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sonossucksreally
Contributor I
April 7, 2019

Sonos 10.1 break third pary apps and home automation AGAIN!

don't install if you still want to use third party apps like python-soco or home-assistant
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    controlav
    controlav
    Lead Maestro
    April 7, 2019
    How do these things break exactly? Are they just super fragile code? In the seven years I have been producing Sonos apps, there have been two Sonos changes that truly broke my apps: one was when encryption was added to music service credentials (~3 years ago) and the other was when many diagnostic pages got removed (last year), and that only effected my oldest codebase (plus Sonos sent me an email warning me of the impending issue).

    All my code works just as well on 10.1 as it did on 10.0.

    I would be grateful if someone could supply some detail on how these other codebases break, and perhaps I can suggest how they could be improved in the future to be less fragile.
    Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
      controlav
      controlav
      Lead Maestro
      April 7, 2019
      Answering my own question: I took a look at python-soco on github and their problem was in over-rigid XML parsing. It was fixed two days ago.
      Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
        controlav
        controlav
        Lead Maestro
        April 7, 2019
        More info: home-assistant uses a forked version of python-soco so suffers the same bug (and has not taken a fix yet).
        Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.
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