RELEASE Generic Media Renderer (DLNA Speakers). Cheap Sonos Alternative (Update V2)

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465

HI @mrmrmrmr, Yes, you could mod the MediaRenderer Connect app,to use other network id,

466

just that ?
will it work if I just add +1 to the calculated network ID ?

467

hi @mrmrmrmr, yes, but subtract the +1 when its necessary to use it, and use the port becouse if you use the ip can crash with other device

468

Thats great! Many thanks @ule . It will give me something to play with at the weekend!

469

@ule

on a second thought, the original sonos device does not add anything other than grouping the speakers (am I wrong ?)
so I will delete it and use your device handler instead.

In any case, I canā€™t select which song I can play on the sonos speaker , correct ?

BTW, if I decide to make that network ID change, should I do it only on the mediarenderer connect app ?

here:

it.setDeviceNetworkId((parsedEvent.ip + ":" + parsedEvent.port)) //could error if device with same dni already exists it.updateDataValue("dni", (parsedEvent.ip + ":" + parsedEvent.port))

470

Try this for selecting a song with Sonos

471

Hi @jt323bd, Each track you play in your speaker, the uri its saved in track list , after you played the track, it going to appear in several apps like sonos mood music or media renderer events, you can select some track to play when some event occurs, if your speaker support containers, you can select the container (in media renderer events app) to play all the container, read the first post to known about control point and containers

472

Hi,

I am trying to insert a code to get weather from weather underground in my own language.
However, Groovy is a least-known language and I canā€™t find sample code for using it with Weatherunderground API.
For example, WU requires specifying the output format but I donā€™t know how to do that in Groovy.

How can I find a sample ?

 debug resp data: [response:[error:[description:you must supply a valid output format, type:invalidformat], features:[:], termsofService:http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/terms.html, version:0.1]]
473

Can I use this for event announce on the cheap?

474

@ule

Hi,

I really need help on this. Any ideas ?

ps. I donā€™t mean to disturb this thread with unrelated content but I have no other place to ask.
I also asked on the weatherunderground api forum, but Groovy is not widely knownā€¦

475

Hi, @TEWphotography, almost any DoƱa media rendered works, but some have some issues , check the confirmed working list Working Speakers (44 Devices Confirmed , 29 waiting Confirmation) last addition: Klipsch Stadium, Help Us to increase the list

476

Hi @mrmrmrmr, I think you must read a basic groovy tutorial, I suggest to read the UG API docs too

477

I read the WU api docs but what it says about this problem is that I should send the output format as json.
I donā€™t know how to do that in Groovy.
And the Groovy documentation does not tell it.

478

I can only see the last song title played on the speaker on ST device interface.
How can I get to the previous tracks ?

Btw, you wrote that an advantage of using original Sonos device instead of your Generic Media Renderer is ā€œgroupingā€ feature.
However, I donā€™t see that feature on Smartthings interface. Where is it ?

479

I have an interesting problem when I try to use Sonos speakers with Generic Media Renderer.
I deleted original sonos devices and added sonos speakers with media renderer connect.

I use Ivone with Turkish language and my access key is correct.

Now when I try the ā€œspeakā€ command, it does not work for a long phrase.
For example, if I make it speak ā€œ1 2 3 4ā€ it works.
If I try ā€œ1 2 3 4 5 6ā€ it does not work.

The same setup with my Android UPNP player works fine. It can play both ā€œ1 2 3 4 " and " 1 2 3 4 5 6ā€

What is the problem with long messages and Sonos speaker with media renderer ?

Btwi for speak command I use ā€œmedia renderer eventsā€ app.

480

When I check on the Sonos app for the non-playing (long) message, I see error message ā€œsong is not encoded correctlyā€

When I get log from the API there is not much difference in the formed URI:

3a4b2073-ce2a-4787-ad3a-f148a28b8620  11:26:35 PM: trace http://tts.urbansa.com/tts.php?1456262795158=Demir%2520Kap%2520Kap%2520Kap%253F%26Input.Type%3Dtext%252Fplain%26OutputFormat.Codec%3DMP3%26OutputFormat.SampleRate%3D22050%26Parameters.Rate%3Dmedium%26Voice.Language%3Dtr-TR%26Voice.Name%3DFiliz%26X-Amz-Algorithm%3DAWS4-HMAC-SHA256%26X-Amz-Credential%3DGDNAIOXILICCCCVNTX4A%252F20160223%252Fus-east-1%252Ftts%252Faws4_request%26X-Amz-Date%3D20160223T212635Z%26X-Amz-SignedHeaders%3Dhost%26X-Amz-Signature%3Db45bc1128d37d0b9a4bbcb660cfe89560979a8c58e0c8372f8d50b8b8c489511
3a4b2073-ce2a-4787-ad3a-f148a28b8620  11:25:31 PM: trace http://tts.urbansa.com/tts.php?1456262731528=Demir%2520Kap%253F%26Input.Type%3Dtext%252Fplain%26OutputFormat.Codec%3DMP3%26OutputFormat.SampleRate%3D22050%26Parameters.Rate%3Dmedium%26Voice.Language%3Dtr-TR%26Voice.Name%3DFiliz%26X-Amz-Algorithm%3DAWS4-HMAC-SHA256%26X-Amz-Credential%3DGDNAIOXILICCCCVNTX4A%252F20160223%252Fus-east-1%252Ftts%252Faws4_request%26X-Amz-Date%3D20160223T212531Z%26X-Amz-SignedHeaders%3Dhost%26X-Amz-Signature%3Dbe568efb80fd342ca507220a0ffe254f24ea2f961d0ed783937113890f25180b

the first one is the long (non-playing) message, the last one is the shorter and working message.

