Multiroom support

[ZeroZXD]

Hello,

Would it be possile to add multiroom support to this like the linkplay Home Assitant integration?

[mitrokun]

As a temporary solution, you can use the Rest API ( https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/rest )

Here is my example of using to connect and disconnect WiiM to the master (up2stream)

wiim2main:
  url: 'https://192.168.1.72/httpapi.asp?command=ConnectMasterAp:JoinGroupMaster:eth192.168.1.219:wifi0.0.0.0'
  verify_ssl: false
wiimoutmain:
  url: 'http://192.168.1.219/httpapi.asp?command=multiroom:SlaveKickout:192.168.1.72'
  verify_ssl: false

But you can use any other commands from the official API, including on the arilyc website.

[onlyoneme]

Hello,

Would it be possile to add multiroom support to this like the linkplay Home Assitant integration?

No plan for that ATM, but you can use @mitrokun solution as a workaround. Commands possibly available for WiiM can be found here:

https://www.wiimhome.com/pdf/HTTP%20API%20for%20WiiM%20Mini.pdf
https://developer.arylic.com/httpapi/#http-api
https://github.com/AndersFluur/LinkPlayApi/blob/master/api.md

[mitrokun]

Only there is not enough attribute to track the 'slave' state. It helps a lot when building control logic.
There is a 'slave' attribute in Linkplay integration. It would be great if you can add this to your integration. As far as I understand, it is based on the value "group": from JSON, which is received after the status request (http api.asp?command=getstatuses)

[onlyoneme]

I guess you've meant getPlayerStatus and type property.
I've added slave and master_uuid attributes taken from upnp interface to the beta branch as I do not use httpapi for player status here.

[mitrokun]

I'm using a translator, and I didn't notice a replacement error :)

I have installed the latest beta version of your integration (0.3.2-beta), but, unfortunately, the streamer does not react in any way to the fact that it is in a slave state and plays sound.

[onlyoneme]

Well, the latest one is v0.3.4-beta actually. New properties are not yet available in v0.3.2-beta.

Regarding player status, it's not reflected when in slave mode. You can check it yourself with getPlayerStatus:

{"type":"1","ch":"0","mode":"99","loop":"2","eq":"0","status":"stop","curpos":"299451","offset_pts":"63860","totlen":"305640","alarmflag":"1","plicount":"0","plicurr":"0","vol":"100","mute":"0"}

I would need to change the code to get the status from the master and propagate to all slaves, but as I said before, no plans for that ATM.

[mitrokun]

Thank you very much.

[nbeirne]

Hey y'all I found a few API commands which might change how this looks. LinkPlay supports multiroom for their own components, but we can also do it for any airplay devices (including homepods!!!). It might work with Chromecast or bluetooth as well, but I've not experimented with those yet.

here are a few API commands which I found which can be used to support this:

https://${ip}/httpapi.asp?command=audio_cast:get_speaker_list
https://${ip}/httpapi.asp?command=audio_cast:speaker_disable:${speaker_id}
https://${ip}/httpapi.asp?command=audio_cast:speaker_enable:${speaker_id}
https://${ip}/httpapi.asp?command=audio_cast:speaker_set_password:${speaker_id}:${password}
https://${ip}/httpapi.asp?command=audio_cast:speaker_set_volume:${speaker_id}:${volume}
https://${ip}/httpapi.asp?command=audio_cast:speaker_stereo_group_disable:${group_id}
https://${ip}/httpapi.asp?command=audio_cast:speaker_stereo_group_enable:${group_id}
https://${ip}/httpapi.asp?command=getNewAudioOutputHardwareMode
https://${ip}/httpapi.asp?command=setAudioOutputHardwareMode:${output_mode}

The getNewAudioOutputHardwareMode tells us how the Wiim is currently outputting. The setter takes an integer where 1=optical out, 2=line out, and 3=coax out (for the Wiim pro).

I have a proof of concept using CURL and bash, and it seems to work pretty well just running from my own command line. This is what the Wiim app does to support airplay/casting. The one caveat here is that I found that switching to line-out output will reset the input to Wifi streaming (so if you use a line in as a source, it goes silent after the output switch).

There are many more API commands available to use, I have only scratched the surface here. They are mostly undocumented, unfortunately.