sonopod is a commandline tool for playing podcasts through Sonos speakers
Project description
A simple command line podcast player for Sonos
why?
This little utilty is great for building a remote control for Sonos.
The primary use case is for a headless Raspberry pi, reading RFID cards to choose podcasts to play on the Sonos speaker.
If you find any other use for it, add your story!
examples
help text
$ ./sonopod.py --help
SonoPod is a command line client to feed your Sonos with podcasts
Copyright 2016 <havard@gulldahl.no>, GPLv3 licensed
Usage: sonopod.py [-h|--help] [--setsonos] [podcast_url]
[-h|--help] This help text
[--setsonos] Set default Sonos speaker
[podcast_url] Add a new podcast series to the library
If run without arguments, presents a list of podcasts in the library
set Sonos speaker
$ ./sonopod.py --setsonos
Choose a Sonos speaker
[1] Arbeidsrom
[2] Stue
Set default>
add podcast series
$ ./sonopod.py http://www.thenakedscientists.com/naked_scientists_podcast.xml
Available episodes
[1] Cambridge Science Festival: Battle of the Brains
[2] The A - Zika of viruses: Preventing Pandemics
[3] Gravitational Waves: Discovery of the Decade?
[4] Could The Internet Die?
[5] Rules of Attraction: The Science of Sex
Which episode to play>
listen to podcast from library
$ ./sonopod.py
Podcasts in library
[1] NRK – 200 år på 200 minutter
[2] NRK – Einstein – på sporet av den tøyde tid
[3] Everyday Einstein's Quick and Dirty Tips for Making Sense of Science
[4] NRK – Nyhetsmorgen
[5] Freakonomics Radio
[6] Valebrokk og Co.
[7] NRK – Ekko - et aktuelt samfunnsprogram
[8] NRK – Ytring
Choose podcast> 6
Available episodes
[1] Her bor fremtidens boligvinnere
[2] Må vaskehjelpen subsidieres for å få kvinner i full jobb?
[3] Lakselus til tross, vi har så vidt sett starten på lakseeventyret
[4] Økonomisk toppmøte: Èn ting er mer verdt enn oljen
[5] Hvor ille kan oljebremsen bli? Vi har spurt industritoppene før sentralbanksjefens årstale
Which episode to play> 2
ChangeLog
0.1.1 (2016-03-20)
Tool is installed as mopidy.py in your path
Add code to choose Sonos speaker if you have more than one. Run with --setsonos to set speaker.
Add command line option --help
Don’t depend on the builtin module
0.1 (Unreleased)
Working proof of concept