README.md

Quick and dirty Sonos driver for Linux Pluseaudio.

Streaming standard pulseaudio audio sink stream to a sonos device.

Works and tested with IKEA SYMFONISK speakers on Ubuntu 20.04.

Requirements:

pip3 install soco
apt-get install alsa-utils ffmpeg pulseaudio-utils vlc

Installation:

wget -O sonos  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antonylesuisse/sonos/master/sonos
chmod +x sonos

Usage:

./sonos

Type Ctrl-C to stop streaming to sonos.

Volume synchro from pulseaudio to the device is very hackish it always reset to the master pulse audio to 75% after transmiting the delta volume change.

Soco 0.11.1 device detection fix

I have been using and old soco version 0.11.1 and I had to apply the following patch to fix the device detection. The patched core.py file is also available in this repo. This might not be necessary anymore with newer versions.

--- core_orig.py	2015-06-11 17:44:34.000000000 +0200
+++ core.py	2021-03-20 19:02:15.679004126 +0100
@@ -761,7 +761,8 @@
         self._all_zones.clear()
         self._visible_zones.clear()
         # Loop over each ZoneGroup Element
-        for group_element in tree.findall('ZoneGroup'):
+        for group_element in tree.find('ZoneGroups').findall('ZoneGroup'):
             coordinator_uid = group_element.attrib['Coordinator']
             group_uid = group_element.attrib['ID']
             group_coordinator = None