⚠WARNING!⚠

The Sonos S2 update, released June 2020, still works with this API. However, it might break in the future if and when Sonos decide to drop UPnP as the control protocol.

Feel free to use it as you please. Consider donating if you want to support further development. Reach out on the gitter chat if you have issues getting it to run, instead of creating new issues, thank you!

If you are also looking for cloud control (ifttt, public webhooks etc), see the bronos-client project! That pi image also contains an installation of this http-api.

SONOS HTTP API

** Beta is no more, master is up to date with the beta now! **

This application requires node 4.0.0 or higher!

This should now work on Node 6+, please let me know if you have issues

A simple http based API for controlling your Sonos system.

There is a simple sandbox at /docs (incomplete atm)

USAGE

Start by fixing your dependencies. Invoke the following command:

npm install --production

This will download the necessary dependencies if possible.

start the server by running

npm start

Now you can control your system by invoking the following commands:

http://localhost:5005/zones
http://localhost:5005/lockvolumes
http://localhost:5005/unlockvolumes
http://localhost:5005/pauseall[/{timeout in minutes}]
http://localhost:5005/resumeall[/{timeout in minutes}]
http://localhost:5005/preset/{JSON preset}
http://localhost:5005/preset/{predefined preset name}
http://localhost:5005/reindex
http://localhost:5005/{room name}/sleep/{timeout in seconds or "off"}
http://localhost:5005/{room name}/sleep/{timeout in seconds or "off"}
http://localhost:5005/{room name}/{action}[/{parameter}]

Example:

http://localhost:5005/living room/volume/15 (will set volume for room Living Room to 15%)

http://localhost:5005/living room/volume/+1 (will increase volume by 1%)

http://localhost:5005/living room/next (will skip to the next track on living room, unless it's not a coordinator)

http://localhost:5005/living room/pause (will pause the living room)

http://localhost:5005/living room/favorite/mysuperplaylist (will replace queue with the favorite called "mysuperplaylist")

http://localhost:5005/living room/repeat/on (will turn on repeat mode for group)

The actions supported as of today:

• play
• pause
• playpause (toggles playing state)
• volume (parameter is absolute or relative volume. Prefix +/- indicates relative volume)
• groupVolume (parameter is absolute or relative volume. Prefix +/- indicates relative volume)
• mute / unmute
• groupMute / groupUnmute
• togglemute (toggles mute state)
• trackseek (parameter is queue index)
• timeseek (parameter is in seconds, 60 for 1:00, 120 for 2:00 etc)
• next
• previous
• state (will return a json-representation of the current state of player)
• favorite
• favorites (with optional "detailed" parameter)
• playlist
• lockvolumes / unlockvolumes (experimental, will enforce the volume that was selected when locking!)
• repeat (on(=all)/one/off(=none)/toggle)
• shuffle (on/off/toggle)
• crossfade (on/off/toggle)
• pauseall (with optional timeout in minutes)
• resumeall (will resume the ones that was pause on the pauseall call. Useful for doorbell, phone calls, etc. Optional timeout)
• say
• sayall
• saypreset
• queue
• clearqueue
• sleep (values in seconds)
• linein (only analog linein, not PLAYBAR yet)
• clip (announce custom mp3 clip)
• clipall
• clippreset
• join / leave (Grouping actions)
• sub (on/off/gain/crossover/polarity) See SUB section for more info
• nightmode (on/off/toggle, PLAYBAR only)
• speechenhancement (on/off/toggle, PLAYBAR only)
• bass/treble (use -10 through to 10 as the value. 0 is neutral)

State

Example of a state json:

{
  "currentTrack":{
    "artist":"College",
    "title":"Teenage Color - Anoraak Remix",
    "album":"Nightdrive With You",
    "albumArtURI":"/getaa?s=1&u=x-sonos-spotify%3aspotify%253atrack%253a3DjBDQs8ebkxMBo2V8V3SH%3fsid%3d9%26flags%3d32",
    "duration":347,
    "uri":"x-sonos-spotify:spotify%3atrack%3a3DjBDQs8ebkxMBo2V8V3SH?sid=9&flags=32"
  },
  "nextTrack":{
    "artist":"Blacknuss",
    "title":"Thinking of You",
    "album":"3",
    "albumArtURI":"/getaa?s=1&u=x-sonos-spotify%3aspotify%253atrack%253a4U93TIa0X6jGQrTBGTkChH%3fsid%3d9%26flags%3d32",
    "duration":235,
    "uri":"x-sonos-spotify:spotify%3atrack%3a4U93TIa0X6jGQrTBGTkChH?sid=9&flags=32"
  },
  "volume":18,
  "mute":false,
  "trackNo":161,
  "elapsedTime":200,
  "elapsedTimeFormatted":"03:20",
  "zoneState":"PAUSED_PLAYBACK",
  "playerState":"PLAYING",
  "zonePlayMode":{
    "shuffle":true,
    "repeat":false,
    "crossfade":false
  },
  "equalizer": {
    "bass": 0,
    "treble": 0,
    "loudness": true
  }
}

Queue

Obtain the current queue list from a specified player. The request will accept:

• limit (optional)

