Support monitoring players across different machines

[fischy667]

System Info

• Operating system and version: Linux Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
• Media Player and version: MPC-HC 2.1.4
• Python version: 3.9

Description

The log is saving:

Unknown player(s): mpc-hc

Config

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players.monitored = ['mpc-hc']
players.mpc-be.ip = '192.168.1.126'
players.mpc-be.port = '13579'
players.mpc-be.poll_interval = 10
players.mpc-hc.port = '13579'
players.mpc-hc.ip = '192.168.1.126'
players.mpc-hc.poll_interval = 10
players.skip_interval = 5
players.preview_threshold = 80
players.preview_duration = 60
players.fast_pause_threshold = 1
players.fast_pause_duration = 5
players.vlc.ip = 'localhost'
players.vlc.port = 'auto-detect'
players.vlc.password = 'auto-detect'
players.vlc.poll_interval = 10
players.mpv.ipc_path = 'auto-detect'
players.mpv.poll_interval = 10
players.mpv.read_timeout = 2
players.mpv.write_timeout = 60
players.mpv.restart_delay = 0.1
[email protected]_path = 'auto-detect'
[email protected]_interval = 10
[email protected]_timeout = 2
[email protected]_timeout = 60
[email protected]_delay = 0.1
[email protected]_path = 'auto-detect'
[email protected]_interval = 10
[email protected]_timeout = 2
[email protected]_timeout = 60
[email protected]_delay = 0.1
players.plex.ip = 'localhost'
players.plex.port = '32400'
players.plex.poll_interval = 10
players.plex.scrobble_user = ''
version = '1.0'
general.enable_notifs.exception = True
general.enable_notifs.misc = True
general.enable_notifs.scrobble.start = True
general.enable_notifs.scrobble.pause = True
general.enable_notifs.scrobble.resume = True
general.enable_notifs.scrobble.stop = True
general.enable_notifs.trakt = True
general.notif_actions.enabled = True
general.notif_actions.primary_interface = 'button'
general.allowed_scrobbles.episode = 'all'
general.allowed_scrobbles.movie = 'all'
fileinfo.whitelist = []
fileinfo.exclude_patterns = []
fileinfo.include_regexes.movie = []
fileinfo.include_regexes.episode = []
backlog.clear_interval = 1800
backlog.expiry = 2592000

Log file

2024-01-29 21:42:55,403 - INFO - MainThread - scrobbler - Started scrobbler thread.
2024-01-29 21:42:55,409 - WARNING - MainThread - main - Unknown player(s): mpc-hc
2024-01-29 21:48:19,807 - DEBUG - MainThread - notifier - Notifications enabled for categories: exception, misc, scr>
2024-01-29 21:48:19,827 - INFO - notify_loop - notifier - Starting notif loop
2024-01-29 21:48:19,827 - DEBUG - MainThread - notifier - Notif actions enabled for categories: exception, misc, scr>
2024-01-29 21:48:20,004 - INFO - MainThread - scrobbler - Started scrobbler thread.
2024-01-29 21:48:20,009 - WARNING - MainThread - main - Unknown player(s): mpc-hc

fischy667@orange-pi:~$ trakts status
The scrobbler is running
Monitored players: mpc-hc
No activity yet.

fischy667@orange-pi:~$ trakts -V
Trakts version 1.6.3

[iamkroot]

Are you on linux? I thought MPCHC can only be installed on Windows machines.

[fischy667]

Yes, but I want to run trakts my linux server monitoring MPC-HC over the network running on a Windows PC. Therefore I set players.mpc-hc.ip = '192.168.1.126'.

[iamkroot]

Ah unfortunately that use case is not supported today. For one, even if we get the monitor to run on Linux, other parts of the scrobbler might fail. One issue I can think of is that the file whitelist logic would get windows paths which doesn't match local OS paths (Posix). Might be other issues too.

I would recommend installing the scrobbler on the desktop itself for now. Or if you have the time, I would be happy to guide anyone willing to add support for this use-case in the scrobbler.