I did my first trails with openHAB and HAB panel implementing Yamaha MusicCast speaker. I’m trying to implement a selection menu for Yamaha Musiccast with “play URI” for playing different radio stations. After setup of favorites with Yamaha API, a recall is done via following direct-URI (each “num” is reperesenting a different radio station).
Using a unique “button” for each channel with playURI-item and direkt http://… is working well. Channel switching between radio stations is possible. If implement the different http-calls from favorites into a selection menu in a widget is not possible because of the “=” signs in the direct http-call.
Is there any solution to hide the “=” signs in the selection menu for sending the full http-request?
I’d advise you to keep only the station number rather than the full URL in a proxy item, and set up a rule to perform the HTTP request accordingly when a command like ‘1’ or ‘2’ is received.
What would be interesting is how to start a playlist from a DLNA server, but I think there is no command for that in YAMAHA API and I need to push that from the DLNA (Twonkey) server to the YAMAHA speaker.