How to retrieve the current playing asset using API?

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Hi,

I wanted to ask if there is any way to retrieve the name of the current playing asset on a particular device at the present moment using the API (preferably in Python).

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks
Arpit

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It’s not generally possible to query the playing asset as info-beamer isn’t only a single-asset playback engine. You’ll have to modify the node.lua code to save that information somewhere.

You can then connect to the running info-beamer process via TCP and use the mechanism described here to send out that information like this:

node.event("input", function(line, client)
    node.client_write(client, current_asset_id)
end)

You can then either implement the TCP client to 127.0.0.1:4444 yourself or use ibquery for that:

import ibquery
ib = ibquery.InfoBeamerQuery()
s = ib.node('root').io(raw=True)
print(s.readline()) # this should read the value sent in client_write above

Note that all this only is running on the device. Maybe the easiest way is then to submit that information to an API you run on your backend.