Scheduling a YouTube video to start/stop via MMM-Remote-Control

madebyelmcity

Looking for some guidance. I’m using MMM-ModuleScheduler and MMM-Remote-Control to turn my monitor on/off, and to hide certain modules depending on the time of day. Works great.

But, I have a YouTube video (white noise) that I’d like to start in the evening, and have stop in the AM.

Playing the video is no problem — I’m using MMM-EmbedYoutube) as below:

module: "MMM-EmbedYoutube", 
                position: "middle_center",        
                config: {
                        video_id: "nDqP7kcr-sc",
                        loop: true,
                        autoplay:true,
                        controls:false,
                        }
                },

I tried to hide/show the video via MMM-Remote-Control/MMM-Module-Scheduler, but couldn’t figure out why the sound kept playing. Of course, it’s because hiding/showing doesn’t turn it off/on.

So I’m trying to find solution, but am stuck here as modifying the config.js file is about the limit of my technical knowledge.

Looking at the page for MMM-YouTube I can see that I can use YouTube’s iFrame API methods to control its player. And this is what I’d want to do:

this.sendNotification("YOUTUBE_CONTROL", {
  command: "playVideo"
})

I’m just not sure how/where to create that notification. Ideally I can use the modules above to playVideo or pauseVideo, at certain times of the day.

Any guidance you can provide would be super helpful!

A Former User

@madebyelmcity
https://github.com/ianperrin/MMM-ModuleScheduler#scheduling-notifications
shows how to occur notification with payload.

A Former User

@madebyelmcity
I was on the way so I couldn’t explain in detailly.
If you are using https://github.com/ianperrin/MMM-ModuleScheduler , (Personally, I don’t use it, so I might be wrong)
This could work; Haven’t tested, but…

{
  module: 'MMM-ModuleScheduler',
  config: {
    notification_schedule: {
      notification: 'YOUTUBE_CONTROL', 
      schedule: '30 9 * * *', 
      payload: {
          type: "notification", 
          command: 'pauseVideo'
      }
    }
  }
},

madebyelmcity

@Sean Thanks! I’ll try it out and report back. Really appreciate the assistance.