lgsnapclient

A lightweight LG webOS app to play back a low-latency Snapcast Websocket stream using Javascript AudioContext.

License

GPL-3.0, see LICENSE.

The icons, snapstream.js and libflac.js files are verbatim copies or slight adaptations of upstream Snapserver web licensed under GPL-3.0.

Building

Note the stream WS URL is hard-coded in index.html. Update it before packaging and installing the app.

During development, use the very quick, non-minifying Python packager:

$ ./package.py

For "production" builds, you can rely on the official ares-package from webOS SDK. Please note, though, that it is unbearably slow with no real benefits:

$ ares-package src/

Installing

Follow webOS SDK instructions on either a real TV or the SDK emulator to register a device, install and optionally launch programmatically.

Once your device is registered, tl;dr looks like:

$ DEVICE=MyTvName
$ ares-install --device $DEVICE eu.zopi.lgsnapclient_0.0.1_all.ipk
$ ares-launch --device $DEVICE -a eu.zopi.lgsnapclient

Usage

Just start the app. Playback will begin, provided your Snapserver WS stream is working correctly.

There are three LG “Magic Remote” key bindings:

• Press the red button to reload the app, eg. in case of network errors.
• Press the green button to toggle between the app and a fully black screen.
• Press the yellow button to toggle log visibility.

Note the whole UI moves every 10 seconds to prevent burn-in.

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