Support for Nightsound / Speech Enhancement

[badrabbit]

Support for Nightsound / Speech Enhancement

[ebaauw]

Did some sniffing and it would seem the PlayBar sends event notifications for these settings, so getting the state won't be an issue.

What will be an issue is that these controls are available only when the PlayBar (or other home theatre zone player) is playing TV (the optical audio in). I haven't been able to show controls in HomeKit dynamically. Consequently, these settings will be visible all the time and HomeKit will return an error to the user, when s/he tries to change them while the input is not on TV.

[badrabbit]

Any progress on this?

[ebaauw]

Sorry, kinda forgot about this. v0.3.3 supports these.

Sonos actually implemented these as EQ settings, so they're exposed under the Speaker service. Of course, Apple's Home app won't support custom characteristics, but they work brilliantly under Eve.

What will be an issue is that these controls are available only when the PlayBar (or other home theatre zone player) is playing TV (the optical audio in).

They're actually available all of the time. The Sonos app only shows the controls when playing TV. Through homebridge-zp, you can even change them when the PlayBar input is not on TV.

[badrabbit]

Great, thank you!

[jjross]

Sorry, I'm running 0.3.14 and I don't see these characteristics exposed. What I would love to do is schedule a HomeKit automation that will set night mode at night and then turn it back off at sunrise.

Is this possible? This is my config:

    {
        "platform": "ZP",
        "service": "speaker",
        "brightness": false,
        "speakers": false
    },

[ebaauw]

Apple’s Home app doesn’t support custom characteristics; you need to use another HomeKit app.

[jjross]

I tried Eve and “Home” and neither seemed to show the details on my playbase.

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[ebaauw]

Sorry, I read over the config.json: you need to set ”speakers”: true as these characteristics are exposed under the Speakers service.

[jjross]

Got it! Thanks!

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