Sonos Integration to play music

[user7186]

Hello Community, I am very new to Hubitat, so please excuse any lack of knowledge. I would like to have a Dashboard button that plays classic rock in my office (Sonos amp) from my Spotify account.

I have the Sonos integration working with my water leak detection workflows to announce and shut down the water main. Works very nicely.

I found through reading from this community that I can integrate 'node-sonos-http-api' from Jishi on GitHub, but I am having an issue installing it on a Raspberry Pi 5, which is not why I am here. I think I have a known issue that version 5 is causing, and I need to wait for Jishi and the team to fix it when he has time.

I would appreciate it if someone could show me a straw man configuration through the Apps and Rules engine so that I can possibly make this happen.

Once I get my Sonos speakers playing, I can start and stop the songs through my Dashboard buttons, but I would like to know more about how to make it more interactive.

Thanks, Don - very curious for sure just not a developer. However, I can follow Rules...

[marktheknife]

@user7186

I would like to have a Dashboard button that plays classic rock in my office (Sonos amp) from my Spotify account.

What do you usually tell Spotify to play? A playlist? Specific albums?

[user7186]

I would tell Spotify to play a playlist like Eric Clapton's music.

[marktheknife]

I mostly use Hubitat’s Sonos integration for voice announcements like you mentioned.

But if you can get the Spotify URI for any playlist of interest, I believe Hubitat can start that playlist directly. No need to run anything else on a RPi.

[Ranchitat]

This might work...

[RELEASE] Sonos Favorites Support

This is an integration for Hubitat hubs to enable playing of Sonos favorites via a Switch for automation purposes. This app only lets you play from favorites, but allows you to play radio stations, playlists from Apple Music or Spotify etc. The built-in integration only works if you have the URI of the song you want to play, but does not work with URIs of playlists for example. Hence the need for this add-in - just add a song to your Sonos favorites in the Sonos app, and you can play that song/…

[user7186]

@Ranchitat - I loaded the Sonos Favorites Support (SFS) and the Sonos Integration.
I now see the new device from SFS and have control of the music.

Now I would like to have a tile that allows me to play/pause/stop the music chosen.

Then, on the Dashboard, I see the new device (a big win for sure). But the tile on the left is the result, and I do not have play/stop control. What am I doing wrong? It could be a keyboard actuator error.

I greatly appreciate any direction you can provide.

Thanks,
Don (Noob)

[Ranchitat]

@user7186

Now I would like to have a tile that allows me to play/pause/stop the music chosen.

Sorry, I just use Google to control the Sonos.

But, I think you could do that with two dashboard tiles, one music player tile to control the Sonos and another switch tile (with custom name/icon) to launch the playlist.