Custom icon for text devices

[dhanjel]

I have a virtual device of type text that displays the current track in Sonos, which works nice.
What I would like to do though is to set the icon to the current album art (I do have the url), is that possible?

[gizmocuz]

That is quite bit bit outside the idea for this application....

[dhanjel]

Ah ok, would be nice though
But at least be able to have custom icons on all types of devices would be nice.

[geezerrr]

I have a virtual device of type text that displays the current track in Sonos, which works nice.
What I would like to do though is to set the icon to the current album art (I do have the url), is that possible?

Can you share how you get the Sonos text in your text dummy sensor? Or share your script? I'm looking for this one.

[G3rard]

Can you share how you get the Sonos text in your text dummy sensor? Or share your script? I'm looking for this one.

I am using the new HTTP poller in Domoticz to get song/artist from the Sonos and show it in a text sensor.
This checks the status every 30 seconds and works independent from the normal LUA scripts.

I call a PHP script in the poller, this uses the information from the Sonos Wrapper https://github.com/gerard33/sonos.
So you need that to get this working, but maybe you can use some of the code.

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PHP script (called from URL field in HTTP poller)

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<?php
//----------fill in parameters below----------
$path='http://127.0.0.1/fp/sonos/';             //localhost, path to Sonos Wrapper
//$path='http://192.168.1.157/fp/sonos/';  //used for debugging
$status_off="Uit";                                        //message shown when Sonos is not playing
$sonos=array(                                             //key and value of Sonos, key corresponds to idx in Sonos Wrapper config file
    '115' => 'kantoor',                                    //key, value
    '116' => 'keuken'
);
$ar1=getSonosInformation('kantoor');                 //not so nice, but call function for each sonos
$ar2=getSonosInformation('keuken');
//----------end of parameters----------

//array_walk($sonos, 'getSonosInformation');                                    //start function for all values from array

$output=json_encode(array_merge($ar1, $ar2));
//$output=json_encode(array_merge(array_walk($sonos, 'getSonosInformation')));
print_r($output);

function getSonosInformation($sonos_name) {
    global $path,$status_off,$sonos;                                        //load variables
    
    $id = array_search($sonos_name, $sonos);                                //search sonos id from array corresponding to name
    
    //get info from Sonos
    $mediainfo=json_decode(file_get_contents($path.'index.php?zone='.$id.'&action=GetMediaInfo'),true);            //media info
    $positioninfo=json_decode(file_get_contents($path.'index.php?zone='.$id.'&action=GetPositionInfo'),true);    //position info
    $volumeinfo=file_get_contents($path.'index.php?zone='.$id.'&action=GetVolume');                                //volume info

    if(!empty($mediainfo['title'])) {                                        //title not empty then radio is played, get data from GetMediaInfo
        $title=$mediainfo['title'];                                            //radio station
        $streamcontent=$positioninfo['streamContent'];                        //what is playing
        $album='';                                                            //no album information
        $artist='';                                                            //no artist information
    } else {                                                                //other source, get data from GetPositionInfo
        $title=$positioninfo['title'];                                        //title of the song
        $title=substr($title, 0, 50);                                        //show first 50 characters
        $artist=$positioninfo['artist'];                                    //artist
        $album=$positioninfo['album'];                                        //album
        $album=substr($album, 0, 30);                                        //show first 30 characters
        if(!empty($positioninfo['albumTrackNumber'])) {                        //tracknumber can be on 2 places
            $tracknumber=$positioninfo['albumTrackNumber'];
        } else {
            $tracknumber=$positioninfo['Track'];
        }
        $streamcontent= '#'.$tracknumber;                                    //shows: #:10
    }

    //get status of Sonos
    $status=file_get_contents($path.'index.php?zone='.$id.'&action=GetTransportInfo', 'r');
    if ($status != 1) {                                                                                     //1=Playing, 2=Pause, 3=Stopped
        $title=$status_off;                                                                                    //title empty if Sonos is not playing
    }
    
    //make JSON from array
    $ar=array();
    if ($title==$status_off) {                                                                                //if Sonos is not playing
        $ar[$sonos_name] = array(
            "playing" => $title
        );
    } else {
        if(!empty($mediainfo['title'])) {
            $ar[$sonos_name] = array(
                "playing" => $title.'<br>'.$streamcontent,                                                    //radio station and number
            );
        } else {
            $ar[$sonos_name] = array(
                "playing" => $artist.'<br>'.$title,                                                            //artist and number
                //"playing" => $streamcontent_1.': '.$title_1.'<br>'.$artist_1.' | Album: '.$album_1,        //other possibility
            );
        }
    }
    return $ar;
}
?>

sonos.lua

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--Sonos information
--{"kantoor":{"playing":"Uit"},"keuken":{"playing":"Uit"}}

--Retrieve the request content
s = request['content'];

--Update sonos (kantoor,484 and keuken 485) with playing information
local s_1 = domoticz_applyJsonPath(s,'.kantoor.playing')
local s_2 = domoticz_applyJsonPath(s,'.keuken.playing')

domoticz_updateDevice(484,'',s_1)
domoticz_updateDevice(485,'',s_2)

[geezerrr]

Thnx G3rard,
I Will give it a try

[dhanjel]

I use the node-sonos-http api in a dzVents to get the information, still would like at least are more representative icon though

[ben53252642]

+1 for this feature.

I'd like to be able to set a text sensors icon to pull from a url using json (also Sonos, same as everyone else it would seem).

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[aBjerris]

+1 On this one.
I don't use Sonos with Domoticz yet but might do it in the future.
In general I think the Domoticz UI could improve a lot if all virtual sensors/switches had customized icons just like the physical switches.

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[twentysevendk]

I've got a friend who is an old-school developer and making up his smart-home application by his own, whilst I'm using Domoticz.
As of now, being unable to assign a desirable icons for all items in Domoticz is one of the major things why I can't get an upper hand in our competition of smart home systems.
So my bet is ++1 for this feature!

[robhiddinga]

It would be nice to be able to modify all icons on all devices.
It would enable you to be much more informative.
As it is not possible I have been struggling to solve it another way and ended up using a custom sensor.
Not as much space as on a text device, but you can (mis)use all parts of the header.
Modifying that one took me some time, so I shared my snippet on github
https://github.com/robhiddinga/domoticz-tile-mod