JSON Plugin

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This plugin provides access to DCERouter internals via http protocol on port 7230.

This plugin is purely academic at the moment and not part of a regular build cycle. Sometimes a binary can be downloaded from fluffy.

Supported Information

Now Playing

Easiest way to get information about what player is at the moment playing stuff in a specific entertainment area:

http://dcerouter:7230/now_playing?ea=$FK_Entertain_Area&timestamp=$last-timestamp-we-have-seen

Adding Information Provider

Below the src/JSON_Plugin directory is the CivetHandler directory. Take a look at how NowPlaying is incorporated and amend/extend appropriately, and add the required stuff to JSON_Plugin.cpp and the Makefile.