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I'm a bit alien to these kind of things and i cannot believe that a speaker could be limited in such a way. It's sole function is to play sound from a device a

I'm a bit alien to these kind of things and i cannot believe that a speaker could be limited in such a way. It's sole function is to play sound from a device and it utterly fails at that. Why do people put up with such rubbish? I get upset when i see a speaker without a jack port. Also, the article is excellent but the title lets it down. Can i suggest it be changed to something like "reverse engineering SONOS to play YouTube". If deadf00d is still on maybe you should also rethink the title?

deadf00d 5y ago
Yep, maybe the title is a bit weird, I wanted something catchy at first, and I think it worked great. Maybe a would do something different from now.
alar44 5y ago
You're missing the point of Sonos entirely. It's generally used to create zones in a house or workspace. It's not meant to be just a bluetooth receiver, there are a zillion other products that do that just fine.
avianlyric 5y ago
How exactly is it limited? The author wants a speaker to pull a video off YouTube, which isn’t exactly know for be friendly to non-official clients, and play the audio. Please find me any speaker in the world that can be given a YouTube URL and will play the video audio with no other equipment involved. I’ve tried writing the URL on the speaker cone of my boring speaker, unfortunately no sound is coming out. If the author just wanted to plug speakers into his computer and get sound, then he would have bought a non-smart speaker and amp. But clearly the author likes the ability to stream audio from the internet directly to his speakers. It’s just unfortunate that YouTube refuses to let people easily access the audio stream from their videos.
NoPicklez 5y ago
It's a WiFi connected speaker which is controlled through an app that you register music services on. This means that the audio ecosystem isn't reliant on streaming the music from your device, but from the service itself. All of the speakers are connected through the main controller app that you can use to group into rooms and setup as a home theatre. I've had their products for the last 7 years and they've never missed a beat.

deadf00d 5y ago

Yep, maybe the title is a bit weird, I wanted something catchy at first, and I think it worked great. Maybe a would do something different from now.

alar44 5y ago

You're missing the point of Sonos entirely. It's generally used to create zones in a house or workspace. It's not meant to be just a bluetooth receiver, there are a zillion other products that do that just fine.

avianlyric 5y ago

How exactly is it limited? The author wants a speaker to pull a video off YouTube, which isn’t exactly know for be friendly to non-official clients, and play the audio. Please find me any speaker in the world that can be given a YouTube URL and will play the video audio with no other equipment involved. I’ve tried writing the URL on the speaker cone of my boring speaker, unfortunately no sound is coming out. If the author just wanted to plug speakers into his computer and get sound, then he would have bought a non-smart speaker and amp. But clearly the author likes the ability to stream audio from the internet directly to his speakers. It’s just unfortunate that YouTube refuses to let people easily access the audio stream from their videos.

NoPicklez 5y ago

It's a WiFi connected speaker which is controlled through an app that you register music services on. This means that the audio ecosystem isn't reliant on streaming the music from your device, but from the service itself. All of the speakers are connected through the main controller app that you can use to group into rooms and setup as a home theatre. I've had their products for the last 7 years and they've never missed a beat.