Hi - I've used these instructions https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/6og8uu/google_home_to_control_win_10_pc/ to send simple commands ie start, stop, play, pause through my Google Home to JRiver. I was already using eventghost to manage my remote commands so it didn't require too much effort to set up autoremote, ifttt applets etc and attach these to macros in eventghost. This solution is far from ideal, because you have to define commands that are not the ones that are reserved by Google (eg say 'start' instead of 'play' etc) and of course Google Home has no awareness of the state of the system, content, what's playing etc. If anyone has any better ideas I'd love to hear them.
Thanks and congrats.
I read the instructions on the linked page, and they look somewhat challenging. I'm also not sure if I can achieve the result I (personally) want.
1. Can I use the set-up you describe to have Google Home instruct JRiver to play a particular album or track?
2. Can I use Eventbrite to tell JRiver to cast the music (via BubbleUPnP) to my Google Home?
Right now, I have taken advantage of the option of uploading up to 50,000 tracks from my computer to Google Music. (I actually uploaded about 10,000.) There is no charge for this (as of yet
). I should note that Google converts my lossless tracks to MP3s (or substitutes the MP3s it already has). This is not a serious issue for me as playback will be on my Google Home, generally as background music. With this setup I can tell Google Home to play albums, tracks or playlists from my uploaded library. (In testing, I have found a bug or two, but they're manageable). Classical could get more complicated if, for example, I wanted to play one of several uploaded versions of Beethoven's 5th Symphony, but I have curated the uploaded tracks to avoid that.