Is there any doorbell out there that can work as sonos doorbell

I have build one myself..

relais + raspberrypi + http://python-soco.com/

kr,
Ive

can you provide a walk through for making your own?

Hi Mark,

Depending on your experience with raspberry pi / python? :-)
What are your skills? 

kr,
Ive

I have a friend that plays around with Ariduo and Pii.
not sure he has had anything to do with Python,
as sure if you could point us in the right direction we could sort it out.
its mainly the network communication to sonos I need help with.

Hi Mark,

The network part is very easy if you are using the lib SoCo:
https://github.com/SoCo/SoCo

python example:

#! /usr/bin/python

import soco

for device in soco.discover():
print "** Sonos device " + device.player_name + " found at " + device.ip_address

Good documentation:
http://python-soco.com/

hope this helps you.

kr,
Ive

thanks, i'll have a play with it with my friend and see what we can come up with

Ive, I have looked through your coding and I get that you are able  to control the speakers or zones if you would directly through the Sonos however, how are you triggering the Raspberry Pi unit and what is delivering the actual "doorbell" sound?

Hello Ive,

I am also busy with making an interface for a doorbell. Today it is working with 1 sonos. I am stuck with the code for multiple sonos players . To put everything first in pauze and then group all players in 1 zone. Play the 'doorbell song ' and then ungroup them all and give the previous situation back. Is this working in your code? Can you post this please?

Hi all
We have developed a sonos doorbell. It runs on an RPi is based on SoCo, Samba etc. and installed in 10 minutes.

The only "restriction" is that triggering the doorbell is currently done via a UDP packet not via a digital input on the RPi.
This will be released within the next weeks.

By the side of the doorbell the software allows many more functions like volume up down, next and previous track and playing custom mp3 sounds (also per zone)
You can contact me: stefan.egger@egger-enertech.ch
Regards
Stefan

segger,

Will your doorbell query the SONOS devices on the network, determine grouped/ungrouped zones, pause play (including Playbar playing TV audio), play doorbell chime at desired volume, resume play to devices and groups? If so, we are very interested.