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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[kooy 5]

If im not mistaken the krikoff addon actually only supports 1x sonos.

You would need to change code and make extra global vars with different names for each sonos.

 

Or just grp up all sonos and play the alarm via 1x sonos and if they are grouped both will play.

[andyp 6]

I have noticed the 30 second limit too, couldn't find anything that restricts it though.

[morpheus75 77]

there is a 30 sec time limit but i couldnt work out where to change it

[morpheus75 77]

on the other thread a member 'rankman' has figured a work around out and am posting it here

 

 

rankman, on 29 Dec 2015 - 2:10 PM, said:

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Hello,

 

In the play function change the value off 10 in a higher value.

Now each value is arond 2 second so a value of 10 is around 20 seconds.

If you need three minutes you have to change this value to 180/2= 90 or a little less.

 

Also you can comment out the stop function.

 

 

while (currentTransportState == "PLAYING") do
          if (i > 10) then break end;
          getTransportState();
          fibaro:debug(currentTransportState);
          fibaro:sleep(2000);
          i = i + 1;
        end

 

i have tested both ways and they work very well.

 

we can use this to play notifications greater than the 30 secs.

 

we can also use this work around by possibly creating a .m3u playlist file and storing that in our network drive.

i have created 1 and used the global variable to change the frontsonos to test.m3u and it did it.  i then pressed the play button and it played the tracks through the playlist and it showed what was actually being played in the sonos app.

if you set a time in the code above it will play for that length of time only but if you comment out the 'stop function' then it would continue until you press 'stop' or it goes to the end of the playlist.

the disadvantage is that the queue in the sonos app will remain as 'not in use' and whatever order you created the playlist in is what order it will be played.

at this moment this is the only way i see we can get fibaro to add the playlists to sonos.

code is

 

fibaro:setGlobal("frontsonos", "//Diskstation/Music/audio/test.m3u")

fibaro:call(190, "pressButton", "1")

 

if we create a simple VD with multiple buttons and assign the buttons these 2 lines of code, changing just the underlined text to you playlist name and path and of course the ID of the virtual device in line 2 then possibly create a mini remote of playlists as single button presses.

 

these would continue playing until they finish all the songs in the list unless we add another button with a 'stop' or 'pause' command.  but remember if you press 'stop' and subsequently press 'play' again it will start from the beginning.

 

hope this helps..... and thanks to 'rankman' for the highlighted code

[shadi 1]

Hi Morpheus75,

 

Great Work, well done!

 

Could you pease let us know where to find professional mp3 files such as the one played in your movie.

 

Thanks in advance.

[morpheus75 77]

Hi Morpheus75,

 

Great Work, well done!

 

Could you pease let us know where to find professional mp3 files such as the one played in your movie.

 

Thanks in advance.

cheers

 

mp3 files i googled a text-to-mp3 site and used a website to create mine, later on i got my daughter to read out the statements and recorded her voice, so now all my announcements are in my daughters voice

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For English I use this:

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[sarf77 11]

On 10/13/2015 at 5:37 AM, morpheus75 said:

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 -  

Please login or register to see this link.

 

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

 

Please login or register to see this link.

 

video link is as above.

 

enjoy...

 

download link here:    

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Hi Morpheus, The link there no longer works. Any chance you have an updated version?

 

[morpheus75 77]

@Smarterelec

 

hi

thanks for reminding me to update this thread. i forgot about it!!!

 

i have updated above thread and download files. but you can just visit my channel direct on

youtube.com/yorkshireautomation

 

cheers

 

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@Morpheus75

 

I Have the scene that you use in the youtube video for TTS ticked over, but i get an error message:

[DEBUG]  [fatal] Unknown exception: /opt/fibaro/scenes/133.lua:36: 'end' expected (to close 'function' at line 30) near.

 

Lua code/scene:

--[[
%% properties
%% events
%% globals
ttsone
--]]

-- sid is the Virtual Device ID
-- 28 is the Process button ID

local sid, bid = 401, 28
local ttsmessage = fibaro:getGlobal("ttsone")
local vol = fibaro:getGlobalValue("vdVol")
-- Create TTS paroms object
local params = {
  
--TTS Message
 
message = ttsmessage,
  
duration = 'auto',  -- Duration: "auto", xx seconds
language = "en-gb", -- Language: see

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volume = vol        -- Volume

} 

local _f = fibaro

local _x ={root="x_sonos_object",load=function(b)local c=_f:getGlobalValue(b.root)
   
-- Make a request to the remote to process params object instantly
    
_x:set(tostring(sid), { tts = params })
 
_f:call(sid, "pressButton", bid)

 

 

 

[morpheus75 77]

I'm away at moment will have a look at it when I get back on Tuesday.

Cheers

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[morpheus75 77]

@chatboy

did you copy the scene completely?

 

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[10der 832]

guys.

 

maybe it's off topic..

but using node-red it's very easy

just call url  http://192.168.1.45:1880/tts/text?Attention!

 

for calling from HC2 it's 3 lines in VD or scene on LUA

 

here is flow

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and icing on the cake: weather forecast via wunderground

 

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PS: please change ":ru" lang on "en" in flow