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About

Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai/) is an open source project that provides a local and controlled alternative to Google Assistant and Alexa. Mycroft can run on a Raspberry Pi. Similarly to Alexa, you can add functionalities to your Mycroft voice assistant setup by installing “skills”.

This project is a skill for Mycroft that provides convenient voice commands to play Spotify music on Sonos speakers.

Big kudos to:

• the project Node Sonos HTTP API (https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-http-api/) which does most of the work and exposes an easy to use Sonos API
• the project Spotipy (https://github.com/plamere/spotipy) that is used for populating the user’s list of personal spotify playlists, and to play the most popular songs for a given artist.

In its current state, this project provides all the commands I have needed in order to voice-control Sonos and Spotify while cooking dinner :). It currently only supports playing music on one Sonos speaker but using the node http api, it should be fairly easy to add support for several speakers.

Supported Commands

• “Play some music”
• “Stop the music”
• “Play the playlist Morning Acoustic”
• “Play the album Parachute”
• “Sonos volume up”
• “Decrease the volume on Sonos”
• “Set the Sonos volume to 10”
• “Next song”
• “Skip 5 songs”
• “Previous song”
• “Play the song Karma Police”
• “Play some music by Coldplay” (plays the most popular songs for this artist and not the curated Spotify playlist, that is how we like it :)
• “Play the radio for Coldplay”
• “Play the playlist Cool Stuff” (first looks at the user’s own playlist, and fallbacks on Spotify’s public playlists. The user’s playlist has to be public )
• “What is this song?”
• “What is the current Sonos volume?”

Pre-requisites

• Get spotify developement credentials here: https://developer.spotify.com/. At the time of writing, anyone can get some.
• Be comfortable using the command line. For example, you need to be able to install and run a node.js app.

Installation On Raspberry Pi

• Install Picroft on a Raspberry Pi (version 3 or higher) https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/using-mycroft-ai/get-mycroft/picroft.
• Install the Node Sonos HTTP API server on the Raspberry Pi https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-http-api/ and ideally make it run as a service with auto restart.
  • Don’t forget to add your Spotify dev credentials. They live in the file called settings.json in the root folder of node-sonos-http-api
  • node-sonos-http-api is expected to run on the Pi and be available ay http://localhost:5005/
  • Some helper files are included in the folder node-sonos-http-api-resources
  • Suggested installation should be something like:

    # -> Install node.js on the raspberry pi. Google it yourself or check https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-node-js-on-raspberry-pi/ for example
    cd /home/pi
    git clone https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-http-api.git
    cd node-sonos-http-api
    touch settings.json
    # -> Add your spotify credentials in settings.json. See example in `node-sonos-http-api-resources/settings.json`
    # -> Place the file `node-sonos-http-api-resources/node-sonos-http-api.service` in /lib/systemd/system/`
    sudo systemctl enable node-sonos-http-api
    sudo systemctl start node-sonos-http-api

• Run mycroft-msm install https://github.com/lnguyenh/spotify-sonos-bot-skill on the Pi.
• Go in your skills settings https://account.mycroft.ai/skills and add
  • your Sonos default speaker
  • your Spotify username (optional but allows prioritizing your own playlists when searching)
  • your Spotify dev client ID (optional but allows prioritizing your own playlists when searching)
  • your Spotify dev client secret (optional but allows prioritizing your own playlists when searching)

Todos

• Support for multiple Sonos speakers
• Make configuration less hardcoded
• Document and streamline the setup
• tests :)

Credits

• Mycroft, the open source local voice assistant (https://mycroft.ai/)
• Node Sonos HTTP API, which does all the heavy lifting related to Sonos and Spotify (https://github.com/jishi/node-sonos-http-api/)
• Spotipy used for a few specific commands not supported by Node Sonos (https://github.com/plamere/spotipy)

Category

Music & Audio

Tags

Spotify

Sonos