Help issuing commands from Homeseer

[simonmason]

I am trying to control the new MusicLobby 3.75 from within Homeseer. I would like to get some help translating the commands into a syntax that makes sense for the Homeseer plugin. The two commands I have to issue are below. I have tried replacing clientname with the correct client name but this does not work - nothing shows on the Cinemar side. I have added a MSG command in the same section to confirm that Homeseer is talking to Cinemar at this point - and that works fine. Do the commands look OK from a plugin standpoint? Thanks.

MLServeCmd.MLMusicLobby|{{music_activemusicsourcenumber_{{cl ientname}}}}~SetActivePlaylist~{{music_PlaylistID_1_{{client name}}}}

MLServeCmd.MLMusicLobby|{{music_activemusicsourcenumber_{{cl ientname}}}}~AddPlaylistNowPlayingNext~{{music_selectedplayl ist_id_{{clientname}}}}

[Krumpy]

Please give me the global vision of what you are trying to do overall and then the specific tasks. Then I can research what we need to do.

[simonmason]

Thanks for getting back to me. I in the process of switching from MusicLobby 3 to 3.75. The major difference between the two is that 3.75 now manages all playback, whereas 3 used J. River Media Center. I have configured my whole house audio to be completely controlled by HomeSeer. So turning on and off zones, selecting playlists, etc. is all managed in HomeSeer. So I am now rewriting all of the code to replace the commands that are sent to J. River and now sending them to MusicLobby - through the Cinemar interface. In the two line example that I sent I am attempting to get MusicLobby to do two things - 1) Set the pointer in MusicLobby to point to a specific playlist, and 2) start playing that playlist.

MusicLobby 3.75 is new, and I am not sure that they have vetted out all of the commands - so it could be something in the syntax with the original commands. I have cross posted in that forum as well on Cinemar.

I checked the log and I see the following commands:

tcpClient_DataArrival from localhost:2410 : *MLServeCmd.MLCmd|Msg~All~Audio~Loading Amy's Playlist~60*MLServeCmd.MLMusicLobby|2~ClearNowPlaying*MLServ eCmd.MLMusicLobby|{{music_activemusicsourcenumber_{kitchen}} }~SetActivePlaylist~{{music_PlaylistID_3_{kitchen}}}*MLServe Cmd.MLMusicLobby|{{music_activemusicsourcenumber_{kitchen}}} ~AddPlaylistNowPlayingNext~{{music_selectedplaylist_id_{kitc hen}}}

This seems to show the commands being received by the plugin exactly as written so I am guessing this is probably a MusicLobby issue.

I thought I would post here just in case you see something that you know won't work with the MusicLobby plugin.

[simonmason]

I figured it out. I cannot use the substitution variables and must explicitly state the values (such as zone, etc.). Once I did this then it worked fine.

[Krumpy]

I am in the same boat.. Pm me wit your contact info and we can chat..