SonosAmpJuiceTasmota

Purpose

The purpose of this pair of applications is to turn power off and on at amplifiers/receivers, based on monitoring Sonos activity, using MQTT or REST to control inexpensive WiFi switches flashed with Tasmota (such as the Sonoff Basic and Gosund Power Plug).

Configuration

• Edit the stopTimeout variable if you want to change the delay between when the application learns that an amp can be turned off and when it does so.
• Change the value of the justTesting variable to true if you want to test the application without triggering a WiFi switch (by running node and watching log files and/or command-line output).

ampjuice-mqtt.js

• Edit the amps variable to associate each of your sonos player/room names with the MQTT topic corresponding to the Tasmota device for that player or room name.
• Edit the mqtt.connect URL to point to your MQTT broker. Edit username and password if your MQTT broker requires authentication.

ampjuice-rest.js

• Edit the amps variable to associate each of your sonos player/room names with the IP address/hostname of the Tasmota device for that player or room name.

Notes

• Responds appropriately to grouping, ungrouping, muting, pausing, stopping, playing, turning the volume all the way down to zero, and increasing the volume from zero
• Controls each player's amplifier as appropriate, whether or not it is currently part of a group
• Turns amplifiers on instantly when they are needed; turns them off after stopTimeout when they are not. stopTimeout will reset while users are making any additional changes such as pausing or starting and adjusting volume.
• Runs on any host running node.js. Runs reliably and long-term on a Raspberry Pi 2
• Does not account for setups that include the Sonos Sub or Playbar, or that use stereo pairing (using one player for the left channel and another for the right)
• A player's amplifier may turn on upon being added to a group even when the group is not playing anything. It will turn off after stopTimeout if the group does not begin playing something in the meantime.

Acknowledgement

Forked from https://github.com/geeeyetee/SonosAmpJuicePi which is based on work done by Jimmy Shimizu (https://github.com/jishi/). Thank you for your inspiration.

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