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Dani Ionescu
Dani Ionescu
Avid Contributor I
March 2, 2017

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

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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    jishi
    Headliner II
    March 9, 2017


    Assuming the Swiss has made it work with an acceptable propagation delay, means it is technically possible. They only want CFH555 (£450) https://shop.egger-enertech.ch/product/lextend-d-i6/
    Or it may even be possible with their cheaper model (CHF500) https://shop.egger-enertech.ch/product/lextend-d-net/

    Well, problem solved or challenge set to do it cheaper, depending on the way you look at it :-)


    Although I have huge respect for the time invested in creating such a system, I still think that for just creating a door-bell this is a very steep price point. If you have other needs though, it might be good.

    I just want to point out to you that the actual implementation of playing a custom sound (triggered by a HTTP request) over all your players, and then resume what they are doing exists in the open-sourced HTTP API that I have built. You can install a pre-made image onto an SD-card for a raspberry pi, then add some additional code if you want it to be triggered from a GPIO pin instead. More work, surely, but for the cost of a raspberry pi, some wire and a button + time invested you would achieve the same thing. Just to give you some alternative (as in, cheaper).
      elischleifer
      Lyricist I
      June 20, 2018
      You might want to checkout https://github.com/EliSchleifer/sonos-doorbell.

      It is a fairly simple HTTP server doorbell solution. The server code integrates with SoCo which allows it to target a sonos zone to play a locally hosted file when the HTTP request is sent.

      DoorBird integration is fairly simple from there. The DoorBird device can easily be programmed to make an HTTP call. Happy to help anyone get it setup if interested.
      Ryan S
      Ryan S
      Retired Sonos Staff
      September 7, 2018
      We're doing the rounds to let everyone know that today we just announced that IFTTT and Sonos have been integrated. Take a look at our announcement post. We're excited to see what you put together!
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