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Signal to a lightbulb

  • October 18, 2024
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Hi. I have a project that involve some mods. 
I want to use a old radio cabinet, take out all of the components and install a sonos One speaker. But I want the lights in the cabinet to be activated when I choose the speaker. Is there anyone that know if thats possible? 

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  • Senior Virtuoso
  • October 18, 2024

How are you activating the lights? Or are you hoping the Sonos app will do it for you? (It won’t, by the way.)


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  • Contributor I
  • October 18, 2024

Manual, with a switch. No, I dont hope that the app will do it, but when I «start» the speaker, I want the lights to be activated, from a signal or something that tells the light to turn on. 


Airgetlam
  • October 18, 2024

I’d likely be looking at ITTT as an option, but as @nik9669a states, Sonos doesn’t externalize a signal to tell anything other than its own controller that it is on.


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  • Contributor I
  • October 18, 2024

Thank you


UKMedia
  • October 19, 2024

Thank you

There are ways to do this by using smart home functionality. Home Assistant or Hubitat are two systems that I use that can see output to a Sonos device as a trigger for a rule to fire and turn the lights on. But it will be a lot of work/learning/cost if this is it's only use.