Re: Sonos and HomeSeer users here ?

[Kevin Hawkins <yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a fork of Osler's WSC component on the Homeseer forum - by
'Jerny' - I think that should work for you..

http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=123477

K

Ben McCormack wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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:
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>>
>>> 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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