Sonos control page help/ideas

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Wed Nov 04, 2015 2:24 am
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Sonos control page help/ideas

Hi

I'm reasonably new and have an insteon system I'm building up. Mainly lighting at the moment. I also have a sonos system in every room.

I'm looking for help/ideas as to the best way to set up a control page for it.

Any help or direction would be appreciated

Cheers

Pete


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Cheers,

Pete

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Thu Nov 05, 2015 12:01 pm
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Re: Sonos control page help/ideas

Hi Pete - I'm afraid that you'll need to be a bit more specific about the kind of help you need. I presume that you've already installed the Sonos Plugin.

You can get pretty fancy if you want to, but I think that most folks implement the following types of "basic" things in their Sonos Control Pages:
- Information about what's playing (Artist, Album, Track, etc.)
- Cover art (this is a little trickier, but not too bad once you know the trick.)
- Transport controls (Play, Pause, Skip, etc.)
- Volume controls (Up, Down, Mute)

"Fancier" stuff includes:
- Grouping Players
- Announcements
- All Stop, all mute

Most of this is pretty simple stuff, but it will get you started. In addition, you can link some things directly to the plugin and its built-in Actions, some controls you'll probably need to link to your own custom stuff. I prefer to have a separate page for each room.

Do you need help with the mechanics of building control pages? There's quite a bit of help on the Wiki and the forums, but if you have specific questions I'm happy to try to help.

Cheers,
Dave

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Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:21 pm
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Re: Sonos control page help/ideas

Here's a page I put together based on the Sonos app.
You just select the room then the music. The "more music" opens the SonoPad
app for playing specific songs etc.

There is a fair amount of scripting involved in using one set of nav buttons
for all 3 locations, depending on which location is active, but it really works well.

I had a bunch of announcement buttons and weather info on the page but am re-working all that.

Carl
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Fri Nov 06, 2015 9:50 am
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Re: Sonos control page help/ideas

ckeyes888 wrote:
Here's a page I put together based on the Sonos app.

Carl


Nice looking page, Carl!

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Sun Nov 08, 2015 4:03 pm
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Re: Sonos control page help/ideas

Thanks everyone for your replies, and your page looks great Carl, yes it is more the mechanics of the page I have the plugin loaded and have the ip addresses for each device setup but still a little lost on adding them to a control page, I will scout the how to's again. I just seem to be missing something in getting the various elements and their variables onto the page


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Pete

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Sun Nov 08, 2015 8:53 pm
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Re: Sonos control page help/ideas

Thanks, and don't hesitate to ask for help with it.

Carl

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