playing a sound on all sonos devices at the same time with a specified volume.

Plugins & Plugin Development Sonos
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I have 3 sonos devices and for my doorbell I want all sonos devices to play a ding-dong sound at volume 75 (or so). They do play the sound at the same time , but the volumes of the devices remain what they are ,except the “kitchen” that one does change its volume. Doesn’t the grouping also group the volume ?

Is there an easy work-around for? Or change the volume to a specific volume of a device for this doorbell sound and there after go back to the original volume.

Thanks,
Cor

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With the Sonos software, each volume stays at its level when you group devices. And when you move the volume slider they change accordingly.

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Okay, that’s clear. Is there a work around there. Still play the sound together , but individually get the volume up , and after the degrouping , get back to the original volume level?

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Apparently, you are using a very old version of the plugin as the GroupDevices parameter is no more present for the PlayURI in the recent versions.

With recent versions of the plugin, you should call the Alert action specyfing your file to play, a volume, a duration and the grouped devices. You even don’t need to save and restore playback context yourself, it will be done automatically by the plugin. But don’t forget to set a duration.

But you’re absolutely right, the volume specified in the parameter is only set to the main addressed device, not to others. I will change that in the new version I am working on.

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a very old version ?!? … time to update than :slight_smile: … I will wait untill you have the new version with the volume thingy .
You have an estimate when that version will come out?

thanks,
Cor

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[quote=“lolodomo, post:4, topic:176927”]But you’re absolutely right, the volume specified in the parameter is only set to the main addressed device, not to others. I will change that in the new version I am working on.[/quote]I’d approach this change with caution, as volume values across Sonos devices aren’t equivalent.

ie. Volume 10 on a Sonos Play 3, is not equivalent to the same numeric specification on a Sonos Connect attached to a 200W Power amplifier

If you change this behavior, I’d recommend it be done by allowing a CSV to be specified of Volume levels, and only apply those to the “secondary” Sonos units (as part of the Group)

Attaching the same numeric level to all the Sonos units might result in a few surprises for people (or deaf neighbors). 8)

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As I have done some new major changes, I have a lot of tests to do and all what I want to add/change is not yet fully implemented. Additionaly, I have not much free time for that this week.
So release is now delayed, but still planed before end of September.

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[quote=“guessed, post:6, topic:176927”][quote=“lolodomo, post:4, topic:176927”]But you’re absolutely right, the volume specified in the parameter is only set to the main addressed device, not to others. I will change that in the new version I am working on.[/quote]I’d approach this change with caution, as volume values across Sonos devices aren’t equivalent.

ie. Volume 10 on a Sonos Play 3, is not equivalent to the same numeric specification on a Sonos Connect attached to a 200W Power amplifier

If you change this behavior, I’d recommend it be done by allowing a CSV to be specified of Volume levels, and only apply those to the “secondary” Sonos units (as part of the Group)

Attaching the same numeric level to all the Sonos units might result in a few surprises for people (or deaf neighbors). 8)[/quote]

You’re right.

The CSV could be a little tricky for final users. It might be sufficient to add a new boolean parameter “ApplyVolumeToAll”, resulting either in the current behaviour (volume only set to the main addressed device) or same volume set to all addressed devices.