RE: Sonos Remote control from PC

["Ho yin Ng" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Blah .. My Christmas bonus could not even buy the remote control for the
Sonos system!



:-(



Ho yin



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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Iain Goodhew
Sent: 20 December 2005 19:25
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Sonos Remote control from PC



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




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