Hey I want to be able to send a HTTP request from my other control device which will cause Pi Music Box to Play or Pause. Im currently using the Autoboot and play feature to play a Spotify playlist which works great but I want to be able to play / pause it from a 3rd party device which is capable o…

I have taken a look at this API and it doesnt look to accept HTTP GET requests which is all that I can send out from my 3rd party control device. It accepts JSON or HTTP POST requests. I can also send TCP or UDP packets to IP addresses, any idea if it support commands like this? I supposed I could …

An alternative might be sending MPD commands over TCP, which are just simple line-base text records: https://www.musicpd.org/doc/protocol/

Trigger Play / Pause from HTTP request

Pi MusicBox (archive)

tkem May 2, 2016, 9:31am 2

https://mopidy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/http/

Simple example http client mopidy

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