Integrate Sonos with C-Bus

Hi Gang,

This weekends project was trying to get an EDLT to trigger Pause/Play & Volume on my Sonos.

I was hoping to achieve this through a PAC and Sonos HTTP API (github.com/jishi/node-sonos-http-api) which I have running on a Pi.

I tried some code on the Pi, but discovered getHTTPData isn't supported on PAC - presumably because there is not network interface (I was hoping it would trigger via c-gate).

Is there any clever way to make this happen that people are aware of? (I have a CNI and PAC but not WISER/NAC). Otherwise I'm guessing it'll be writting a node.js script on the Pi to listen and respond from C-Gate?

 

Hey KS, Where do you have your C-Gate running? I presume you have an installation on the Pi?

The other option would be to do something with serial between the PAC and the Pi, but if you only want a few simple commands you might be better opening a connection into C-Gate and just listening for them as you are saying..

 

Homebridge CBuS and Homebridge Sonos should bridge the gap for you.

 

Looking for a fast start I stumbled across Anthony Webb's Node-Cbus app -
https://github.com/anthonywebb/node-cbus

It already has function to trigger URL actions off the back of monitoring C-Bus events - all the legwork is already done. Highly recommend.

 

If you combo that with Homebridge UI X for easy browser based management and JSON editing, its super simple to work with.

 

I've used a Swiss companies product called 'Lextend'

Pricey but works very well with minimal PICED coding required.