IP/command/?cmd=pause is not working properly?

[rix81]

according to this  ,   pause {STATE}    Without the parameter, the pause state is toggled.
but if moode is paused, the pause command is ignoring.  If i manually press play,   then pause starts to toggle until i press pause manually again.  
Need suggestion how to make it work always,  or to find another way how to toggle play/pause via http request .  need to work it exactly the same way as play/pause button in webui, without specify what item to play.  

I'm going to make wireles control screen for moode on esp32.   this is probably the last problem i need to solve
thanks in advance

[Tim Curtis]

U prolly need to use the "toggle" command

[TheOldPresbyope]

Hmmm.

Entering "http://moode/command/?cmd=pause" into a browser on my laptop causes my moOde player to toggle properly and gets me the return value "{"0":"OK"}".

Regards,
Kent

[rix81]

U prolly need to use the "toggle" command

unfortunately toggle command is unknown  (     It's present only  on ssh for mpc, but ssh is unavailable for my tasmota esp32 device

[rix81]

Hmmm.

Entering "http://moode/command/?cmd=pause" into a browser on my laptop causes my moOde player to toggle properly and gets me the return value "{"0":"OK"}".

Regards,
Kent

the same here, but from time to time it stops working, mostly when playback paused manually.   It outputs {"0":"OK"} , but playback doesn't start on moode.
Or, if to reboot moode,  then pause command never works until you press play manually.

[TheOldPresbyope]

Hmmm.

Entering "http://moode/command/?cmd=pause" into a browser on my laptop causes my moOde player to toggle properly and gets me the return value "{"0":"OK"}".

Regards,
Kent

the same here, but from time to time it stops working, mostly when playback paused manually.   It outputs {"0":"OK"} , but playback doesn't start on moode.
Or, if to reboot moode,  then pause command never works until you press play manually.

Ah. I can repro this behavior.

Browsing the MPD/MPC documentation, there appears to me to be some ambiguity about pause.

I get the same behavior as you if I use the pause command in mpc in a terminal, while, as Tim suggests, the toggle command works consistently. Don't know why.

Regards,
Kent

[Tim Curtis]

Couple things

1. Looks like "toggle" is not an MPD command but an MPC command so that won't work via the REST API.
2. The play/pause button in the UI sends the following MPD commands
play/stop for radio stations
play/pause for song files
3. When MPD is in the stop state the MPD "pause" command has no effect and won't toggle the play state

I'll add a new REST API in upcoming 9.3.8 to perform the play state toggle.

[rix81]

I'll add a new REST API in upcoming 9.3.8 to perform the play state toggle.

great! thank you.  


Also I'd like to do prev/next commands (both webui and rest api) to cycle trough  favorite radiostations list.   Need idea how to do it, hope for some suggestions,  thanks

[Tim Curtis]

The commands "previous" and "next" should already work.