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Also, if using an HDMI screen/TV, it’s probably more convenient to power the Pi via USB port on the TV. Don’t need an extra outlet available and Pi would only get power when the TV is on.  Although it looks like the Pi Zero W sellers don’t recommend something like that due to unreliable voltage. Might be something I would try anyways.

It would be amazing to have a Sonos solution to this need. My speakers are out of reach and a very simple solution would be something like the attached picture. These could be placed next to existing light switchs where power is easily accessible (so you don"t have to charge them) and could ideally be paired with zones or work globally. While the app is great, getting to it quickly to change the volume or pausing is not easy or even possible some times. I realize that some would like more control and info, like that of the CR100, in a hard button controller but if you have the time to browse music options you probably have time to navigate to the app too - this is really about making a quick change. Please consider adding this product.

At CEDIA 2017, the Dana Innovations brand added a premium tier to its selection of iPad wall- and tabletop-mounting systems. iPort also unveiled its first on-wall battery-operated Sonos keypad controller.

iPort’s latest mounting systems, called Luxeport, turn iPads into touchscreen home-control interfaces when other companies’ home-control apps are installed. The Luxeport products will be available later this year through custom-AV installers and the company’s web site. The products will be followed sometime in mid 2018 with versions that add Wi-Fi hard buttons, which can be programmed to operate specific functions or scenes.

Another way to control a Sonos system is with the $100 on-wall Sonos xPRESS keypad, which uses Wi-Fi to control various Sonos functions, including volume, play/pause, and track up/down. One key can be used to toggle through Sonos playlists. A software update will let you program Sonos scenes into the keypad, such as a party scene to send music to various rooms at different volume levels. The keypad runs on a rechargeable battery lasting up to six months. It can be mounted with peel-and-stick tape or with an included two-gang Decora adapter, which lets you install the keypad next to a single-gang light switch.

Room scheduling mode requires the TSW‑770 to be designated exclusively for room scheduling use, which precludes use of certain features and functions described in this spec sheet. Additionally, CollegeNET® 25Live® scheduling software and Ad Astra™ software do not support scheduling ad hoc meetings from the touch screen. For design assistance, contact the Crestron True Blue support team at www.crestron.com/support.

The TSW‑UMB‑70 is also compatible with older TSW‑UMB‑PMK series preconstruction mounting kits and TSW‑BBI series back boxes, allowing the TSW‑770 to be installed in place of a previous generation touch screen.

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In this post, I’ll show you the five best remotes for your Sonos speakers. And I’ll throw in a solid budget option if you aren’t ready to go all in just yet.

It controls over 500,000 infrared and Bluetooth devices via Wi-Fi, so it’s likely compatible with all of your home entertainment equipment in addition to your Sonos speakers. You can also use it to control up to60 devices like your TV, cable box, other popular soundbars, your DVD player, projector, streaming boxes, and even Philips Hue lights.

The remote has customizable activity buttons that let you quickly access favorite channels, inputs, or streaming services. You can create an activity like “Watch Netflix” that automatically opens your favorite streaming player, turns on your Sonos soundbar, dims the lights, and launches Netflix for example.

Ah, the Harmony Elite. To quote a recent review I wrote on the Elite, there are 10 reasons that this mature, battle-tested remote just rocks. From its cool color LCD touchscreen to haptic feedback to the ability to integrate with Alexa and Google Assistant for voice control, this is really the best remote you can buy today.

Best of all? In addition to your Sonos speakers, you can also control your entire home entertainment setup and smart home stuff too. What’s more, Harmony’s support for “Activities” lets you integrate Sonos with other speakers such as your soundbar, home theater, and any other Bluetooth speakers you might own.

One for all Streamer is the easy way to control your Sonos soundbar and two additional devices. With four shortcut keys to your favorite streaming service, it’s never been easier to enjoy your favorite shows and music. The learning remote is straightforward to set up, and can copy functions directly from your original Sonos remote.

This remote will control IR devices only. This basically means it will work with Sonos sound bars but not Sonos Wifi-dependent speakers. It will also not work with RF devices like Amazon Firestick. Still, if you only want to control a few devices that include a Sonos soundbar, this is a very affordable option.

If you are interested in controlling your Sonos speakers via a wall switch in your home or apartment, the Lutron Caseta is an affordable way to go. This is a very popular option and it will let you adjust and control music from anywhere in your abode where you install it. It fully integrates with Sonos and customers report ease of setup with very few problems.

You will need a Lutron bridge (sold separately or as part of a bundle) to get this to work with Sonos. Once you have the bridge set up you can buy additional remotes for lights etc.  One bridge supports up to 75 Caseta devices so you can personalize your home and expand at your pace.

TJ Reishus has a wonderful demo of how to set up Lutron Smart Bridge with the Sonos app.  He moves fast, but this is exactly how you do it. I agree! Absolutely, genius!

The Brilliant Smart Home Control Panel is the perfect way to control your Sonos speakers, as well as lights and other smart devices in your home. With everyone at home able to be an in-wall DJ, the only thing you’ll argue with your family over is who gets to play their music next.

