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Finally!!!: Home Automation -> Auto lights ON and (sonos) music ON when you het home

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Do you want when you get home (location aware), a specific music (list/radio) automatically play + a light scenario on? Of course you want...

Great news: 0 costs and it can be done easily. Maybe a lot of you already have Sonos + Philips Hue...
And we know that Sonos does not work yet with Apple Homekit...

Boom!...just install Yonomi app or Gideon app and all above it can be achieved centralized without any further hardware.

You don't find this solution over the internet (in this moment). You just to be lucky to discover it. I was lucky yesterday, I am very happy with it and I wanted to share with you...

By the way, a smart plug (for thermostat, non-smart lights, etc.) that you wish to work with above apps is Belkin Wemo.

Minim system requirements: a smartphone, almost any Sonos device, Philips Hue device. Optional -> Belkin Wemo smart plug.

Have a nice life 🙂.

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Dani IonescuAuthor

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How do I edit the title of this post? I have a typo...het instead get. 😞

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Dani IonescuAuthor

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chicks

Had you done a search, you would have found that Yonomi has been discussed here for at least a year...

Dani IonescuAuthor

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Had you done a search, you would have found that Yonomi has been discussed here for at least a year... Yesterday all day.
But yes...here on Sonos forum I heard about Yonomi...But no where I found that it realy works without further hardware (like Logitech Harmony). Everywhere I search on google it says that it works with some additional hardware. And those apps really work without any further hardware! It is amazing for me, why Sonos don't do this feature "autoplay automation" "from the box" when you enter in the home wi-fi and resume the music...This is a basic feature for a lot of people.

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jgatie

Personally, my moods are so different from day to day, or hour to hour, if Sonos played the same playlist/station every day when I came home (or even a playlist/station assigned to a day of the week), I'd be shooting the damn thing within a fortnight. No matter how good the quality of the music, repetitiveness like that brings to mind Daryl Dixon sitting in a closet listening to “Easy Street” by The Collapsable Hearts Club on an infinite loop. ITTT stuff like turning on lights, or setting "moods", or automatically playing music would drive me nuts. I'd much rather fly by the seat of my pants and tell the damn thing to play what my heat desires at that moment, whatever the moment.

YMMV. 😉

Dani IonescuAuthor

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Personally, my moods are so different from day to day, or hour to hour, if Sonos played the same playlist/station every day when I came home (or even a playlist/station assigned to a day of the week), I'd be shooting the damn thing within a fortnight. No matter how good the quality of the music, repetitiveness like that brings to mind Daryl Dixon sitting in a closet listening to “Easy Street” by The Collapsable Hearts Club on an infinite loop. ITTT stuff like turning on lights, or setting "moods", or automatically playing music would drive me nuts. I'd much rather fly by the seat of my pants and tell the damn thing to play what my heat desires at that moment, whatever the moment.

YMMV. ;) It is not like this. If you are moody, yes, you play manually what you want. But the feature SHOULD exist. Anyway thanks god there are those third party apps...

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Cazualchatter

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Personally, my moods are so different from day to day, or hour to hour, if Sonos played the same playlist/station every day when I came home (or even a playlist/station assigned to a day of the week), I'd be shooting the damn thing within a fortnight. No matter how good the quality of the music, repetitiveness like that brings to mind Daryl Dixon sitting in a closet listening to “Easy Street” by The Collapsable Hearts Club on an infinite loop. ITTT stuff like turning on lights, or setting "moods", or automatically playing music would drive me nuts. I'd much rather fly by the seat of my pants and tell the damn thing to play what my heat desires at that moment, whatever the moment.

YMMV. ;)

Use ramdom play 😃

Music + Movies on 2x Play 1s + Sub + Playbar. Amazon Echo Dot + Google Home Mini. Beautiful impulsive music.

jgatie

Use ramdom play :D

How is random play going to fit my mood? If I come home wanting Motorhead and random play spits out the Carpenters, I'm not going to be happy. ;)

Seriously, though. All this ITTT automation is fine, but it all seems very OCDish to me.. I'm on a schedule just like everyone else, but scheduling my musical tastes to coincide with each action I take is a little too structured for me. I've showered to easy listening and showered to heavy metal. I've cooked to smooth jazz and cooked to punk. I've gotten my groove on to heavy metal and done the deed to Roxy Music. All depending on my (or another's) mood, not on what footsteps I previously took before I entered the room or residence. I'm just not that predictable (and God forbid if I ever am!).

YMMV.

Majik

I think the ability to configure automation/interaction with different things is a useful thing.

Personally though, I find it's not actually that useful. I've had home automation (alarm system, lighting, some heating & appliances) for nearly 2 decades and that has taught me that whilst there are some useful things I can automate a lot of the things I first thought to be cool and useful really weren't.

Cheers,

Keith

Dani IonescuAuthor

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Post update: if you want that Yonomi to work from 3G/LTE mobile, you have to have another tablet at home (works like Apple HomeKit)...and you have to open the Yonomi app on tablet last, to "keep the ball" in your Wi-Fi "garden". If you open the Yonomi on the phone last, you will loose the 3G/LTE remote control of the Sonos System.
Hint. Use routines as widgets and create them like in the bellow screenshots.

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