Does anyone know if there is a way to essentially add a paging function to an existing system, perhaps via a script? My client owns a business and uses several SONOS speakers tied together as multiple zones playing the same content throughout he store. He wants to be able to play background music (ie: Pandora) but add the functionality of something like pushing a mic button and announcing over the “PA”, then seamlessly returning to the original source. It is possible to add a PORT for the source but that would require one select the alternate “line-in’ source then reselect the original but that's’s less than ideal. A custom scrip that performs these functions would work as the base software lacks (AFAIK) the functionality to do anything but manual switching. Thanks!
Adding a paging function
+18This could work via Google Assistent’s broadcast function, but that would mean anyone within shouting distance from a speaker could make announcement.
+24There are a few third party apps that can do this. I think jishi’s node.js code can do this too, I know it includes TTS support (text-to-speech).
Note that the technical challenge with this is restoring the previous playback after the audio clip has finished.
The newer Sonos devices support the audio-clips API which make this easy, not sure if anyone has written an app that uses it yet.
There is an app called Voice Intercom for Sonos that I use at home. Don’t know if it would fit the bill or not, but worth a try.
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