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Topic: Looking for control Foobar2000 by TCP (can be telnet) or http commands (Read 1587 times) previous topic - next topic
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Looking for control Foobar2000 by TCP (can be telnet) or http commands

Hi, thanks for your precious suggestions!
searching around I've found foo_controlserver (https://github.com/audiohead/foo_controlserver) but this plugin seams old and not working with 2.1.6 32bit, do you have any solution? Thank you a lot!

My goal is to drive Foobar by Node Red, load a playlist and play it, adjust volume

Re: Looking for control Foobar2000 by TCP (can be telnet) or http commands

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thanks! Looks good, I?ve to test it. Reading API I haven't found how to change volume, you know?

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Quote from: ojdo on
I haven't used the API directly, but as the webclient has a volume control, the plugin appears to have an API. Also: https://github.com/hyperblast/beefweb/blob/master/docs/player-api.yml#L752-L764

Mate, thank you for your kind help :) actually I?m not good with http commands and I have no ide how to send such parameter by node red, can you please give me an idea?
I've found out how to clear a playlist and play/stop, but I also I need to know how add a playlist.. I've tried with http://127.0.0.1:8880/api/playlists/0/add/:radio_alternative.m3u: but didn't work. Thanks
 

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I hope somebody can help me, thanks :)

Re: Looking for control Foobar2000 by TCP (can be telnet) or http commands

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I am totally unfamiliar with Node Red.

I am totally guessing that below info might help to fill out the Node Red screenshot you posted.

1. Method = POST
2. URL = http://111.222.111.222:8880/api/player             (please change to the correct IP & Port)
3. Header = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
4. Body = { volume: -90, isMuted: false }                           (in this example, the volume is -90dB)

If I remember correctly, you cannot POST volume increment/decrement. Need to read the current volume, do the math, then POST the absolute volume. It has been a few months since I did the java scripting. You might also wanna try asking ChatGPT to help. ChatGPT was quite useful to me for JavaScript.

Alternatively, you might want to try my "read only" remote controller to control the volume.
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,126264.0.html

Re: Looking for control Foobar2000 by TCP (can be telnet) or http commands

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Hi mate, thank you! you solved my problem :)
For who may like to do the same, with Node Red is just necessary to send to HTTP rrequest node an msg.payload object with values:
payload: object
volume: -2.5
isMuted: false
Be careful as the volume values are expressed on dB, -3 means about 90% of signal
To get info from Foobar and know the playng volume you'll need to send a msg.payload with property volume, in my case "volume":true worked to get a full answer about the status of player, you will better parse result on JSON, you will have a msg.player.volume.value data.

There is a way to change volume sotfly? or we need a routine and send increasing/decreasing values?

Re: Looking for control Foobar2000 by TCP (can be telnet) or http commands

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https://bitbucket.org/oblikoamorale/foo_httpcontrol/wiki/Home

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Thanks for link, I've spent some time on beefweb and I'll stay on that one.
I've learned how to play a playlist entry, simply open the link:
http://127.0.0.1:8880/api/player/play/p1/1
where p1 is playlist 1 (it may start from zero, discover it from an output, to get the output I used the volume:true as described above), and 1 is the second track (the first is 0).