chromebook and sonos

Solved with current Sonos update!

Hi there, on ChromeOS .... .98 and whilst app fires up, I'm not seeing the same reliability you seem to. Possible to check if you still seeing good results?

I'm on an i7 Pixelbook on version .98 of chromeOS and latest Sonos.

It fires up but hunts around for wireless ... sometimes succeeding, then dropping and hunting.

Just to check were others are right now. Read with high hopes but not seeing the same just now

Picked up an ASUS Chromebox 3 to play with. It supports ChromeOS, Android and Linux. all in a tiny box with plenty of IO ports.

The ChromeOS apps will cast to ChromeCast for the most part, but annoyingly, they run in a browser tab, and when browsing in another tab to any page with an embedded video will stop the music. Unacceptable.

Installed the Noson Linux app, which looked promising, but it won't find my Sonos system. Darn, it's the only app that will resize properly, unlike the Android apps, which always run full screen.

The Sonos Android app kinda sorta works, though it for some reason doesn't always update the queue, or show the correct song if it was launched elsewhere.

The Android Amazon Music app mostly just crashes. Spotify works, but I don't have a sub, so can't cast to Sonos. Google Play Music will cast to Sonos without a sub, and lets me play from my NAS. It's pretty ugly on a 24" monitor, though.

Pandora will cast fine to Sonos (and Chromecast), looks fairly decent, and has the nice artist bios. Probably the best choice for a Chromebox right now.

The Google Home app for Android works nicely and looks great on the 24" screen. It can, of course, launch Pandora and play from there to Sonos. Will be great when the Google Assistant integration is finally done, will bring more control to Sonos from ChromeOS.

Pandora mini controller on the notification popup.

Hi-Fi Cast android app works very nicely with Sonos on the ChromeBox. It immediately recognized my "NAS", which is a Twonky UPnP server on my router, with the files on a thumb drive in the back. It also has the ShoutCast directory. Resizeable, decent UI, fast. Render to left Play:1 recognizes stereo pair without issue.

Sonos controller release 10.0 mucks up pretty much everything in ChromeOS. All services except TuneIn have disappeared.

A bit ironic that the Pandora and iHeart Radio apps work perfectly when casting to Sonos, using Sonos' own Direct Control API.

Everything I've read about Android in ChromeOS says that it's quite strict, and that apps that don't stick very closely to the current Android API will not fully work. Time for Sonos to clean up this app, IMO.

Sonos controller release 10.0 mucks up pretty much everything in ChromeOS. All services except TuneIn have disappeared.

A bit ironic that the Pandora and iHeart Radio apps work perfectly when casting to Sonos, using Sonos' own Direct Control API.

Everything I've read about Android in ChromeOS says that it's quite strict, and that apps that don't stick very closely to the current Android API will not fully work. Time for Sonos to clean up this app, IMO.

But Sonos doesn't support their app on ChromeOS. I get that it would be a benefit to some if it was supported, but doing so would required extra development and testing to please a relatively small set of customers.

But Sonos doesn't support their app on ChromeOS. I get that it would be a benefit to some if it was supported, but doing so would required extra development and testing to please a relatively small set of customers.

Yes, but apparently, if they were to stick more closely to Android development best practices, it should "just work" on Android in ChromeOS. The fact that other apps, using Sonos' own API, work perfectly, says that it ought to be possible. Just sayin'

but apparently, if they were to stick more closely to Android development best practices, it should "just work" on Android in ChromeOS.
But would it? Other network-centric apps such as Fing don't work properly on ChromeOS.

Clearing out the data and cache fixed the issue with the missing music services, and it does play selected items, but still doesn't show what's playing, and the queue doesn't work correctly. Ah well.

Per Google's Android developer site, Android apps should just need some UI tweaks to work properly on Chrome OS. Nothing about networking issues. But, as any developer knows, docs don't always tell the whole story.

https://developer.android.com/chrome-os/intro

So, probably a firewall issue. This Chrome extension for Sonos won't work on ChromeOS because of an incoming port being blocked. Doesn't appear to be an easy way to open ports on ChromeOS, without going into dev mode, which does a powerwash. Not ready to go there right now.

https://github.com/siboulet/zonos

Known Issues
Firewall on Chromebook
Zonos uses port TCP/3400 for receiving events from the Sonos system (as per Sonos documentation). Currently, it is not possible to open the firewall on Google Chromebook.