Soundy

Soundy is a simple GTK client written in Vala to control a SoundTouch network speaker. It is a free and simple alternative to the official client. The app connects to the speaker over SoundTouch API.

Features

Power ON/OFF
Play/Pause the currently selected track
Playing next or previous track
Increasing/decreasing volume
Displaying and playing the favourites
Auto-Discovery of SoundTouch speaker on local network
Source selection for Bluetooth and AUX
Multi-room zone(s) (working only in non-flatpak version!)

Building and Installation

You'll need the following dependencies:

libglib2.0-dev
libgtk-3-dev
libgranite-dev
libsoup2.4-dev
libxml2-dev
libavahi-gobject-dev (>=0.7)
meson
valac

Building

Run meson build to configure the build environment. Change to the build directory and run ninja to build

    meson build --prefix=/usr
    cd build
    ninja

To install, use ninja install

Tests

To execute the tests

cd build
ninja test

or test.sh

Installation on Ubuntu (tested on 20.04 and 18.04)

download the .deb file from latest release
install with sudo apt install ./com.github.syfds.soundy*.deb
now you can find Soundy through the search
uninstall with sudo apt remove com.github.syfds.soundy

How-To

I suggest to assign your SoundTouch speaker to a static IP address (address reservation), so the desktop client can quickly find your speaker at startup. Example for TP-Link (can be different for your router):

Login (something like 192.168.0.1 or similar) and go to DHCP -> DHCP Client List and copy the MAC-address of your speaker.
Then create a static assignment in Address Reservation, after restarting the speaker the correct assignment can be checked in the DHCP Client List.
Create a hosts entry in /etc/hosts where 192.168.1.XXX is your static IP address

192.168.1.XXX   soundtouch-speaker

now you can set soundtouch-speaker as host in the app and connect to your soundtouch speaker ;-)