Working SONOS VD and TTS workaround - quick install guide

[morpheus75 77]

hello all.

i have just bought some Sonos speakers and wanted to integrate with home center 2. 

first part is to control then second part text-to-speech workaround

 

whilst i was going through the forums i found the info i needed scattered around different threads and the original thread was very long, so i have thought i might make it easier by creating a small quick guide:

 

First thing is all credit to the virtual device goes to krikroff for the VD, original thread here -  

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I have created a video demo instead as it was easier to show rather than write.

 

 

 

video link is as above.

 

enjoy...

 

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Edited September 26, 2018 by morpheus75
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[Cafun 13]

Thanks for this!

I do have one question, I hope you can help me with that.

When a file has played, I lost my playlist. So I cannot simply press the play button on my Sonos.

Is there a way to "save" the playlist in a variable or something like that?

[morpheus75 77]

I know, that is the issue at the moment. I am going to have a look to see if I can find anything on this or try something myself. Theory of creating a play list file and use that in a variable is what I will be exploring

[arnovanderhorst 0]

Thanks, this is great !!!!

 

Looking forward to the solution of the "playlist" issue.

 

maybe you can add the link to the download at your post, it took me a while to get the url right. .... (my English is not so very good

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[morpheus75 77]

amended thread and added link here.

[Cafun 13]

Thanks! Looking forward to it, if you can find a solution for it.

[morpheus75 77]

ive been doing some reading and it looks like the playlist files cannot be extracted from sonos. there is no way to backup a sonos playlist either. so at the moment i cannot 'read' what playlist is currently being played before we send our notification file.

however we can add a playlist file so that after an announcement it can play a playlist .m3u file.

the issues with this is that you have to create your own separate m3u playlist file and store it with your music, once you have refreshed the sonos library using the sonos app you can store the path for this file into a variable and call it to play using the krikroff VD so that it plays all the tracks and not just 30 secs worth.

you will not see a list in the queue, only the single m3u file but whilst it is playing the music you will see the track name that is being played.

 

so unfortunately looks like the existing playlist is effectively lost and has to be restarted manually after using notifications this way comapred to TTS.  so hopefully TTS funcionality will be restored soon and we can go back to that method where it will not disturb our playlists.

 

on the plus side it does give us a way to send a playlist to the Sonos.  

Create a new variable and a VD with how many buttons you need.

create your playlist files and assign each 1 to a VD.

code each button to 'setGlobalValue' to your new variable and press play button on the krikroff VD instead

this way you can use fibaro to start your specified playlist by pressing a VD button or using a scene...

 

hope that all makes sense. 

[Cafun 13]

I also DO have the problem with TTS, so that's not different for me.

 

You can see the playlist in Fibaro. If I go to "

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 then I see an " ui.playlist.value" with my current playlist in Sonos.

Maybe we can do something with that? I really don't now.

 

Thanks for your effort!

[morpheus75 77]

ok i will look into that when i get home and see if anything can be done. thanks

[Cafun 13]

Great! Let us know

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[Jackhampus 0]

Thanks morpheus75

You have maid my day, thanks for the video.

It works great, Thanks

[morpheus75 77]

I also DO have the problem with TTS, so that's not different for me.

 

You can see the playlist in Fibaro. If I go to "

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 then I see an " ui.playlist.value" with my current playlist in Sonos.

Maybe we can do something with that? I really don't now.

 

Thanks for your effort!

hi

im not getting the ui.playlist.value appearing in my options

also been testing the m3u file in the variable and it is working almost perfectly.

 

after changing the variable to point to a m3u file intsead of the mp3 file it pre-loads the playlist with multiple files instead of a single file.

you still have to let it play with the TTS VD first before you can set it to play again with the main VD

the forward track and previous track still works fine

 

here is example of what i tried:

 

line 1 -  fibaro:setGlobal('frontsonos','//Diskstation/Music/frozenTest.m3u')

line 2 - fibaro:call(190, "pressButton", "1")  

line 3 - fibaro:sleep(30*1000)

line 4 - fibaro:call(187, "pressButton", "7")

 

line 1 sets up the playlist file in the variable

line 2 loads the file from variable into Sonos and plays roughly 30 secs at the pre-determined volume level ( 50% in my video)

line 3 the LUA code waits 30 secs

line 4 it then presses Play again on the main VD app and starts the playlist from beginning at the existing sound level

 

so far this is the only way i have managed to get the playlists to play

 

im open to suggestions for better ways, im not a fully fledged programmer but understand the basics only

[Cafun 13]

You don't? Hmm. It's in the Sonos Plugin, not in a VD.

 

Attached a screenshot how it looks at me.

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[morpheus75 77]

i havent installed the sonos plugin. i will do that now and check again

 

EDIT

 

installed and checked. i can pull the playlist info and on checking the data it remembers the full path of the music files. 

i have saved to a variable aswell.

problem is getting it back into the sonos plugin

[Cafun 13]

I guessed that could be a problem. I really appreciate it, you looking into this so far, thanks.

[alandee 79]

Nice Compilation of data, and great youtube walkthrough .. this is why Fibaro IMHO needs a wiki ! ..or more morpheus75's

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Cheers,

al.

[svtove 0]

Hi. Nice video. I have one question. To use the radio buttons i the VD. Where do i but in the radio url ?

Thanks,

Velle

[morpheus75 77]

hi

i didnt put any URL for the radio into the VD itself. instead i chose 5 faviourite stations in the Sonos App itself and the VD just picked them up automatically.

[andyp 6]

This is great , got it going so quickly ,but how do I get it to return to whatever was playing before this event on the Sonos. Any help much appreciated

[morpheus75 77]

This is great , got it going so quickly ,but how do I get it to return to whatever was playing before this event on the Sonos. Any help much appreciated

 

that is the question. i cant work that bit out just yet....

[tiCeR 0]

Hey there,

 

looks like all works perfect but i have a problem with my alarm system with the tts workaround.

 

I have a .mp3 alarm file that last for 3 Minutes.

 

My problem is that the file get played from both sonos players, but after 30 seconds it stops. Is this a limit for the tts workaround?

 

So i was thinking it just allows 30 seconds so i just tried to do a while and play the sound again. The problem is that it does just play the sound on one speaker and it ignores the others. Again after 30 seconds it happens that they switch sometimes and so on so it does not work as i want.

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I really hope someone can help me here..