After being hooked on Sonos and installing loudspeakers everywhere, (yes, also in the washing room and the garage) I have started to think about how one can control and use the system also for other purposes than playing music and film in different zones.<\/p>\n
Example: Let’s say you have a thermometer in your garden connected to your network and you would like your home to tell you the temperature at 8 o’clock every morning before you go to work. The sonos system would be an excellent choice to convey that message.<\/p>\n
Tonight I took a look at what open source home automation software there are on the market. I found Openhab<\/a> which “aims at providing a universal integration platform for all things around home automation”. It was fairly easy to set it up as a service on my ubuntu server and they have bindings for a lot of hardware, among them Sonos speakers. They have a decent Android application and after some configuration it is now possible to execute some simple commands like play\/pause via my android phone over the internet (yes, the traffic is SSL encrypted and password protected). That is promising for the further development.<\/p>\n Tonight I also installed an open source Sonos client written in Java that runs fine in Ubuntu. Sonos only provides client to Windows and Mac OS but with Janos<\/a> we get “full coverage” since Java runs virtually everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After being hooked on Sonos and installing loudspeakers everywhere, (yes, also in the washing room and the garage) I have started to think about how one can control and use the system also for other purposes than playing music and … Continue reading