blucli (blu)

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Lets your agent control Bluesound and NAD music players: find devices, play, pause, group players, and set volume.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the blucli (blu) skill

About this capability

BluOS CLI (blu) for discovery, playback, grouping, and volume.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop in skills/blucli/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use blu to control Bluesound/NAD players.

Quick start

  • blu devices (pick target)
  • blu --device <id> status
  • blu play|pause|stop
  • blu volume set 15

Target selection (in priority order)

  • --device <id|name|alias>
  • BLU_DEVICE
  • config default (if set)

Common tasks

  • Grouping: blu group status|add|remove
  • TuneIn search/play: blu tunein search "query", blu tunein play "query"

Prefer --json for scripts. Confirm the target device before changing playback.

Signals

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blucli-bitterbot-ai
Source
github.com/bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop