Name

pyradio-client - a Remote Control Client for PyRadio

Remote Control Client

PyRadio comes with a client to be used in conjunction with the Remote Control Server provided by the program, using the server’s text command set.

The client is created with maximum ease in mind; the user does not even have to provide the IP and PORT.

Command line parameters

The following is the output of the “pyradio-client -h” command:

Usage: pyradio-client [-h] [--address] [-s SERVER_AND_PORT] [-r]
[-t TIMEOUT] [command]

PyRadio Remote Control Client

General options:
-h, --help Show this help message and exit
--address List available servers

Server Parameters:
-s SERVER_AND_PORT, --server_and_port SERVER_AND_PORT
Set the servers's IP and PORT (format: IP:PORT)
-r, --reverse-detection
Reverse server detection (when no server IP and PORT
specified); detect headless server last, instead of
headless server first
-t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT
Set the timeout (default = 1.0)
command The command to send to the server

How it works

The client will auto-detect the PyRadio Servers running on the system, when the “-s” command line parameter is not used.

The auto-detection functionality is based on parsing the “server files” (residing in the STATE directory).

If both a headless and a normal instance of PyRadio are detected, the headless server will be used to send the requested command, unless the “-r” (“–reverse-detection”) command line parameter is used.

Note:

A normal server is a server started by a PyRadio instance which is executed on a real terminal, without the “––headless” command line parameter.

A list of available commands will be displayed when no command has been specified.

A list of detected servers (and their address) can be obtained using the command:

$ pyradio-client --addr
PyRadio Remote Control Server


  Headless server: 127.0.0.1:11111


  Server: 127.0.0.1:9998
    

Then, the address reported can be used to contact a specific server:

pyradio-client -s 127.0.0.1:9998 i
    

The previous command will get the info page of the normal instance of a server.

See also

pyradio_server(1)

pyradio(1)