Published May 31, 2016 © MIT

Bluplayer

Alexa-powered player that allows to control your Bluesound Hi-Fi system with the voice.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Bluesound Pulse

Raspberry Pi 2 Model B

Software apps and online services

bluplayer.net

Story

I like to listen to high quality music. I'm excited about multi room systems and their opportunities, especially Bluesound system. I always have millions of tracks available to play. It's so convenient. But I wasn't quite comfortable about the way I can controll such systems. In order to play, stop or skip the track I had to open an application on my smarphone. And I just thought that it would be nice to be able to controll my audio system with the voice. With this in mind I've added Amazon Echo support in BluPlayer (a player that allows to controll Bluesound system directly from your browser) and created new skill that gives opportunity to manage the multi room audio system.

To enable the skill your computer with BluPlayer on it needs to be switched on and needs to be located in the same local network with the Bluesound speaker(s).

Now all I need to do when I come home is to say "Alexa, ask blue player to play", and the music starts to play. Isn't it cool?

Architecture

How it works

EchoListener

    public class EchoListener : IDisposable
    {
        private string _amazonUserId;
        private Uri _serviceUri;
        private HttpClient _client;
        private JavaScriptSerializer _serializer;
        private Guid _prevIntentId;

        public event Action<string> IntentReceived; 

        public EchoListener(Uri serviceUri, string amazonUserId)
        {
            _amazonUserId = amazonUserId;
            _serviceUri = serviceUri;
            _serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
        }

        public void StartListen()
        {
            //...
        }

        public void StopListen()
        {
          //...
        }

        private void Pool()
        {
            var task = _client.PostAsync(_serviceUri, new StringContent(_amazonUserId));
            //...
        }
        
        //...
   }

Credits

Roman Sydorenko

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Bluplayer

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Story

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EchoListener

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Roman Sydorenko

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