QuickApp player questions: power property, icon state and volumeSlider range

[marczu_83 29]

I have a few questions regarding this type of QuickApp.

 

First of all, what exactly does the power property do? When I set it to true or false, nothing seems to change — the QuickApp icon remains greyed out.

Is there a way to “activate” the icon in a QuickApp so that it visually indicates the device is turned on?

 

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The turnOn and turnOff actions also don’t appear to be connected to anything, and they definitely do not react when clicking the QuickApp icon. In my opinion it would be quite useful if clicking the icon triggered these actions.

 

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Is this a bug, or is it intended behavior and I’m simply not using it correctly?

 

Is it possible in this type of QuickApp to modify the values of a volumeSlider so that the maximum value is, for example, 60 instead of 100?

[Sankotronic 2,370]

13 minutes ago, marczu_83 said:

First of all, what exactly does the power property do? When I set it to true or false, nothing seems to change — the QuickApp icon remains greyed out.

Is there a way to “activate” the icon in a QuickApp so that it visually indicates the device is turned on?

 

Hi @marczu_83,

 

"power" property is to register power consumption. To turn on/off player you need to add buttons with code that will do that. If you want to turn on/off player with click on icon then you need to use other type of device, player does not provide that feature.

 

To use icon to show status of the player you need to use code to do that. You can download my Sonos API Player to learn how to do that from download section.

 

20 minutes ago, marczu_83 said:

Is it possible in this type of QuickApp to modify the values of a volumeSlider so that the maximum value is, for example, 60 instead of 100?

 

It should be possible. I use following code to change range of the color temperature slider:

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Didn't try this on my player for volume, but should work.

[marczu_83 29]

In your QuickApp you probably have your own slider and know its name, for example sldCT. Does anyone know the name of the slider that is “built-in” in the QuickApp Player?

 

[jgab 2,642]

6 minutes ago, marczu_83 said:

In your QuickApp you probably have your own slider and know its name, for example sldCT. Does anyone know the name of the slider that is “built-in” in the QuickApp Player?

 

Normally you don't manipulate the slider directly. You set the volume property and the QA (of type player) will update the volume slider

self:updateProperty('volume',<integer>)

...and we also have

self:updateProperty('mute',<bool>)

self:updateProperty('state',<string>)

[marczu_83 29]

 To be more specific…i am looking for a way to limit the slider (max value) in a QuickApp of type Player. for that i need the name of the slider but i cant find it

[jgab 2,642]

28 minutes ago, marczu_83 said:

 To be more specific…i am looking for a way to limit the slider (max value) in a QuickApp of type Player. for that i need the name of the slider but i cant find it

Why? the volume is shown in %...  Don't you want to have 0-100%. ?

[jgab 2,642]

The name is 

self:updateView("playerVolumeSlider","value","55")
but it seems to behave a bit strange on min/max properties....

[marczu_83 29]

Cytat

Why? the volume is shown in %...  Don't you want to have 0-100%. ?

Actually, you’re right. I hadn’t looked at it from that perspective.

What bothers me the most is that you can’t turn the device on or off just by clicking the icon. 

 

Edited March 10 by marczu_83

[jgab 2,642]

6 minutes ago, marczu_83 said:

Actually, you’re right. I hadn’t looked at it from that perspective.

What bothers me the most is that you can’t turn the device on or off just by clicking the icon. 

 

You wan't to turn it off, stop, or pause?  
Well, it's just the way the player type is specified and it doesn't do anything when icon clicked - as opposed to ex. a binary switch.