Fw: Sonos and HomeSeer users here ?

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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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.
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>Just curious
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>G.
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