hassio-squeezebox-buttons

Send all your squeezebox buttons to Home Assistant via webhook

Short script which send all button presses on a Logitech Squeezebox to your Home Assistant via webhook (only tested with Squeezebox Radio)

Trigger whatever action you like for each of them using a Home Assistant Automation.

No dependencies, just scp it to your Squeezebox and add it to the init scripts.

The only linux tools used are already preinstalled in the squeezebox

• hexdump to read the raw input event
• wget to send the curresponding snippet to the home assistant webhook api

On Home Assistant side, just add a webhook for each of your Squeezeboxes and an additional automation for all buttons.

Heavily unpolished, feel free to send PRs or (even better) write a proper hassio-addon with a better user-experience.

(the buttons are completely independant from LMS - in theory we could even get rid of the Logitech Media Server (or Slim Proto) part and turn the Squeezebox into a fully fledged Home Assistant Client including GUI)

Installation

• replace the example webhook in sbevmon (and the example home assistant automation) with your own one - for example using sed:

sed "s:87161aac-f0ae-4939-8ad3-4f36b6482bb9:7ca6e1d5-0343-42fa-a707-545c76e1b4df:g" -i sbevmon

sed "s:87161aac-f0ae-4939-8ad3-4f36b6482bb9:7ca6e1d5-0343-42fa-a707-545c76e1b4df:g" -i mysb-send-button

optionally replace homeassistant.local with your home assistant dns or ip in sbevmon

example:

sed "s:homeassistant.local:10.10.3.123:g" -i sbevmon

You can easily generate a custom uuid on duckduckgo (found in this excellent howto)

• copy the script to your squeezebox (using ssh)

example:

scp -O sbevmon yoursqueezebox:/usr/bin/

(default squeezebox root password is '1234'')

• add a template webhook to your home assistant 'configuration.yaml' for each of your squeezeboxes (use the same uuid as above)

` template:

• trigger:

  • platform: webhook webhook_id: 87161aac-f0ae-4939-8ad3-4f36b6482bb9 `

• ssh into your squeezebox:

in the squeezebox

• add the script to /etc/init.d/rcS.local (does not exist by default) (commented for a reason, you might have already a custom rcS.local):

#echo "/usr/bin/sbevmon &" > /etc/init.d/rcS.local #echo "exit 0" >> /etc/init.d/rcS.local

example (ymmv):

`

cat /etc/init.d/rcS.local

/usr/bin/sbevmon & exit 0 `

• make the scripts and the init script executable

chmod +x /usr/bin/sbevmon

chmod +x /etc/init.d/rcS.local

• reboot - sbevmon should automatically start and run in the background
• (ssh back in and check with 'ps aux | grep sbevmon' if you want)

home assistant:

add a new automation for the squeezebox buttons You might want to use the provided 'mysb-send-button' (don't forget to adjust the webhook_id to your uuid used avove) and adjust it to your needs

Done - every button pressed should appear in the home assistant messages separately (tested with 3 Squeezeboxes)

Adjust every action to your (more useful) needs. Might make sense to trigger different actions, depending on the current media_player state. Would be glad to read of your ideas.

Currently I do not plan do actively enhance the current state, but if you're interested in making something bigger out of it, I'd be glad to help.

TODO(?):

• maybe some cosmetical clean-ups, source a central config file...