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Contributor II
November 27, 2020

Any way to add my preferred stations as Sonos alarms?

  • November 27, 2020
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Is there any way to use or add AccuRadio as a Sonos alarm, for example? My Sonos alarm choices only show a few station choices and no way that I can see to add my own preferred stations. Thanks

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controlav
Lead Maestro
November 27, 2020

You can use any station in TuneIn/My Radio Stations in an alarm. Where exactly is “AccuRadio” in your Sonos configuration?

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77privateAuthor
Contributor II
November 27, 2020

I find it under My Sonos/Stations or if I tap Browse, AccuRadio is one of the listed radio stations like TuneIn.

controlav
Lead Maestro
November 27, 2020

Oh its an actual Music Service. You need to ask AccuRadio to mark their content as usable as an alarm. See isEphemeral on https://developer.sonos.com/reference/types/smapi-object-types/#streamMetadata :

  • True if the stream is short-lived. If so, Sonos players will not allow it to be added to Sonos Favorites or alarms. False if it is not short-lived.
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controlav
Lead Maestro
November 27, 2020

AccuRadio also need to declare their entire service as alarm-able, ie do NOT set this:

  • Selecting this will prevent content from your service from being used as a Sonos alarm. This is useful if you have transient streams (such as live events, limited-edition content, and others).
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77privateAuthor
Contributor II
November 27, 2020

Thanks for the information. Your extensive knowledge is appreciated! However I just want to use Sonos and have no desire at this time to get involved at that level with a music service. 

controlav
Lead Maestro
November 27, 2020

Thanks for the information. Your extensive knowledge is appreciated! However I just want to use Sonos and have no desire at this time to get involved at that level with a music service. 


Thanks, but you are a customer of AccuRadio, so you should ask them to fix their service. Point them to this thread for details. They can PM me if they need further info.

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.