# pi_squeezeserver

The Logitech Media Server (`logitechmediaserver`, the daemon formerly known as
squeezeboxserver), plus its `pi_sysdweb` registration and a port 80 -> 9000 redirect.

`pi_squeezeserver_state` picks a direction:

- `present` - install it and run it (`tasks/present.yml`).
- `absent` - stop it, purge the package, unregister it from sysdweb, drop the iptables
  redirect and delete `/var/lib/squeezeboxserver` and `/var/log/squeezeboxserver`
  (`tasks/absent.yml`).

`mediapis.yml` derives the state from `mediapi_has_squeezeserver`, which defaults to
`false` in `group_vars/mediapis.yml`. That default is deliberate and is a policy, not
an oversight: **no media pi runs its own LMS.** Every `squeezelite` in the fleet is
pointed at `pi_squeezelite_squeezeserver` (192.168.178.80, the server) by
`inventory.yml`, so a server running on a pi has no clients. musicdolphin had one
anyway - left over from earlier provisioning, since no playbook has installed it - and
on a 2 GB Pi also driving a kiosk browser it was costing ~30 MB resident and ~47 MB of
swap for nothing.

Set `mediapi_has_squeezeserver: true` in a host's vars if one ever genuinely needs it.