SONOS NFC tooling

This library can be leveraged in combination with node-sonos-http-api to controll the sonos service over RFID cards. This allows you to build a very flexible service for you children or to digitalize your libary by still looking at CD's.

The library itself can write and read NFRC tags. I am leveraging an old Raspberry Pi with an MFRC522 RFID Reader Tutorial how to connect but you can also leverage an Arduio or other equipment if you want.

Supported Services

• Local Sonos playlist
• Spotify
• Apple Music
• Amazon Music
• Tunein

Requirements

This code requires you to have

• SPI-Py installed from the following repository
• node-sonos-http-api installed from the following repository please use the fork as the original version is missing the nfc action that maps the card uri's
• MFRC522.py from the repository is included in this project and changed to support python v3

How to use the lirbary

Test Cards

python sonos-nfc-dump.py

Will let you read the content of the card. If this is successful you can start creating a card that can be leveraged to play content

Write Cards

python sonos-nfc-write.py -uri [URI]

will write a card with an URI that the sonos controller can play.

Supported formats are:

• Local Playlist:
  • Format: playlist:[Playlist Name]
  • Example: playlist:Test 1
• Spotify:
  • Format: [Spotify URI] )
  • Example: spotify:album:12gOUR61KU69vYMaKZOPHV
• Apple Music:
  • Format: applemusic:[song|album]:[id]
  • Example: applemusic:song:55364259 or applemusic:album:355363490
• Amazon Music:
  • Format: amazonmusic:[song|album]:[id]
  • Example: amazonmusic:song:B009C7ZG38 or amazonmusic:album:B00720Z8PS
• TuneIn:
  • Format: tunein:[id]
  • Example: tunein:8007

The card programm will write the uri to the card including some meta information to get the content right. Please make sure that the service you want to leverage are configured correclty in your node-sonos-http-api server. Follow the instructions there as the service leverages the standard api's to play the music.

Read Cards

python sonos-nfc-read.py -sonosURI [node-sonos-http-api endpoint] -sonosRoom [Room Name]

The programm will wait until you represent a card that was written with the service before. It will take the URI and send it to the sonos controller that can run on the same machine or on a server if you you like to leverage a central endpoint for other actions as well.

Install on Raspberry Pi

The read programm needs to be started when the raspberry pi starts thefore I added it to the rc.local file

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

sudo python3 /home/pi/python-sonos-nfc/sonos-nfc-read.py -sonosUri http://localhost:5005 -sonosRoom Office > /home/pi/python-sonos-nfc/log.txt &