Sonos Binding, is there a way to select favorites?

Liamj001 · June 1, 2016, 12:27pm

I have the Sonos binding working, but I was wondering if there is a way to select a station to play from your favourite list? I would like to have a particular playlist/favorite play with a particular scene.
I realise this may be a little early in the binding’s maturity, I’m just hoping there is a function that has not been documented yet.

rtvb · June 1, 2016, 4:51pm

The official documentation for the Sonos binding can be found at:

I think it is directly created from the repo:

github.com

eclipse/smarthome/blob/master/extensions/binding/org.eclipse.smarthome.binding.sonos/README.md

# Sonos Binding

This binding integrates the [Sonos Multi-Room Audio system](http://www.sonos.com).

**Attention:** 
You might run into trouble if your control system (the binding) is in another subnet than your Sonos device. 
Sonos devices make use of multicast which in most cases needs additional router configuration outside of a single subnet.   
If you observe communication errors (COMMUNICATION_ERROR/not registered), you might need to configure your router to increase the TTL of the packets send by your Sonos device. 
This happens because of a TTL=1 for ALIVE packets send by Sonos devices, resulting in dropped packets after one hop.

## Supported Things

All available Sonos (playback) devices are supported by this binding. This includes the One, Play:1, Play:3, Play:5, Connect, Connect:Amp, Playbar, Playbase, Beam and Sub. The Bridge and Boost are not supported, but these devices do only have an auxiliary role in the Sonos network and do not have any playback capability. All supported Sonos devices are registered as an audio sink in the framework.

When being defined in a \*.things file, the specific thing types One, PLAY1, PLAY3, PLAY5, PLAYBAR, PLAYBASE, Beam, CONNECT and CONNECTAMP should be used.

Please note that these thing types are case sensitive (you need to define them in upper case).

## Discovery

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Unfortunately, both pages are not complete yet. If you used auto discovery of your Sonos device, you can browse the Paper UI for the Things menu. If you select your Sonos and select See more you will get to see a Favorite channel:

Define your items and link to that channel (I suggest as a pull down list to select from).

I have not tested if the binding allows you to retrieve the list of available favorites. I guess not.

Liamj001 · June 1, 2016, 10:33pm

Thanks Robert. Yes, I’ve read the documentation and the line “All devices support the following channels (non-exhaustive):” made me think there were channels that were not documented.

I’ve never noticed a See more menu… I’ll look for it tonight. Thanks a lot Robert, your help is very much appreciated.

rgerrans · February 26, 2017, 7:11pm

@Liamj001 Were you able to get Favorites to work?

I setup a link to the Favorite channel and then tried the following rule:

rule"Harmony Living Room Jazz"
when
	Item Switch_Actions changed to 2
then
	AV_GF_Harmony_Activity.sendCommand("Listen to Sonos")
	Sonos_MainFloor_Favorite.sendComand("Coffee Table Jazz")
	Switch_Actions.sendCommand(1)
end

But end up with the following error log:

2017-02-26 11:59:43.984 [ERROR] [.script.engine.ScriptExecutionThread] - Rule 'Harmony Living Room Jazz': An error occured during the script execution: The name '<XFeatureCallImplCustom>.sendComand(<XStringLiteralImpl>)' cannot be resolved to an item or type.

If you

rgerrans · February 26, 2017, 10:31pm

I can confirm it works. I had a type on my rule above: Sonos_MainFloor_Favorite.sendComand(“Coffee Table Jazz”)

Missed an ‘m’ in sendCommand