Playing local MP3 on Sonos

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I thought I’d share how I got the playback of local .mp3 files working through Sonos. I added some .mp3 files to /etc/openhab/sounds and then created a new Samba share:

[openHAB-sounds]
  comment=openHAB sound files
  path=/etc/openhab/sounds
  writeable=yes
  public=no
  create mask=0664
  directory mask=0775
  guest ok = yes
  veto files = /Thumbs.db/.DS_Store/._.DS_Store/.apdisk/._*/
  delete veto files = yes

The crucial bit seems to be guest ok = yes. That’s what stopped the “access denied” message in Sonos. The format of the URI in my case is:

x-file-cifs:///openHAB-sounds/mysound.mp3

For Sonos, it’s important that the hostname be in capitals, apparently, and the filenames and directories need to be URL-encoded if they contain spaces or what have you.

You may want to create a separate directory with more restricted permissions for this purpose.

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nice thank you, is there a simplier way to achieve this? or this must be done usiung samba ? i am thinking about direct stream to the speaker?

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Sorry, it’s the only way I know…

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I don’t have a Sonos device, but every Sonos thing should have a corresponding audio sink in openHAB for the “play sound” action. openHAB then acts as a http proxy to serve sound to the Sonos device.
You shouldn’t need to do complex share. Maybe I didn’t get something, but why don’t you use this functionality ?

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I don’t know anything about that functionality. This is the way I did it on my previous home automation system, so it was the easiest way to migrate my rules.

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OK, indeed it’s not easy to know everything that openHAB can do.
So here is the documentation, if any of you is interested.

Just add a Sonos Thing with the help of the Sonos binding. And then you can use the play sound / play stream action with any sound in the openHAB sound directory (or any sound available on the network/internet with http). The play sound action is available in the GUI, in blockly, in the DSL, and in every JSR223 langage.

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Thanks, I’ll play with it at some point.

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You can also play mp3 as overlay, so what is currently being played is not interrupted.
This is done by connecting to a local websocket end point for the local speaker.

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Oh, now that would be very useful. Now I really have to investigate.

I use JSR223. I presume I’d have to implement something similar myself. I also see now that it requires S2. Currently mine are on S1.