Muzak

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

How To Use

Configuration:

• Copy the provided config.js-sample file and enter the required values to allow the skill to connect to your squeezebox server. Update the players array with the name of your Squeezebox players. Save as config.js.
• This should include the URL and credentials for your Logitech Media Server and the App ID of the Alexa skill created above
• Run npm install to download npm dependencies.
• Run create.cmd to produce speechAssets/speechAssets.json and to create the Dynamo database to persist player name across sessions.
• Create an Alexa skill to use to connect to your server.
• Use the speechAssets.json to configure you Alexa Skiil via the Skill Builder Beta. Drag and drop the file on the code editor.

Publish the Skill

With Claudia.js

• Set up your AWS credentials following the instructions here.
• Run claudia create --region us-east-1 --handler muzak.handler
• Note: If you already have an existing Lambda function for muzak, you can pass the name of your function to claudia create using the --name parameter.
• You can publish future code changes by simply executing claudia update --name muzak --region us-east-1 --handler muzak.handler.
• A copy of this command is in update.cmd. Edit this file to meet your requirements.

Manually

• Create a function in Amazon Lambda
• In the muzak top level directory Zip up the files to upload to Lambda zip -r muzak.zip *.js intents persist info node_modules

Commands:

• Start Player Starts the named player using the last played song or playlist
• 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
• Name My Players Return a list of all the player names in your network
• Randomize Player Starts the named player using a random song
• Previous Track Plays the previous track using the named player
• Next Track Plays the next track using the named player
• Help List all the commands that can be said

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
• A lot of great work on this was done on a fork created by GitHub user GeoffAtHome