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

[jimicr 90]

5 minutes ago, AutoFrank said:

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

 

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Thanks!

 

Will play with it this afternoon

[AutoFrank 372]

2 minutes ago, jimicr said:

Thanks!

 

Will play with it this afternoon

 

@jimicr, how the back healing coming along ?

[jimicr 90]

Thanks for asking, a lot slower than hoped for.

 

But will be okay  

[AutoFrank 372]

15 minutes ago, jimicr said:

Thanks for asking, a lot slower than hoped for.

 

But will be okay  

Thats good to hear....

 

 

[jimicr 90]

Got it to work, I was using your other one with this in the main loop (I added the sleep at the end)

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This works perfect aswell, what are the benefits of using the new one?

 

Jim 

[AutoFrank 372]

6 minutes ago, jimicr said:

Got it to work, I was using your other one with this in the main loop (I added the sleep at the end)

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This works perfect aswell, what are the benefits of using the new one?

 

Jim 

 

@jimicr

its better coded (uses a table) so when you get your next few sonos zones you can just add them to the table

The sonos table is a bit better  as well....

 

.. plus it keep your lua skills sharp

 

[jimicr 90]

14 minutes ago, AutoFrank said:

 

@jimicr

its better coded (uses a table) so when you get your next few sonos zones you can just add them to the table

The sonos table is a bit better  as well....

 

.. plus it keep your lua skills sharp

 

You are right  

Just to learn I adjusted the mainloop I added the following line:

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At line 18, I like "paused" better then "paused_playback"

[AutoFrank 372]

3 minutes ago, jimicr said:

You are right  

Just to learn I adjusted the mainloop I added the following line:

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At line 18, I like "paused" better then "paused_playback"

Nice one @jimicr

 

I must add that to mine as well 

 

Thanks 

[jimicr 90]

This works for the remote you posted in the OP:

change this: 

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Edited June 28, 2017 by jimicr

[Bezan 2]

Hi,

Currently I`m using "SONOS Virtual Device made by Krikroff" but considering switch to this solution since there is option to use Synology NAS for this API

 

The most important for me would be TTS. In Krikroff I have delay about 8 seconds so this is way too long response time to create whole logic for may use case.

I see that using this API there are more options. How is about response time there? Which service seems to be the fastest?

 

My internet connection should not be problem (low pings and quite fast). I would like to be able to use language PL or EN.

 

Maybe someone switched from Krikroff solution or have both to give more info

 

 

[AutoFrank 372]

Hi @Bezan

I use AWS Polly and have used VoiceRSS.  for me the TTS response time is 1-2 seconds which for me is very acceptable. I am not sure about Google TTS or what is available in Poland but perhaps others could comment on their experience 

[Bezan 2]

@AutoFrank thanks for answer. Up to 2 seconds response time would be superb

After while of research it seems that my Synology NAS does not allow Docker. On the other hand there are more issues running it this way.

So, instead of changing NAS best would be to buy Raspberry PI and configure Sonos and other node like Alexa etc. there

Do you have any step by step tutorial, website link where rookie can go through and have sonos api running on rpi?  

[AutoFrank 372]

3 hours ago, Bezan said:

After while of research it seems that my Synology NAS does not allow Docker

@Bezan, mine didnt either

 

3 hours ago, Bezan said:

Do you have any step by step tutorial, website link where rookie can go through and have sonos api running on rpi?  

 

Yes, If you go to the first post of this topic you will find the steps there 

 

 

[Bezan 2]

I have previous Sonos VD still installed and now added sonos node api.

After importing VD, putting IP to RPI and port 5005 it is not showing any informations. Buttons are also not working.

 

Where should I start to look into it?

[AutoFrank 372]

2 hours ago, Bezan said:

I have previous Sonos VD still installed and now added sonos node api.

After importing VD, putting IP to RPI and port 5005 it is not showing any informations. Buttons are also not working.

 

Where should I start to look into it?

 

Hi @Bezan

You also need to add your player name (exactly) to either the code or the VD general tab depending on which VD you have

If you post the code from the main loop I should be able to tell from there 

[AutoFrank 372]

Hi,

I recently had a power cut and my sonos api  (and HA bridge) got corrupted.

Luckly I had a copy of my sd card so I was just able to swap it in.

 

This reminded me that I never posted about making a copy of your rpi card

 

anyway here is is 

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taken from 

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I always have a copy of the latest image and a spare sd card with that image

 

 

 

[Bezan 2]

@AutoFrank,I added name exactly as in my Sonos app ( used %20 for space ).

Now it seems to be working but not showing State. It is very important for me to control lights based on this status. Any idea why it is empty?

 

Moreover, Sonos Players Status is also not showing status.

Edited July 10, 2017 by Bezan

[AutoFrank 372]

1 hour ago, Bezan said:

@AutoFrank,I added name exactly as in my Sonos app ( used %20 for space ).

Now it seems to be working but not showing State. It is very important for me to control lights based on this status. Any idea why it is empty?

 

Moreover, Sonos Players Status is also not showing status.

 

Hi @Bezan

 

Could you export your vd and include in post and I can take a look....

 

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[Bezan 2]

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[AutoFrank 372]

@Bezan

 

Slight change to main loop.. (this must have been an early VD)

 

Change zoneState line to the following 

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and the status will show

 

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Also instead of Title - you could display what they call artist (its also the radio station for internet radio)

 

you can get this from 

 

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If you're interested the full json data for a player can be found through the browser by going to http://<ip of api:5005>/playername/state

 

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there are other parameters there that may interest you like elapsed time or station name, etc

 

It's worth nothing that some of the data displayed is a little different depending on audio source

 

.. anyway, hope this helps

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