This directory has three toy projects for interacting with Sonos players.
A command-line script that makes the sonos say words.
sudo pip install soco # for Sonos
sudo pip install gtts # for converting text to speech
You might also need to upgrade requests
sudo pip install --upgrade requests
Set SONOS_NAME to your Sonos. Change the PORT too if you want.
Use it like ./talker.py "This is a damn fine cup of coffee."
It briefly spins up a webserver to get the sound file to the Sonos. Does not need to be run as root.
You can see your Sonoses's names by using the soco library
$ python
>>> import soco
>>> for sonos in soco.discover(): print sonos.player_name
Living Room
Bedroom
A basic sonos frontend. It shows the current track, and buttons to play, pause, skip and go back. By default it expects an adafruit capacitive pitft. Comment out the "os.putenv" lines if you're using a laptop or something.
main.py runs on a linux machine on the same wifi as your Sonos(es). I needed to run as root to use the display on my raspberry pi.
The name of the sonos is hard coded in the main, so replace the SONOS variable with the name of the sonos you want to display.
sudo pip install soco # for Sonos
sudo pip install pygame # for the display
main.py
or make it start on boot by adding an init.d or systemd config. There's a systemd example at config/sonos-displau.service.
A thing that lets you control your Sonos using Amazon Dash buttons. I stole this idea from Robert Konigsberg, who was using Dash buttons to make his Sonos play radio stations. This version serves local MP3s and plays different directories depending on which button you press.
main.py runs as root on a linux machine on the same wifi as your Sonos(es). It notices arp traffic from other devices on your network. It's configured to watch for a bunch of specific MAC addresses and trigger an action (defined in buttons.py) whenever one of them is active. It can watch for Amazon Dash buttons or similar in this way.
It runs a tiny webserver to serve mp3s.
sudo pip install scapy # For sniffing the network
sudo pip install soco # for Sonos
sudo pip install requests # For REST API
You need a long-running Linux machine on your local network to run main.py on. Make a directory under its cwd called "mp3s". Make directories under that with mp3s in them. Use those directory names in your config.
Change buttons.py to list your MAC addresses, button names and actions. There's one action so far, 'play_local'. It plays a directory of music from the machine that this is running on.
Run the server as root
sudo main.py
or make it start on boot by adding an init.d or systemd config. There's a systemd example at config/sonos-jukebox.service.
Add your computer as a button in buttons.py, and trigger arp traffic from
it. On linux, you do that with arping -c 1 [any IP].
If you're debugging touchscreen stuff, modify display.py to change
mouse.set_visible from false to true so you can see what the mouse is doing.
The mouse pointer was hugging the edge of the screen until I ran the Wheezy
version of SDL1.2 as described here:
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-2-8-pitft-capacitive-touch/pitft-pygame-tips
pygame.mouse.set_visible(True)
On a linux machine, you can do ifconfig and copy the HWaddr and inet addr of
your own machine.
To see the addresses of other devices:
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run
sudo tcpdump -e -v arp(from a linux machine on the same wifi network) and watch what's going by. You might see your sonos, your wireless gateway, misc other stuff you recognise. You'll need the device to be sending traffic or you won't see it. -
Or edit main.py's arp_cb() method to to print the MAC addresses that it sees.
You need to order one from an account with Amazon Prime enabled, and you need to configure it using the same account, so getting someone else to buy one won't work (unless they're willing to log in on your wifi to set it up.)
Install the Amazon Shopping app and log in with the account that has prime. Go to 'Your account' and scroll down to 'Dash devices'. Start setting up the device as they describe it, but don't connect it to a product; just get it onto your wireless network.
Then follow the instructions above to get the MAC address. Press the button, and it should show up as arp traffic. Hopefully your network is relatively quiet, so it'll be easy to pick out the Amazon Dash.