Sonos HTTP API - run commands to Sonos via http

[pcgirl65 (Jane)]

@infofiend

Continuing the discussion from Sonos and home automation audio:

@veni

@ronnycarr, it would be nice if you could post step-by-step instructions on how you did it.

@veni

I did this as well. Here are the steps I used. You need to set up a node server on a computer – which is far easier than it sounds.

1. download node installer from Index of /download/

2. install node

3. download the Sonos HTTP API from from GitHub - jishi/node-sonos-http-api: An HTTP API bridge for Sonos easing automation. Hostable on any node.js capable device, like a raspberry pi or similar.

4. install the sonos discovery code from command line interface (such as in Terminal on OS X), by typing

                       npm install sonos
   

5. start node server from command line by going into the folder containing the sonos http api code ( such as /Users/[your user name]/node-sonos-http-api/ and typing

                       node server.js
   

I am having a hard time getting this going. I did the npm install sonos and it seemed to do that and it put it into the node_modules directory. However in step 5 above, where am I supposed to run this command from? I am using windows so do I run it in the command screen? I have tried to do this but I am getting an error module.js:471 throw err. I think I am missing something.