Feature Request: “Now Playing” Sharing + iPhone Shortcuts Workaround Included

[AssafAviv]

Hi WiiM team and community,

I’d like to suggest a feature that I believe would significantly improve the user experience: the ability to generate and share a link to the content currently playing on a WiiM device.

At the moment, there’s no native way to do this. To explore the idea further, I created a personal workaround using iPhone Shortcuts. My shortcut queries the local WiiM API on the network, extracts the currently playing track details, and dynamically generates a shareable playback link. At this stage, it supports both TIDAL and Spotify.

From my implementation, it seems this functionality could be relatively straightforward to integrate directly into the WiiM Home app, providing users with a seamless “Share what’s playing” option.

A few technical notes from my setup:

• The shortcut communicates with the WiiM local API over the local network.
• Due to HTTPS with a self-signed certificate, the automation must start by calling a third-party app (s-Shell) using the “Execute Command” action, since native iOS Shortcuts cannot perform this request directly.
• Once the metadata is retrieved, the rest of the logic (link generation) is simple and reliable.
• I assigned my WiiM device a fixed internal IP address (192.168.0.175) to ensure consistent access.

I’ll share my shortcut and include screenshots of the logic below for reference.
I believe this could be a valuable and user-friendly addition to the app, especially for music discovery and social sharing.

Would love to hear your thoughts!