• offset (optional, requires limit)

• detailed flag (optional, include uri in response)

   http://localhost:5005/living room/queue
   http://localhost:5005/living room/queue/10 (only return top 10)
   http://localhost:5005/living room/queue/10/10 (return result 11-20)
   http://localhost:5005/living room/queue/detailed
   http://localhost:5005/living room/queue/10/detailed
  

Example queue response:

[
    {
      "albumArtURI": "/getaa?s=1&u=x-sonos-spotify%3aspotify%253atrack%253a0AvV49z4EPz5ocYN7eKGAK%3fsid%3d9%26flags%3d8224%26sn%3d3",
      "title": "No Diggity",
      "artist": "Blackstreet",
      "album": "Another Level"
    },
    {
      "albumArtURI": "/getaa?s=1&u=x-sonos-spotify%3aspotify%253atrack%253a5OQGeJ1ceykovrykZsGhqL%3fsid%3d9%26flags%3d8224%26sn%3d3",
      "title": "Breathless",
      "artist": "The Corrs",
      "album": "In Blue"
    }
]

Preset

A preset is a predefined grouping of players with predefined volumes, that will start playing whatever is in the coordinators queue.

Example preset (state and uri are optional):

{
  "players": [
    { "roomName": "room1", "volume": 15},
    {"roomName": "room2", "volume": 25}
  ],
  "state": "stopped",
  "favorite": "my favorite name",
  "uri": "x-rincon-stream:RINCON_0000000000001400",
  "playMode": {
    "shuffle": true
  },
  "pauseOthers": true
  "sleep": 600
}

The first player listed in the example, "room1", will become the coordinator. It will loose it's queue when ungrouped but eventually that will be fixed in the future. Playmode defines the three options "shuffle", "repeat", "crossfade" similar to the state Favorite will have precedence over a uri. pauseOthers will pause all zones before applying the preset, effectively muting your system. sleep is an optional value that enables the sleep timer and is defined in total seconds (600 = 10 minutes).

presets.json (deprecated, use preset files instead)

You can create a file with pre made presets, called presets.json. It will be loaded upon start, any changes requires a restart of the server.

Example content:

{
  "all": {
    "playMode": {
      "shuffle": true
    },
    "players": [
      {
        "roomName": "Bathroom",
        "volume": 10
      },
      {
        "roomName": "Kitchen",
        "volume": 10
      },
      {
        "roomName": "Office",
        "volume": 10
      },
      {
        "roomName": "Bedroom",
        "volume": 10
      },
      {
        "roomName": "TV Room",
        "volume": 15
      }
    ],
    "pauseOthers": true
  },
  "tv": {
    "players": [
      {
        "roomName": "TV Room",
        "volume": 20
      }
    ],
    "pauseOthers": true,
    "uri": "x-rincon-stream:RINCON_000XXXXXXXXXX01400"
  }
}

In the example, there is one preset called all, which you can apply by invoking:

http://localhost:5005/preset/all

presets folder

You can create a preset files in the presets folder with pre made presets. It will be loaded upon start, any changes made to files in this folder (addition, removal, modification) will trigger a reload of your presets. The name of the file (xxxxxx.json) will become the name of the preset. It will be parsed as JSON5, to be more forgiving of typos. See http://json5.org/ for more info.

Example content:

{
  "players": [
    {
      "roomName": "Bathroom",
      "volume": 10
    },
    {
      "roomName": "Kitchen",
      "volume": 10
    },
    {
      "roomName": "Office",
      "volume": 10
    },
    {
      "roomName": "Bedroom",
      "volume": 10
    },
    {
      "roomName": "TV Room",
      "volume": 15
    }
  ],
  "trackNo": 3,
  "elapsedTime": 42,
  "playMode": {
    "shuffle": true,
    "repeat": "all",
    "crossfade": false
  },
  "pauseOthers": false,
  "favorite": "My example favorite"
}

There is an example.json bundled with this repo. The name of the file will become the name of the preset.

settings.json

If you want to change default settings, you can create a settings.json file and put in the root folder. This will be parsed as JSON5, to be more forgiving. See http://json5.org/ for more info.

Available options are:

• port: change the listening port
• ip: change the listening IP
• https: use https which requires a key and certificate or pfx file
• auth: require basic auth credentials which requires a username and password
• announceVolume: the percentual volume use when invoking say/sayall without any volume parameter
• presetDir: absolute path to look for presets (folder must exist!)
• household: when theres multiple sonos accounts on one network (example: Sonos_ab7d67898dcc5a6d, find it in [Your sonos IP]:1400/status/zp). Note that the value after the '.' should not be removed. See more info here: #783

Example:

	{
	  "voicerss": "Your api key for TTS with voicerss",
	  "microsoft": {
	    "key": "Your api for Bing speech API",
	    "name": "ZiraRUS"
	  },
	  "port": 5005,
	  "ip": "0.0.0.0",
	  "securePort": 5006,
	  "https": {
	    "key": "/path/to/key.pem",
	    "cert" : "/path/to/cert.pem"

	    //... for pfx (alternative configuration)
	    "pfx": "/path/to/pfx.pfx",
	    "passphrase": "your-passphrase-if-applicable"
	  },
	  "auth": {
	    "username": "admin",
	    "password": "password"
	  },
	  "announceVolume": 40,
	  "pandora": {
	    "username": "your-pandora-account-email-address",
	    "password": "your-pandora-password"
	  },
	  "spotify": {
	    "clientId": "your-spotify-application-clientId",
	    "clientSecret": "your-spotify-application-clientSecret"
	  },
	  "library": {
	    "randomQueueLimit": 50
	  }
	}

Override as it suits you.

