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.

The preferred method to install the Squeezebox integration is through the “Configuration” panel on the left hand side of the frontend. In the “Configuration” panel, choose “Integrations”, click the “+” icon in the lower right-hand corner, and choose “Logitech Squeezebox” from the list of new integrations.

Although using the configuration.yaml file to set up this integration is now deprecated, it continues to work:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
  - platform: squeezebox
    host: IP_ADDRESS

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
      entity_id: media_player.transporter
    - service: media_player.play_media
      data:
        entity_id: media_player.transporter
        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.