How to use SONOS CurrentAlbumCoverArt or CurrentAlbumCoverArtURL correctly?

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Can someone please help me, getting AlbumCover work in BasicUI?

At the docs of SONOS-Binding currentalbumart and currentalbumarturl are listed as supported channels.
I’ve added them to my sonos.items file:

Image  Sonos03Kueche_CurrentAlbumCoverArt	"AlbumCover [%s]"	 	{channel="sonos:PLAY1:RINCON_5CAAFD43AE8601400:currentalbumart"}	//Cover art of the album currently playing
String Sonos03Kueche_CurrentAlbumCoverArtURL	"AlbumCoverUrl [%s]"	 	{channel="sonos:PLAY1:RINCON_5CAAFD43AE8601400:currentalbumarturl"}	//Cover art URL of the album currently playing

In PaperUI/Controls it works out of the box:

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But not with BasicUI or HABdroid.
Seems like I don’t know how the element type “IMAGE” is used correctly in openhab.sitemap file.

The docs say:

Image [item=<itemname>] [icon="<iconname>"] url="<url of image>" [label="<labelname>"] [refresh=xxxx]

I tried this ways without success:

Image item=Sonos03Kueche_CurrentAlbumCoverArt url=Sonos03Kueche_CurrentAlbumCoverArtURL	label="[%s]"	icon="none"	
Image item=Sonos03Kueche_CurrentAlbumCoverArt 	label="[%s]"	icon="none"
Image url=Sonos03Kueche_CurrentAlbumCoverArtURL	label="[%s]"	icon="none"

I’ve been searching the forum for a long time, but I couldn’t find a answer.

Does anybody know, what’s my mistake?
Is there another way to display the AlbumCover?

@Lolodomo and @watou Am I right, that you have been involved in developing the sonos-binding? Maybe you can helb me?

Thx in advance for any help.

Edit1:
I use openHAB 2.1.0~20170227013157-1 (Build #814) and
193 | Active | 80 | 0.9.0.201703021530 | Sonos Binding

Edit 2: Update to the latest versions didn’t change anything.
openHAB 2.1.0~20170507040348-1 (Build #909)
180 | Active | 80 | 0.9.0.201704291826 | Sonos Binding

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Sorry, I forgot to answer.
Here is how to use cover art image in a sitempa:

Image url="http://domain/xxx.jpg" item=SonosSalonAlbumArtUrl

url has to point to a default image that will be used in case Sonos is providing no image.

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Many thanks for this solution, which works great with BasicUI!

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But unfortunately not yet with HABdroid. (Latest version)

Do you have any idea why not?

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Yes, Image items are not yet supported in HABdroid. I hope this will be added one day.
Image items are supported in Classic UI and Basic UI.

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Issue https://github.com/openhab/openhab.android/issues/216

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Image items are also supported by Paper UI as you noticed.

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To come back to HABdroid, if you use the string URL channel, there is another known problem encountered with Sonos : https://github.com/openhab/openhab.android/issues/263

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Thank you very much for clarifying that.
Nevertheless, great job. :+1: