The HeosApp will be a small application to control the most important features in Heos devices via a graphical interface.
I have been using the Heos System for some time now and found an app for Windows on the Windows store that suited my needs to control my device from a Windows machine. However, there does not seem to be a (free) app for Mac and Denon/Marantz decided for unknown reasons to not publish their iOS app for Mac. But there are indeed quite a few Python APIs on github that, sadly, lack a GUI. As I always wanted to learn more about Python, this project was born.
There is no clear definition of what those features are yet but I was hoping to implement the following:
- Connect to a device
- Show current queue, play song from current queue
- Stop, Play, Pause song
- Change volume
- Search for music from a configured online service (Deezer, Spotify, etc)
- Add music to queue from those services (see above)
You can run the py script directly or create a bundle using pyinstaller:
pyinstaller \
--noconfirm --log-level=WARN \
--onefile --clean --windowed \
--disable-windowed-traceback \
--name=HeosApp heosapp.specThanks to the following projects, I believe I'll be able to create the app and implement the named features:
Some general docs for Heos system communications can be found here