Happy easter!
I would like to implement a super simple way to have some basic volumio (2) control with a keyboard or similar (joystick?) thing (without soldering/using GPIO pins which are used by the DAC).
My current idea:
- use a USB numpad
- maybe use “triggerhappy” as discussed here?
- use REST API?
Assuming “KEY_1” the correct triggerhappy key for the key “1” I assume then putting something like:
KEY_1 0 curl volumio.local/api/v1/commands/?cmd=playplaylist&name=1stPlaylist
in the config file (as explained above) would make volumio play the playlist named “1stPlaylist”.
Am I right in assuming this works? (Unfortunately I just notice the command “playplaylist” doesn’t seem to be recognized…)
Any idea how this could work? Or a simpler idea?
Hard- and software wise?
(I would like my 3-year old daughter + my wife to be able to press a simple key to play something predefined without starting a bigger programming/engineering project…)
If I understood well, I cannot use mpc commands to play playlists?
Thanks! Florian