I discovered that the Chromecast binding doesn’t support sendCommand(NEXT)
to skip to the next track. I read about an approach of reading the track length and then scrubbing to the length - 1s. Or calling out to an external program like go-chromecast.
How have other’s solved jumping to the next track in their rules?
Following up to this, I wrote a rule to jump to trackDuration -1s. However could it be that the Chromecast binding’s CurrentPosition is a read only value?
Attempting this doesn’t have any results in the position of what’s playing.
openhab> openhab:send ChromecastAudioStudyCurrentTime "1"
Command has been sent successfully.
openhab> openhab:update ChromecastAudioStudyCurrentTime "1 s"
Update has been sent successfully.
logfile:
2021-05-10 17:16:28.623 [DEBUG] [omecast.internal.ChromecastCommander] - Received command 1 s for unknown channel: chromecast:audio:cca-study:currentTime
But the item currentTime definitely exits and is updating with the current position.
A possible bug in the Chromecast binding?
Reference: chromecast.things & chromecast.items