Contributor III

Sonos Beam homekit automation

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Hi Sonos Community,

Does anyone know how to use apple home kit's automation feature for a Sonos Beam. I'd like to be to create an automation that play music at a certain time, or turn off the Apple TV at a certain time.

My Sonos Beam is listed in the home automation but I can't do anything with it. The speaker icon stays greyed out.

Any links to articles or videos regarding this topic are greatly appreciated.

Luis

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Ken_Griffiths

Let me first of all say I have installed iOS 12.1 beta 2 on my iPad Air as that may be important here.

I have added the Sonos Beam as an Accessory in HomeKit, which I did a while back, which is located in my Front Room.

If I go to the Automation Tab and select to add an automation I see screenshot 1 (attached).

If I choose and follow any of the five listed 'triggers' in the list , whether that is 'Peope Arrive' or 'An Accessory is Controlled' etc... none of the pages that follow, ever show my Sonos Speakers despite them being an accessory in one of my HomeKit Rooms.

So my thoughts are they are not supposed to currently work in the automation screens, er... at the moment, at least ...and perhaps what you maybe seeing is something that has now being fixed in the latest iOS beta software.

Those are my initial thoughts here.

Ken_Griffiths

As you can perhaps see in the attached further screenshot, my Sonos Beam (called 'Dining Room') ... is not showing on the final screen of the Automation Wizards beneath the 'Front Room' Accessories section. The iOS 12.1 beta has hidden the Sonos accessories. Only the Philips Hue Lights and Home Sensors are now showing. No Sonos devices anywhere and I have several, in different rooms, registered in my HomeKit App.

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quipmasterAuthor

Contributor III

@ken_griffiths, I'm going contact Apple Support to have some more help. I'll post the solution or Apple reply in this thread.

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LGW

Lyricist II

Did you get any results with this? It’s frustrating as I have the Sonos beam showing as an accessory in HomeKit but can’t create a scene because it doesn’t show up in the list but my LIFX bulbs do. This is especially frustrating as I have been playing with iOS Shortcuts which is amazing and could do so much with it. I don’t have a hub though (only 3rd gen Apple TV and only 4th generation and newer works) so can’t create ‘automation’ but should be able to create a ‘scene’

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gb359

Contributor I

As you can perhaps see in the attached further screenshot, my Sonos Beam (called 'Dining Room') ... is not showing on the final screen of the Automation Wizards beneath the 'Front Room' Accessories section. The iOS 12.1 beta has hidden the Sonos accessories. Only the Philips Hue Lights and Home Sensors are now showing. No Sonos devices anywhere and I have several, in different rooms, registered in my HomeKit App.

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gb359

Contributor I

Exact same problem here - I’m thinking it could be Homekit as I can’t trigger a HomePod to play music using Homekit automation either. Supposedly you can do this with Apple Shortcuts - I’ll investigate further. I think we are all looking for the same capability which is reasonable to expect and makes no sense that it can’t be done without having to go to some other proprietary solution that will be here today and gone tomorrow.