Pause playing track and play local file and then resume.

[Hans P Nyholm]

I'am writing a script that I will pause the current playing track and play a localfile and then resume playing the current track and the rest of the queue or playlist.

I can play a local file, thats working. But the rest...

#!/usr/bin/env python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from soco import SoCo

import httplib, urllib

volume_now = "0"

sonos = SoCo('192.168.1.168')

volume_now = sonos.volume

sonos.volume = 45

sonos.play_uri('http://192.168.1.2:8080/sounds/washermachine.mp3')

sonos.play()

sonos.volume = volume_now

[DPH]

Hi Hans,

use the snapshot class in SoCo.

This saves all current state and then allows you to restore it.

Example:

# Snapshot of current state 

from soco import SoCo

from soco.snapshot import Snapshot

zp = SoCo('192.168.1.76')

snap = Snapshot(zp)     # create snapshot class

snap.snapshot()            # take a snapshot of current state

# play your local file

snap.restore()

Have fun

Cheers Daivd

[Hans P Nyholm]

Thank you, that works great.

I also have problem whit the Swedish letters å,ä,ö in the speaker names.

It can discover the speaker and print the name but i cant use a name whit å,ä,ö in it.

[Kenneth Nielsen]

Hallo Hans

I realize this thread is a bit old, but thought I should answer anyway. Whan you say that you can't use speaker names with special Swedish letters in them, then what exactly do you mean? That you cannot set a new player_namer that contains these? (I'm a Dane myself, so I know of the special letters). When you test this, make sure you pass in the new name as a unicode string (Should happen automatically on Python 3, on python 2 use

new_name = u'Køkken'

If this fails, then you should report it as a bug on: https://github.com/SoCo/SoCo/issues

Thanks in advance
Regards Kenneth