How to evaluate the state of a ChromeCastAudio item?

Setup, Configuration and Use Scripts & Rules
1

I’m pretty new at this so the answer will likely be pretty easy…
I want to evaluate the state of a chromecastaudio
I tried something like this:

if (chromecast_audio_12345xxx_control.state == "PLAY)

but I always get the error:

The name ‘If()’ cannot be resolved to an item or type.

What am I doing wrong?

2

Your line looks good to me.

Maybe the lines above are wrong.

Please post your complete rule.

3

I got it working as follows:

import org.openhab.model.script.actions
import org.openhab.core.library.types
import java.util

rule "check chromecast state"
when
    Item chromecast_audio_473325b22fd70ba5c3e51dd0d503fc7c_control changed
then
var String command = chromecast_audio_473325b22fd70ba5c3e51dd0d503fc7c_control.state.toString

if (command.contains("PLAY"))
	{
        logInfo("TEST","Chromecast is playing")
    }
else if (command.contains("PAUSE"))
	{
        logInfo("TEST","Chromecast is paused")
    }
  
end
4

Do this work for you when you start casting something?

I only get the state change when I press play or pause on OHab UI, but nothing when i start casting or stop from spotify app.

5

So far I’ve used it only to play iHeartRadio streams and it works

6

Hi Alex,

Could you help me out here? When you say you are using this for streaming iHeart, do you mean you are streaming iHeart from a phone or tablet, separate from OH? Or do you actually have music steaming integrated into OH? (I would love to see how this works, if so.)

And I have the CCast binding installed, and channels active. But I am really just starting with Rules. Can you tell me what else i need to make use of it? ie, scripts, items, sitemap entry etc?

Thanks for any help.
TD