Re: [mh] best way to support SONOS?
Richard F <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.misc.misterhouse.user |
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| Organization | Keynet Technology |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Not tested I'm afraid, my media players are all open source - I don't use airplay. On 27/07/2020 8:17 pm, Tom MacLean wrote: > 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. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 27, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Richard F <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> May be that Sonos has a slightly more luxury target market than >> typical MH systems ? >> >> 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. >> >> 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... >> >> I can share code if anyone is interested. >> >> 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... >> >> Richard >> >> >> On 26/07/2020 4:07 pm, Timothy Spaulding wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Were you ever successful in getting your Sonos integrated in to MH? >>> ________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, go to: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/misterhouse-users