Home Assistant Community Add-on: AirSonos

frenck · December 25, 2017, 10:13am

This add-on is provided by the Home Assistant Community Add-ons project.

sonos

About

AirPlay capabilities for your Sonos (and UPnP) players.

Apple devices use AirPlay to send audio to other devices, but this is not compatible with Sonos players. This add-on tries to solve this compatibility gap.

It detects Sonos players in your network and creates virtual AirPlay devices for each of them. It acts as a bridge between the AirPlay client and the real Sonos device.

Since Sonos uses UPnP, the add-on might also work for other UPnP players (e.g., newer Samsung televisions).

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other add-on.

Search for the “AirSonos” add-on in the add-on store and install it.
Start the “AirSonos” add-on
Check the logs of the “AirSonos” add-on to see if everything went well.

After ~30 seconds you should see some log messages appear in the add-on log.
Using your iOS/Mac/iTunes/Airfoil/other clients, you should now see new AirPlay devices and can try to play audio to them.

Please read the documentation for more information about the use and configuration of this add-on.

Support

You can always try to get support from the community here at the Home Assistant community forums, join the conversation!

Questions? You have several options to get them answered:

The Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server for add-on support and feature requests.
The Home Assistant Discord chat server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant

You could also open an issue on GitHub, in case you ran into a bug, or maybe you have an idea on improving the addon:

Open an issue for the addon: AirSonos
For general repository issues or add-on ideas open an issue here

At this moment our Home Assistant Community Add-ons Discord chat server and GitHub are our only official support channels. All others rely on community effort.

Repository on GitHub

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Check out some of our other add-ons in our Home Assistant Community Add-ons project.

frenck · December 25, 2017, 10:36am

About the author of this add-on

Hi there!

I am Franck Nijhof, and I have 30 years of programming experience, in many languages. I am using this experience to work on the Home Assistant project by giving back my knowledge and time to the open source community.

The add-on you are currently looking at right now was developed/packaged by me. It is not the only add-on I have created; there are many many more

However, I have a problem… I am an addict. A addict that is. Lucky for you, I turn that C8H10N4O2 (caffeine molecule) into code (and add-ons)!

If you want to show your appreciation, consider supporting me for buying a cup of high octane wakey juice via one of the platforms below!

Enjoy your add-on, while I enjoy the brain juice.

Thanks for all the

…/Frenck

P.S.: In case you want to ask me a question: AMA (Ask Me Anything). Most of the time I am online at the Discord chat. (I go by @Frenck in there as well).

gerard33 · December 25, 2017, 11:15am

Wow, really great add-ons you are making!
Thanks!

Garnaal · December 25, 2017, 12:55pm

Works like a charm, thank you very much for making this add-on!!!

kolossboss · December 25, 2017, 2:35pm

Works fantastic!! Thx a lot.

gerard33 · December 27, 2017, 10:23pm

The add-on works great, but I noticed that after playing something on a Sonos speaker and then stopping that, the text on the Sonos card remains “Streaming from Airconnect” and the logs shows multiple records per minute containing:

Wed Dec 27 2017 23:16:59 GMT+0100 (West-Europa (standaardtijd))

Update for media_player.kantoor fails
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 199, in async_update_ha_state
    yield from self.async_device_update()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py", line 306, in async_device_update
    yield from self.hass.async_add_job(self.update)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/futures.py", line 332, in __iter__
    yield self  # This tells Task to wait for completion.
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/tasks.py", line 250, in _wakeup
    future.result()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/futures.py", line 245, in result
    raise self._exception
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 56, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/sonos.py", line 528, in update
    track_info = self._player.get_current_track_info()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/soco/core.py", line 1219, in get_current_track_info
    index = trackinfo.find(' - ')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find'

Not sure if the add-on can use the Sonos snapshot and restore function? https://home-assistant.io/components/media_player.sonos/#service-sonos_snapshot

frenck · December 27, 2017, 10:35pm

Interesting, I’ll look into that.

frenck · January 7, 2018, 10:20am

Release: AirSonos v0.2.0

Full Changelog

Fixed

Fixes Unexpected high system load

Changed

Upgraded base image to v0.2.1
Updated maintenance year, it is 2018

This update is now available on your Hassio panel.

mr_white · March 13, 2018, 11:35pm

this is GREAT

thank you so much

cannfoddr · March 14, 2018, 5:50pm

Just installed on a Pi 1 HASSIO using default options and all I can seem to get is:

[s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc…exited 0.
[s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms…exited 0.
[fix-attrs.d] applying ownership & permissions fixes…
[fix-attrs.d] done.
[cont-init.d] executing container initialization scripts…
[cont-init.d] 00-banner.sh: executing…
[cont-init.d] 00-banner.sh: exited 267.
[cont-finish.d] executing container finish scripts…
[cont-finish.d] 99-message.sh: executing…
s6-maximumtime: warning: child process crashed
[cont-finish.d] 99-message.sh: exited 111.
[cont-finish.d] done.
[s6-finish] syncing disks.
[s6-finish] sending all processes the TERM signal.

What am I doing wrong?

frenck · March 14, 2018, 6:45pm

Euhm wait what?!

Could you please set the log level to debug and share the result? Thx!

cannfoddr · March 14, 2018, 7:14pm

Debug level makes no difference it’s like the main proceans is not even starting. I am pretty docker savvy but cannot figure out how to interact with individual containers on Hassio.

Is there a standard docker image I can use?

frenck · March 14, 2018, 7:20pm

The thing is… it makes no sense…

[cont-finish.d] 99-message.sh: executing…
s6-maximumtime: warning: child process crashed
[cont-finish.d] 99-message.sh: exited 111.

That script right there is just displaying something and contains no magic or logic at all…

Source: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-base/blob/master/base/rootfs/etc/cont-finish.d/99-message.sh

So… like… yeah… there is nowhere I can go from this.

frenck · March 18, 2018, 7:50pm

Release v0.3.0

Full Changelog

Added

Adds add-on logo and icon

Changed

Upgrades add-on base image to v1.0.0
Upgrades AirUPnP server to v0.2.0.5

frenck · March 19, 2018, 9:22pm

Release v0.3.1

Full Changelog

Fixed

Fixes executable permission issue on amd64

KasperKC · March 21, 2018, 1:46pm

Hi

Great add-on, but I get this error message:

[14:39:57.537801] main:1205 Starting airupnp version: v0.2.0.5 (Mar 12 2018 @ 07:24:58)
[14:39:57.538176] main:1213 no config file, using defaults
[14:39:57.541828] Start:953 UPnP init failed: -208
[14:39:57.541905] main:1246 Cannot start
INFO: Starting the AirSonos server

I can see my speakers as Airplay units, but cannot connect.

Any ideas ?

gotodragon · March 25, 2018, 2:33am

it’s really good job, frenck,Thanks

Fonager · April 8, 2018, 8:22am

Works like a charm. This is what I have missed for all those years. Thanks alot, you are a champ

daranto · April 14, 2018, 1:18pm

Hey,
Is there a option / setting to exclude devices? My AV-Receiver has AirPlay build in and is now 2 times in my AirPlay list.

Daranto

frenck · April 14, 2018, 2:57pm

No, currently, there is not an option for that @daranto.