Note for Spotify users!

To use Spotify, go to https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications/#!/applications/create and create a Spotify application to get your client keys. You can name it Sonos or anything else and you don't have to change any values. Use the Client ID and the Client Secret values in the settings.json file as indicated above.

Favorites

It now has support for starting favorites. Simply invoke:

http://localhost:5005/living room/favorite/[favorite name]

and it will replace the queue with that favorite. Bear in mind that favorites may share name, which might give unpredictable behavior at the moment.

Playlist

Playing a Sonos playlist is now supported. Invoke the following:

http://localhost:5005/living room/playlist/[playlist name]

and it will replace the queue with the playlist and starts playing.

Say (TTS support)

Experimental support for TTS. Today the following providers are available:

• voicerss
• Microsoft Cognitive Services (Bing Text to Speech API)
• AWS Polly
• Google (default)
• macOS say command
• Elevenlabs

It will use the one you configure in settings.json. If you define settings for multiple TTS services, it will not be guaranteed which one it will choose!

VoiceRSS

This REQUIRES a registered API key from voiceRSS! See http://www.voicerss.org/ for info.

You need to add this to a file called settings.json (create if it doesn't exist), like this:

{
  "voicerss": "f5e77e1d42063175b9219866129189a3"
}

Replace the code above (it is just made up) with the api-key you've got after registering.

Action is:

/[Room name]/say/[phrase][/[language_code]][/[announce volume]]
/sayall/[phrase][/[language_code]][/[announce volume]]

Example:

/Office/say/Hello, dinner is ready
/Office/say/Hej, maten är klar/sv-se
/sayall/Hello, dinner is ready
/Office/say/Hello, dinner is ready/90
/Office/say/Hej, maten är klar/sv-se/90

language code needs to be before volume if specified.

Sayall will group all players, set 40% volume (by default) and then try and restore everything as the way it where. Please try it out, it will probably contain glitches but please report detailed descriptions on what the problem is (starting state, error that occurs, and the final state of your system).

The supported language codes are:

Language code	Language
ca-es	Catalan
zh-cn	Chinese (China)
zh-hk	Chinese (Hong Kong)
zh-tw	Chinese (Taiwan)
da-dk	Danish
nl-nl	Dutch
en-au	English (Australia)
en-ca	English (Canada)
en-gb	English (Great Britain)
en-in	English (India)
en-us	English (United States)
fi-fi	Finnish
fr-ca	French (Canada)
fr-fr	French (France)
de-de	German
it-it	Italian
ja-jp	Japanese
ko-kr	Korean
nb-no	Norwegian
pl-pl	Polish
pt-br	Portuguese (Brazil)
pt-pt	Portuguese (Portugal)
ru-ru	Russian
es-mx	Spanish (Mexico)
es-es	Spanish (Spain)
sv-se	Swedish (Sweden)

Microsoft

This one also requires a registered api key. You can sign up for free here: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-US/subscriptions?mode=NewTrials and select "Bing Speech - Preview".

The following configuration is available (the entered values except key are default, and may be omitted):

	{
	  "microsoft": {
	    "key": "Your api for Bing speech API",
	    "name": "ZiraRUS"
	  }
	}

You change language by specifying a voice name correlating to the desired language. Name should be specified according to this list: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/speech-api/documentation/API-Reference-REST/BingVoiceOutput#SupLocales where name is the right most part of the voice font name (without optional Apollo suffix). Example:

Microsoft Server Speech Text to Speech Voice (ar-EG, Hoda) name should be specified as Hoda

Microsoft Server Speech Text to Speech Voice (de-DE, Stefan, Apollo) name should be specified as Stefan

Microsoft Server Speech Text to Speech Voice (en-US, BenjaminRUS) name should be specified as BenjaminRUS

Action is:

/[Room name]/say/[phrase][/[name]][/[announce volume]]
/sayall/[phrase][/[name]][/[announce volume]]

Example:

/Office/say/Hello, dinner is ready
/Office/say/Hello, dinner is ready/BenjaminRUS
/Office/say/Guten morgen/Stefan
/sayall/Hello, dinner is ready
/Office/say/Hello, dinner is ready/90
/Office/say/Guten morgen/Stefan/90

Supported voices are:

Hoda, Naayf, Ivan, HerenaRUS, Jakub, Vit, HelleRUS, Michael, Karsten, Hedda, Stefan, Catherine, Linda, Susan, George, Ravi, ZiraRUS, BenjaminRUS, Laura, Pablo, Raul, Caroline, Julie, Paul, Cosimo, Ayumi, Ichiro, Daniel, Irina, Pavel, HuihuiRUS, Yaoyao, Kangkang, Tracy, Danny, Yating, Zhiwei

See https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/speech-api/documentation/API-Reference-REST/BingVoiceOutput#SupLocales to identify which language and gender it maps against. If your desired voice is not in the list of supported one, raise an issue about adding it or send me a PR.

