Logitech Squeezebox

The Squeezebox integration allows you to control a Logitech Squeezebox music player from Home Assistant. This lets you control Squeezebox hardware like the Classic, Transporter, Duet, Boom, Radio and Touch and of software players like Squeezelite, SoftSqueeze, SqueezePlayer and SqueezeSlave.

Configuration

Adding Logitech Squeezebox to your Home Assistant instance can be done via the user interface, by taking the following steps:

• Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
• In the sidebar click on Configuration.
• From the configuration menu select: Integrations.

Logitech Squeezebox can be auto-discovered by Home Assistant. If an instance was found, it will be shown in the top of the list of integrations as “Discovered”. If that is the case click on the Configure button to start setting up the discovered instance.

If there wasn’t any discovered automatically, don’t worry! You can set up a manual integration entry:

• In the bottom right, click on the Add Integration button.
• From the list, search and select “Logitech Squeezebox”.
• Follow the instruction on screen to complete the set up.

After completing, the Logitech Squeezebox integration will be immediately available for use.

The Logitech Transporter which have two digital inputs can be activated using a script. The following example turns on the Transporter and activates the toslink input interface:

# Turn on Transporter and activate toslink interface
transporter_toslink:
  sequence:
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      target:
        entity_id: media_player.transporter
    - service: media_player.play_media
      target:
        entity_id: media_player.transporter
      data:
        media_content_id: "source:toslink"
        media_content_type: "music"

Service call_method

Call a custom Squeezebox JSON-RPC API.

See documentation for this interface on http://HOST:PORT/html/docs/cli-api.html?player= where HOST and PORT are the host name and port for your Logitech Media Server.

This service can be used to integrate any Squeezebox action to an automation.

It can also be used to target a Squeezebox from IFTTT (or Dialogflow, Alexa…).

For example, to play an album from your collection, create an IFTTT applet like this:

• Trigger: Google assistant, with sentence: I want to listen to album $
• Action: JSON post query with such JSON body: { "entity_id": "media_player.squeezebox_radio", "command": "playlist", "parameters": ["loadtracks", "album.titlesearch="] }

This can work with title search and basically any thing. The same wouldn’t have worked by calling directly Squeezebox server as IFTTT cannot escape the text field.

Service call_query

Call a custom Squeezebox JSON-RPC API. The result of the query will be stored in the ‘query_result’ attribute of the player.

See documentation for this interface on http://HOST:PORT/html/docs/cli-api.html?player= where HOST and PORT are the host name and port for your Logitech Media Server.

This service can be used to integrate a Squeezebox query into an automation. For example, in a Python script, you can get a list of albums available by an artist like this: hass.services.call("squeezebox", "call_query", { "entity_id": "media_player.kitchen", "command": "albums", "parameters": ["0", "20", "search:beatles", "tags:al"] }) To work with the results: result = hass.states.get("media_player.kitchen").attributes['query_result']

Service sync

Add another player to this player’s sync group. If the other player is already in a sync group, it will leave it.

Service unsync

Remove this player from its sync group.