I've now had our Sonos system up since the holidays and we really enjoy how well it works. We use the system almost exclusively in whole house mode and I purchased the SonosController plugin in the hopes of seamless music control from HS Touch.
Which leads me to my problem. I have tried to use the provided 'MusicCtrlGrp' group in HS Touch, and added one group for each room (player.) Unfortunately, doing this causes the tablets (Viewsonic gTablet, dual core Tegra2) to grind to a halt for 10-15 seconds when accessing the music screen - which contains only the three player groups and a back button. Once it finally becomes active, I find that the album art is usually missing from at least one of the groups and the transport controls operate intermittently.
So I tried deleting two of the 'MusicCtrlGrp' groups and keeping the one that was set as the Sonos 'master' (using the Sonos software, not the plugin.) This seemed to work just fine until the latest plugin update and now this group will not reliably control the system.
Which brings me to my request. Having the ability to control transport and volume for the SonosController UPnP 'master' device would allow one 'MusicCtrlGrp' in HS Touch to reliably control the entire Sonos system regardless of which device is setup as the master. This would also require adding the UPnP master as a device that HS Touch can recognize as a music device, as it is not currently accessable as one from HS Touch and I can see no direct way to accomplish this.
Dirk, any thoughts on how to accomplish this? If not, any chance you might consider adding this type of functionality? BTW, thanks for your awesome support!
Which leads me to my problem. I have tried to use the provided 'MusicCtrlGrp' group in HS Touch, and added one group for each room (player.) Unfortunately, doing this causes the tablets (Viewsonic gTablet, dual core Tegra2) to grind to a halt for 10-15 seconds when accessing the music screen - which contains only the three player groups and a back button. Once it finally becomes active, I find that the album art is usually missing from at least one of the groups and the transport controls operate intermittently.
So I tried deleting two of the 'MusicCtrlGrp' groups and keeping the one that was set as the Sonos 'master' (using the Sonos software, not the plugin.) This seemed to work just fine until the latest plugin update and now this group will not reliably control the system.
Which brings me to my request. Having the ability to control transport and volume for the SonosController UPnP 'master' device would allow one 'MusicCtrlGrp' in HS Touch to reliably control the entire Sonos system regardless of which device is setup as the master. This would also require adding the UPnP master as a device that HS Touch can recognize as a music device, as it is not currently accessable as one from HS Touch and I can see no direct way to accomplish this.
Dirk, any thoughts on how to accomplish this? If not, any chance you might consider adding this type of functionality? BTW, thanks for your awesome support!
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