AWS Polly

Requires AWS access tokens, which you generate for your user. Since this uses the AWS SDK, it will look for settings in either Environment variables, the ~/.aws/credentials or ~/.aws/config.

You can also specify it for this application only, using:

	{
	  "aws": {
	    "credentials": {
	      "region": "eu-west-1",
	      "accessKeyId": "Your access key id",
	      "secretAccessKey": "Your secret"
	    },
	    "name": "Joanna"
	  }
	}

To select the neural engine, append Neural to the name, e.g. DanielNeural.

Choose the region where you registered your account, or the one closest to you.

If you have your credentials elsewhere and want to stick with the default voice, you still need to make sure that the aws config option is set to trigger AWS TTS:

	{
	  "aws": {}
	}

Action is:

/[Room name]/say/[phrase][/[name]][/[announce volume]]
/sayall/[phrase][/[name]][/[announce volume]]

Example:

/Office/say/Hello, dinner is ready
/Office/say/Hello, dinner is ready/Nicole
/Office/say/Hej, maten är klar/Astrid
/sayall/Hello, dinner is ready
/Office/say/Hello, dinner is ready/90
/Office/say/Hej, maten är klar/Astrid/90

This is the current list of voice names and their corresponding language and accent (as of Dec 2016). To get a current list of voices, you would need to use the AWS CLI and invoke the describe-voices command.

Language	Code	Gender	Name
Australian English	en-AU	Female	Nicole
Australian English	en-AU	Male	Russell
Brazilian Portuguese	pt-BR	Female	Vitoria
Brazilian Portuguese	pt-BR	Male	Ricardo
British English	en-GB	Male	Brian
British English	en-GB	Female	Emma
British English	en-GB	Female	Amy
Canadian French	fr-CA	Female	Chantal
Castilian Spanish	es-ES	Female	Conchita
Castilian Spanish	es-ES	Male	Enrique
Danish	da-DK	Female	Naja
Danish	da-DK	Male	Mads
Dutch	nl-NL	Male	Ruben
Dutch	nl-NL	Female	Lotte
French	fr-FR	Male	Mathieu
French	fr-FR	Female	Celine
German	de-DE	Female	Marlene
German	de-DE	Male	Hans
Icelandic	is-IS	Male	Karl
Icelandic	is-IS	Female	Dora
Indian English	en-IN	Female	Raveena
Italian	it-IT	Female	Carla
Italian	it-IT	Male	Giorgio
Japanese	ja-JP	Female	Mizuki
Norwegian	nb-NO	Female	Liv
Polish	pl-PL	Female	Maja
Polish	pl-PL	Male	Jacek
Polish	pl-PL	Male	Jan
Polish	pl-PL	Female	Ewa
Portuguese	pt-PT	Female	Ines
Portuguese	pt-PT	Male	Cristiano
Romanian	ro-RO	Female	Carmen
Russian	ru-RU	Female	Tatyana
Russian	ru-RU	Male	Maxim
Swedish	sv-SE	Female	Astrid
Turkish	tr-TR	Female	Filiz
US English	en-US	Male	Justin
US English	en-US	Female	Joanna
US English	en-US	Male	Joey
US English	en-US	Female	Ivy
US English	en-US	Female	Salli
US English	en-US	Female	Kendra
US English	en-US	Female	Kimberly
US Spanish	es-US	Female	Penelope
US Spanish	es-US	Male	Miguel
Welsh	cy-GB	Female	Gwyneth
Welsh English	en-GB-WLS	Male	Geraint

Elevenlabs

Elevenlabs is a TTS service enabling generatiung TTS audio files using AI generated voices.

Requires API Key and optionally default voiceId.

Since Elevenlabs AI models are multilingual by default, there is no need (nor place) for language parameter in Elevenlabs API. Because of this, language parameter in URL is used to inject custom voiceId on per-request basis. You will need to either configure default voiceId in settings.json or provide voiceId with every HTTP request.

Config

Minimal:

	{
	  "elevenlabs": {
		"auth": {
		  "apiKey": ""
		}
	  }
	}

Full:

	{
	  "elevenlabs": {
		"auth": {
		  "apiKey": ""
		},
		"config": {
		  "voiceId": "",
		  "stability": 0.5,
		  "similarityBoost": 0.5,
		  "speakerBoost": true,
		  "style": 1,
		  "modelId": "eleven_multilingual_v2"
		}
	  }
	}

Google (default if no other has been configured)

Does not require any API keys. Please note that Google has been known in the past to change the requirements for its Text-to-Speech API, and this may stop working in the future. There is also limiations to how many requests one is allowed to do in a specific time period.

