Sudden Flakey Behavior with Sonos

I have a simple automation setup to play Sonos favorites in all my rooms. While it has occasionally been a bit flakey - which I blamed more on Sonos than anything else - it has worked rather reliably for a long time.

Suddenly, today, it stopped working, without any changes to my environment. So, first, I thought I should make sure I'm running the latest Sonos firmware. I checked, and there was an update, which I installed. No joy. Then I thought perhaps the issue might be on the Hubitat side so, I checked for updates and found there was a Sonos Advanced Controller update in HPM. I loaded that. Again, no joy. I also noticed there was a platform update pending, although the only item in the release notes was about removing the Z-wave firmware update. So, while I didn't expect much, I went ahead and loaded the latest firmware. Sonos routine still not working. I've checked the Hubitat logs, and there are no errors - the commands appear to be running fine. Below are the commands that are executed after I set a dimmer level value on the virtual dimmer (equating to the Sonos favorite number)...

All of the commands up to "loadFavorite" are working...Sonos is grouping my rooms and setting the volume levels correctly. What it's not doing is actually playing the favorite, which is what the loadFavorite command should [used to] do. When I check the Sonos app after attempting to play a favorite through Hubitat it shows "Unknown Content." That's not making sense, because if I select the favorite in the Sonos app, it then plays just fine. So, the favorite is clearly still there in the favorites catalog. And I've re-checked Sonos Favorites within Hubitat to ensure favorite numbers hadn't gotten jumbled. All my favorites are still there with the correct numbers.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

I realized I posted this in the wrong topic - probably should have posted to...

In any event, I realized that, in fact, my simple routine is still working but, for some reason, is running incredibly slow. It sometimes takes 20-30 seconds, but Sonos eventually plays my favorite as it should. This behaviour is new. However, in the other [correct] topic, it seems others experienced some performance issues and the developer of this integration released an update, which I just installed, to address this. I will test in next 24 hours to confirm this addressed the slow performance (and this will be my last post in this topic). Sorry moderator. :expressionless:

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