Multi room music with casa tunes
Setting up control of your CasaTunes Server
In order to be able to control Casatunes' multi room music products with a Miniserver, you'll need to change a few of the parameters in Casatunes.
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Change the Configuration File
Before being able to enjoy your own multi room music experience with CasaTunes, you'll have to make a few little changes to make it work.
Open CasatunesSvc.exe.config (the configuration file) in notepad. You can find this file under C:\Programme\CasaTools\CasaTunes2
You'll need to change the following keys in the configuration file:
<add key="dEnable" value="true" />
<add key="CSISerialDeviceType" value="Telnet" />
The default values of these keys are "false" and "Serial".
You could also download the finished CasatunesSvc.exe.config file.
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Restart Casatunes
After changing the parameters, you must restart Casatunes.
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Insert CasaTunes into Loxone Config
You can now insert the ready-made "CasaTunes" virtual output connector and use it to configure your personal multi room music experience.
Ensure that you have entered the address of your CasaTunes server in the properties of the virtual output connector.
You are now ready to start enjoying multi room music with Casatunes.
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Selecting a Radio Station
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Saving a Radio Station as a Playlist
In order to be able to use the Miniserver to choose a radio station, you must first save the radio station as a playlist using the CasaTunes web interface.
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Commands
!PLAYMUSIC,ZON1,NAM“Radio FM4“\r\x04 = Play the playlist straight away
!PLAYMUSIC,ZON1,NAM“Radio FM4“,ADD\r\x04 = Add the playlist to the queue. Adjust the command depending on which zone of your multi room music system in which you want the playlist to be played. For example: "Put on radio station "OE3" in zone 4" would be:
PLAYMUSIC,ZON4,NAM“OE3“\r\x04
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Configuration in Loxone Config
For controlling Casatunes modules, there is a virtual output template in Loxone Config. The playlist command is not included in this.
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After this step, a virtual command must be added to the virtual output connector. It is here that the command is entered. |
Selecting a Casatunes Playlist
Since the name of the playlist is saved in the Casatunes control command, there are a few things to watch out for when setting up playlists for your multi room music system with Casatunes.
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Creating a Playlist
Saving a playlist with the Casatunes web-interface.
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Commands
!PLAYMUSIC,ZON1,NAM“Liste1“\r\x04 = play the playlist straight away
!PLAYMUSIC,ZON1,NAM“Liste1“,ADD\r\x04 = add the playlist to the queue
Adjust the command depending on which zone of your multi room music system you want the playlist to be played in. For example, "Put on the "Jazz" playlist in zone 4" would be:
PLAYMUSIC,ZON4,NAM“Jazz“\r\x04
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Configuration in Loxone Config
For controlling Casatunes modules, there is a virtual output template in Loxone-Config. The playlist command is not included in this.
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After this step, a virtual command must be added for the virtual output connector. It is here that the command is entered. |
That's it! You should now be ready to go on and fully enjoy your personalised and automated multi room music system.