The following language codes are supported

Language code	Language
af	Afrikaans
sq	Albanian
ar	Arabic
hy	Armenian
bn	Bengali
ca	Catalan
zh	Chinese
zh-cn	Chinese (Mandarin/China)
zh-tw	Chinese (Mandarin/Taiwan)
zh-yue	Chinese (Cantonese)
hr	Croatian
cs	Czech
da	Danish
nl	Dutch
en	English
en-au	English (Australia)
en-gb	English (Great Britain)
en-us	English (United States)
eo	Esperanto
fi	Finnish
fr	Franch
de	German
el	Greek
hi	Hindi
hu	Hungarian
is	Icelandic
id	Indonesian
it	Italian
ja	Japanese
ko	Korean
la	Latin
lv	Latvian
mk	Macedonian
no	Norwegian
pl	Polish
pt	Portuguese
pt-br	Portuguese (Brazil)
ro	Romanian
ru	Russian
sr	Serbian
sk	Slovak
es	Spanish
es-es	Spanish (Spain)
es-us	Spanish (United States)
sw	Swahili
sv	Swedish
ta	Tamil
th	Thai
tr	Turkish
vi	Vietnamese
cy	Welsh

Action is:

/[Room name]/say/[phrase][/[language_code]][/[announce volume]]
/sayall/[phrase][/[language_code]][/[announce volume]]

macOS say command

On macOS the "say" command can be used for text to speech. If your installation runs on macOS you can activate the system TTS by giving an empty configuration:

{
  "macSay": {}
}

Or you can provide a default voice and a speech rate:

{
  "macSay": {
  	"voice" : "Alex",
  	"rate": 90
  }
}

Action is:

/[Room name]/say/[phrase][/[voice]][/[announce volume]]
/sayall/[phrase][/[voice]][/[announce volume]]

Example:

/Office/say/Hello, dinner is ready
/Office/say/Hello, dinner is ready/Agnes
/Office/say/Guten morgen/Anna
/sayall/Hello, dinner is ready
/Office/say/Hello, dinner is ready/90
/Office/say/Guten morgen/Anna/90

Supported voices are:

Alex, Alice, Alva, Amelie, Anna, Carmit, Damayanti, Daniel, Diego, Ellen, Fiona, Fred, Ioana, Joana, Jorge, Juan, Kanya, Karen, Kyoko, Laura, Lekha, Luca, Luciana, Maged, Mariska, Mei-Jia, Melina, Milena, Moira, Monica, Nora, Paulina, Samantha, Sara, Satu, Sin-ji, Tessa, Thomas, Ting-Ting, Veena, Victoria, Xander, Yelda, Yuna, Yuri, Zosia, Zuzana

A list of available voices can be printed by this command:

   say -v '?'

See also https://gist.github.com/mculp/4b95752e25c456d425c6 and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1489800/getting-list-of-mac-text-to-speech-voices-programmatically

To download more voices go to: System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Speech -> System Voice

Line-in

Convenience method for selecting line in. Will select linein for zone-group, not detach it for line-in. Optional parameter is line-in from another player. Examples:

/Office/linein Selects line-in on zone Office belongs to, with source Office.

/Office/linein/TV%20Room Selects line-in for zone Office belongs to, with source TV Room.

If you want to to isolate a player and then select line-in, use the /Office/leave first.

Clip

Like "Say" but instead of a phrase, reference a custom track from the static/clips folder. There is a sample file available (courtesy of https://www.sound-ideas.com/).

/{Room name}/clip/{filename}[/{announce volume}]
/clipall/{filename}[/{announce volume}]

Examples:

/clipall/sample_clip.mp3
/clipall/sample_clip.mp3/80
/Office/clip/sample_clip.mp3
/Office/clip/sample_clip.mp3/30

Pro-tip: announce your arrival with an epic theme song!

Grouping

You have basic grouping capabilities. join will join the selected player to the specified group (specify group by addressing any of the players in that group):

/Kitchen/join/Office This will join the Kitchen player to the group that Office currently belong to.

/Kitchen/leave Kitchen will leave any group it was part of and become a standalone player.

You don't have to ungroup a player in order to join it to another group, just join it to the new group and it will jump accordingly.

SUB

SUB actions include the following: /TV%20Room/sub/off Turn off sub

/TV%20Room/sub/on Turn on sub

/TV%20Room/sub/gain/3 Adjust gain, -15 to 15. You can make bigger adjustments, but I'm limiting it for now because it might damage the SUB.

/TV%20Room/sub/crossover/90 adjust crossover frequency in hz. Official values are 50 through 110 in increments of 10. Use other values at your own risk! My SUB gave a loud bang and shut down when setting this to high, and I thought I broke it. However, a restart woke it up again.

/TV%20Room/sub/polarity/1 Switch "placement adjustment" or more commonly known as phase. 0 = 0°, 1 = 180°

Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music (Experimental)

Allows you to perform your own external searches for Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Music songs or albums and play a specified song or track ID. The Music Search funtionality outlined further below performs a search of its own and plays the specified music.

