Usage

First launch

When starting for the first name the app, you'll see the following view

Before starting you will have to setup a port to use and a token for the Socket IO instance. To do this click on the Settings button and fill in the inputs. After that just click on the Save button.

After you have applied the settings you can return to the home view by clicking on the App button. If you saved correctly you're settings they should be visible on the home view.

Now just click on the Start button.

If your machine doesn't have an IP address you cannot start the Socket IO instance.

Normally the Socket IO should be started. You can verify it by entering the following command in PowerShell by replacing 3000 with yours.

Get-NetTCPConnection | where Localport -eq 3000

From now up should control your machine main & apps volume through Socket IO events.

Events

This are the following events that can be send to the started instance.

• play_pause: Send an instruction to play or pause to the current focused media app
• next_track: Send an instruction to go to the next track to the current focused media app
• prev_track: Send an instruction to go to the previous track to the current focused media app
• change_main_volume: Send an instruction to change the main volume level. It needs to receive a float number between 0 and 1.
• change_app_volume: Send an instruction to change an app volume level by it's PID. It needs to receive an object with the PID of an app with the volume level, the value of the volume level should also be a float between 0 and 1.

When a clients connects to your instance he automatically receive two events.

• sessions: A array of object where each object contains all the audio sessions of the host machine. Within this object you can find three informations
  • pid: Process ID of the session
  • name: Display name of the session
  • volume: Current volume level of the session
• main_volume_value: The current volume level of the main volume