Novice help request for playing a track on Sonos

[rbrown3rd]

I want to play a track from any cloud service on my Sonos triggered by a rule. TTS is easy and works consistently well for custom voice announcements. I've searched the community posts and have not found a simple step-by-step process for playing a track from Amazon Music, Spotify, or any other cloud source. Is there a way to do this?

I'm running HE version 2.1.5.124. I have Sonos Integration installed.

[scottgu3]

Playing tracks through the Sonos integration on demand, is kind of a pain. I have managed to use a Rule to start playing a Pandora Radio Station on my Play:3 at night, by using the suggestion by @mike.maxwell in the link below (not exactly a specific track...):

Sonos - Play Pandora Radio Station, etc?

So, trying to figure out how to have a Sonos device play specific radio stations from Pandora, or a Amazon playlist, etc. I've tried putting " Radio" as I would invoke it through Alexa (its an alexa enabled sonos), no love Is there anywhere I can find the commands available (either via driver interface or WebCoRE) and examples? -j

There are also some clues in this thread that might help:

Sonos stream and playlist playback

Hi, (Apologies if this is not the appropriate category for this post/question.) I am building actions to trigger my Sonos and want to share what has worked for playback of streams. The development workflow goes roughly: Pick a Sonos speaker to work with and an appropriate app (iOS, Android etc) Press "Clear Queue" Select the desired stream to play and start it. Flip to the Hubitat device for the chosen Sonos speaker and examine the "Current States" on the RHS. Copy the "trackData" and paste …

I haven't dug around enough, but based on all the threads on this subject, it seems like there should be a HOWTO: around here someplace...

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[rbrown3rd]

Thanks. That gives me a start and as I suspected, it is not a very straightforward process. I appreciate your providing the two links to the discussion threads.

[aaiyar]

If you have a RPi or anything that can run node servers, then look into: node-sonos-http-api.

It integrates using @ogiewon's http-momentary-switch, to play favorites from Sonos, and lots of other functions.

One of those functions is a search function, and @homeauto2112 came up with this great method to use the Hubitat Dashboard to search for an play specific artists from a Sonos-connected music source. @homeauto2112 uses it for Apple Music; I use it for my own Music Library.

[junkie60626]

I’ve been trying to figure this out for OVER A YEAR.

TTS works 100%, but TTS to ANY Playlist has NEVER worked for me. I had it working ONCE but that seemed to have been the night the stars were perfectly aligned.

After a year, I have no more patience to troubleshoot further. The forums are ZERO help because it’s a congested HOT MESS and gives me a headache. NO.

[mike]

If you use Node-Red, it's pretty easy. But Node-Red is a rabbithole. And it's rather deep.

This is my Sonos page. The yellow highlight is a local end point within Node-Red that is called by Hubitat for playing (in this case) a queue.