Start a local music at a random time

[fdecourt]

Hi,
I love this plugin, thanks for your work.
One of my use of the plugin is to fake presence when I am not at home.
I have a 12 minutes MP3, simulating life at home (people eating, walking, playing music, chatting....)
It is working well, but I would like to randomly start the sounds at different moment of my file (starting at 93 seconds for example and not from the begining of the file). Generating random numbers are easy, but how to inject it to the node ?
Thanks,
regards,
F.

[hklages]

Hi. Nice use case. You can try group.seek and move to any position in your track. See https://github.com/hklages/node-red-contrib-sonos-plus/wiki/A.1-Universal-Node#groupseek Best regards Henning

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[fdecourt]

Thanks for the tip, I will try that and keep you informed.
Regards,
F.

[fdecourt]

Hi,
It is not working. Here is the message error :
"group.seek:Sonos error on Seek UPnPError 701 (Transition not available) :: Details: {"stack":"SonosError: Sonos error on Seek UPnPError 701 (Transition not available)\n at AVTransportService.handleErrorResponse (/config/node_modules/@svrooij/sonos/lib/services/base-service.js:227:23)\n at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)\n at Object.groupSeek [as group.seek] (/config/node_modules/node-red-contrib-sonos-plus/src/sonos-universal.js:1971:5)","message":"Sonos error on Seek UPnPError 701 (Transition not available)","Action":"Seek","FaultCode":"s:Client","Fault":"UPnPError","UpnpErrorCode":701,"UpnpErrorDescription":"Transition not available","name":"SonosError"}"

My local MP3 is hosted on my nas, so I am using group.play.streamhttp.

When I check group.get.actions, it shows only set, stop, play.

Thanks

Regards

[hklages]

Right - a stream can not be repositioned. You have to clear the SONOS Queue, add the mp3 to the SONOS Queue and then you should be able to use group.seek

[fdecourt]

Hi,
Thanks for your advices.
I am able to manage and play the queue, but group.seek does not work, without error, just pleying the track from the begining.
With group.get.actions, it shows me that X_DLNA_SeekTime is available (payload: "Set, Stop, Pause, Play, X_DLNA_SeekTime, X_DLNA_SeekTrackNr")
Is it because I am using group.queue.uri, with the URL of my MP3 (http://192.XX.XX.XX:XXXX/local/sounds/simu.mp3)?

Thanks for your help.
Regards

[hklages]

...please put the group play.group before the seek command. Does that work? Grüße Henning Klages

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On Fri, Sep 13, 2024, 09:14 fdecourt ***@***.***> wrote: Hi, Thanks for your advices. I am able to manage and play the queue, but group.seek does not work, without error, just pleying the track from the begining. With group.get.actions, it shows me that X_DLNA_SeekTime is available (payload: "Set, Stop, Pause, Play, X_DLNA_SeekTime, X_DLNA_SeekTrackNr") Is it because I am using group.queue.uri, with the URL of my MP3 ( http://192.XX.XX.XX:XXXX/local/sounds/simu.mp3)? image.png (view on web) <https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d16d7d04-bd97-40cd-8365-5e5804b8fe58> image.png (view on web) <https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e73fc0bb-c4de-47ec-aa90-9febe1fe168d> Thanks for your help. Regards — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#303 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEDZCH6H6RJQLFKDKQ6NL5LZWKNGLAVCNFSM6AAAAABK2QAFWGVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTANRTGQ4DMNY> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: <hklages/node-red-contrib-sonos-plus/repo-discussions/303/comments/10634867 @github.com>

[fdecourt]

Hi hHi @hklages ,
Yes it worked perfectly. So I just develop small node to generate a random time in hh:mm;ss (https://flows.nodered.org/node/@fdecourt/node-red-contrib-random-duration). Now, all my usecase is working as I want !
Thanks for your help and your work !

[hklages]

Good to hear. Thanks for the feedback.