Setting up group announcements mp3

I have not been able to get this to work. I have started to use the "standard" announcement feature in the plugin. And this is also working just fine.

Håvard

I'd be willing to have a configurable option to specify where the mp3 file is saved to before streaming to the Sonos. I'm just not sure if that would be helpful. Looking for input here - there are open/public directories that would require no additional permission. Any thoughts?

On the sonos plugin for Vera that I used before, the tts was streamed directly from the google tts service. Without any storing of mp3 and all that this includes. I have no idea of what the impact would be, but could that be a way forward? If not I assume it could be helpful to specify the folder for where the mp3 is stored.

Håvard


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I posted an update to the plugin and added a streaming option for TTS. The only drawback I see thus far is a five second delay in audio. Otherwise, it seems to work. Let me know if this is helpful.

Hi nlagaros!


I was having similar problems, and tried out http://eduo.info/apps/smbup. and it fixed my problem! Thanks for the tip!

I'm glad that worked for you! Thanks for the feedback.

Hi nlagaros!


I was having similar problems, and tried out http://eduo.info/apps/smbup. and it fixed my problem! Thanks for the tip!

I posted an update to the plugin and added a streaming option for TTS. The only drawback I see thus far is a five second delay in audio. Otherwise, it seems to work. Let me know if this is helpful.

Hi Nick.
Thanks for the update. It works just fine on my system. I do however get an error in the log.

Action Group test on group announcement mp3
Schedule _delayed_action_20
Sonos True
Sonos Announcement: test on group announcement mp3 test test test, Volume: 10
Sonos Announcement Length: 4.32
Sonos Error SOAPSend warning: waiting for command execution [10.0.1.200:0]
Sonos Error SOAPSend warning: waiting for command execution [10.0.1.200:1]


And I agree with you, the only drawback is the delay.

Håvard

Make sure that this option is enabled:

Just to report:

MacOS 10.9, Sonos plugin 0.6.20

MP3 announcement works fine

I thought I would give setting up the SMB share another try seeing as the Google TTS does introduce a delay, and for the likes of a 'doorbell' announcement, this might become an issue.

I have setup everything as in the thread above and I can see the announcement.mp3 file being created when I execute my action, however Sonos does not play it.

There are no errors that I can see in the event log

The issue I have is that I would have thought that I would be able to 'via Finder' on a remote Mac, be able to navigate to the shared public folder, that the .mp3 file is stored in.
However, I see some of the top level directories ' as in my SMB share syntax', but if I navigate directly using cmd line, the .mp3 file is hidden away within the sonos.plugin package (have to use show package to see it)
So is Sonos having the same issue as me, in that it is unable to navigate to the .mp3 location to play the file?

Hmmm. Not sure if Nick can rejig the location to be more navigable (unless I am doing something wrong that is)

Vangelis

Sonos version 0.6.20

Event log output

Trigger Doorbell pressed
Sonos False
Sonos Announcement: Test doorbell using share, Volume: 50
Sonos Announcement Length: 2.088
Sonos Debug Restore States: RINCON_000E58B881A101400:RINCON_000E58B881A101400:Kitchen PlayBar
Sonos Debug 1:Q_Crossfade: False
Sonos Debug 2:Q_Repeat: False
Sonos Debug 3:Q_Shuffle: False
Sonos Debug 4:ZP_MUTE:
Sonos Debug 5:ZP_STATE:
Sonos Debug 6:ZP_VOLUME:
Sonos Debug 7:ZP_CurrentURI:
Sonos Debug 8:CurrentURI MetaData:
Sonos Debug 9:ZP_CurrentTrack:
Sonos Debug 9:GROUP_Coordinator: true
Sonos Debug RINCON_000E58B881A101400: Restore Mute:
Sonos Debug RINCON_000E58B881A101400: Restore Volume:
Sonos Debug RINCON_000E58B881A101400: Restore URI:
Sonos Debug RINCON_000E58B881A101400: Restore Track Number:
Sonos Debug RINCON_000E58B881A101400: Restore Play State:

.mp3 location
/Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 6/Plugins/Sonos-2.indigoPlugin/Contents/Server Plugin/announcement.mp3

SMB Share
192.168.1.25/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 6

Vangelis