Sonos - able to see what's playing in the GUI, but no changes when I click play Pause - only volume works

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I have activated “Control from other devices”, or whatever it’s called in English, but nothing happens. I use a fixed IP from my server and have autodiscovery deactivated (because of a bunch of stuff on the network I don’t want Hass to touch) , so I have defined the host in the configuration.yaml, but that shouldn’t matter, or should it? I can see the sources on it and everything, it just won’t change anything. But volume works for some reason.

Edit: Play/Pause from the service doesn’t work either. If it matters it’s an IKEA Symfonisk speaker, but they should work just like the regular Sonos.

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I see that it’s about grouping in the logg, commands can only be sendt to a “controller”. But I only have one speaker, and I thought that would be the controller then.

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I don’t think anyone tested the Sonos integration with IKEA speakers before so it is possible that it does not work.

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They should be exactly like the Sonos One. And I have seen a few other asking the same question in the forum on searches, but the problem is that none of them has had an answer…

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Fixed by upgrading the Pi to Buster and installing the latest version of Home Assistant (because the latest version didn’t like the Python version I had on my half year old Stretch install, and upgrading Python is a pain in the ass). So now Ikea Symfonisk control works!

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Yep new SYMFONISK works very good with HA.

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But I have a problem getting URL’s to play directly, which would tie it into the rest of my system, which works like this: I select a button on an inhouse webpage or use an IR remot with number buttons. That sends a mesage to my main automation server VM and Girder, which then instructs Foobar 2000 on the media server to play the URL, for instance: https://p6.p4groupaudio.com/P06_AH

So I tried to call the service media_player.play_media with this info (trying it out in the service part of the Developer tools first):

{
  "entity_id": "media_player.stue",
  "media_content_id": "http://lyd.nrk.no:80/nrk_radio_p3_aac_h",
"media_content_type": "music"
}

But that doesn’t work. I know that Sonos supports aac, and I have been trying with http://lyd.nrk.no/nrk_radio_p3_mp3_h as well, but it just doesn’t work. How can I do this?

I know that I can use the Sonos favourites, but I would like to tie it into the rest of the system with full automation on URL’s.

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I found a workaround after looking at a lot of different stuff online. Took a few hours… But it actually works if you replace http in the URL with x-rincon-mp3radio like this:

x-rincon-mp3radio://lyd.nrk.no:80/nrk_radio_p1_sorlandet_aac_h

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