Grouping Sonos speakers

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I use a node server with the node-sonos-http-api from jishi

It has quite a list of supported sonos actions:

  • play
  • pause
  • playpause (toggles playing state)
  • volume (parameter is absolute or relative volume. Prefix +/- indicates relative volume)
  • groupVolume (parameter is absolute or relative volume. Prefix +/- indicates relative volume)
  • mute / unmute
  • groupMute / groupUnmute
  • togglemute (toggles mute state)
  • trackseek (parameter is queue index)
  • timeseek (parameter is in seconds, 60 for 1:00, 120 for 2:00 etc)
  • next
  • previous
  • state (will return a json-representation of the current state of player)
  • favorite
  • favorites (with optional "detailed" parameter)
  • playlist
  • lockvolumes / unlockvolumes (experimental, will enforce the volume that was selected when locking!)
  • repeat (on/off)
  • shuffle (on/off)
  • crossfade (on/off)
  • pauseall (with optional timeout in minutes)
  • resumeall (will resume the ones that was pause on the pauseall call. Useful for doorbell, phone calls, etc. Optional timeout)
  • say
  • sayall
  • saypreset
  • queue
  • clearqueue
  • sleep (values in seconds)
  • linein (only analog linein, not PLAYBAR yet)
  • clip (announce custom mp3 clip)
  • clipall
  • clippreset
  • join / leave (Grouping actions)
  • sub (on/off/gain/crossover/polarity) See SUB section for more info
  • nightmode (on/off, PLAYBAR only)
  • speechenhancement (on/off, PLAYBAR only)
  • bass/treble (use -10 thru 10 as value. 0 is neutral)

For grouping, you can use the join/leave commands:

Grouping

You have basic grouping capabilities. join will join the selected player to the specified group (specify group by addressing any of the players in that group):

/Kitchen/join/Office This will join the Kitchen player to the group that Office currently belong to.

/Kitchen/leave Kitchen will leave any group it was part of and become a standalone player.

You don't have to ungroup a player in order to join it to another group, just join it to the new group and it will jump accordingly.

If you want and app, you could create an app that has a virtual child device that supports speech. The child device could send the "text" to be spoken to the parent app and the parent app groups the sonos speakers before it sends the TTS to the master in the group.

Technically, it should work, might have play around with some timing to make sure that commands don't overlap.

EDIT: There is also a "sayall" command that speaks TTS on all Sonos devices. Not sure how synchronized it is though