Recent content by twm

Simply buy dumb audio gear and devices like the WiiM mini and pro to make them smart. I agree that there is a certain danger of WiiM products becoming more like Sonos, but with dumb audio gear the financial damage is somewhat limited.

To corporate greed!

Well, to cast to Airplay devices :-) This functionality existed in a previous firmware version, but was apparently removed, which is a pity.

But what happened to Airplay? I don’t see any airplay devices in my WiiM app.

Apparently my browser gave me the cached version of the document, so thanks for pointing out the new version!

Let me repeat that I am still very much interested in having OUTPUT control via API. I hope this gets implemented soon.

Not that I’m aware of.

Is there an update on the status of the API integration of the audio output? I'd be thrilled if this is added.

upnp-client --pprint call-action http://WIIM_IP:49152/description.xml AVTransport/GetInfoEx InstanceID=0 | jq -r '.out_parameters.CurrentTransportState' does indeed work, thanks!

Yeah, I tried that one, but couldn’t make it work. Some strange issue with jq parseing.

OK thanks. I don’t know how to poll the UPnP interface using bash, any hints are greatly appreciated.

I use curl -s --insecure https://WIIM_IP/httpapi.asp\?command\=getPlayerStatus | jq -r '.status' where WIIM_IP is the IP of the WiiM Pro unit to poll the current playback status. This works perfectly with Airplay, Spotify Connect, Chromecast and returns "play" or "stop", according to the...

In case anyone is interested: Using Wifi, the WiiM Pro uses about 1.7 Watts (both when playback is active and when the unit is idle).

I am also interested in power consumption in Watts, both for active playback and standby, but am not satisfied with answers of the style "It doesn't matter" or some speculation. I would be grateful if someone who owns a Wiim Pro and a Wattmeter measures the power consumption, so that we know...

After some initial testing it looks like it may still not be entirely realiable (in the sense that the service stops working after a while). Many thanks nonetheless!