MMM-Sonos - Display what is currently playing on your Sonos network

tbouron

Hi @Jas and thanks!

Both of these are not supported. The concept of the module was to have a Sonos now playing... module with minimalist design hence:

only vital information: title, artist, album (can be toggled), metadata: room, volume and track length (can be toggled)
no album artwork
show only rooms where music is playing, otherwise show nothing to avoid clutter

It would not be too hard to do all the above, but I don’t plan to do it anytime soon because of the concept.

Jas

@tbouron Got it! Thank you for the quick response. Looks great!

tbouron

@Jas No problem. Feel free to add an issue on GitHub. If enough people really want it and +1 the issue, I’ll consider doing it ;)

eliah

@tbouron It looks like the issue is now fixed, no constant updates anymore! Thank you. :)
Some more issues I noticed:

Value for song length minutes has no leading zero, so when a song’s length is 2:04 it shows 2:4.
If any of speakers are used directly by AirPlay, it shows (null) (null). Maybe it’s better to ignore AirPlay mode if no information is available for it?
Not sure if it is a bug of a module or Sonos library behind it, but for some reason the group names are sometimes become incorrect. For example, if I start a playlist on three speakers in the same group, first it shows something like “Kitchen+2” (and that’s correct), but after some time it becomes just “Kitchen” (same 3 speakers are playing).
And additionally, if more than one speaker is playing in the same group, each of them can have its own volume. In this case the single volume indicator that your module outputs to the screen becomes useless.

tbouron

@eliah Awesome! Thanks for the feedback, I’ll cleanup and push the changes as soon as possible :)

Regarding the other issues:

Value for song length minutes has no leading zero, so when a song’s length is 2:04 it shows 2:4.

I already fixed that, it’s in a branch since Christmas but I was waiting for your feedback on the group scan issue to release it.

any of speakers are used directly by AirPlay, it shows (null) (null). Maybe it’s better to ignore AirPlay mode if no information is available for it?

I assume you are talking about the second line for artist and album right? I already have sort of partial fix for that (not displaying the album if null). I could do the same thing for the artist. When you are using airplay, is the first line displayed correctly? What does it say? I unfortunately cannot know if something comes through airplay or not, it’s all unified through the Sonos library.

Not sure if it is a bug of a module or Sonos library behind it, but for some reason the group names are sometimes become incorrect. For example, if I start a playlist on three speakers in the same group, first it shows something like “Kitchen+2” (and that’s correct), but after some time it becomes just “Kitchen” (same 3 speakers are playing).

That would be a bug in the underlying Sonos library. I just listening for events and display whatever comes from there.

And additionally, if more than one speaker is playing in the same group, each of them can have its own volume. In this case the single volume indicator that your module outputs to the screen becomes useless.

The Sonos library doesn’t give me this information unfortunately so that won’t be possible to do for now.

eliah

@tbouron said in MMM-Sonos - Display what is currently playing on your Sonos network:

I assume you are talking about the second line for artist and album right? I already have sort of partial fix for that (not displaying the album if null). I could do the same thing for the artist. When you are using airplay, is the first line displayed correctly? What does it say? I unfortunately cannot know if something comes through airplay or not, it’s all unified through the Sonos library.

I checked that more. And it looks if I share a song from iTunes via AirPlay, it provides all necessary information, so the data is correct. But if I use YouTube, then it is empty. Song name is just empty, and both singer and album names are displayed as (null).

That would be a bug in the underlying Sonos library. I just listening for events and display whatever comes from there.

That’s bad. :( As I can see, sometimes it just gets crazy. Shows me up instances of the same, when only one group plays. Looks like the library behind node-http-sonos-api required for another modules of the same type is more stable currently.

The Sonos library doesn’t give me this information unfortunately so that won’t be possible to do for now.

I believe it gives in fact. As I can see from Sonos module, its class SonosGroup contains Members. I believe it can be used to count number of members in the current group, and if there is more than one, not output the volume. Alternatively, I believe it should be possible to extract exact names of members from the Group to construct a more user-friendly custom name to use in metadata (i.e. not “Kitchen+2”, but “Kitchen, Corridor, Bathroom”).

tbouron

@eliah I’ll see what I can do. But in the meantime, feel free to open issues and/or PRs on the GitHub repo for potential fixes

hweigel

@tbouron: first of all, very noice module, chapeau! Now the inevitable nag: is there any means of reducing the font size (especially the track)? Any hint/idea appreciated!

tbouron

@hweigel Thanks, that’s very much appreciated!

The module specifies classes for each element, like this one for the track so you can customise the font size via your custom.css

tbouron

Alright, so I took a deeper look and it turns out that my code to display groups had a bug which made devices reappear even though they were part of a group. That should be fixed now with version 1.2.0.

I also added a new config flag to display the group’s full name, see README.md

Regarding your comment @eliah on group volume, I disagree. The volume displayed is the global volume of group, which is exactly what the sonos app displays. Displaying volume of all members wouldn’t make sense here as this module doesn’t control the speakers (again, the sonos app does exactly this, it displays the group volume, then display individual speaker volume when, and only when, you change the volume)
That’s why I’m going to skip your request. However if you strongly feel it should be there, the code is open source on GitHub so feel free to fork the repo and implement it :)

And finally, simply git fetch origin && git pull origin master within MMM-Sonos folder to update the module. Enjoy!