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jishi
Headliner II
March 5, 2013

Sonos with node.js, my attempt!

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Source code here: https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-http-api
Sonos Web Controller draft (work in progress!): https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-web-controller
Sonos IR control (requires lircd and IR reciever): https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-remote-control

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I know that there already is an attempt at this by this guy: http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=32643, but I found it to be a bit lacking in functionality so I decided to write up my own.

I have created a simple web-based API using what I have, which could be useful for integrating stuff with other applications. This web based API is inspired by other RESTful APIs, however I don't think it follows the correct guidelines to be called a REST API.

IT supports most basic features like:

play, pause, seek, next, prev, volume, mute, setAVTransportURI

It also supports these advanced fatures:

State of player as JSON, zone info as JSON, Play favorite item, presets (grouping, volume, avTransportURI)

You can read more in the README for each project.

To run it as a service under linux, I suggest using pm2 (https://github.com/Unitech/pm2). You need to run it in forked mode (-x)!

For Windows, you might try Winser http://jfromaniello.github.io/winser/

Cheers!
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      robertboca
      Lyricist III
      November 25, 2013
      Ok so where am I missing some thing this is my preset file and it bombs every time....Sorry to be ....Ps love the interface

      {
      "all":{
      "players":[
      {
      "roomName":"Bathroom",
      "volume":10
      },
      {
      "roomName":"Family Room",
      "volume":10
      },
      {
      "roomName":"Office",
      "volume":10
      },
      {
      "roomName":"Bedroom",
      "volume":10
      },
      {
      "roomName":"Living Room",
      "volume":15
      }
      ],
      "state": "stopped",
      "favorite": "carlos",
      "playMode": "normal"
      }
      }
      jishiAuthor
      Headliner II
      November 26, 2013
      Hm, yeah, it does seem correct. I will need to test it when I'm at home.
      robertboca
      Lyricist III
      November 26, 2013
      throwing this error
      thank you
      C:\sonos1>node server.js
      binding SSDP to port 2188
      scanning for players...
      notification server listening on port 3500

      module.js:485
      throw err;
      ^
      SyntaxError: C:\sonos1\presets.json: Unexpected string
      at Object.parse (native)
      at Object.Module._extensions..json (module.js:482:27)
      at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
      at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
      at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
      at require (module.js:380:17)
      at C:\sonos1\server.js:12:13
      at Object.cb [as oncomplete] (fs.js:168:19)

      C:\sonos1>
      ynot
      Contributor I
      November 26, 2013
      Jishi,
      If you provide a template (unless it's there and I didn't notice 🙂 then I can test on PS3 to see how it acts.
      jishiAuthor
      Headliner II
      November 26, 2013
      Seems like your presets.json contains some invalid syntax, you could try and verify the syntax in some online tool: http://jsonlint.com/ first

      The second error is due to a change I did yesterday which I didn't foresee. I'll try and fix that later.
      robertboca
      Lyricist III
      November 26, 2013
      Thank You .....!;)
      robertboca
      Lyricist III
      November 27, 2013
      Will give it try could it be names with a space I know that if you have a space in fav name it fails...
      Thanks..
      jishiAuthor
      Headliner II
      November 27, 2013
      Will give it try could it be names with a space I know that if you have a space in fav name it fails...
      Thanks..

      It shouldn't, are you sure about that? I have a few favorites with spaces and never had a problem.
      robertboca
      Lyricist III
      November 27, 2013
      I will double check and get back after i update the files but no all the rooms are correct but they do have spaces....will test and forward logs thank you again
      jishiAuthor
      Headliner II
      November 27, 2013

      I have one SONOS PlayBar and it's no prblem to manage music/radio on it but I also would like to be able to switch to the TV sound (optical SPDIF).

      In org SONOS i select TV input as a source "TV" the same way I do for Spotify, Rado etc.

      Any clue?

      Unfortunately you can't add a line-in as a favorite, and listing music library and line-ins aren't the priority for now. Great info though, since I don't have a playbar myself, wasn't aware of the different URI format for spdif line in.

      I will probably finish presets before I start with music browsing, and in that case you will be able to specify "x-sonos-htastream:RINCON_000E5XXXXXXX01400:spdif" as a preset uri (you could be able to bind this to an IR remote if you get a IR receiver to your raspberry).

      Doesn't the playbar have an auto line-in feature like all the other players though?
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