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

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749

OK thanks switched to the original connect.

750

What causes the long 20 second delay before I hear anything? Is this just network lag or something else.

751

think its a common side effect of using a GENERIC MEDIA RENDERER(?).

I have the same issueā€¦ cant tolerate it so also bought an R1 which has native support with Smartthings.

I just use my Jongo S3 as a Bluetooth speaker for my amazon dot.

752

That is an expensive BT speaker!

753

I guess I will have to take the delay, I will not buy an expensive speaker just for voice messages.

754

You can always use a cheap tablet runnin lannouncer and bluetooth speaker combination if you only need voice message. I found it to have less delay

755

I thought about that, was going to get an Amazon Tablet, but now they played with the OS. I have heard it is hard to install some things now.

756

Yes its harder now to install some things on it. But I only use mine for basic macros, ActionTiles and Lannouncer so it works pretty well without rooting or anything like that

757

hi,

after long months of usage, I have realized that if I use media renderer as an alternative device to original Sonos implementation, there are missing points.
for example, the original sonos device type shows the playing radio stationā€™s name in the dth.
but if I use media renderer , I can only see strings like ā€œx-sonosapi-stream:s143416?sid=254&flags=8224&sn=0ā€

is there any easy way to change this and show radio station name ?

thanks.

758

sorryā€¦ my badā€¦ meant Jongo T2ā€¦lol

759

Whatā€™s the delay in playing messages like with the Samsung R1?

760

i have not noticed any.

761

That completely changes my budget for a DLNA speaker solution. I assumed the R1 wouldnā€™t work well because itā€™s not in the official list of ā€œSmartThings compatible thingsā€. I was looking at the R5 but can get a great deal on refurb R1s.
Thanks

762

No regrets with R1. Got mine for $65

763

I received my new R1 from EBay for $59.00 including shipping. Works great. My only problem is that when I use it for notification it doesnā€™t return to playing music. But that is software. I am using mine without DLNA Media Player but using Big Talker. R1 installes native in ST.

764

any idea ?

765

The sonos speaker creates the metadata from several radio statiosns , but media renderer receives the metadata, if your source send the metadata the media renderer will show that info,

Generic Media Renderer its ā€œGenericā€ no extrea features like sonos or other high end speakers have like spotify, groups, pause.

if you have compatible speaker like sonos, samsung or bose who are fully supported by ST , you must to use their DH.

766

actually I have sonos speakers but I prefer using your device handler because I can add modifications to it and use other language text to speech (not english)

btw, I believe the original ST sonos device does not support groups as well. am I wrong ?

767

Any idea why my speakers suddenly canā€™t play any messages? It worked fine on my google Home. Then suddenly it play sound that message (text) is received, but nothing more.

Testing out on my TV (worked before) , it pop up a text msg after some second that says : Error Playing this file.

Any idea?

768

Hi, Check the logs,
you must to see something like

mediaRendererAction(SetAVTransportURI, AVTransport, /AVTransport/ctrl, [InstanceID:0, CurrentURI:http://s3.amazonaws.com/smartapp-media/polly-tts/salli/_this_is_a_test.mp3?ts=1490140601544, CurrentURIMetaData:])

Check the CurrentURI link to verify if its working http://s3.amazonaws.com/smartapp-media/polly-tts/salli/_this_is_a_test.mp3?ts=1490140601544