Questions tagged [sonos]

Sonos is the wireless Home Sound System that fills as many rooms as you want with great-sounding music, movies and TV. Stream via WiFi. Play whatever you’re craving. And amp up every moment with intense, pulse-pounding sound. Sonos devices (speakers and audio components) are controlled by Sonos-developed applications (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows).

Sonos is the wireless Home Sound System that fills as many rooms as you want with great-sounding music, movies and TV. Stream via WiFi. Play whatever you’re craving. And amp up every moment with intense, pulse-pounding sound.

Information on the Sonos Sound Platform is available on the developer site, https://developer.sonos.com/.

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Sonos search never available for customSD music service

We are adding the search feature to our music service on Sonos, following the instructions in the Sonos API docs, but when testing with the Windows Sonos desktop application, there is no search available for our application. Presentation…
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Setup port mirorring on Sonos speakers

I'd like to capture the traffic sent by a Sonos speaker (to troubleshoot streaming issues). I've found one way to do this but it's a bit cumbersome: I plug the Sonos speaker via an ethernet to usb adapter to my PC, share the PC connection and then…
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General Questions on Sonos Development

We are working on a project that requires a mobile application to remotely control Wi-Fi speaker. On our Analysis We found Sonos as a good one. I have some queries related to the Sonos Speaker. Are the APIs available for Sonos speakers open source…
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How sonos IOS app works streaming in background?

How sonos IOS app works streaming in background? They are using Airplay or another technique?
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Sonos Application Code language

I was wondering if anyone could provide any guidance, I am intrigued as to how for example Sonos would have created the software / API for their hardware? where would they have started? what language would they have used? I would love to learn how…
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Does Sonos support live radio streams that use playlists e.g. m3u/pls

Some live radio streams use m3u/pls playlists, which is a text file containing a sequence of links to the location of other audio files or playlists. Does Sonos support this mode of playback for live radio services?
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What is the API for SONOS Playbar to Allow third party controlling Volume and Input Selection (Only)?

I only need to be able to control (over third party control system, Crestron) the volume (up, down, mute), select input (video or music) and ON/OFF for SONOS Playbar, Sub and two Play1 in order to achieve 5.1 surround sound. I am not interested in…
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Streams - hasOutOfBandMetadata and getStreamingMetadata

We have some live streams we are implementing on our music service. Playing the streams work fine, however for our reporting requirements we need to be able to send a track play event for each song that is heard during the stream. Plus, we'd like to…
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Sonos API: Starting the playlist issue

Is it possible to say firmware to start playlist always in randomize order? I didn't fine any information in Sonos API documentation. Thanks,
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Investigating ERROR_LOST_CONNECTION issues

I'd like to know how you would recommend investigating transient ERROR_LOST_CONNECTION issues. I've experienced quite a lot of them this week end, so I went to the anacapa.trace logs on the speaker and got a lot of lines like those: [Thu Jan 8…
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Is it required to remove `pollInterval` from `getLastUpdate` response?

I am updating an old Sonos service that currently returns pollInterval as part of its getLastUpdate response. In the current Python self-test, this causes failures. According to the docs, this parameter is deprecated. The service has been around…
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Sonos authentication when requesting a stream

Apologies, in advance, that this question is probably too vague to be admitted into the cannon of good StackOverflow questions. However it does reflect the current state of my knowledge of this domain. Sonos provides the ability for a 3rd Party…
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Sonos album Art Size in presentation map

Can someone explain how to configure the Sonos Presentation map to adjust ArtSize URI via the pmap. Our base URL is: http://....../load_albumart.php?album_id=12&size=200 I do not understand how to configure the pmap to replace 200 in 600 for…
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Maximum string size for Sonos custom service strings and translations file (strings.xml)?

I'm setting up a custom service using the Sonos API. Apart from "ServicePromo" is there a maximum size or length for the strings defined in strings.xml? For example, could I make this string ridiculously long? Some…
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Disabling or gaming Sonos Crossfade

For short pieces of content, the Sonos crossfade feature is not desirable and ideally I'd like to be able to disable it for tracks with a small duration but this does not appear to be possible via the API. If it is not possible, I'd like to attempt…
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