Refresh station list

[jacroe]

Would there be a way to trigger usergetstations to be able to update an external station list without restarting pianobar?

[PromyLOPh]

Right now there is none. Why do you want to update the station list?

[jacroe]

If I have pianobar running while I create a new Pandora station, I'm unable to play my new station until I restart pianobar. And I would like to be able to refresh it without shutting it down and having to re-login again.

[PromyLOPh]

If I have pianobar running while I create a new Pandora station, I'm unable to play my new station until I restart pianobar. Well, there’s no point in running two Pandora clients at the same time imho. Given that it’s a rather unusual use-case I think that asking for a restart is not too much. However, it is trivial (free the old station list, fetch a new one) to add such a command and you’re free to press the fork button above and add it yourself :)

[gschoppe]

The use case isn't all that rare. Anyone who uses pandora on two+ machines will run into issues of one not being synced to the other. This could be as simple as a family sharing an account. In my case, I leave pianobar running on a headless client at work. I pause when I go to lunch, and in the meanwhile I switch over to my phone and create a station. When I get back, and unpause, it would be nice to be able to switch to that station without having to restart pianobar.

[PromyLOPh]

Here’s a patch: https://gist.github.com/6032071

I won’t apply it to master though, as there are way too many keyboard shortcuts already imo and reloading the station list is as easy as restarting pianobar.

[azeam]

@jacroe I'm guessing this is for your remote control (?), as you might know I'm working on a similar project and worked around it by repopulating the station list using the event command file on create/delete station (and using the "e" command which I'm not using for anything else to repopulate it on genre create station because of a bug in older versions of pianobar). The eventcommand file I'm using is here: http://raspberrypiserver.no-ip.org/eventcommand.sh

[gdudek]

I think the reload stations shortcut already exists! It's: ^C !! \n (Control-C and two exclamation marks and a return character).