I’m working on playing audio clips over my Sonos, and I followed the guidelines I found, however when I paste the link to the audio file and then save, SharpTools is adding apostrophes to the beginning and end of the link, and it won’t play. I can make other commands like next track work just fine, so it’s not a trigger issue. I believe if I could find a way to edit out the apostrophes it would be fine, but can’t find a way to edit the actual code. Any thoughts on why the apostrophes are being added?
Hi @Dustin_Stone, welcome to the community. The url needs to point to the audio file directly, not the dropbox webpage of the file. See the comment from the post below where I had to generate the public accessible link and change the host name manually to make it work. (Please note the ?dl=1 parameter in the end of the url.)
Let me know if this helps.
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Beautiful! Works perfectly, thank you. Excited to see what all I can do with this.
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Glad to hear that it’s working for you. Don’t forget to share us the rule & Sonos ideas you come up with later. I often times find the greatest creativities were coming from our community posts.
There will be a lot of uses for this but the planned implementations so far are:
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Arlo motion at my office will trigger an audio file to play inside my home across all speakers to “check office cameras.” Working on grouping speakers now.
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Announcing over house speakers if motion is detected on front porch, mailbox, or pool area.
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Announcing arrivals by name using the smartthings location fobs.
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