A linux controller is needed.

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I can confirm that 6.2.2. works with Wine (installed with crossover)
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I'll be trying 6.3 in playonlinux shortly after frustratingly not being able to get it to find my library running it in a virtual machine.

I'll try to remember to post whether I'm successful.
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I don't think 6.3 is working with playonlinux/wine, but thanks to this link posted by Le3eVolfoni I was given insight to samba and possibly able to add music library in Virtualbox, It has at least found the library and is currently updating, that's huge progress for me.

Thanks

Hello,

I wrote a tutorial on how to install the Sonos controller and access the musical library under a linux OS (the tutorial is for Ubuntu but works for any distro I saw so far)

Here is the link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/757969/how-can-i-install-sonos-on-ubuntu/757970#757970

I hope it helped.
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Shame on you, Sonos... You have a great range of products which run Linux at their core. You should feel a moral obligation to give something back to the open source community, having profited so much from it. At the very least, publish an API. Some clever geek will turn out an Alpha release of a Linux controller overnight.
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6.0 and 6.3 neither one works with playonlinux/wine, are there other dependencies that should be installed other than dotnet40?
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There is an api, but I'm not sure it does controls. I think it's more for music connection purposes, but maybe someone can clear that up?
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Has there every been an official or even semi-official word from Sonos support about the lack of a Linux controller?
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A .rpm and/or .deb Sonos Controller would be so nice !
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+1 for an offfical linux or web controller. For now I'm using this on mint and arch https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/linux-linux-linux-linux-linux-linux-linux-6764091/index1.html
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Yes please!
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+1

I use linux at work and really need this!
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I don't think that is an actual solution for the problem, namely there is no easy support for popular systems like Ubuntu. (A similar suggestion would be to run windows in a virtual box on your machine. Possible, but not a solution). So while I consider this offtopic, let me comment on it so we don't get a longer discussion about it 🙂 1. It is tricky to get it on a virtual device. The market isn't installed on the AVD by default, so you either need to get an AVD with pre-installed market, or you need to find a different way to get in in there. 2. The Sonos app isn't really happy about being installed on 'random' devices. It most probably won't install on your AVD from the market. See this thread for discussion (it escalates pretty quickly, not a pretty topic.): http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=24453&page=3 . Lets just say that it isn't sonos' intention to release the APK for this kind of hacking. It isn't _that_ hard to get the APK (basically, get yourself a rooted phone, install the app, backup it, and presto), but in the end you have to re-do all this once the updates come...
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Seems like there is only a few Linuxguys with a Sonos. I was also not able to run the controlcenter. Is there any other possibility to run the speaker. For my own musik on the android I use e.g. Skifta. Has anybody a similar idea for Ubuntu? I'm still wondering, why I bought this system... even the androidphone app iss not complete.
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Already written some posts and made some requests... and nothing seems to change. I have 3x Player5, 2x Player3 but now stop because of this lack of control through Ubuntu. Think now about buying devices with integrated controller. Shame on Sonos!
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Its a pitty, but I returned the system. My new BOSE runs perfect...
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I am able to control my Sonos system (zp120, zp90, and bridge paired with Orb speakers/subwoofers) with my iPod Touch and Nexus 7 ever since I lost the ability to run Sonos under wine. I run Linux Mint 14 KDE on 4 machines all having multiboot including Windows XP and 7. It simply not worth running windows just for Sonos even with something like virtual box. Requests for Sonos to support linux have been made for at least the last 3 years that I know of with negative progress (no longer works with wine).
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+1 to native Linux controller
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+1 to native Linux controller
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No controller, no monitoring... no music!
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Linux (Ubuntu, in my case) support would be great.
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To sad that there is no reaction from S O N O S on the wish of the Linux community! +1 for a native Linux controller!
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Not sure why there is no reaction. There is obviously activity around here, and while this is not the biggest topic around, it's a quite straight-forward case, and a reasonable request. I'd be interested to know why Sonos is ignoring this.
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+1 for a native Linux controller! Even a webapp would do.
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There was a response -sort of- from Sonos. As a reply to my tweet about this topic (trying to get some attention towards it) I received this:
Sonos Support Team ‏@SonosSupport @ennaN Thank you for feedback and the feature request has been submitted to the Sonos Product Development Team for consideration.
Majik
In my view the best approach would be for Sonos to use a cross-platform development environment such as Qt for future controller development. This would allow the app to be portable across all major desktop environments, and Qt is pretty lightweight compared to .NET EnnaN, there is a UPnP control API which is largely based on standards, and third party controllers written in Python and Java have been developed amongst others, so it can be done. It is, however, a very complex project to undertake and support.
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