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Hi,

I’ve not really formulated this thought fully but I would love the ability to have a device, located prominently in the house showing what is playing currently.  

It happens so many times that we have some background music on - and a visitor to the house will ask what is playing.  It’s easy for me, becasue I whip out the phone - with the Sonos App - but I think it would be awesome if ‘everyone’ had a view.  

Ideally, this would be an external screen / monitor with the current Album/Song displayed.  

I dont know if this could be a Sonos App thing - i.e. I get myself a cheap tablet and in-wall mount - which permanently runs the Sonos App or should it be a totally external device that essentially runs Shazam (or equivalent), constantly sending soundbytes to Shazam for it to recognise the music playing - i suspect the latter is full of issues - not least what Shazam displays - but this is the rough concept.

I dont even think this is necessarily linked to Sonos - its application could be for ‘any’ music playing service.  

Anyone heard of anything comparable to what I mention here - or am I off on my own…? 

Thanks. 

 

 

I wanted a bit bigger screen so I used an old computer monitor and a Raspberry Pi running:

https://github.com/pascalopitz/unoffical-sonos-controller-for-linux


Excellent - thanks. I have a spare Raspberry Pi knocking around somewhere - so I'll have a good look at this. 

Jon