Sonos Remote control from PC

["Iain Goodhew" <I.C.B.Goodhew@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I finally decided to blow the Christmas bonus on a sonos system. I
have to say I'm impressed. But as always I want to get inside the
system, at least from a software point of view for starters. I know
there is the PC control application included, and on the net I found a
browser based remote control(which I haven't tried yet). But this got me
thinking, if you can control the sonos from the network, you can
integrate it more closely with other HA systems. Maybe start/stop on
time schedule or comfort event, pull out track info for display, switch
on/off AV-amp if lounge unit playing, etc. So I've done some digging,
and it appears the sonos zone players are uPnP devices, and as such
communicate using xml over http using a well defined open stardard. So
far I can control mine using intel's Device Spy for uPnP, and have
managed to control bass/vol/mute from a few lines of VB.NET. Is anyone
else looking into this? As I'm a little out of my depth and haven't
found many references on the web.

Iain