Ensure you have added and registered the respective service with your Sonos account, before trying to control your speakers with node-sonos-http-api. Instructions on how to do this can be found here: https://support.sonos.com/s/article/2757?language=en_US

The following endpoints are available:

# Spotify
/RoomName/spotify/now/spotify:track:4LI1ykYGFCcXPWkrpcU7hn
/RoomName/spotify/next/spotify:track:4LI1ykYGFCcXPWkrpcU7hn
/RoomName/spotify/queue/spotify:track:4LI1ykYGFCcXPWkrpcU7hn

# Apple Music
/RoomName/applemusic/{now,next,queue}/song:{songID}
/RoomName/applemusic/{now,next,queue}/album:{albumID}

# Amazon Music
/RoomName/amazonmusic/{now,next,queue}/song:{songID}
/RoomName/amazonmusic/{now,next,queue}/album:{albumID}

Spotify

You can find the Spotify track and album IDs as the last part of the URL.

How to find the URL?

• Web player: the address bar URL for albums and playlist; select Copy Song Link from the dot menu.
• Desktop client: via Share > Copy {Album,Playlist,Song} Link
• Mobile client: via Share > Copy Link

For Spotify playlists, you'll need this format: spotify:user:spotify:playlist:{playlistid}. Even if it's a public playlist, you always need to prefix with spotify:user:. An example of a great playlist: /kitchen/spotify/now/spotify:user:spotify:playlist:32O0SSXDNWDrMievPkV0Im.

To get more technical, you actually use the Spotify URI (not URL) for the endpoint, like so: {room}/spotify/{now,next,queue}/{spotifyuri}.

It only handles a single spotify account currently. It will probably use the first account added on your system.

Apple Music

You can find Apple Music song and album IDs via the iTunes Search API.

You can also use iTunes to figure out song and album IDs. Right click on a song or album and select "Share" -> "Copy Link". You can do this when you searched within Apple Music or from your media library as long as the song is available in Apple Music.

Have a look at the link you just copied.

If you shared the link to a song: The format is: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/{songName}/{albumID}?i={songID}

eg: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/blood-of-my-enemies/355363490?i=355364259

If you shared the link to an album: The format is: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/{albumName}/{albumID}

eg: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/f-g-restless/355363490

Amazon Music

To find Amazon Music song and album IDs you can use the Amazon Music App, search for a song or an album and share a link.

Look at the link you just shared. This works with Amazon Music Prime as well as with Amazon Music Prime which is included in your Amazon Prime membership.

If you shared the link to a song: The format is: https://music.amazon.de/albums/{albumID}?trackAsin={songID}&ref=dm_sh_d74d-4daa-dmcp-63cb-e8747&musicTerritory=DE&marketplaceId=A1PA6795UKMFR9

eg: https://music.amazon.de/albums/B0727SH7LW?trackAsin=B071918VCR&ref=dm_sh_d74d-4daa-dmcp-63cb-e8747&musicTerritory=DE&marketplaceId=A1PA6795UKMFR9

If you shared the link to an album: The format is: https://music.amazon.de/albums/{albumID}?ref=dm_sh_97aa-255b-dmcp-c6ba-4ff00&musicTerritory=DE&marketplaceId=A1PA6795UKMFR9

eg: https://music.amazon.de/albums/B0727SH7LW?ref=dm_sh_97aa-255b-dmcp-c6ba-4ff00&musicTerritory=DE&marketplaceId=A1PA6795UKMFR9

BBC Sounds (as of 2022 only available in the UK)

Ensure you have added and registered the BBC Sounds service with your Sonos account, before trying to control your speakers with node-sonos-http-api. Instructions on how to do this can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/listening-on-a-smart-speaker/sonos or here: https://support.sonos.com/s/article/2757?language=en_US

You can specify a BBC station and the station will be played or set depending on the command used.

To play immediately:

/RoomName/bbcsounds/play/{stream code}

To set the station without playing:

