Sonos Notify with sound missing

SmartApps & Automations
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So I went in to add a new sound notification for my mailbox sensor but the smart app is no longer there. Is it an issue on my end or has it been removed?

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I just checked and itā€™s gone on my end as well. I am in the middle of setting up a lot of notifications and they have been working perfectly. Now Iā€™m about 9 or 10 away from being done and the app is gone. I hope this isnā€™t permanent. I just noticed on another thread I follow that the Sonos connect or possibly the notify app may be the cause of some crashing. If they removed it without warning I will be bummed. It seems to take a long time for them to fix things. Who knows when we will get it back.

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yup. Looks to be missing. I do see a new app called speaker control

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I see now. Speaker control has the same functionality as notify with sound.

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Speaker Control only plays the current track. All the functionality of the vanished Sonos Notify With Sound, including spoken phrases, is now gone. I really need to have this back as itā€™s one of the primary purposes Iā€™ve invested so heavily in smartthings. This is very disappointing to see key functionality taken away.

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For custom phrases use Big Talker.

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I wouldnā€™t use custom notifications until ST brings back the official app. There is a reason why they took it down and I donā€™t think it was just an accidentā€¦

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The nice thing about Big Talker is that it knows if a custom notification did not fire and it will send you a push notification if the audible notification did not work, that way you donā€™t miss the notification all together.

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I had the same frustrations specially after buying the 2 gen Play 5 (by the way it is amazing) but was able to fix the problems by going into the IDE and manually publishing both the ā€œSpeaker notify me with soundā€ and ā€œWeather forecastā€ onto my Homeā€™ hub.

They now appear on my Smartapps/+my apps on my mobile and work with no problem with whatever custom message I want it to say.

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Sorry to sound dumb but where do you get the code to paste into the IDE to recreate these?

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For those of you who are missing the Sonos Weather announcements and want to set reminders at specific times, you may want to check out Yonomi. I stumbled on their site by checking Nest partners and my first impression is greatā€¦

http://yonomi.co/

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Iā€™ll record a video of the steps if you guys are interested once I grey out of work.

Regards

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That would be great.

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Check the link below with a video instruction on how to fix the ā€œSonos notify me with sound missingā€.

Let me know how you guys do

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Any results guys? Let me know if you need anything else.
Regards.

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Sergio, I literally just now installed a couple more door sensors and your solution worked like a charm. I canā€™t thank you enough. I have about 7 more to go to finish the voice stuff and couldnā€™t be happier.

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Awesome thanks so much to save my day!
Now i get my dog barking again.

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Thanks for the information @SergioDJ. I was also able to finish what I needed to accomplish with that work around.

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Sergio thanks for the video. Iā€™m new to ST and really want to get Sonos hooked up.

I followed you steps but when I got to Install I got the following error. Any thoughts?

grails.validation.ValidationException: Validation Error(s) occurred during save():

  • Field error in object ā€˜physicalgraph.device.Deviceā€™ on field ā€˜nameā€™: rejected value [null]; codes [physicalgraph.device.Device.name.nullable.error.physicalgraph.device.Device.name,physicalgraph.device.Device.name.nullable.error.name,physicalgraph.device.Device.name.nullable.error.java.lang.String,physicalgraph.device.Device.name.nullable.error,device.name.nullable.error.physicalgraph.device.Device.name,device.name.nullable.error.name,device.name.nullable.error.java.lang.String,device.name.nullable.error,physicalgraph.device.Device.name.nullable.physicalgraph.device.Device.name,physicalgraph.device.Device.name.nullable.name,physicalgraph.device.Device.name.nullable.java.lang.String,physicalgraph.device.Device.name.nullable,device.name.nullable.physicalgraph.device.Device.name,device.name.nullable.name,device.name.nullable.java.lang.String,device.name.nullable,nullable.physicalgraph.device.Device.name,nullable.name,nullable.java.lang.String,nullable]; arguments [name,class physicalgraph.device.Device]; default message [{0} cannot be null]
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Btw, I already have Sonos connected to ST and it is working.