In complement to the discovery that Sonos is compatible with any Media Server, it has been discovered that TTS is working perfectly with Sonos DMR using the DLNA plugin.
What is very interesting is that the DLNA plugin is using the http-get protocol and without any adjustment of the MP3 file. Using the http-get protocol, the playback of the speech starts immediately on the Sonos even if the audio file is very small.
The conclusion is that the silence file can simply be forgotten if I use the http-get protocol rather than x-rincon-mp3radio.
Fabulous discovery. I am the first surprised to not have discovered that by myself earlier !
I don’t post on here very much (time…), but kudos to all on this plug in & idea generation. I know feedback isn’t the only motivation for doing good work but in this case well warranted!
It should be doable using a playlist, not a Sonos playlist because I would like to avoid modifying the current content of the Sonos queue but a m3u file. First I have to test what is the behaviour in the Sonos when you ask for the playback of a m3u file.
The difficulty could be to identify the duration of the new initial file to play…
The current trigger to restore the previous playback context is based on the duration of the TTS message and a timer. It is probably something I should redesign and rather consider the end of the playback to trigger the restore.
