nathancashmore / sonosassistant

Intermediate service to receive Google Home request and interpret to play tunes on Sonos

SonosAssistant

Intermediate service to receive Google Home request and interpret to play tunes on your local Sonos.

Uses the fine work of jishi/node-sonos-http-api to talk to your local services.

Prerequisites

• Api.Ai account (https://console.api.ai/api-client)
• Google Cloud Platform project (https://console.cloud.google.com/home/dashboard)
• Firewall opened on port 3000 and a host to run it on.

Setup

Sonos Assistant

• npm install

Api.Ai

• Goto Api.Ai

• Create new agent

• Goto Settings > Export and Import

• Restore from zip

• Drop in the file SonosAssistant-ApiAi.zip at base of project.

• Goto Integrations > Actions on Google (Follow the steps to push out to google cloud)

Running

• npm start

Fires up:

• node-sonos-http-api by default on port 5005
• Sonos-Assistant by default on port 3000

Serving over https

• Download and install ngrok (https://ngrok.com/download)
• ngrok http 3000

Copy output https url and enter in Api.Ai as the Fulfillment Webhook URL with /sonos/ on the end. e.g. https://7e68c7b6.ngrok.io/sonos

Logging

All output goes to the file output.log, tail that if nothing is working.

Testing

npm test