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SonoAir v1.0 (Beta 4.0)

Beta 4 finally comes with a preference window that allows to switch between different discovery strategies:

SonoAir 1.0 (BETA 4.0) Preferences

To access the preference window just press CMD + , or access it via the edit menu:

SonoAir 1.0 (BETA 4.0) Preferences

The discovery method has been further improved. Furthermore, it does automatically retry discovery.

35 Responses to "SonoAir v1.0 (Beta 4.0)"

Christian says:

July 28, 2015 at 17:47

Now it works with the Old discovery method. AirSonos finds the speakers, LED and Volumen Button are still grey und don´t work. “Living” Group (Playbar, and Sub 2 Play 1) will be displayed with 4 entries

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1. hotte says:
  
  August 1, 2015 at 11:01
  
  mac os x 10.10.4, every thing works fine, new discovery method detects all devices (2xplay:5, play:1, connect) I can use the settings for LED and loudness (while I prefer using the sonos-app). if anything in the environment changes like additional sonos device, it seems to be useful to stop sonosair and sign off and on again.
  
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heubergen says:

July 31, 2015 at 16:41

Hi, thanks for SonoAir.

Since my update to El Capitan (10.11), does SonoAir not work anymore. It can found my devices, but there will not be displayed on the audio settings so I can not play sound over there.

For test, I try to control the led from the devices and that works perfectly.

If you need anything, just reply I will subscribe the comments.

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1. hotte says:
  
  July 31, 2015 at 18:07
  
  Hi, el Capitan is Beta isn’t it? https://www.apple.com/de/osx/elcapitan-preview/
  
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  1. heubergen says:
    
    July 31, 2015 at 18:59
    
    Yes, it’s in a half-public restricted beta.
    
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2. Thom says:
  
  August 9, 2015 at 11:24
  
  Same to me with El Capitan.
  
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  1. Jason says:
    
    August 30, 2015 at 21:36
    
    Same with me. It’s seems strange since the Airplay protocol hasn’t changed as far as I can tell with El Capitan. Hope we can get it working again with an Update? Any chance that is possible?
    
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Dirk says:

July 31, 2015 at 19:39

Sorry Beta 4 is still not working propperly. New discovery methode ist not working and old methode is onky working sometimes and speaker options doesnt work. Best functional Version ist 3.1 – perfect, quick so why do you develop the wrong way?

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1. Tim says:
  
  August 1, 2015 at 17:31
  
  same here. not working for me
  
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Java desktop links of the week, August 10 « Jonathan Giles says:

August 10, 2015 at 01:27

[…] Michael Hoffer has released two new releases of his SonoAir project recently: ‘SonoAir 1.0 (Beta 3.2) With Proper Group Detection‘, and then ‘SonoAir v1.0 (Beta 4.0)‘. […]

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Riccardo Marini says:

August 10, 2015 at 12:03

Old method works but I see no groups and no settings. My sonos Playbar and 2 sonos 1 are seen as 3 entities

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Greg says:

August 18, 2015 at 07:03

Is there anything limiting this to Mac? If it’s Java based is it viable that it could be compiled to run under Windows or Linux?

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1. miho says:
  
  August 30, 2015 at 23:02
  
  The UI works on Linux, Mac and Windows. Same for the Java Sonos API. But the airsonos module has to be compiled for each OS since it contains&uses native libs. Currently, I don’t have the time to do all the testing on all three platforms. And most users seem to use AirPlay on OS X.
  
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Ulli says:

August 18, 2015 at 14:03

Hello! I have Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10.4) and tried to connect SonoAir with Sonos Play 1. Unfortunately, the app searches for devices since forever… Do you have any advice?

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1. miho says:
  
  August 30, 2015 at 23:05
  
  Did you try to change the discovery method in the preferences?
  
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StevieG says:

August 18, 2015 at 14:43

Not working with El capitan and beta 4

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1. StevieGal says:
  
  August 21, 2015 at 13:39
  
  ..or beta 5
  
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John Mesberg says:

September 13, 2015 at 00:12

just wanted to thank you for this. I’m on Yosemite and, after a frustrating afternoon unsuccessfully trying to install airsonos (problem with node-gyp rebuild) I happened to come across your packaged solution. Downloaded it, started it up, and it worked instantly! One Question: is there any way to “group” the airplay outputs like the native Sonos app can?

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bikedude123 says:

September 14, 2015 at 02:13

Does anyone know how to update the embedded version of airsonos? Looks like the version in 1.0 Beta (40) per the changelog is 0.1.1. From Stephen’s GitHUB looks like current is 0.2.2 (https://github.com/stephen/airsonos/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md). Couldn’t be as easy as swapping out nodes librabry /Applications/SonoAir/SonoAir.app/Contents/Java/resources/osx/node-v0.10.28-darwin-x64/lib/node_modules/airsonos Could it?

FYI-

Changelog 0.2.2

Fixed bug where devices would be reported multiple times Added support for node 0.12.x

Thanks for all the efforts! Tom

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1. miho says:
  
  September 14, 2015 at 09:17
  
  The original version was unmaintained for quite some time. Here is my fork of airsonos: https://github.com/miho/airsonos It shouldn’t be difficult to merge them again. I plan to switch to the original since it seems to be actively maintained again.
  
