Sonos Plugin Setup

Great. Now did you sign up for Ivona and enter the key & password in the plugin configuration?

What version of OS X are you running? The IVONA announcements require Python 2.7.


El Capitan,
Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 14 2015, 19:46:27)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.39)] on darwin

Yes, sorry, I should have included more info in my request. I did sign up and configured the plugin accordingly.

I was originally on a Macbook Pro, running Yosemite & Python 2.6 which would account for earlier problems. But I just installed a Mac Mini and copied over my database to that. Everything else seems to be running properly.

There should be a file called pyvona.input in the Sonos plugin directory as well as a script called pyvona_voices.py. The script will take the input file, make the call out and create the mp3 announcement. Would you try running that in a terminal and checking the output. The result should be the creation of a file called announcement.mp3 that is greater than zero bytes.

Thanks Nick, I really appreciate your support! I'm away from it at the moment, but will try that as soon as I return this afternoon.
Jim

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The Sonos plugin does not show any detail inside of action groups. For lighting and switches, I can see what the device is. For a Sonos Player, I cannot see which one it is. Notice the volume settings for various rooms in the screenshot. When I want to make changes to the volume settings, I can't tell which one is which except by opening the actions. This is not productive. See screenshot.

Jay/Matt - is there anything I can do to expose the device name? I'm not sure it is possible, but please advise.

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The Sonos plugin does not show any detail inside of action groups. For lighting and switches, I can see what the device is. For a Sonos Player, I cannot see which one it is. Notice the volume settings for various rooms in the screenshot. When I want to make changes to the volume settings, I can't tell which one is which except by opening the actions. This is not productive. See screenshot.

There should be a file called pyvona.input in the Sonos plugin directory as well as a script called pyvona_voices.py. The script will take the input file, make the call out and create the mp3 announcement. Would you try running that in a terminal and checking the output. The result should be the creation of a file called announcement.mp3 that is greater than zero bytes.

I do have those two files in this folder: /Library/Application\ Support/Perceptive\ Automation/Indigo\ 6/Plugins/Sonos.indigoPlugin/Contents/Server\ Plugin/

When I ran pyvona_voices.py in Terminal I got the following error:

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/Library/Application\ Support/Perceptive\ Automation/Indigo\ 6/Plugins/Sonos.indigoPlugin/Contents/Server\ Plugin/pyvona_voices.py ; exit;
Josephines-Mac-mini:~ JoHome$ /Library/Application\ Support/Perceptive\ Automation/Indigo\ 6/Plugins/Sonos.indigoPlugin/Contents/Server\ Plugin/pyvona_voices.py ; exit;
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 6/Plugins/Sonos.indigoPlugin/Contents/Server Plugin/pyvona_voices.py", line 7, in <module>
import pyvona
ImportError: No module named pyvona
logout
Saving session...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
Deleting expired sessions...none found.

[Process completed]

You have to change to the directory with the script in it and run from there.

You have to change to the directory with the script in it and run from there.

My apologies, noob here (as if you couldn't tell). Did I do this correctly?

Josephines-Mac-mini:Server Plugin JoHome$ python pyvona_voices.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pyvona_voices.py", line 13, in <module>
IVONAsentence_break = int(f.readline().rstrip('\n'))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'Jennifer'
Josephines-Mac-mini:Server Plugin JoHome$

Don't apologize. I'm a rookie myself. Would you download the latest update to the plugin and try the announcement again? I added a bunch of logging that makes the error pop-out more gracefully. We can examine the error output and hopefully figure out what is going on. Just one note: if it does error out, your Ivona key and password will be printed in the log .. don't want you pasting those in the forum!

Thanks!

Don't apologize. I'm a rookie myself. Would you download the latest update to the plugin and try the announcement again? I added a bunch of logging that makes the error pop-out more gracefully. We can examine the error output and hopefully figure out what is going on. Just one note: if it does error out, your Ivona key and password will be printed in the log .. don't want you pasting those in the forum!

Thanks!

Thanks for the warning. Here is what I got:

Trigger Alexa turn on switch announce to Sonos
Sonos Error IVONA Input: xxx
Sonos Error IVONA Input: xxx
Sonos Error IVONA Input:xxx
Sonos Error IVONA Input: Jennifer
Sonos Error IVONA Input: 400
Sonos Error IVONA Input: medium
Sonos Error IVONA Input: This is a test of Ivona text to speech
Sonos Error IVONA Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sonos Error IVONA Error: File "./pyvona_voices.py", line 13, in <module>
Sonos Error IVONA Error: IVONAsentence_break = int(f.readline().rstrip('\n'))
Sonos Error IVONA Error: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'Jennifer'

This is bizarre. There are one too many lines in the IVONA Input file. There should only be two lines before "Jennifer" in the file. Curious - can you tell if the third line is actually part of the second?

Don't apologize. I'm a rookie myself. Would you download the latest update to the plugin and try the announcement again? I added a bunch of logging that makes the error pop-out more gracefully. We can examine the error output and hopefully figure out what is going on. Just one note: if it does error out, your Ivona key and password will be printed in the log .. don't want you pasting those in the forum!

Thanks!

Thanks for the warning. Here is what I got:

Trigger Alexa turn on switch announce to Sonos
Sonos Error IVONA Input: xxx
Sonos Error IVONA Input: xxx
Sonos Error IVONA Input:xxx
Sonos Error IVONA Input: Jennifer
Sonos Error IVONA Input: 400
Sonos Error IVONA Input: medium
Sonos Error IVONA Input: This is a test of Ivona text to speech
Sonos Error IVONA Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sonos Error IVONA Error: File "./pyvona_voices.py", line 13, in <module>
Sonos Error IVONA Error: IVONAsentence_break = int(f.readline().rstrip('\n'))
Sonos Error IVONA Error: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'Jennifer'

I assume you're referring to these lines: Sonos Error IVONA Input: xxx
I just ran it again and it appears to be 3 separate lines. Line 1 is the Ivona access key and lines 2 and 3 are the secret code, and they are identical.
Hope that helps.
Jim

Can you check your plugin configuration and make sure you didn't type in the secret code twice - perhaps hidden with a carriage return??

I assume you're referring to these lines: Sonos Error IVONA Input: xxx
I just ran it again and it appears to be 3 separate lines. Line 1 is the Ivona access key and lines 2 and 3 are the secret code, and they are identical.
Hope that helps.
Jim

Can you check your plugin configuration and make sure you didn't type in the secret code twice - perhaps hidden with a carriage return??

I assume you're referring to these lines: Sonos Error IVONA Input: xxx
I just ran it again and it appears to be 3 separate lines. Line 1 is the Ivona access key and lines 2 and 3 are the secret code, and they are identical.
Hope that helps.
Jim

Brilliant detective work...that was it!!! It now works great! Thanks so much for your support Nick!!!
Jim