Brilliant Smart Home Control (1-Switch Panel) — Alexa Built-In & Compatible with Ring, Sonos, Hue, Google Nest, Wemo, SmartThings, Apple HomeKit — In-Wall Touchscreen Control for Lights, Music, & More

EASY SMART HOME CONTROL FOR EVERYONE: Brilliant touchscreen panels with built-in Alexa make it easy for everyone at home to control popular smart devices, lighting, cameras, locks, thermostats, intercom, scenes and more by simply replacing a light switch.

REPLACES A 1-GANG LIGHT SWITCH PANEL & REQUIRES NEUTRAL & GROUND WIRES: This 1-Switch Panel installs in a standard 1-gang electrical box. Includes a 5" LCD touchscreen, a built-in camera with privacy shutter and a built-in motion sensor.

Here is a comparison table that shows the major features of all my top three best remotes for Sonos speakers side-by-side. These are my universal hard remote picks. The differences between the keypads are fairly obvious.

Custom Activities such as “Good Morning” that turns on your lights, opens your blinds, starts the coffee maker and begins playing a specific Sonos station

Custom Activities such as “Good Morning” that turns on your lights, opens your blinds, starts the coffee maker and begins playing a specific Sonos station

Custom Activities such as “Good Morning” that turns on your lights, opens your blinds, starts the coffee maker and begins playing a specific Sonos station

Custom Activities such as “Good Morning” that turns on your lights, opens your blinds, starts the coffee maker and begins playing a specific Sonos station

If you can afford it, treat yourself to the Sofabaton X1. I use this remote to control my Sonos speakers, my Philips Hue lights, several streamers, as well as my home theater. And I love it for all of the above reasons.

What I like best personally about using x1 with Sonos is the Alexa integration. I can just say, “Alexa play Rock music.” And it automatically plays my Rock playlist on my Sonos speakers in the desired rooms at the desired volume.

Are remotes like x1 and the Harmony Elite too expensive to justify the cost?  What features are important to you when trying to control Sonos with a remote?  What is your take on the wall mounts?  If you really wanted to, you could install a few wall mounts in addition to using the X1 or Harmony remote for the ultimate in Sonos control.

This article will show you how to reset a Sonos product to its factory settings. If you are trying to reboot your Sonos product, please view our article on rebooting Sonos products to learn how.

This process will delete registration information, content saved to My Sonos, and music services from a Sonos product. This is commonly done before transferring ownership to another person. Your Sonos app may also recommend that you go through this process if it can"t find your product during setup. If you wish to erase data from multiple Sonos products, you will need to perform these steps on each of them.

Sonos Roam and Roam SLPress and hold the power button on the back of your Roam for 5 seconds to power it off. You will hear a chime and the status LED on the front will turn off.

If you haven"t heard, Sonos recently launched a brand newspeaker with Alexa voice control built-in. Incredible, yes, but what about all of us long-time Sonos loyalists with our Play:1 speakers and Playbars? Don"t worry, Sonos is not leaving us behind. Now your favorite speaker is taking requests...

As of October 4th, if you have an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot, you can wirelessly connect your existing Sonos speakers to Alexa voice assistant devices to use your voice to play and control songs, playlists, radio stations, podcasts, etc. That"s for anySonos speaker, in any room of your home.

Simply update your Sonos system to Sonos 8.0, turn on the Sonos Skill in your Alexa app, and ask Alexa to find your Sonos devices. Alexa will find your Sonos speakers, wherever they are - and teach them to listen and obey. (Step-by-step set-up instructions below).

For starters, it means no more getting up and pushing buttons or looking for (or fumbling with) your smartphone or tablet. Just ask, and you shall receive. Manage your playlist and access your entire digital music library and, as Sonos puts it, all the music on Earth (Pandora, Sirius, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music and more). Request songs while you cook, check the weather or sports scores from the shower, play Jeopardy... with complete hands free freedom. All you have to do is ask.

Sonos will do anything that Alexa can do including work with other smart home enabled devices, so you can dim the lights, control your thermostat, etc. And she will continue to get smarter over time - better at recognizing your voice and faster at executing your commands. Plus, you"ll benefit from Sonos" future-proofing with continual updates, new skills and services (Spotify control, Applie AirPlay 2, Google Assistant, over 80 streaming services - coming in 2018).

I knew a certain early 80s Jerrold remote control well. Boxes of them were piled high at my father’s workplaces in Canada and the US. My dad was an engineer for Canadian cable TV company, MacLean-Hunter. The company’s roll-out of cable services to US cities brought our family down from northern Ontario, Canada to a small city just outside of Detroit, Michigan in 1981. Occasionally, I was brought to my dad’s workplace where we’d watch a recently released movie at his office cable TV feed, it was an inexpensive movie theater substitute. For brief moments I got to hold an early model Jerrold IR handset and navigate more TV channels and dedicated PayTV movie feeds (all unscrambled) than I ever thought possible. A far cry from the two TV channels we received over-air in northern Ontario (and one of the only two was in French). It was a rare and unforgettable rush of media power. We never actually had cable TV at home. Perhaps my dad"s opinion of cable TV at the time was an early version of the same ethic that has Google and iOS app developers forbid their own children access to screen-devices.

