AppIntent to perform tasks like resyncing library through Siri and/or Shortcuts

[roygbyte]

I would like to suggest adding more AppIntents to amperfy. My specific use cases involve automation of tasks (resyncing the library, changing the playing/pausing state of music, skipping to another song). My objective is to trigger these actions depending on conditionals available in Apple's Shortcuts app. For instance, playing album when my focus state changes.

amperfy already has two intents, from what I know: PlayID and Search and Play. These could likely be a starting point for adding this feature to amperfy.

Do you like this idea?

[BLeeEZ]

Hi,
yes I like that idea :)
I already implemented some of your requests as X-Callback-URL. This can be used in Siri Shortcuts too. A full documentation of all available function can be found in App: "Settings" -> "X-Callback-URL Documentation".

I agree that direct Intents are better visible to new users. The "problem" here is that Intents by itself are quite work intensive. Many places in the App need to be adjusted for new intents. For that reason I switched to X-Callback-URLs since these are really fast to implement.

Can you give me a list of additional functions that should be available?

[roygbyte]

Oh that's wicked. I have reviewed what you built already, and tried the playRandomSongs. Nice! The PlayID callback looks useful, too. I don't see the IDs available anywhere in the interface. As a user, do you retrieve those manually from you server if/when you use program this callback?

For me, again, the niche feature req is resyncing library and downloading all artworks in library. Be cool to have a way to play recent albums or songs, but now I'm just dreaming new things up, haha.

Just thinking "aloud": but can the AppIntent be implemented to call a given X-Callback-URL on behalf of the user? I think that's possible. But I don't see a need for it anymore, tbh. The x-callback-url is a perfectly suitable interface for automation using Shortcuts. It lacks the voice control and abstraction layer (you see them in Shortcuts) that an AppIntent gives you, but i personally don't have a use for more than what x-callback-url provides. Moreover, a person can create their own Siri capable shortcuts around the x-callback-urls. Just takes a bit more effort.

[BLeeEZ]

There is an option to display and copy IDs: Settings -> Display & Interaction -> Detailed Information

[roygbyte]

That's wicked!

I am going to poke my head into the source code and see what kind of challenge I'd be up against if I try to make this my contribution.