Re: [mh] best way to support SONOS?

Do you have airplay working on the picore player?  I find it works for a bit and then the iDevices can’t find it any more. When my squeeze box died I tried picore but it wasn’t that successful because of the airplay issue. 

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> On Jul 27, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Richard F <[email protected]> wrote:
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> May be that Sonos has a slightly more luxury target market than typical MH systems ?
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> To control an AVR, I wrote some MH code to talk to an IR transmitter on a pi (a secondary LIRC instance on a Libreelec/Kodi player). This controls my Denon AVR that unfortunately just predates their serial remote control protocol, but this solution is pretty full-featured and reliable, albeit 1-way of course. LIRC + this solution would work on a picoreplayer too.
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> LIRC has a nice simple IP interface on port 8765 which is rarely mentioned, but you can talk to it directly form a 'socket item' in MH over a network, and presumably local loopback if you need to. I converted the Denon raw codes from www.remotecentral.com for LIRC using pronto2lirc (part of LIRC), and was amazed when they all worked first time.   For extra entertainment, the pi 3 runs Kodi, powered from the TV, and the home-made IR blaster uses some spare audio cores in a SCART cable (remember that ?) that happens to be buried in the wall. A SCART video core sends the SPDIF audio converted to "coax" from TV optical to AVR.  And so a humble SCART cable staggered into the digital age...
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> I can share code if anyone is interested.
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> Also extensively updated xpl_squeezebox.pm to control and monitor half a dozen squeezeboxes of various flavours, incl. a picoreplayer.  Controlling a Sony TV over IP is a whole other story...
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> Richard
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> On 26/07/2020 4:07 pm, Timothy Spaulding wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> Were you ever successful in getting your Sonos integrated in to MH?
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>> From: tmaclean <[email protected]> 
>> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2018 1:04 PM
>> To: The main list for the MisterHouse home automation program <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [mh] best way to support SONOS?
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>> I am surprised that I find so little mention of SONOS in MH threads. 
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>> [I had been using Squeezebox as an audio solution for several years, but my efforts to build a IR Blaster output (from PiCorePlayer) to control my old receiver did not pay off.  So I have switched to a SONOS Connected:Amp which sorts out my receiver control issue.]
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>> Are any other MH users using SONOS, controlled by MH?   What API do you use for control?  Is "/jishi/node-sonos-http-api" the best route? 
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>> I am hoping to have MH respond to events on the SONOS, e.g. illuminate (set on) an Insteon button when the Sonos is active (i.e. show Sonos is on) -- perhaps the node-sonos-http-api WebHook functionality might do what I need.
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>> Thanks
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