Have VC hook into sonos to send music to another room.

Example

"Play radio in living room"
VC responds "sending audio to living room"

Or

"Play radio in living room and kitchen"

"Play radio to all speakers"


Sonos has an app that allows you to play music to different speakers in the house. Maybe VC can execute those commands to get this to work.


Any thoughts?

Sounds like a handy feature. We don't have access to a Sonos, so there's no way James can develop anything for Sonos products.

It may be possible already if you have a Vera controller, since VC works well with Vera and Vera, I think, can control Sonos.

Or, maybe there's some python code online somewhere that you could use with the python plugin. Again, even adapting an existing python script requires having a Sonos to test with, so there's not much we can do from VC headquarters.

I would guess that if one of our more technically inclined users had a Sonos, they would have posted about this already, but you never know. Maybe someone can respond here to your request.

thanks for your response, I found this on the mios site for vera.

http://code.mios.com/trac/mios_sonos-wireless-music-systems

just need to see how this would integrate with VC

It looks like you can set up specific scenes for your Sonos in Vera using that plugin.

Then you can create VC voice commands to activate those scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M7htWfF3tQ

http://voxcommando.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Plugin_Vera

A quick google revealed this

Python-soco.com ....

Maybe if you read a bit about Python you do it yourself seems pretty straight ...

Maybe you could do realize it with VC + Eventghost. There is a plugin for EG:
http://www.eventghost.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6078

Good point. It would make sense for Sonos users who don't already have a Vera controller to try the Eventghost option.  Or users who are already using Eventghost.

Basically it looks like there are several options that, with a bit of experimentation, should work.