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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 27 for Windows => Topic started by: flac.rules on September 29, 2020, 03:17:53 am

Title: What is needed to get a plugin for Home Assistant up en running?
Post by: flac.rules on September 29, 2020, 03:17:53 am

I am not very knowledgeable on how plugins like this work, but is there anything that can be done/is needed on the MC-side to let it be controlled via the most popular(?) smart-home-software, Home Assistant? Or is everything "ready for action" on the MC-side and it is just about someone writhing a HA-plugin?

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#media-player

Title: Re: What is needed to get a plugin for Home Assistant up en running?
Post by: wer on September 29, 2020, 03:34:31 am

JRiver Media Center contains a full featured Web Service Interface (MCWS) that allows it to be remotely controlled using http.

You can see some info on it here:
https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Web_Service_Interface

Learn how to write a Home Assistant plugin, and you're off to the races.

Title: Re: What is needed to get a plugin for Home Assistant up en running?
Post by: kdsteele on October 10, 2020, 03:22:43 pm

With the death of IFTTT (for me anyway - due to the new subscription model) I installed Home Assistant. I'm impressed by Home Assistant and already have most of my automation gear integrated. They recently added a media player, but it doesn't support FLAC.  I don't have the knowledge or skills to do this - but it sure would be great if JRiver could be added as an integration.  I bet this would be a good marketing move for JRiver as well.

Title: Re: What is needed to get a plugin for Home Assistant up en running?
Post by: JimH on October 10, 2020, 05:05:52 pm

We're headed that way.

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,127059.0.html

Title: Re: What is needed to get a plugin for Home Assistant up en running?
Post by: kdsteele on March 06, 2022, 10:26:44 am

Anything new for integrating J River with Home Assistant?  Home Assistant just released version 2022.3 which included new media functions.  It now detects J River as a DLNA source, and lists all my playlists but will not play anything.  I suspect this is because all my files are FLAC which the built-in media player in Home Assistant does not recognize. I wish there was a way to use J River as the media player....

Title: Re: What is needed to get a plugin for Home Assistant up en running?
Post by: JimH on March 06, 2022, 11:34:10 am

MC can convert to mp3 on the fly.