CORE looked futuristic in its day with its large buttons topped by an LCD screen. But Wozniak"s invention lacked the user-friendliness of Apple products while carrying a hefty price for 1987 at $300, adjusted for inflation that"s $710.90 in 2021 US dollars. The CORE UC-100 could be described as a remote that only an engineer could love, and many did. Unfortunately for Woz, this didn’t translate well into sales. By 1988, CL9 and its patents were sold. Although it could have been deemed a failure in overall sales, it was revolutionary and the device had a small but dedicated following that loved it. You’ll find discussions online today memorializing CORE by users, some even claimed it was their primary remote for decades after purchasing it. CORE"s basic design would live on and prosper through the 1990s, renamed and repurposed as the PIC-100. But instead of being a consumer electronics device, the programmable universal remote was re-marketed to the medical industry where it was used to control advanced hospital equipment like CTs, MRIs and X-Ray machines.

A common headache for the customer was the population-explosion of little plastic rectangular boxes on the coffee table, one for each new set-top-box located near a new big-screen TV. Sometimes the remotes would be expediently marked with masking tape and numbered instructions inked onto each. I usually knew from the brief customer description when the source of the problem wasn’t likely malfunctioning electronics or even a wiring issue, but a case of customer learning curve. Nearly every piece of electronics came with its own remote, but among the multitude was usually one oversized remote control. Unbeknownst to the customer this was actually a programmable universal remote that would often make the customer’s day. I got to see first-hand the eyes of many of those seniors and television-starved housewives light-up at the revelation that a device they already owned was their solution. This one handheld device could solve their remote-overload problem while simultaneously simplifying their system’s operation. I had several, semi-comedic scripts I unconsciously deployed to teach the concept of the universal remote to those who had no idea such a thing existed. I have to admit, although I was awarded no garland or parade I sometimes left the customer’s home feeling somewhat heroic.

1998 and it bore more than a few distinct similarities to Harmony. Both employed a monochrome LCD touch-screen and scroll-wheel for navigation. Take Control was a first for its activity-based operation that was programmed via PC. The remotes are so similar in fact, that it makes me wonder if the brand name Easy Zapper Inc chose for its remote (Harmony) was also inspired by Harman, as its overall design and user-interface cues almost certainly were. Take Control was sold under the Harman/Kardon brand for $350. However, the biggest player in the universal remote control game at the time was Philips. By 2001 Philips had already set the standard for computer-programmable universal remotes with its Pronto line which sold for a hefty $399 with an optional $80 charging station. Easy Zapper would gain traction and the attention of Logitech for its modestly priced $200 Harmony remote.

Logitech says Express was designed to further simplify operation beyond its touch-screen interface with voice commands. But Harmony Express was pulled from the market with its cloud interface taken offline in 2020. Logitech demonstrated good customer service by offering refunds or a product exchange for its Harmony Elite package at no additional cost before taking Express cloud components offline for good. Express was a nice try, but it"s my opinion that voice-controlled electronics is probably best kept where it might actually be needed, behind the wheel.

This repo explains how I made a simple R Shiny app that allows to basic functionalities to control the sonos from a raspberry Pi3 with touchscreen. This app is made with the node-sonos-http-api and a Raspberry Pi3 touchscreen kit that came with a sd card with raspbian pre-installed:

If you look for a virtual keyboard for your raspberry Pi touchscreen, there are two that are often mentioned and used by pi users (a reboot might be required after installation):

Now, just leave the terminal running (i.e. do not logout yet), open a browser on your raspberry pi, and head to the following URLs to check if your Sonos speaker responds to the HTTP requests.

As explained Sonos HTTP API repo, to use Spotify, go to https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications/#!/applications/create and create a Spotify application to get your client keys. Create a settings.json file in the node-sonos-http-api folder and copy the Client ID and the Client Secret values in it:

My plan was to hang the pi & screen on the wall and have the app running in fullscreen, so I can use it as a controller for the sonos system. I wanted it to be possible to exit the fullscreen mode from the pi itself (in other words: to press F11 without having to attach an external keyboard). For this reason I installed xdotools, it is a very light weight program that allows to send function key commands through the terminal.

The app.R script included in this repo, runs a R shiny app that contains some basic buttons (Fullscreen, Play, Pause, Next), buttons for my two radio stations (Radio10, M80), a search bar with which you can search for songs, albums and playlists and a slider for the volume control. Unfortunately, it is not possible yet to open the keyboard in fullscreen mode - so the fullscreen button should always be pressed before the keyboard button. To make the app functional again after typing, close the keyboard. The app.R script uses the Florence keyboard (if you want to use matchbox-keyboard instead, replace system("florence") with system("matchbox-keyboard") in the script).

The integrated virtual keyboard is a jQuery on-screen keyboard (OSK) plugin that works in the browser. Originally posted by Jeremy Satterfield in his blog, jQuery plugins and on Snipplr. Currently maintained by Mottie. For more information, see the keyboards" repository here.

Currently the track information updates when a song ends naturally, but it does not when a user changes what is playing on the Sonos. For this the refresh button can be used for now, until the script is optimized.