Piston help with Alexa and Sonos


#1

I have an Echo Show which I use as an alarm clock. I also have a Sonos speaker that I use to listen to the local news radio in the morning while I am getting ready for work.

There other times where I listen to other music with the same Sonos speaker. I have to remember to make sure to set it back to the news radio so I don’t start blasting Metallica at 6 AM (not that I have an issue with that, it’s the wife, lol)

Is there a way to create a piston that when the alarm goes off on the Echo the Sonos speaker will play the news radio station no matter what was playing before? The reason that I don’t just set the Sonos to come on at the time the alarm goes off is sometimes I get up earlier then the alarm.

I hope this makes sense and any help is greatly appreciated.


#2

Not sure about the echo because I don’t use echo for music.
But I have sonos speakers.

Sonos is not so great with playing different stations, music etc thru webcore (rumors say, they want us to use their app)

do you have a link to your morning local news station? not the website but stream link.
This example is for my christmas piston. It has to be something like this.
IF you can find that link, the piston part is easy.


#3

I am sure I can find that. Let me see what I can dig and will get back to you! Thanks the help.


#4

You can also check the ST IDE while playing the station.