Radio on startup

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I have installed the ‘auto start playlist’ plugin and now before closing down I always make sure that my favorite radio station is at the top of the playlist so that it plays when I power up. I have got the supply to my player running through a timer ( on only mode ) which means I can now have a radio alarm in the mornings.
Would it be a step too far to be able to have that radio station auto start even if it is not in the playlist so that whatever I was playing before I shut down is not auto started but the radio station is?

Thanks

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The solution could be use the CRON (find more details via google) and the parameter @reboot. My suggestion is used this settings in crontab -e

@reboot curl "volumio.local:3000/api/v1/commands/?cmd=playplaylist&name=CRo"

This setting after reboot starts playlist with name CRo, where is store only one internet radio.

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Thanks for that advice. I will look at it and see if I can understand how to set it up.

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I did a test using the cron’s command suggested but unfortunately this REST request do not launch the playlist even if it reports that “playplaylist Success”

curl volumio.local:3000/api/v1/commands/?cmd=playplaylist&name=PL_Classic21 
[1] 13459
{"time":1546262240825,"response":"playplaylist Success"}
[1]  + 13459 done       curl volumio.local:3000/api/v1/commands/?cmd=playplaylist
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Somebody provided the solution in another thread. We must enclose the command with simple quotes

@reboot curl "volumio.local:3000/api/v1/commands/?cmd='playplaylist&name=PL_Classic21'"

Remark : Doc should be updated !

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Hi. Thanks for that. I will take a look and give it a go.

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It works when the command is executed manually but not when cron executes it as it returns this permission error issue

Jan 01 09:39:57 volumio CRON[819]: (root) CMD (curl volumio.local:3000/api/v1/commands/?cmd='playplaylist&name=PL_Classic21')
Jan 01 09:40:04 volumio cron[561]: 2019-01-01 09:40:04 1geGWq-0000He-M7 Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim4/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=112 egid=116
Jan 01 09:40:04 volumio cron[561]: 2019-01-01 09:40:04 1geGWq-0000He-M7 <= root@localhost U=root P=local S=1262
Jan 01 09:40:04 volumio cron[561]: 2019-01-01 09:40:04 1geGWq-0000He-M7 Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim4/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=112 egid=116
Jan 01 09:40:04 volumio exim[1094]: 2019-01-01 09:40:04 1geGWq-0000He-M7 <= root@localhost U=root P=local S=1262
Jan 01 09:40:04 volumio exim[1094]: 2019-01-01 09:40:04 1geGWq-0000He-M7 Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim4/mainlog": Permission denied: euid=112 egid=116
Jan 01 09:40:04 volumio exim[1094]: exim: could not open panic log - aborting: see message(s) above

Here is the command that I defined within the contrab file

## Reboot and use playlist defined / default
@reboot root curl volumio.local:3000/api/v1/commands/?cmd='playplaylist&name=PL_Classic21' >/dev/null 2>&1
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If I add MAILTO="" top of the crontab file, then the problem is gone. The command is well executed but the radio’s player of volumio is not started …

I suspect that when this command is executed, then volumio is not yet started …

volumio@volumio:~$ sudo journalctl -u cron.service
-- Logs begin at Tue 2019-01-01 10:40:40 UTC, end at Tue 2019-01-01 10:44:24 UTC. --
Jan 01 10:40:44 volumio systemd[1]: Starting Regular background program processing daemon...
Jan 01 10:40:44 volumio systemd[1]: Started Regular background program processing daemon.
Jan 01 10:40:44 volumio cron[558]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Jan 01 10:40:44 volumio cron[558]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
Jan 01 10:40:45 volumio CRON[560]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jan 01 10:40:45 volumio CRON[709]: (root) CMD (curl volumio.local:3000/api/v1/commands/?cmd='playplaylist&name=PL_Classic21')
Jan 01 10:40:52 volumio CRON[560]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
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I created a ticket as I can’t restart the player using a crontab reboot rule. See -> github.com/volumio/Volumio2/issues/1693

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OK. Thanks for that.

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