Sonos Shipping Forecast

Automatically hijack your Sonos system to play the Shipping Forecast from BBC Radio 4, then restores Sonos to previous state.

Instructions

• pip install soco
• Add BBC Radio 4 to your sonos favourite stations
• Edit the script to set the zone names and volumes
• Cron the script to run at 0048 every night, it defaults to 12 minutes duration
• Enjoy!

Crontab Entry

Edit your crontab with crontab -e and add this line:

48 0 * * *   /path/to/sonos-shipping-forecast/sonosforecast.py

Depends

Uses the SoCo controller library: https://github.com/SoCo/SoCo version 0.11.1