How to show play status like an iTunes plugin device?

Hi! I'm working on a Denon Heos plugin, and modeling it after the indigo-yamaharx plugin, I'm making good progress.

One thing I'd like to do is make the Speaker device visibly show the play state in the UI, like an iTunes server device does. ie, it should show 'Play', 'Stopped', or 'Paused' and a little icon.

How do I do this with a custom device?

Thanks!

[jay (support)]

Just make sure that the state that shows in the status column has a value in ["playing", "paused", "stopped"] and it should automatically get the right icon.

You can also set the displayStateImageSel property of a device to one of the image enumerations, in your case AvStopped, AvPaused, AvPlaying.

Ah, great! I guess one thing I don't know is how to set which state is displayed in that column. I'll look through the docs to try and find it before someone can point it out to me.

Found it!

<UiDisplayStateId>playStatus</UiDisplayStateId>

Woo! And I got it to work.

[jay (support)]

Excellent!