One button / command to load & play random track?

[tristanc]

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python
from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')
options.add_argument('no-sandbox') # so it can be run as root
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)

driver.get('http://moode.local')

#a = driver.find_element_by_id("play")
b = driver.find_element_by_id("random")

#a.click()
b.click()

driver.close()

So this code is a really inefficient way of getting close to what I described. This will 'click' on the 'random' button on the web interface from a (headless) remote machine. It uses Selenium and Chromium / chromedriver to run the web page in the background so things can be interacted with.

I've taken this and incorporated in to my GPIO button interface code - and so far works as I had hoped allowing me to go from a radio stream to random play (using ashuffle) and back again. Happy to share that code if people are interested.

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