Turn on radio on Sonos in morning when I come downstairs

Configuration
1

I have the HACs Sonos card addon and a bunch of Sonos speakers broken into three groups, upstairs downstairs and all.

I have TuneIn on Sonos. I have CBC Toronto radio as a Sonos favorite which I like to listen to with my coffee in the morning.

So the plan is, if it’s after 6:30 am, the night-time Boolean switch is off and I break the hall sensor, to then turn on that favorite on the downstairs speaker group at the proper volume. Of course I would turn on the kitchen lights as well.

The conditions are pretty straightforward, but I’m not sure how to use the Sonos integration to start a specific song or playlist or favorite from an automation. Is this doable?

Thank you

2

Easy. From the UI under action use the “Play Media”, select your Sonos group as target and the Sonos Favorite to play.

3

What will happen using the automation below if the Ecobee presence sensor no longer senses presence? Will the music stay on?

alias: Play Music in Morning
description: Play Music Favourite in Morning on downstairs Sonos
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.main_floor_occupancy
    from: "off"
    to: "on"
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 10
condition:
  - condition: time
    after: "06:30:00"
  - condition: time
    before: "07:30:00"
  - condition: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.day_night_mode
    state: "off"
action:
  - service: media_player.play_media
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.sonos_downstairs
    data:
      media_content_id: FV:2/1
      media_content_type: favorite_item_id
    metadata:
      title: JAZZ.FM91
      thumbnail: http://cdn-radiotime-logos.tunein.com/s31229q.png
      media_class: genre
      children_media_class: null
      navigateIds:
        - {}
        - media_content_type: favorites
          media_content_id: ""
        - media_content_type: favorites_folder
          media_content_id: object.item.audioItem.audioBroadcast
mode: single
4

Yes, when it is triggered it will start to play until you stop it. If you want it to stop when no motion is detected then just make a separate automation that triggers when the sensor goes from “on” to “off” and then call service media-stop.

5

Can anyone suggest why this is not working, running from a script to be called from an automation?

I checked, the Sonos Favorites entity is enabled. When I click RUN, I get no errors, it runs the script, but the music does not turn on.

alias: Music_morning
sequence:
  - service: media_player.volume_set
    data_template:
      entity_id: media_player.sonos_downstairs
      volume_level: 0.3
  - service: media_player.play_media
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.sonos_downstairs
    data:
      media_content_id: FV:2/1
      media_content_type: favorite_item_id
    metadata:
      title: JAZZ.FM91
      thumbnail: http://cdn-radiotime-logos.tunein.com/s31229q.png
      media_class: genre
      children_media_class: null
      navigateIds:
        - {}
        - media_content_type: favorites
          media_content_id: ""
        - media_content_type: favorites_folder
          media_content_id: object.item.audioItem.audioBroadcast
mode: single