Snapcast: Websocket/HTTP request support? (Mopidy-mobile)

[qhello]

Hi,

First of all, love the great job you've done putting this awesome piece of software on!

I'm currently trying to implement snap cast control into the existing Ionic-based app Mopidy-mobile in order to control both Mopidy and Snapcast server/clients.

But because I can't seem to find out how to easily create raw-TCP socket using Ionic, I think it might be easier to access Snapcast's API using Websocket or HTTP request ; but this isn't documented anywhere, and I can't find any more informations about it.

Does anyone have a solution / lead to solution for this issue ? I'd much appreciate it!

Regards, Quentin

[ThYpHo0n]

Hi @qhello,
I'm working on a Electron app to control a Snapserver instance and I've got some code snippets which may interest you:
https://github.com/ThYpHo0n/Snapp/blob/master/src/services/SnapcastService.ts
https://github.com/ThYpHo0n/Snapp/blob/master/src/utils/telnetlib.ts
That should do it, I'll most probably do some further work in the upcoming weeks and implement all the missing commands like mute/change volume etc. into the SnapcastService. They are in Typescript but should be easily be ported back to JS if you like to or at least they give a pretty decent idea of how to implement raw tcp json rpc via Node sockets :)

[jaedb]

@ThYpHo0n that's very useful stuff. I'm working on a similar challenge on Mopidy-Iris and have opted for an intermediary python service. It's ugly but it works. I'd much prefer a JS-based solution like yours.

The biggest hurdle I've encountered is figuring out how to have a (non-blocking) long-living TCP connection that monitors for notifications sent from Snapcast. Without which the web interface doesn't reflect changes made by other clients. Have you had any luck on this front?

[badaix]

HTTP requests are supported in recent versions