[announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

I just uploaded Squeezecontrol to extras-devel. It does what the name suggests: Controls Logitech Squeezeboxes. It's still a very early edition with only basic controls, but I wanted to get it out as soon as possible to get some feedback.

More release notes available here.

More features coming soon. Commentds and suggestions appreciated.

Update Feb 23 (0.1.3-10)
* On/off button in player window.
* Icon should be working now, thanks to mavit.
* Better handling of lagging track info responses from server.

Update Feb 21 (0.1.2-1)
* Fixed charset issues.
* Made the track info contain both track name, album and artist, no matter what selected player display is set to show.

Update Feb 21 (0.1.1-1)
* Fixed bug occuring when hiding the progress bar in the player window, reported by aenbacka.

Update Feb 20 (0.1.0-1)
* Added track title, artist, etc. and time elapsed/remaining to player window.
* Updated dependency list again, thanks to mavit.

Update Feb 10 (0.0.2-1)
* Updated dependency list, according to report from aenbacka.
* Added more server settings. Now support for alternative server port and authentication.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

Thanks for the app! I tried it and it worked fine..:) It seems that at least a dependency to pyside-qt4-core is missing (I did not have it installed so I had to manually install it from extras-devel, otherwise squeezecontrol did not startup).

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

aenbacka, thanks for reporting the missing dependency. I'll fix it later today.

I also hope to have enough time today to make the player screen more informative and useful.

I'm glad you like it :)

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

look forward to fixing the Pyside QT dependency issue to try out

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

Also, pyside-qt4-gui is required.

Oh, it might be worth having a think about the name. There's already an Android app called SqueezeControl, as well as a Qt app called squeezecontroll that purports to run on the N900.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

shin, is it the same missing dependency as mavit mentions?

mavit, I didn't see the Android app until after I released this one. I never stumbled across squeezecontroll. If I'd known about it, I may never have started this project :/

Is it working on N900? There only seems to be a .sis for Symbian phones.

Well... I'll look into that project in the weekend and decide whether to continue or not. I'll also think of another name. Any suggestions?

Both of you, thanks for feedback.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

According to the developer, yes: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...350#post601350

It's in the fairly early stages, from what I can tell. I don't have an N900 build environment set up at the moment, but I tried it briefly on my Fedora box and the UI was erratic.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

mavit, thanks for info. I think I'll continue with this one. It has is justification as long as their app is neither in repos nor the Ovi Store.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

I just uploaded a new update with track info in the player window. Much more informative now :)

mavit, I asked the developer of the Android SqueezeControl about having the same name, and he says it's no problem, so I'll stick to the name for now.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

I happened to be listening to Sigur Rós at the time, and noticed that it doesn't handle non-ASCII track titles properly. I've submitted a patch to https://code.google.com/p/pysqueezec...s/detail?id=11

Also, I notice that the bugtracker link at http://maemo.org/packages/view/squeezecontrol/ doesn't work. HTH.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

mavit, I just noticed your bug report over at pysqueezecenter. As I wrote over there, I'll take care of it tomorrow (or as soon as possible).

I didn't realize the bugtracker link wasn't working. I'll look into that too.

Thanks!

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

I just tried the latest Squeezecontrol version, and of some reason nothing happens when I try to select my player from the list (pressing on the player button). This worked ok in the earlier version.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

Latest version (0.1.0) plays just fine here - with both my devices (radio and duet/receiver). I just noted the issue with missing characters: "Sen du försvann" becomes "Sen du FÃ$rsvann". (also found by Mavit)

Looking forward to a search button (artist/album) :)

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

When I run squeezecontrol from the xterminal, I get the following output when I try to select my player from the list:

/opt/squeezecontrol $ ./squeezecontrol.py
Error calling slot "select_player"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./squeezecontrol.py", line 398, in select_player
player_window = PlayerWindow(self, player)
File "./squeezecontrol.py", line 62, in __init__
self.render()
File "./squeezecontrol.py", line 125, in render
self.progress_bar.setVisible(false)
NameError: global name 'false' is not defined

Any idea what could be wrong?

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

Oh, yeah. Embarrassing. It's False, not false (with a capital F). I'll fix it later today.

As far as I remember, it occurs when you are playing some kind of stream. Try playing something from your local music library and see if it works then.

naivsupr, playlist management is next on my list :)

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

I'm on my way out, but I just uploaded a new version that hopefully fixes the problem you are experiencing, aenbacka. I'll be back later with another update for the charset issue.

I think the updated version (0.1.1) will be available in about half an hour.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

Coming up in about 20 minutes: Fix for charset issues.

mavit and naivsupr, will you please confirm that it works for you when you get version 0.1.2?

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

Looks good to me!

A couple of other minor things:

• The launcher icon doesn't work for me. I had succes by removing the "-64x64" from the .desktop file and moving the icons to /usr/share/icons/hicolor/[size]/apps/squeezecontrol.png.
• I don't think you intended to include /opt/squeezecontrol/.squeezecontrol.py.swp in the package. Looks like it's a VIM auto-save file.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

Thanks a lot for the update, now it works great again! :)

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

I've really had some trouble getting the icon to work. Would you please describe in detail what you did to fix it?

I've (hopefully) got my build script to ignore my vim .swp files from now on :)

All of you, thanks a lot for all the input and support.

I've been struggling for a couple of hours to figure out how to attach a menu to the title bar. I got it now and started by adding an on/off button. I won't make a new release just with that, but now I'm ready to start working on playlist handling.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

My squeezecontrol.desktop looks like this:

I placed an icon in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/squeezecontrol.png.

The trick is that you need to reboot the phone or kill hildon-desktop to get it to pick up the new icon. Bug 6931 asserts that you can also touch /usr/share/icons/hicolor, but that didn't work for me.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

mavit, thanks a lot! I messed it up (once again) when trying to move the icons yesterday. But now it also works on my phone. I'll push it in an update later today.

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

I uploaded an update (0.1.3) half an hour ago with fix for the icon, on/off button in player window and some other background fixes. Will some of you guys please verify that the icon is showing up now?

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

Hm, saving settings doesn't work for me.
I type in the IP address, but the program won't save it and nothing at all happens when I press "save".

I run 0.1.3

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

thompa, if you run it from the terminal (/opt/squeezecontrol/squeezecontrol.py), does it print out any errors when you try to save your settings?

Re: [announce] Squeezecontrol: Control your Squeezeboxes from your N900
 

Yep. I type in the IP address and press "save" and get this


Error calling slot "save_settings"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/squeezecontrol/squeezecontrol.py", line 342, in save_settings
self.main.save_setting(setting, self.fields[setting].text())
File "/opt/squeezecontrol/squeezecontrol.py", line 229, in save_setting
self.cursor.execute('insert into settings values (?, ?)', params)
sqlite3.InterfaceError: Error binding parameter 1 - probably unsupported type.