Party Mode

[gargamel]

i would like to see a sort of "Party Mode" where it locks out the ability to remove songs from a playlist.

also songs may only be added X amount of times within a certain time frame. this is would stop people from adding the one song over and over to the playlist.

[ACX]

Hi gargamel, this could be a low priority but still interesting feature to include in a future version.
In the meanwhile try to keep annoying people away from the RuneUI
Thanks for your suggestion!

[millennia]

Hi eyeryone
and first of all: I am very sorry for grubbing out this oooooold thread. i came here years ago when i prepared the RuneUI for party. i just did a few manipulations on the css files, mostly

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display:none

and now i am about to prepare the UI once again. So i can make a few suggestions on this topic, but if i am right, we need a complete different build as my changes to the configurations are really not the majorities choice i guess.

Now I am working with a RaspPi3 - and because the device comes with WiFi onboard, i thought about using the RaspPi as an WiFi Access Point that provided all network services (DHCP and DNS) and that redirects every request to the http://runeaudio.
OK, lets get started with an update of the software lists, assuming you found out how to connect via SSH. (btw: if you dont know what i am writing about, you should not continue here.)
Connect the Pi via LAN to your network - we will work on the configuration of the wlan interface.
Install the Software

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pacman -Sy
pacman -S dnsmasq
pacman -S hostapd


configure hostapd

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nano /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

with the following lines

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ssid=Party
# wpa_passphrase=12345678
interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
channel=7


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echo "DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf" > /etc/default/hostapd
systemctl enable hostapd

configure dnsmasq
In the file

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nano /etc/dnsmasq.conf

you have to edit several lines:

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interface=wlan0
dhcp-range=10.1.0.50,10.1.0.200,12h
address=/#/10.1.0.1


(source, thx!)
activate the service with

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systemctl enable dnsmasq

now the DNS server returns the IP of the device only, but this wont have an effect on the URL. we need some redirects to be done by
ngix

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nano /etc/ngix/ngix.conf

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[…]
    # DISPLAY section [/]
    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name *.de *.com *.net *.org *.at *.uk ;
        return 301 http://runeaudio;
    }
#    server {
#        listen 80;
#        server_name *.*.*;
#        return 301 http://runeaudio;
#    }
    server {
        listen 80 default;
      add_header X-UA-Compatible "IE=Edge,chrome=1";
        server_name runeaudio;
        access_log  /var/log/runeaudio/runeui_access.log;
[…]


at last we have to set up an IP for wlan0 with

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ifconfig wlan0 10.1.0.1

. there must be a config file for this, but i am to lazy to look it up, so i set up an autostart script for the systemd:

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[root@runeaudio ~]# cat /etc/systemd/system/ifconfig.service
[Unit]
Description=Set IP of interface wlan0

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/root/autostart-ifconfig.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target


and the corresponding .sh

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#!/bin/sh
# just set an IP for interface wlan0
ifconfig wlan0 10.1.0.1


dont forget to

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chmod +x /root/autostart-ifconfig.sh

and to

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systemctl enable ifconfig.service

may be there are some better ideas how to get this work, feel free to share your thoughts!

OK, now we can use the WiFi AP and all requests will be redirected to runeaudio. now we have to "secure" our RuneUI:
CSS
I added a few lines to /srv/http/assets/css/runeui.css

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/* Party customization  */
li a[href="#poweroff-modal"] {
    display: none;
}
li a[href="/credits/"] {
    display: none;
}
li a[href="/debug/"] {
    display: none;
}
/* disable the menu */
#menu-settings {
    display: none;
}

/* disable all playback options on folders */
.db-folder > i {
    display: none !important;
}
a[data-cmd="lastfmaddreplaceplay"]{
    display: none;
}
a[data-cmd="addreplaceplay"]{
    display: none;
}
a[data-cmd="addplay"]{
    display: none;
}
#context-menu-file > ul:nth-child(1) > li:nth-child(2){
    display: none;
}
#context-menu-file > ul:nth-child(1) > li:nth-child(3){
    display: none;
}
#context-menu-file > ul:nth-child(1) > li:nth-child(4){
    display: none;
}


to disable some buttons and menus.
JS
I dont want the "add and play" feature on double clicks or double taps, so i changed it to simple "add":

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        // double click on Library list entry
        db.on('dblclick', 'li', function(e) {
            var el = $(this);
            if (!$(e.target).hasClass('db-action')) {
                $('li.active', '#database-entries').removeClass('active');
                el.addClass('active');
                var path = el.data('path');
                // console.log('doubleclicked path = ', path);
                if (el.hasClass('db-spotify')) {
                    path = el.attr('data-plid') + '-' + el.attr('data-path');
                    getDB({
                        cmd: 'spadd',
                        path: path,
                        querytype: 'spotify-track'
                    });
                } else {
                    path = (el.hasClass('db-dirble')) ? path.split(' | ')[1] : path;
                    getDB({
                        cmd: 'add',
                        path: path
                    });
                }
            }
        });


so far so good! these are my suggestions. within the css there are some more things we can do, e.g. removing the "remove from queue" button or the "delete queue" one. but all in all these steps make it a really cool jukebox device for your party!
but you should not forget that this is not a secure solution. via the URL /settings/ all your guests can change the options there and i always recommend to use passwd after the first login or - better - the usage of ssh keys.
I dont see any chance to include these settings into RuneOS. But we can write an installation script for all of this…

So - at the end of this posting i like to say:

Thanks to the Rune team - what you provide here is outstanding!

[hondagx35]

Hi millennia,

welcome to Rune Audio and thank you for sharing this.

may be there are some better ideas how to get this work, feel free to share your thoughts!

Please see here.

Frank

[millennia]

Ahhhh, OK. so nothing new according to the Access Point Feature.
So forget everything besides the CSS/JS thing

[hondagx35]

Hi millennia,

So forget everything besides the CSS/JS thing

Absolutely no. I'm happy to see, that you did it nearly the same way as i did.
The only difference is that i did it with full Rune Audio integration.
With my solution you get an automatic AP, if no IP is assigned to wlan0 the AP gets started.
A settings page for the AP and IP settings will follow soon.

Frank

[millennia]

A very good idea to use the wlan interface in this case.
I further thought about the party mode feature. I think with your "Auto-Wifi-AP" configuration, we can use the dnsmasq to set a static IP for admin clients and deliver the standard runeui.css file to these admin clients. all other will receive the "partymode.css" additions with disabled features. with a little JS we can setup the limitation for queue additions as well.
with a little help i can code these options and provide a pull request to the corresponding git repositories, but i will not start coding this stuff without a chance of implementation. i have to figure out correct ngix config - and i am more on the apache-httpd side of life...
the dark side of my recommendation is that it will be not that secure. we can exclude links like "/settings/" for user clients and also blacklist MPD commands in ngix config, but i can not guaranty for the security at all.