Any ideas about the issue ?
could that be a wrong calculated duration ?

please note that this occurs on Ivona TTS
I tested also with English language on Ivona and it occurs with English as well.

Thenks.

481

Hi @mrmrmrmr, Sonos its a speaker who needs a different protocol to play some files, right now we use the x-rincon-mp3radio, you could test if removing this can help to play all the audio, I have not a sonos speaker, Some other users have help me to determine how sonos can play this kind of sources. you can check this and if ivonna can weork without the protocol change I can patch the device and smartapp

482

Hi,

Iā€™d be more than happy to help you. But I could not understand what you ask me to do.

I think you ask me to remove some parameter on the device handler. But what is it that I should remove ?

I just tried removing

/*        if (!model?.toLowerCase()?.contains("sonos")){
        	uri = uri.replace("x-rincon-mp3radio:","http:")
        } */

but it did not fix the problem.

In fact the problem only happens if the duration of the created message is longer. So I think it should be something other than the protocol. Am I wrong ?

btw, what I see in the media renderer event app is that the Ivona selection makes send the URI with ā€œhttpā€ not ā€œx-rincon-mp3radioā€

see here:

def ttsIvona(message){
    def regionName = "us-east-1";
    def df = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss'Z'")
    df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"))
    def amzdate = df.format(new Date())
    def canonicalQueryString = "${URLEncoder.encode(message, "UTF-8").replaceAll(/\+/,'%20')}%3F&Input.Type=text%2Fplain&OutputFormat.Codec=MP3&OutputFormat.SampleRate=22050&Parameters.Rate=medium&Voice.Language=${voiceIvona.getAt(0..4)}&Voice.Name=${voiceIvona.getAt(6..-1)}&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=$ttsAccessKey%2F${amzdate.getAt(0..7)}%2F$regionName%2Ftts%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=$amzdate&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host";  
    "http://tts.urbansa.com/tts.php?${now()}=${URLEncoder.encode("$canonicalQueryString&X-Amz-Signature=${hmac_sha256(hmac_sha256(hmac_sha256(hmac_sha256(hmac_sha256("AWS4$ttsSecretKey".bytes,amzdate.getAt(0..7)),regionName),"tts"),"aws4_request"), "AWS4-HMAC-SHA256\n$amzdate\n${amzdate.getAt(0..7)}/$regionName/tts/aws4_request\n${sha256Hash("GET\n/CreateSpeech\nInput.Data=$canonicalQueryString\nhost:tts.${regionName}.ivonacloud.com\n\nhost\ne3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855")}").collect { String.format("%02x", it) }.join('')}")}"
}

so I changed that http with x-rincon-mp3radio

and now I can playlong messages from my sonos speaker

I can also play messages on my non-sonos player

BUT; if I try to add a mixture of them in the media renderer event (1 sonos and 1 non-sonos speaker) , it does not work.
I think that the app is creating only one URI even if there are 2 different devices in the list.
How can we make it create seperate URI for each ?

483

@ule

I have found a way; I created a copy of your app ā€œmedia renderer connectā€ and your device handler "dlna player"
with names ā€œmedia renderer connect sonosā€ and ā€œdlna player sonosā€

Then removed my sonos speakers and added with the new device type.

I removed the part where the device handler decides if the device model name includes sonos or not.
I made it static in each device handler.

Now if I play a long message, both device types can handle the URI because Sonos receives rincon-mp3radio and non-sonos receives http.

Please let me know if this approach is not good. Maybe it would be better (and easier ?) if we could handle different device types in the media renderer event app but I couldnā€™t find how to do that.

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Now, Iā€™ll come back to the weatherunderground problem. Please forgive meā€¦

I read the WU api docs but what it says about this problem is that I should send the output format as json.
I donā€™t know how to do that in Groovy.
And the Groovy documentation does not tell it.

What can I do about it ?

484

ok. weatherunderground api is also solved.

the following code works (if anyone is interested - donā€™t forget to change APIKEY):


	def deviceListParams = [
    uri: "http://api.wunderground.com",
    path: "/api/___APIKEY___/forecast/lang:TR/q/TR/Ä°stanbul.json",
    headers: ["Content-Type": "text/json", dataType : "jsonp"]
    ]
		def forecast = [:]
    	httpGet(deviceListParams) { resp ->
        log.debug "response:"
        log.debug resp
    
		if(resp.status == 200)
		{  
		   forecast = resp.data.forecast.txt_forecast.forecastday[0].fcttext_metric
		}
		else
		{
			log.debug "http status: ${resp.status}"
		}
	}
	log.debug "forecast: ${forecast}"