Sending HTTP requests from inside pimatic - connecting Sonos

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Hi,

it looks like my feature request for Sonos Integration (http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/15/integration-with-sonos) didn’t get that much attention.
Since I’m still unable to implement this myself by means of developing a plugin, I figured that I might be able to use node-sonos-http-api (https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-http-api) and then call these URLs from inside pimatic. What node-sonos-http-api api does is the following: It creates a webserver with URLs for certain actions. One example would be http://localhost:5005/living room/volume/15 - I guess it’s self-explanatory what this URL does.

Now here’s my question: Is there a way to create a button inside pimatic which sends a request to a predefined URL once I click on it? This would make it easy for me to control my Sonos sytem without learning CoffeeScript etc.

Cheers
ituri

Hi,

easiest way would be to use a button device and do the request by calling curl from a shell execute action.

Ah, cool! Do you have an example config for that?

First: Create a “Button Device”-Device in your config file. Here is a test set up for three buttons:

{
      "id": "Sonos",
      "name": "sonos",
      "class": "ButtonsDevice",
      "buttons": [
        {
          "id": "VolumeUp",
          "text": "Volume Up"
        },
        {
          "id": "VolumeDown",
          "text": "Volume Down"
        },
        {
          "id": "Pause",
          "text": "Pause"
        }
      ]
    }

If you got the API installed it should be sth. like

if VolumeUP is pressed then execute "curl http://localhost:5005/living room/volume/+1"

you can try out the commands by opening your terminal and then just type

curl http://localhost:5005/living room/volume/+1

Works just perfect! Thanks.

By the way, here’s the result:

What’s missing is the current artist and track. Is there something like a textfield in pimatic? I know how to get the data from the API but I wonder if it’s possible to show this text in pimatic.

yes thats possible, too!
Have a look at:
http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/108/sunrise-and-sunset-device-via-shellsensor-plugin
I bet thats a pretty good example. You Have to write a script (shouldnt be that hard with the given example if you say you know how to get the data) and then include a “ShellSensor” into your config file!
If you need help with the script feel free to ask (and include the command to get the Artist/Track)

D’oh! I’m even using that very ShellSensor myself, so I should have known about that. Well … Thanks for reminding me!