songpal command in the console

[Theiamania]

I need to subscribe to notifications in my Hassio (Docker), but I cant use 'songpal' command in the console (because is Docker?). It answer me "command not found".

How can I use 'songpal' command in console or in any other way?

[rytilahti]

You need to access the container where the integrations are installed (and potentially activate the virtualenv, if hassio is using it?).

May I ask why you want to access the notifications?

[Theiamania]

Do you know where are installed, by default, the integrations in Hassio. Sorry, I'm very newbie with HA.

I want use notifications to get info about the input media, and select the sound mode according this info. A.F.D. is not enough for me.

[rytilahti]

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with hassio, sorry. Anyway, here's how the source change notification is handled by homeassistant: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/songpal/media_player.py#L164 and here's all available properties for the notification (varies between devices): https://github.com/rytilahti/python-songpal/blob/master/songpal/notification.py#L160 which can be helpful if you are going to modify the code.

[Theiamania]

I may be wrong, but by reviewing the Sony API it seems like the only way to get the information I need is using notifyPlayingContentInfo.

In python-songpal I suppose that i must use songpal notifications --listen-all avContent to get this info. So I want to use the console, since I would not know how to modify your code and adapt it to my needs.

[rytilahti]

Yes, that's for the console tool to listen for events. The link I gave to homeassistant's code base is where it is being used. But as a word of warning, modifying hassio instances (nor containers) is a simple task, it is much easier to work outside containers, at least for development purposes.

edit: to add, you could simply install songpal locally and start experimenting with it until you get a feeling how it works. To see all notifications you have to use the --debug flag like this: songpal --debug notifications --listen-all

[Theiamania]

Thank you! I'll try it

[rytilahti]

Did you get it working? Can this be closed now?

[Theiamania]

Yes, it can be closed. I have finally chosen to use node-red to solve it. But I still use your addon in HA. Thank you so much for everything