Fw: Sonos and HomeSeer users here ?

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I do this, but with Comfort. Homeseer tracks the zone status and
chucks
out a flag to Comfort. Comfort then decides what to do.

Neither the Sonos plugin nor the Comfort plugin have very good stability -
they fall over a lot. So don't ever rely on it !





Digging up a really old thread here but did anyone find a solution to
this?

Some of my Sonos Zoneplayers will be connected to separate amps. I
want to be able to send IR to switch inputs on the amp when I 1st
press play on the Sonos zone.

Regards
Ben



On 23 Jul 2005, at  09:50, Gareth Cook wrote:

> Kevin
>
> One thing I would like is to be able to track the status of a
> zoneplayer.
> For example, we have ceiling speakers for Sonos and I'd like to also
> run
> the TV system through them (not using the Sonos line in). I'd like
> to use
> a AV Amp and have 2 inputs - 1 Sonos, 1 TV.
>
> If i can track the status of Sonos I can do AV switching. So say you
> press
> "Play" on the Lounge Sonos ZonePlayer, we could detect this
and then
> HomeSeer/xAP etc can send an IR command to the amp to switch to the
> Sonos
> line input on the amp. We can already detect a TV IR command, so the
> system could detect this and switch back to the TV line input.
>
> Controlling Sonos would be nice (ie Away mode on Comfort then stop all
> zone players, etc), but the one above would be a real gem.
>
> G.
>
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> When you say 'status' Gareth what particular aspect of  the status do
> you need - ? Is it just playing/stopped or a bit more (like what is
> playing for example)..... I guess it may be just this ONOFF as you
> are
> wanting automated input switching.  Just thinking...  I may be able to
> get this to xAP via one of the unofficial Sonos dev projects that
> provided a rudimentary web interface  and from there of course it will
> appear in HomeSeer using the free HomeSeer xAP plugin.
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> BTW A new software update was released yesterday for Sonos, and also
> Roku, and the HomeSeer v2 public beta is out too
>
> Kevin
>
> Gareth Cook wrote:
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>> Does anyone here have the Sonos system, but also good at homeseer
>> plugins
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>> ? I'd love to be able to have a plugin that can at least just read
>> the
>> sonos' status - from then I can auto control the amp switching via
IR
> etc,
>> and have one set of speakers in a room, and also a ton of other
>> stuff.
>>
>> Just curious
>>
>> G.
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