Toggle from favorite to TV

[johnluber]

I’ve got an Arc, sub and two rears setup and working well as TV surround sound. I’ve also setup up a Sonos favorite that points to an icecast server which plays our turntable through the same speaker setup.

I’ve scripted such that if you start a record on the turntable then the music will automatically plan on the Arc setup. What I can’t seem to figure out is how to return the Sonos setup back to the TV. Maybe I’m missing something but is there a way to use soco-cli to do this?

[pwt]

Hi:

I've just released v0.4.25, which adds a switch_to_tv action. Unfortunately, I currently have no way of testing this, so if you get a chance to try it, please let me know if it works.

[johnluber]

That's awesome. I expect I'm probably doing something wrong but I ran:

sudo pip3 install soco-cli -U

And, got this along with a lot of other output. (Note: I did run the update a couple of times)
Requirement already up-to-date: soco-cli in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages (0.4.25)

However, when I run:

sonos -v

I get:

soco-cli version: 0.4.23
soco version: 0.24.1
python version: 3.8.10

I also run:

sonos --check_for_update

And, get:
An update is available: v0.4.25

So, I'm not sure I'm actually on 4.25.

If it helps, from the time asked the question until now I was able to use the soco library switch_to_tv and it does seem to work based on remotely trying it. Proof will be in front of the tv.

[pwt]

It looks like you've installed v0.4.25, but that's not what's being run.

It's possible that you previously installed SoCo-CLI using pip3 without sudo, in which case the site-packages would end up in ~..local and take precedence (I think) over the system site-packages installed using sudo.

Try pip3 install -U soco-cli without sudo, then sonos -v again.

If SoCo's switch_to_tv method works, then so will SoCo-CLI's action, since that's what it uses. Thanks for confirming.

[johnluber]

Yes, that seems to have been the case. Running the update without sudo did upgrade the version to 4.25 and a quick test monitoring the S2 app suggests that switching back and forth is working. I just have to test once I get home and get see it live.

Is there a preferred approach (ie; sudo or not) to installing soco-cli?

[pwt]

Is there preferred approach (ie; sudo or not) to installing soco-cli?

Nothing that's specific to SoCo-CLI -- just normal Python practices really.

• Most people that use Python extensively use multiple virtualenvs to isolate Python installations for different purposes.
• For more casual use, it's fine to do what you've done, but I'd recommend using pip3 without sudo, so that installed packages get placed in your home directory in .local, not in the system site-packages.

[johnluber]

Ok, thank you. I appreciate the insight and the time you've spent developing soco.