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bikedude123 says:

September 14, 2015 at 04:52

Anyone trying to use SonoAir v1.0 (Beta 4.0) and AirServer (www.airserver.com). According to the original author (Stephen) his reference implementation of the node.js code in airsonos should work fine on the hosted on the same machine.
```
   "Do other AirPlay (AirPort Express, AppleTV) devices show up?
   @stephen Sure it does, I use air server (www.airserver.com) and it works like a charm.”
```
Unfortunately SonoAir will not reliable work with AirServer 5.3.2, Any suggestions (other than quitting AirServer so I can use SonoAir,)? I have a mini in my Home Entertainment center that I want to transcode to Sonos AMP (powering speakers in dining room), while the mini is connected to the speakers in the living room. Both don’t need to be active at the same time though I did for a short while mange to get both apps and speakers active. FYI I have no Sonos product in the living room just the AMP that powers the living room.

Thanks, Tom

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Andreas Schorn says:

February 13, 2016 at 14:27

Wird es auch eine Version für Mac 10.11 und iOS 9 geben? Vielen Dank. 🙂

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trngiachard says:

March 15, 2016 at 08:57

Has anyone experienced a delay when using SonoAir to Airplay to Sonos Speakers?

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1. kk says:
  
  June 4, 2016 at 12:54
  
  yes me too. its like 4 secs
  
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Matthias says:

August 13, 2016 at 21:34

Wird an SonoAir noch gearbeitet? Was kann man tun, damit es weiter geht? Meine Version ist SonoAir v1.0 (Beta 5.0), aber sie läuft leider nicht mit PlayBar und 2xPlay1 als Suround-Lautsprechern…unter OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. Meines Wissens leider keine Änderung mehr seit einem Jahr und Sonos selbst scheint das Projekt (nach meiner Erfahrung auch in den Beta-Programmen von Sonos) eher kritisch zu sehen. Sonos will unbedingt eine eigene Software gegen iTunes und GEGEN die Nutzer von Sonos behaupten. iTunes sprich Apple (auch da über Erfahrung in den Beta-Programmen) will auch nichts mit Sonos zu tun haben. Leider alles zum Leidwesen der User…

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1. miho says:
  
  August 15, 2016 at 15:21
  
  Hallo Matthias,
  
  im Prinzip schon. Das Projekt ist nicht aufgegeben. Allerdings gestaltet sich die Entwicklung momentan recht schwierig, da es meist Probleme zu bewältigen gilt, die ich mangels Hardware nicht reproduzieren kann. Für eine PlayBar haben die Spenden leider noch nicht gereicht. Die momentane Kombination aus Java-Libraries zur Steuerung und Erkennung und der Javascript-Library airsonos sind für Play 1, 3, 5 inklusive Unterstützung von Stereo-Paaren einigermaßen getestet. Um die Unterstützung für andere Kombinationen hinzuzufügen, wäre ein anderes Bezahlmodell notwendig. Das ist allerdings derzeit nicht in Sicht.
  
  Viele Grüße, Michael
  
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  1. Chris_WO says:
    
    October 13, 2016 at 11:57
    
    Hi miho,
    
    kannst Du absehen ob und wann Unterstützung für macOS >=10.11 und IOS 9 / 10 kommen?
    
    Viele Grüße Chris
    
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Matthias says:

August 22, 2016 at 22:37

Hallo Michael,

kann man Dich irgendwie zusätzlich unterstützen? Ich habe Kontakt zu einigen, die gern iTunes mit Sonos Lautsprechern kombinieren würden…über Dein SonoAir!

Bitte weiter machen…!

Liebe Grüße, Matthias

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1. Bella says:
  
  December 31, 2016 at 20:27
  
  Auch ich würde Dich gern unterstützen, wie Matthias 😉 Gibts da eine Möglichkeit?
  
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  1. admin says:
    
    February 15, 2017 at 23:30
    
    Hallo Bella, vielen Dank! Mein Problem ist, dass ich nicht die komplette Hardwarepalette von Sonos habe. Dadurch gestaltet sich das Auffinden von Fehlern recht schwierig. Vielleicht habe ich ja irgendwann genug Einnahmen zusammen, um neue Sonos-Geräte zu kaufen.
    
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2. admin says:
  
  February 15, 2017 at 23:27
  
  Hallo Matthias, es gibt eine neue Version. Vielleicht löst sie das eine oder andere Problem.
  
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Gerrit says:

September 11, 2016 at 11:49

Hallo Michael, bei mir funktioniert die “Neue” Erkennung (SonoAir) der Songs Geräte nicht. Zumindest werden keine Songs Lautsprecher angezeigt. Mit der “alten” Methode findet er sämtliche Geräte. Kannst Du mir hier helfen? Da Du in der Beta 5 lediglich die “neue” Methode unterstützt kann ich diese zur Zeit nicht verwenden. Dank Dir um Voraus. Gruß, Gerrit

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Gerrit says:

September 11, 2016 at 11:51

Sorry, Autocorrector macht aus Sonos immer Songs! Aber ich glaube Du weisst was gemeint war. 😉

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Oli says:

September 22, 2016 at 11:31

Hallo,

nutze Beta4, bekomme den Sonos Lautsprecher in iTunes angezeigt, kann aber nicht verbinden (Unbekannter Fehler -15000). Der Tip mit dem Verbinden über die Menüleiste funktioniert nicht, weil da der Sonos Lautsprecher nicht angezeigt wird. Ich bin auf El Capitan 10.11.6. Irgendeine Idee?

Gruß Oli

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» SonoAir v1.0 (Beta 6.0) says:

February 16, 2017 at 00:33

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