Sorry for necromancing an old thread, but it seems not too many people are using Mycroft together with LMS (Logitech Media Server, aka SqueezeboxServer aka Slimserver), albeit this is a great solution.
I use LMS v8.2.1 (on an Ubuntu machine) with about 10 players (some hardware, some Squeezelite), and a library of about 153,000 titles. My Mycroft is currently a test installation on my Linux Mint 20.3/Cinnamon laptop, version 21.2.2, and I’ve installed the skill-squeezebox by git cloning it into my /opt/mycroft/skills folder.
My initial setup problem was the LMS host name on my account’s skill setup page: I had to use studio1 as my host name, not studio1.local or studio1.fritz.box, because the latter two would produce AttributeError: 'SqueezeBoxMediaSkill' object has no attribute 'lms'. (I almost never use fixed IP addresses—we do have DHCP and DNS, after all!)
After having this fixed, the skill managed to get to the total library duration (/opt/mycroft/skills/skill-squeezebox/library_total_duration_state.json.gz), song list (/opt/mycroft/skills/skill-squeezebox/library_cache.json.gz) and album list (/opt/mycroft/skills/skill-squeezebox/sources_cache.json.gz) from my LMS. As far as I can manually check, these look okay, even for the “odd” titles using fancy UTF-8 filenames (like Bowie’s “star” album, or Chinese/Japanese songs).
My current problem is now that, upon spoken (or typed) input like
play electronic music-
play artist acdc (AC/DC, but it seems able to resolve that!)
play thunderstruckplay thunderstruck by acdc-
play album let’s rock (by The Black Keys)
the skill comes up with error AttributeError: 'SqueezeBoxMediaSkill' object has no attribute 'default_player_name'. It should know this, I entered it on my account’s skill settings page (tried both a hardware player Wohnzimmer and a Squeezelite player e6510), and it also has the info in /home/matthias/.config/mycroft/skills/skill-squeezebox/settings.json:
{"__mycroft_skill_firstrun": false, "port": "9000", "server": "studio1", "password": "", "username": "", "default_player_name": "e6510", "speak_dialog_enabled": false, "podcast_source_enabled": true, "favorite_source_enabled": true, "playlist_source_enabled": true, "media_library_source_enabled": true}
The error message in Mycroft is:
10:08:50.183 | ERROR | 39566 | mycroft.skills.mycroft_skill.mycroft_skill:on_error:923 | An error occurred while processing a request in Squeeze Box Media Skill
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/matthias/Projekte/mycroft-core/mycroft/skills/mycroft_skill/event_container.py", line 73, in wrapper
handler(message)
File "/home/matthias/Projekte/mycroft-core/mycroft/skills/common_play_skill.py", line 97, in __handle_play_query
result = self.CPS_match_query_phrase(search_phrase)
File "/opt/mycroft/skills/skill-squeezebox/__init__.py", line 617, in CPS_match_query_phrase
backend, playerid = self.get_playerid(self.get_backend(phrase))
File "/opt/mycroft/skills/skill-squeezebox/__init__.py", line 184, in get_playerid
backend = self.default_player_name.title()
AttributeError: 'SqueezeBoxMediaSkill' object has no attribute 'default_player_name'
10:08:55.361 | INFO | 39566 | Playback Control Skill | No matches
For the life of me, I can’t find out what the reason might be. Anyone who can help me debug or has an idea? I’d so much like to have Mycroft interact with my LMS!
Interesting also: If I try to specify a different player by saying play album let's rock on player Wohnzimmer, it also now brings up an AttributeError: 'SqueezeBoxMediaSkill' object has no attribute 'lms', although it could previously use lms to read the library:
10:21:14.635 | INFO | 39566 | Playback Control Skill | Resolving Player for: album let's rock on player Wohnzimmer
10:21:16.969 | ERROR | 39566 | mycroft.skills.mycroft_skill.mycroft_skill:on_error:923 | An error occurred while processing a request in Squeeze Box Media Skill
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/matthias/Projekte/mycroft-core/mycroft/skills/mycroft_skill/event_container.py", line 73, in wrapper
handler(message)
File "/home/matthias/Projekte/mycroft-core/mycroft/skills/common_play_skill.py", line 97, in __handle_play_query
result = self.CPS_match_query_phrase(search_phrase)
File "/opt/mycroft/skills/skill-squeezebox/__init__.py", line 617, in CPS_match_query_phrase
backend, playerid = self.get_playerid(self.get_backend(phrase))
File "/opt/mycroft/skills/skill-squeezebox/__init__.py", line 186, in get_playerid
players = self.lms.get_players()
AttributeError: 'SqueezeBoxMediaSkill' object has no attribute 'lms'
10:21:22.347 | INFO | 39566 | Playback Control Skill | No matches
I wonder if this might be some Python and/or threading problem… (I run Linux Mint 20.3 and Python 3.8.10 on this laptop, Intel Core i7 Q740 [4 cores/8 threads], 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD).
