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Is there anyway to control Sonos Plugin via scenes ?


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Hello friends,

 

I would like to control my sonos devices via scenes. It seems not possible to do that with common ways. So maybe someone in this forum already did that via http methods, rest apis etc. Would be great help if someone has any idea about that.

 

Thanks in advance.

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I think you can call buttons on the virtual device that is availble in the forum, but not on the plugin.

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  • I think you can call buttons on the virtual device that is availble in the forum, but not on the plugin.

    Yea that's why I'm looking for it. My plan is creating a virtual device then call buttons.. Not possible to call plugin's button.  

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    Hello friends,

     

    I would like to control my sonos devices via scenes. It seems not possible to do that with common ways. So maybe someone in this forum already did that via http methods, rest apis etc. Would be great help if someone has any idea about that.

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

    Here you can see sample of such code for SONOS plugin:

    You can control your SONOS by interface in two ways:

    1) Create a virtual device and create in it appropriate for you number of buttons.

    The example code for button “play” below:

    HC2 = Net.FHttp(“192.168.80.85”) IP of HC

    HC2:setBasicAuthentication(“admin”,“admin”) —change your credentials

    response = HC2:GET ( "/api/plugins/callUIEvent?deviceID=140&elementName=play_Button&eventType=onReleased ") This code you can achieve by plugin “Firebug” which is add to web browser.

    The IP Address: 127.0.0.1

    TCP Port: 11111

    You can add other buttons in the same way, change only last line: “/api/plugins/callUIEvent?deviceID=140&elementName=play_Button&eventType=onReleased”.

    Then you can control your virtual devices by a scene. It can be a block scene.

    2) You can create a LUA scene which will be control your SONOS.

    An example for push the “pause” button is below:

    -[[

    % properties

    % globals

    -]]

    local function updateDevice(successCallback, errorCallback)

    local http = net.HTTPClient() http:request(‘

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    ’, { options = { method = ‘GET’ }, success = successCallback, error = errorCallback })

    end

    deviceId = updateDevice(function(resp)

    print("Status: " .. resp.status)

    end,

    function(err)

    print(‘error’ .. err)

    end

    )

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    Dont complicate things, unless you want to that is 

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    Use the built in Fibaro Sonos plugin and do simple LUA scenes that you then call.

    Gets rid of all the virtual device hassles and code. 

     

    Then call the scenes you want.

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    Or if you want to use a virtual device slider for ex the volume then just add a slider and then place this code in the slider:

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    Done!

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    Or look at the link in the address bar of your plugin.

    Go to your device and then check the address bar.

    XYZ Will be your device id.

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    IP/fibaro/en/devices/plugins.html?id=XYZ

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    Here you can see sample of such code for SONOS plugin:

     

    Your code got me inspired!

    Thank you for this way of controlling Sonos, that was nice, clean and simple!

     

    So i made a scene so you can control Sonos from a regular button and sceneActivation using the S2 button.

    (or use the same code in any VD och scene you want for simple Sonos control)

     

    Using only 1 S2 button you can Play, Pause, Next song, Prev song and volume upp + down.

     

     1 click = Play and Pause

     2 click = Next song

     3 click = Prev song

     Press and hold = Volume change upp and down (works just like a dimmer)

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    *added small bugfixes and stuff..

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    I have a question about this. I'm trying to create a lua-scene where I would like to turn my Sonos off. I use the following command:

     

    fibaro:call(134, "turnOff")

     

    But I can't get it to work. To see if there was something wrong with the plugin I used the command fibaro:call(134, "setVolume", "30") to change the volume, and that works fine.

     

    And I have no problem controlling it with the plugin-interface.

     

    Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem? Has anyone encountered the same problem?

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    On 2016-04-07 at 9:37 PM, pomfritz said:

    fibaro:call(134, "turnOff")

     

    I'm so happy for finding this. You are all incredibly talented.

     

    I had the same problem as you pomfritz and could also change the volume just like you. I experimented with pause and play instead of turnOff and turnOn and got them to work as they should. Maybe Fibaro has done some changes to the plugin from on version to another? (I run 4.100)

     

    fibaro:call(134, "pause");  

    fibaro:call(134, "play");  

     

     

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    35 minutes ago, abigbear said:

     

    I'm so happy for finding this. You are all incredibly talented.

     

    I had the same problem as you pomfritz and could also change the volume just like you. I experimented with pause and play instead of turnOff and turnOn and got them to work as they should. Maybe Fibaro has done some changes to the plugin from on version to another? (I run 4.100)

     

    fibaro:call(134, "pause");  

    fibaro:call(134, "play");  

     

     

     

    HC never show all commands and functions that are available in particular plugin. Since there is never any help or short description of the plugin only what you can do is play with it. That is really lame. So I played and except "pause" and "play" you have also commands "stop", "next", "prev" and by the way mute is not working on my HC2 4.100 with plugin!

     

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    1 hour ago, Sankotronic said:

    HC never show all commands and functions that are available in particular plugin. Since there is never any help or short description of the plugin only what you can do is play with it. That is really lame. So I played and except "pause" and "play" you have also commands "stop", "next", "prev" and by the way mute is not working on my HC2 4.100 with plugin!

     

    Great, even though strange with the mute thing. I tried variants like muteOn and muteon but those did not work either. 

     

    Any ideas on how to determine if the player is playing or if it's paused or stopped? I've tried the simple ones in case there were fields for Status and status and Time, time, timeRun, timerun but with no luck.

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    1 hour ago, Sankotronic said:

    HC never show all commands and functions that are available in particular plugin. Since there is never any help or short description of the plugin only what you can do is play with it. That is really lame. So I played and except "pause" and "play" you have also commands "stop", "next", "prev" and by the way mute is not working on my HC2 4.100 with plugin!

     

    Great, even though strange with the mute thing.  

     

     

    I just found some documentation (very cryptic) on http://<HC2IP>/api/devices/<deviceid> and when I put my deviceid in there with the correct IP address I got a long JSON feed where I found more variables. Like state which tells if the player is playing or not. Could not get mute to work with this information either though. But state works fine.

     

    local state = fibaro:getValue(id,'state')

     

     

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    48 minutes ago, abigbear said:

     

     

    Great, even though strange with the mute thing. I tried variants like muteOn and muteon but those did not work either. 

     

    Any ideas on how to determine if the player is playing or if it's paused or stopped? I've tried the simple ones in case there were fields for Status and status and Time, time, timeRun, timerun but with no luck.

    Hi @abigbear,

     

    Bellow ones are actually listed :-) Just use and you will get answer like "PLAYING" or "STOPPED".

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    to check if it is muted it returns 1 for muted and 0 for not

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    If you want to now volume that is set then use

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    For the rest you can play yourself. Sonos plugin was first thing I installed almost a year ago but I wasn't so happy with it. Then I replace it with virtual device Sonos remote made by Krikroff. It is also not perfect but it has ability to play TTS messages what I found very handy so that my HC2 can tell me some notifications. There is also one very nice solution for controlling Sonos speakers but requires small server like raspberry PI and some software for which I can't find at the moment

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    Hi,

     

    Thank you all for this. I prefer to go with the plugin, easier to use. 

     

    Does anyone know what is the command for the Sonos plugin to preselect a playlist or radio station before sending the play command ?

     

    Thank you.

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