TUTORIAL - Sonos Remote VD (using node-sonos-api)

[Guest Eldar]

4 minutes ago, AutoFrank said:

 

@Eldar

 excellent - is it having the effect you thought ?

I never tried it but it sounds like a nice idea

I could use a fade down followed by a pause all as part of my leaving home scene

 

I think it is quiet cool. If I turn on the TV my speakers in the livingroom are fading out now  

[AutoFrank 372]

Just now, Eldar said:

 

I think it is quiet cool. If I turn on the TV my speakers in the livingroom are fading out now  

 

Thats cool,

I do that  for the kids playroom, I must add the fade, great idea

thanks for sharing ...

 

-f

 

 

 

[Guest Eldar]

2 minutes ago, AutoFrank said:

 

Thats cool,

I do that  for the kids playroom, I must add the fade, great idea

thanks for sharing ...

 

-f

 

 

 

 

Thank you, because you made it  

[Robert Folbigg 22]

Guys have any of you had issues with the shuffle command in the api?

 

I have tested with the url and even though it reports success my playlist doesn't switch into shuffle see below images.

 

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[AutoFrank 372]

5 minutes ago, Robert Folbigg said:

Guys have any of you had issues with the shuffle command in the api?

 

I have tested with the url and even though it reports success my playlist doesn't switch into shuffle see below images.

 

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Hi @Robert Folbigg

 

I have never used it but I checked the Git reference for the API 

The api author said it should be implemented as follows..

 

You need to specify /on or /off like this: /roomname/shuffle/on

 

Is this the way you are invoking it or could you give this approach a go

 

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[Robert Folbigg 22]

@AutoFrank

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Hi @Robert Folbigg

 

I have never used it but I checked the Git reference for the API 

The api author said it should be implemented as follows..

 

You need to specify /on or /off like this: /roomname/shuffle/on

 

Is this the way you are invoking it or could you give this approach a go

 

That worked.. I was using "/roomname/shuffle" without the on / off toggle

 

Thanks again!

[AutoFrank 372]

Just now, Robert Folbigg said:

@AutoFrank

 

That worked.. I was using "/roomname/shuffle" without the on / off toggle

 

Thanks again!

 

Glad it worked out  @Robert Folbigg

[AutoFrank 372]

On 2/6/2017 at 6:32 PM, jimicr said:

I edited the VD to have a volume slider and maybe when everything works

 

Hi @jimicr

 

Could you share your code for a slider ?

 

Thanks

_f

[jimicr 90]

1 minute ago, AutoFrank said:

 

Hi @jimicr

 

Could you share your code for a slider ?

 

Thanks

_f

Sure, no problem:

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[AutoFrank 372]

27 minutes ago, jimicr said:

Sure, no problem:

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Thanks @jimicr

I'm making a VD that I can use with the echo dot

[jimicr 90]

Nice, I might get one one day so please share the code

 

P.s I made a VD for my Harmony remote a long time ago. 

In that VD I use a slider to set a slider on an other VD, that of my Onkyo receiver. So when I want to use the Harmony VD to change to an other input I can adjust the volume from the same VD.

In the future I plan to make it so that when my Sonos is selected the slider adjust the one from the Sonos VD. I think I can make it with a simple - if then - using the globals.

But to bad I am quite busy this week so it's one of those future projects 

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And use the slider in the Onkyo VD to set the correct value on this one so you don't have one on e.g. 40 and the other on 12.

 

Jim

[AutoFrank 372]

34 minutes ago, jimicr said:

Nice, I might get one one day so please share the code

 

P.s I made a VD for my Harmony remote a long time ago. 

In that VD I use a slider to set a slider on an other VD, that of my Onkyo receiver. So when I want to use the Harmony VD to change to an other input I can adjust the volume from the same VD.

In the future I plan to make it so that when my Sonos is selected the slider adjust the one from the Sonos VD. I think I can make it with a simple - if then - using the globals.

But to bad I am quite busy this week so it's one of those future projects 

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And use the slider in the Onkyo VD to set the correct value on this one so you don't have one on e.g. 40 and the other on 12.

 

Jim

Thanks @jimicr

 

[jimicr 90]

Good day @AutoFrank,

 

I just had a great deal, 2 Play 1's for €395. 

 

So I added them to the API, and found one small thing missing in your tutorial: after adding new speakers to the system you'll need to restart the API ( or as I did it, reboot the good old PI  ) any way thanks again for this great tutorial.

If you hadn't wrote it I would have never bought more than 1 player!

 

Jim

 

[jimicr 90]

On 12-3-2017 at 1:14 PM, AutoFrank said:

{ "players": [ { "roomName": "Bed_MasterL", "volume": 0 }, { "roomName": "Landing", "volume": 0 }, { "roomName": "Bed_LE", "volume": 0 }, { "roomName": "Bed_Frank", "volume": 0 } ], "playMode": { "shuffle": false, "repeat": "all", "crossfade": false }, "pauseOthers": false, "favorite": "96FM" }

Hey all,

 

Has anyone figured out how to play a mp3 from the clip folder or have the Sonoses say something?

 

Jim

[AutoFrank 372]

13 minutes ago, jimicr said:

Has anyone figured out how to play a mp3 from the clip folder or have the Sonoses say something?

 

Hi @jimicr

The clip has to me in the raspberry pi folder and it can be invoked by 

 

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Just now, AutoFrank said:

have the Sonoses say something?

 

Is this for TTS ?

[jimicr 90]

On 12-3-2017 at 1:14 PM, AutoFrank said:

preset code here

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and I then use this code (its a vd button) to slowly raise the volume to a predefined lavel

Sorry @AutoFrank, I now see the quote got messed a bit. 

 

I ment is it possible in a presets file? play an MP3 or say something using the TTS

 

Jim

[AutoFrank 372]

Hi @jimicr

 

The presets appear to be limited to playing favorites

Here is the documentation on presets

 

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.. but you could invoke a preset and then invoke a mp3 clip or other source in the one call

 

I do something like it here ...

 

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does this help ?

 

 

 

[jimicr 90]

Thanks will have a go at it tomorrow. 

Learning now I got 3 Sonoses in the house how make them play nice with each other

 

Jim

[jimicr 90]

After some trial and error, I managed to play a .mp3 on 2 speakers of the 3 simultaneity:

 

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Next test TTS, will update afterwards 

[AutoFrank 372]

Hi @jimicr

 

Here's on for your players if you don't have something like it already

 

import the vd below, add your players to the main loop table

name the labels accordingly 

 

Create one variable called SonosTable

and use this scene to populate it at the start (adjust names to suit player names)

Try not having an underscore in the player name as VD labels don't seem to like them for some reason

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The SonosTable will track status and it has other variables like volume and favorite, etc which may prove useful in the future

You could also trigger other events off the sonos state changes such as tv on/off

 

I did publish this VD a good while back but the user had to create a block of code for each player which was not ideal

 

...end result is a status of all you players in one place

 

_f

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