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snapcastr

introduction

Snapcastr is a webinterface to control a snapcast server.

It is written in python with flask, wtforms and python-snapcast

install from source or from pypi

install from source

requirements

use your package manager, e.g. apt or pacman and install

python3
poetry

get source

$ git clone https://github.com/xkonni/snapcastr

install locally

$ cd snapcastr
$ poetry install

install system-wide

$ cd snapcastr
$ poetry build
$ sudo pip3 install dist/snapcastr-0.1.0.tar.gz

install from pypi

install locally

$ pip install snapcastr

install system-wide

$ sudo pip install snapcastr

run

show help

$ snapcastrd -h

usage: snapcastrd [-h] [--host host] [--port port] [--sc_host sc_host] [-c CONFIG] [-d]

snapcastr

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --host host           webinterface host
  --port port, -p port  webinterface port
  --sc_host sc_host, -s sc_host
                        snapcast host
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        config file
  -d, --debug           debug mode

run the application

when installed locally

$ cd snapcastr
$ poetry run snapcastrd --sc_host=address_of_your_snapserver

when installed system-wide

$ snapcastrd --sc_host=address_of_your_snapserver

The address_of_your_snapserver might be 127.0.0.1 or localhost, if you are running snapcastr on the same machine as your snapserver. Snapcastr doesn't need to run with super user privileges (so you don't need to run it with sudo).