create group with one out of three currently playing speakers

[bednim]

Hello,
I am looking to create group with one out of the three playing speakers (names: b1, b2, b3) so if b1 or b2 or b3 (most recent speaker) is playing - i want another speaker (b4) to join (this will be executed by either button press or motion sensor) most recently reported playing speaker and create group.

How would I achieve this? would sonos-event help here?

Thank you

[hklages]

"most recent reported playing speaker" is a bit tricky.

Idea:

With sonos-event you can subscribe to many events - maybe playbackstate - with an intelligent filter (wait 5 seconds, ...). Playbackstate often changes for instance when switching Radio stations, playing a new track, ....

Then you can store the name of the player in a flow variable, overwriting the value before.

Then you use that value to group your player.

[bednim]

I almost got it but how do I store player name so I can pass it to player.join.group please? Would you be so kind to share some examples please?

[bednim]

I think I got it!