Accessing button press information through HA

[cssinate]

Hey folks; this is a really cool project. I'm so glad I found it. For some context, I love the SoundTouch 10 because it's a speaker I can put into my young kids' room. I can set up 6 playlists that I know are family-friendly content that they like. Then they have access to play the music they want without the need for a screen or device.

I had tried on my own to work through the SoundTouch API that they made public, but (unless I'm wildly mistaken) they don't have any way to detect the various button presses.

For me personally, an ideal situation is that the SoundTouch sends it button presses to Home Assistant, and Home Assistant tells the speaker what to play back. I wonder if that sort of functionality is, or ever will be, within the purview of this project.

[akpdw]

Hi! Thanks for the compliments. :)

On the one hand, the aim of soundcork is to keep all or as much of the existing SoundTouch functionality active once Bose takes down their servers. So the solution that we're hoping to offer for your situation is that your presets just continue to work as they do now.

On the other hand, it really shouldn't be that unreasonable for a Home Assistant integration to effectively intercept button presses and then send its own music stream to a speaker. When a button is pressed, the speaker sends out a websocket message like

<updates deviceID="12345ABCDEF"><nowSelectionUpdated><preset id="5">...

So a client could listen for those and then when it sees one it could instead take over the speaker as a uPnP device and stream its own music to it. (I think there is at least one client that does something like this to listen to double-presses of a button to select a different music source, so effectively doubling the number of presets available.)

That having been said, we're focused on the server-shutdown problem first. Though maybe some of the people around here who are looking at the app-side of things might have something to say...