s hovers around the 6% mark mostly and around 6% memory use but jumps up and down to 50-85% CPU every so often, I presume as it buffers and does other stuff. Mysql also jumps in every so often at around 7-10%. This is while playing a randomised playlist of ~50 songs. The network connection is 1000MBit and there's not much else on the network, so that shouldn't be causing any problems.

I'll try it on a PC just for comparison purposes.

As an aside (and probably not for a C-Bus forum) have either of you had problems streaming any radio stations using Squeezebox's internet radio list lately? I can't get the following, which used to be fine:

These are Sydney stations selected from their Sydney local list:

101.7 WSFM
2DAY FM 104.1
Tripple M 104.9

interestingly ABC, Nova 96.9 and Vega 95.3 work.