VlcControll

Discord bot for control over the VLC Lua web interface

If you want it working for your setup, you need to follow the following steps:

THIS IS IMPORTANT!

You can't use my personal token I got from the Discord Developer Portal. You need to create a Bot yourself, and paste the token you get from there into an extension-less token file, and put it in the directory where the executable is. Discord Developer Portal

1. In VLC Player, go to Preferences. Make sure that under Viewing options, the radio for Everything is selected.
2. In the menu on the left, go to Interface -> Main interfaces.
3. From here, on the view on the right, enable the Lua interpreter and the Web checkbox. Make sure to set a password at Interface -> Main interfaces -> Lua
4. Make sure to save the changed settings by clicking on Save.
5. In program.cs, you change the IP adres in the variables playlist_url and status_url, to the IP adres of the computer you're running VLC player on.
6. In program.cs, specifically in var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(":[password]"); httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(byteArray));, Change the value after the ':' character in the GetBytes method to the password you set in your VLC preferences.