/RoomName/bbcsounds/set/{stream code}

Refer to the table below for available codes for BBC Radio Stations

BBC Radio Station Name	Stream Code
BBC Radio 1	bbc_radio_one
BBC 1Xtra	bbc_1xtra
BBC 1Dance	bbc_radio_one_dance
BBC 1Relax	bbc_radio_one_relax
BBC Radio 2	bbc_radio_two
BBC Radio 3	bbc_radio_three
BBC Radio 4 FM	bbc_radio_fourfm
BBC Radio 4 LW	bbc_radio_fourlw
BBC Radio 4 Extra	bbc_radio_four_extra
BBC Radio 5 Live	bbc_radio_five_live
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra	bbc_five_live_sports_extra
BBC Radio 6 Music	bbc_6music
BBC Asian Network	bbc_asian_network
BBC Radio Berkshire	bbc_radio_berkshire
BBC Radio Bristol	bbc_radio_bristol
BBC Radio Cambridge	bbc_radio_cambridge
BBC Radio Cornwall	bbc_radio_cornwall
BBC Radio Cumbria	bbc_radio_cumbria
BBC Radio Cymru	bbc_radio_cymru
BBC Radio Cymru 2	bbc_radio_cymru_2
BBC Radio CWR	bbc_radio_coventry_warwickshire
BBC Radio Derby	bbc_radio_derby
BBC Radio Devon	bbc_radio_devon
BBC Radio Essex	bbc_radio_essex
BBC Radio Foyle	bbc_radio_foyle
BBC Radio Gloucestershire	bbc_radio_gloucestershire
BBC Radio Guernsey	bbc_radio_guernsey
BBC Radio Hereford Worcester	bbc_radio_hereford_worcester
BBC Radio Humberside	bbc_radio_humberside
BBC Radio Jersey	bbc_radio_jersey
BBC Radio Kent	bbc_radio_kent
BBC Radio Lancashire	bbc_radio_lancashire
BBC Radio Leeds	bbc_radio_leeds
BBC Radio Leicester	bbc_radio_leicester
BBC Radio Lincolnshire	bbc_radio_lincolnshire
BBC Radio London	bbc_london
BBC Radio Manchester	bbc_radio_manchester
BBC Radio Merseyside	bbc_radio_merseyside
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal	bbc_radio_nan_gaidheal
BBC Radio Newcastle	bbc_radio_newcastle
BBC Radio Norfolk	bc_radio_norfolk
BBC Radio Northampton	bbc_radio_northampton
BBC Radio Nottingham	bbc_radio_nottingham
BBC Radio Oxford	bbc_radio_oxford
BBC Radio Scotland FM	bbc_radio_scotland_fm
BBC Radio Scotland Extra	bbc_radio_scotland_mw
BBC Radio Sheffield	bbc_radio_sheffield
BBC Radio Shropshire	bbc_radio_shropshire
BBC Radio Solent	bbc_radio_solent
BBC Radio Somerset	bbc_radio_somerset_sound
BBC Radio Stoke	bbc_radio_stoke
BBC Radio Suffolk	bbc_radio_suffolk
BBC Radio Surrey	bbc_radio_surrey
BBC Radio Sussex	bbc_radio_sussex
BBC Radio Tees	bbc_tees
BBC Radio Three Counties Radio	bbc_three_counties_radio
BBC Radio Ulster	bbc_radio_ulster
BBC Radio Wales	bbc_radio_wales_fm
BBC Radio Wales Extra	bbc_radio_wales_am
BBC Radio Wiltshire	bbc_radio_wiltshire
BBC Radio WM	bbc_wm
BBC Radio York	bbc_radio_york
BBC World_Service	bbc_world_service
Cbeebies Radio	cbeebies_radio

SiriusXM

You can specify a SiriusXM channel number or station name and the station will be played.

/RoomName/siriusXM/{channel number,station name}

Pandora

Perform a search for one of your Pandora stations and begin playing. Give the currently playing song a thumbs up or thumbs down. Requires a valid Pandora account and credentials.

The following endpoints are available:

/RoomName/pandora/play/{station name}     Plays the closest match to the specified station name in your list of Pandora stations
/RoomName/pandora/thumbsup                Gives the current playing Pandora song a thumbs up
/RoomName/pandora/thumbsdown              Gives the current playing Pandora song a thumbs down

Your Pandora credentials need to be added to the settings.json file

       ,
       "pandora": {
         "username": "your-pandora-account-email-address",
         "password": "your-pandora-password"
       }

Tunein

Given a station id this will play or set the streaming broadcast via the tunein service. You can find tunein station ids via services like radiotime

The following endpoint is available:

/RoomName/tunein/play/{station id}
Will set and start playing given Station id

/RoomName/tunein/set/{station id}
Will set without start playing given Station id

For example to play Radio 6 Music - tunein.com/radio/s44491

/RoomName/tunein/play/44491
note the droping of the 's' in 's44491'

Music Search and Play

Perform a search for a song, artist, album or station and begin playing. Supports Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Deezer Elite, and your local Music Library.

The following endpoint is available:

/RoomName/musicsearch/{service}/{type}/{search term}

Service options: apple, spotify, deezer, elite, library

Type options for apple, spotify, deezer, and elite: album, song, station, playlist
Station plays a Pandora like artist radio station for a specified artist name.
Apple Music also supports song titles and artist name + song title.

Type options for library: album, song, load
Load performs an initial load or relaod of the local Sonos music library.
The music library will also get loaded the first time that the library service is
used if the load command has not been issued before.

Search terms for song for all services: artist name, song title, artist name + song title
Search terms for album for all services: artist name, album title, artist name + album title

Search terms for station for apple: artist name, song title, artist name + song title
Search terms for station for spotify and deezer: artist name
Search terms for station for library: not supported

Specifying just an artist name will load the queue with up to 50 of the artist's most popular songs
Specifying a song title or artist + song title will insert the closest match to the song into
the queue and start playing it. More than 50 tracks can be loaded from the local library by using
library.randomQueueLimit in the settings.json file to set the maximum to a higher value.

Examples:
/Den/musicsearch/spotify/song/red+hot+chili+peppers
/Kitchen/musicsearch/apple/song/dark+necessities
/Playroom/musicsearch/library/song/red+hot+chili+peppers+dark+necessities

/Den/musicsearch/spotify/album/abbey+road
/Playroom/musicsearch/library/album/red+hot+chili+peppers+the+getaway
/Kitchen/musicsearch/spotify/album/dark+necessities

/Kitchen/musicsearch/spotify/playlist/morning+acoustic
/Kitchen/musicsearch/spotify/playlist/dinner+with+friends

/Den/musicsearch/spotify/station/red+hot+chili+peppers
/Kitchen/musicsearch/apple/station/dark+necessities  (Only Apple Music supports song titles)
/Playroom/musicsearch/apple/station/red+hot+chili+peppers+dark+necessities  (Only Apple Music supports song titles)

/Kitchen/musicsearch/library/load  (Loads or reloads the music library from Sonos)

Experiment with these and leave feedback!

