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 Posted: Monday Feb 25th, 2013 07:49 am
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This would be unlikely - you can control what you send and what you listen to and how you'd action that. I don't disagree that uPnP is not the most liked protocol, but that's what Sonos are using and there will be no other method.

Their ethos means we won't see another interface, no 12v or 0v triggers, no IR.

Whilst I do question any value of Comfort wanting to control Sonos beyond play, pause, or stop reading the status of a Sonos zone would be invaluable to make decisions on controlling other devices such as IR switching, AC control, room music occupancy detection, etc.


For example, by detecting the status of the Sonos Playbar either being fed music from the Sonos zone or from the TV's TOSLink, I can use Comfort for occupancy detection and turn off devices, put the TV into standby, etc. I could even send the Playbar IR commands for control (but only that zone), whereas now I just programme a remote control to do that.

Last edited on Monday Feb 25th, 2013 07:53 am by palmlodge

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