Sonos subpar integration

[GuyInATie (Jesse S)]

Yeah, the ST-Sonos integration isn’t as good as it could be, but with Alexa-Sonos integration on the horizon, it might not matter for much longer. That said, I got fed up with some obvious missing functionality and wrote this smart app so I could control volume like a dimmable switch. I’ll link it here in case someone else wants a minimal solution to set volume with voice:

[OBSOLETE] Simpe Volume with Voice

For the past few months I’ve been thinking about how nice it would be to adjust the Sonos-TV volume with Alexa. The specific use case is actually when I’m in the kitchen cooking and want to turn the TV volume up/down/whatever without having to rinse my hands, dry them off, and reach for a remote. I searched in the forums a couple times and didn’t see any case-specific SmartApps, but happened to notice Ask Alexa has this capacity. If nothing else, at least it would be a fun exercise in AWS. Anyway, I set it up and as-if-it-was-magic, now I could say “Alexa, ask SmartThings to set Living Room Sonos volume to 35” and it worked! After experimenting for a while, I found the utterance was just too danged long. So, I shortened “SmartThings” to a monosyllabic name and “Living Room Sonos” to …