Webhook

NOTE! This is experimental and might change in the future! Please leave your feedback as github issues if you feel like it doesn't suit your need, since I don't know what kind of restrictions you will be facing.

Since 0.17.x there is now support for a web hook. If you add a setting in settings.json like this:

{
  "webhook": "http://localhost:5007/"
}

Every state change and topology change will be posted (method POST) to that URL, as JSON. The following data structure will be sent:

{
  "type": "transport-state",
  "data": { (snapshot of player) }
}

or

{
  "type": "topology-change",
  "data": { (snapshot of zones) }
}

{
  "type": "volume-change",
  "data": {
    "uuid": "RINCON_000000000000001400",
    "previousVolume": 14,
    "newVolume": 16,
    "roomName": "Office"
  }
}

{
  "type": "mute-change",
  "data": {
    "uuid": "RINCON_000000000000001400",
    "previousMute": true,
    "previousMute": false,
    "roomName": "Office"
  }
}

"data" property will be equal to the same data as you would get from /RoomName/state or /zones. There is an example endpoint in the root if this project called test_endpoint.js which you may fire up to get an understanding of what is posted, just invoke it with "node test_endpoint.js" in a terminal, and then start the http-api in another terminal.

Server Sent Events

As an alternative to the web hook you can also call the /events endpoint to receive every state change and topology change as Server Sent Event. Compared to the web hook there is no configuration required on the server, and you can listen for events from multiple clients.

Because it is a long-polling connection, you must take care of errors in your client code and re-connect if necessary.

The server sends events formatted as single-line JSON in the format of Server Sent Events: every event starts with the string data: , followed by the single-line JSON formatted event, and is terminated by two new line characters.

There are several client libraries available to listen for Server Sent Events. Using curl yields the following output for some volume changes:

host:~ user$ curl localhost:5005/events
data: {"type":"volume-change","data":{"uuid":"RINCON_E2832F58D9074C45B","previousVolume":13,"newVolume":19,"roomName":"Office"}}

data: {"type":"volume-change","data":{"uuid":"RINCON_E2832F58D9074C45B","previousVolume":19,"newVolume":25,"roomName":"Office"}}

data: {"type":"volume-change","data":{"uuid":"RINCON_E2832F58D9074C45B","previousVolume":25,"newVolume":24,"roomName":"Office"}}

data: {"type":"volume-change","data":{"uuid":"RINCON_E2832F58D9074C45B","previousVolume":23,"newVolume":23,"roomName":"Office"}}

DOCKER

Docker usage is maintained by Chris Nesbitt-Smith at chrisns/docker-node-sonos-http-api

FIREWALL

If you are running this in an environment where you manually have to unblock traffic to and from the machine, the following traffic needs to be allowed:

Incoming

TCP, port 3500 (Sonos events)
UDP, port 1905 (Sonos initial discovery)
TCP, port 5005 (if using the default api port)
TCP, port 5006 (if using https support, optional)

Outgoing

TCP, port 1400 (Sonos control commands)
UDP, port 1900 (Sonos initial discovery)
TCP, whatever port used for webhooks (optional)
TCP, port 80/443 (for looking up hig res cover arts on various music services)

The UDP traffic is a mixture of multicast (outgoing), broadcast (outgoing) and unicast (incoming). The multicast address is 239.255.255.250, the broadcast is 255.255.255.255 and the unicast is from the Sonos players.

If port 3500 is occupied while trying to bind it, it will try using 3501, 3502, 3503 etc. You would need to adjust your firewall rules accordingly, if running multiple instances of this software, or any other software utilizing these ports.

Projects built with this API

Alexa For Sonos (Alexa Skills)

Amazon Alexa voice layer on top of the amazing NodeJS component https://github.com/hypermoose/AlexaForSonos

Echo Sonos (Alexa Skills)

Amazon Echo integration with Sonos https://github.com/rgraciano/echo-sonos

JukeBot (Ruby)

A Slack bot that can control a Sonos instance. Custom spotify integration to find music. https://github.com/estiens/jukebot

Sonos Controller (JS / Electron)

A Sonos controller, built with the Electron framework. https://github.com/anton-christensen/sonos-controller

Sonos Cron (PHP)

Service for retrieving commands from an AWS SQS queue and passing them to an instance of the Sonos HTTP API https://github.com/cjrpaterson/sonos-cron

Sonos Push Server (JS)

A Node server to receive notifications from node-sonos-http-api and push them via socket.io to the clients. https://github.com/TimoKorinth/sonos-push-server

SonoBoss (Siri Shortcut)

A ChatGPT-assisted Siri Shortcut that acts as a virtual assistant to let you find music and control Sonos through voice and chat. https://github.com/Barloew/SonoBoss