remote control

[SilPan]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Pain

I would like to listen to music on my media machine, but remote control it from my phone.

Suggested solution

Like have the full spotube UI on the phone and the playback happen on the media computer.

You can probably already imagine which direction I am going with, something like spotify-connect.
I see the problem with needing a central server so that it can work over the Internet, but how about local network only?
I am certain you guys already thought about this, but I can not find anything in the issues and the discussion.
The only issue I find is about "listen along" #8, but that is not the same.

One could define an API how spotube can get remote controlled, with only few functions

• play/{song-id}
• pause|play
• and some queuing

and leverage the search functionality and everything on the device that is remote controlling.

A running spotube that is ready to be remote controlled could advertise itself via UPnP on the local net.

I would be surprised if that functionality was not already on your minds?
Is there something that is very difficult about it?
Is it more complex than I am imagining it?

Useful resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play
https://pub.dev/packages/upnp2

This is another project where they got the discovery of devices on the local net really figured out, I was gonna add it as a UPnP example, but to my suprise they don't use it. So there are also other ways.
https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde

Additional information

Thanks for creating spotube!

[KRTirtho]

Support added in #1355