Sonos support in the upcoming beta (4.1.901)

[Dean Roddey]

A lot of folks have asked about Sonos support and I just finished what seems to be a working Sonos driver. I'll put it out here in a bit if any of you want to play around with it. Of course this is a beta, so be sure to let the installer do a back for you just in case you want to go back. We've also support for version 6 of the IP protocol, so those changes are in there and pretty fresh as well, and it's possible you may have an issue, though in theory it's all working fine.

This is a standard CQC media renderer driver for now. That was the obvious first step since we have a generic UPnP renderer framework. It just needed some extra flexibility to support the Sonos, so I've just updated it to create this new Sonos version of it. So it's not going to understand any Sonos specific stuff. It treats the Sonos like a passive audio player and just sends it commands to do things as required. The driver manages the playlist as our standard media renderers do, not the device.

The upside is that it's automatically integrated into CQC, and will work with the new auto-generation stuff, and all the standard CQC media interface widgets, etc...

[SomeWhatLost]

so where is this upcoming beta already?



(yes, this is essentially an annoying "are we there yet?" post:-) )

[Dean Roddey]

I'm adding a couple small things right now and then I'll get it posted later today.

[Dean Roddey]

OK, it's there.

[pasha]

sorry for hijacking the thread, but I'm wondering if it's possible to add support for popcorn hour and wdtvlive?

[Dean Roddey]

Anything beyond what I've done already will involve a good bit of exploration slash work, since I'll have to figure out how it's doing device specific operations, and it'll either have to be a non-standard renderer driver (which means not integrated into CQC's media stuff) or a fairly big effort will have to be made to extend the media renderer functionality in CQC to be able to deal with things beyond movies and music (which will affect and require retesting a good number of drivers, some of which are third party ones, etc...)

So it's going to be a bit off effort to take it to the nex step.

[pasha]

is upnp incorporated into CML framework?

I haven't check that one yet...

-p

[Dean Roddey]

No, that's not currently exposed via CML. What's there now is a generic C++ driver. It's a standard CQC media renderer driver that works in terms of the standard UPnP media renderer/AV transport interfaces. So it's the same driver just reused for different devices that implement these standard interfaces. So far there's one for Foobar and one for Sonos. They just use their own driver manifest files, which indicate some optional behavior that the particular device expects/implements. But it's the same driver underneath.