Ansible role for installing Logitech Media Server (LMS)

An ansible role for installing and configuring the logitechmediaserver. Also referred to as LMS, slimdevices or squeezebox.

Requirements

Ansible >= 2.11

Example playbooks

This example playbook installs LMS and the plugins Raopbridge (Air Bridge), CastBridge (Chromecast Bridge), Material Skin, Spotty and UPnPBridge. It also makes some configuration settings, so that after install it is ready to use, without the need to run through the wizard or change the skin. It readily starts up with Material Skin and shows UPnP-devices as well as Air Play-devices.

Minimal configuration with plugins

In a minimal example, you do not need to create the subdirectories files/lms and place any files. All will be downloaded automatically with the latest version, which are the nightly .deb packages for logitechmediaserver.deb. This minimal configuration looks like this:

Directory structure:

 l ansible.cfg
 l inventory
 l install_lms.yml

File: install_lms.yml:

---
- name: "Install Logitechmediaserver  on myhost and configure it."
  hosts:
    - myhost

  tasks:
    - name: "[PLAYBOOK] - Install and configure LMS Logitech Media Server."
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: marioqxx.lms
      vars:
        lms_plugins:
          - { name: CastBridge }
          - { title: "AirPlay bridge" }
          - { name: UPnPBridge }
          - { name: Spotty }
          - { name: MaterialSkin }
        lms_settings:
          - ["pref", "skin", "material"]
          - ["pref", "language", "DE"]
          - ["pref", "longdateFormat", "'%A, |%d. %B %Y'"]
          - ["pref", "shortdateFormat", "'%d.%m.%Y'"]
          - ["pref", "timeFormat", "'%H:%M'"]
          - ["pref", "mediadirs", ["/media/music", "/media/audiobook"]]
          - ["pref", "playlistdir", "/media/playlists"]
          - ["pref", "wizardDone", "1"]
          - ["pref", "plugin.castbridge:bin", "squeeze2cast-linux-x86_64-static"]
          - ["pref", "plugin.raopbridge:bin", "squeeze2raop-linux-x86_64-static"]
          - ["pref", "plugin.upnpbridge:bin", "squeeze2upnp-linux-x86_64-static"]

File: ansible.cfg:

[defaults]
gathering = smart
fact_caching = jsonfile
fact_caching_connection = ~/.ansible/fact_cache
fact_caching_timeout = 84600
timeout = 60
inventory = inventory

File: inventory:

[hosts]
myhost

[hosts:vars]
ansible_user=ansibleuser
ansible_become=yes
ansible_become_password=ansiblepassword

After having installed this ansible-role and created the files and the file-contents as above, calling

ansible-playbook install_lms.yml

should install the logitechmediaserver ready to use without needing to step through the Wizard on you host myhost and with the above configured plugins and Material Skin activated.

Minimal example with downloaded files on control host

In addition to the minimal example above, add the directory files and place therein files CastBridge-2.2.8.zip, RaopBridge-1.3.3.zip, UPnPBridge-2.2.3.zip, Spotty-4.8.8.zip, lms-material-3.4.5.zip and logitechmediaserver_8.4.0~1694167045_amd64.deb as shown in the below directory structure:

 l ansible.cfg
 l inventory
 l install_lms.yml
 l + files
   l CastBridge-2.2.8.zip
   l RaopBridge-1.3.3.zip
   l UPnPBridge-2.2.3.zip
   l Spotty-4.8.8.zip
   l lms-material-3.4.5.zip
   l logitechmediaserver_8.4.0~1694167045_amd64.deb

File: install_lms.yml:

---
- name: "Install Logitechmediaserver  on myhost and configure it."
  hosts:
    - myhost

  tasks:
    - name: "[PLAYBOOK] - Install and configure LMS Logitech Media Server."
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: marioqxx.lms
      tags:
        - lms
        - plugin
        - conf
        - repo
      vars:
        lms_server: files/logitechmediaserver_8.4.0~1694167045_amd64.deb
        lms_plugins:
          - { name: CastBridge, file: files/CastBridge-2.2.8.zip }
          - { title: "AirPlay bridge", file: files/RaopBridge-1.3.3.zip }
          - { name: UPnPBridge, file: files/UPnPBridge-2.2.3.zip }
          - { name: Spotty, file: files/Spotty-4.8.8.zip }
          - { name: MaterialSkin, file: files/lms-material-3.4.5.zip }
        lms_settings:
          - ["pref", "skin", "material"]
          - ["pref", "language", "DE"]
          - ["pref", "longdateFormat", "'%A, |%d. %B %Y'"]
          - ["pref", "shortdateFormat", "'%d.%m.%Y'"]
          - ["pref", "timeFormat", "'%H:%M'"]
          - ["pref", "mediadirs", ["/media/music", "/media/audiobook"]]
          - ["pref", "playlistdir", "/media/playlists"]
          - ["pref", "wizardDone", "1"]
          - ["pref", "plugin.castbridge:bin", "squeeze2cast-linux-x86_64-static"]
          - ["pref", "plugin.raopbridge:bin", "squeeze2raop-linux-x86_64-static"]
          - ["pref", "plugin.upnpbridge:bin", "squeeze2upnp-linux-x86_64-static"]

After having setup the above directory stucture and placed the files therein, calling

ansible-playbook install_lms.yml

should install the logitechmediaserver ready to use without needing to step through the Wizard on you host myhost and with the above configured plugins and Material Skin activated.