Re: Sonos and HomeSeer users here ?

[Ben McCormack <yahoogroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will give it a try and see if the reliability is good enough.

I am looking at Amps for the speakers. I see there is a homeseer
plugin for the denon amps that will run over RS232 or IP.

I may try tracking the Sonos status in Homeseer and the control the
Denon Amp via IP and the Denon plugin.

Ben


On 2 May 2009, at  15:27, Gareth Cook wrote:

> 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 !
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> 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
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> On 23 Jul 2005, at  09:50, Gareth Cook wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>> Gareth Cook
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>> ----- Forwarded by Gareth Cook/UK/IBM on 23/07/2005 09:44 -----
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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.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>> Does anyone here have the Sonos system, but also good at
homeseer
>>> plugins
>>
>>> ? 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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