Sonos Notify with Sound - Continue Playing Music

[kurtsanders]

IMHO, that weak explanation by the ST developers is code for “We are not planning on fixing what use to work before we significantly changed the ST platform and everything started to break. We can blame our Sonos integration issues on the vendor releasing new API’s for enhanced features we don’t use even now”. But note that ST Marketing still happily boasts ST Integration with Sonos…

Here is my brief response in another community thread denoting erratic issues with Sonos API and ST:

Sonos Notify

If the Sonos API’s are at fault (which I do not completely believe since this feature worked perfectly before ST made significant changes and experienced backend platform issues, absent Chat/Help Desk, etc). If you own a Sonos, you can access it via "The Hidden Sonos Web Interface". A few other Sonos 3rd party integrators appear to not have this integration issue? For example, I have a Sonospad, a third party iOS APP that works perfectly. Also there is a simplified HTTP API for Sonos to simplify automation. It is hostable on any node.js capable device, like a raspberry pi or similar. I do understand that Sonos is updating and releasing new API’s to allow more capabilities in direct response to new systems that are being released, but the basic playlist controls that ST documented have…