MusicCast

Ruby Control System for Yamaha MusicCast speakers

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'music_cast'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install music_cast

For the HTTP API to function correctly in an integrated system, the MusicCast devices must be on a fixed or bound IP Address. To avoid network loops through the wireless “extend” functionality of MusicCast products you should set the device to wired or wireless only - through the web GUI on the MusicCast device:

The configuration options can be set by using the configure helper

MusicCast.configure do |c|
  c.ip_address = '192.168.0.144'
end

The following is the full list of available configuration options:

ip_address # The static IP address of your speaker

This gem is intended to be a thin wrapper around the existing YamahaExtendedControl/v1 API. The class structures are influenced by the existing API structure. This is a list of all the functions that can currently be performed with this gem.

Get device status

status = MusicCast::GetStatus.new
status.to_json # Current status as JSON
status.to_hash # Current status as Hash

Set power status and enable/disable auto-standby

power = MusicCast::SetPower.new
power.on                    # Power on
power.standby               # Standby
power.toggle                # Power Toggle
power.enable_auto_standby   # Enable Auto Power Standby
power.disable_auto_standby  # Disable Auto Power Standby

Set sound volume level

volume = MusicCast::SetVolume.new
volume.to(11)         # Set volume to n valid range 0..100
volume.increment      # Increment volume by 1 step
volume.increment(10)  # Increment volume by n steps
volume.decrement      # Decrement volume by 1 step
volume.decrement(10)  # Decrement volume by n steps

Enable or disable sound

mute = MusicCast::SetMute.new
mute.on  # Set Mute on
mute.off # Set Mute off

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/karlentwistle/music_cast.