I'me creating that new thread to try to reach a decent solution on that. I'd copy first a few existing messages from other threads that I've exchanged
------------ my working solution today ----------------- Sonos cannot point to LMS, they ignore each other. What Sonos does well is distributing analog source connected to the line-in of any capable device (a play:5 or a connect) to any other device in the Sonos system and keeping them fully in sync. So it is as simple as connecting the line-out of a SB3 or a Touch or a Receiver to any Sonos device with Line-In. Then _that_ Squeezebox device becomes your bridge. In other words, you have to always play on that SB device to be able to listen to your music on the Sonos system. The Sonos is, to some extend, just used as wireless speakers with enhanced synchronization capabilities. What is amazing is that when I tried that, I was expecting the Sonos system to delay the analog input to a few 100ms and have to delay all my Squeezebox devices to take that into account, I was expecting awfull jitter at all - well, not at all (and I've been using that for almost 2 years). There is no audible delay between an analog input of a Sonos system and that same music forwarded to any other sonos devices - this is just instant "forward" So, what is played on my Sonos "extensions" is fully controlled by my Squeezebox system (I use iPeng a lot, it is really a great piece of software). The only time when I use the Sonos controller is to mute / unmute / group Sonos speakers as, again, all the Sonos speakers appears as "one single entity" to the SB system. But that's all. Of course, at any time, you can ask the Sonos system to play something else than the line-in of (eg) a Play:5. The Sonos system is pointing to the same folder containing my music, so everything is as well available "natively" Say you have Kitchen : Boombox Dinner room : SB3 on amplifier speakers Bedroom : Radio you add Sonos devices Dinner room : Play:5 Bedroom : 2xSonos:1 Connect line-out of SB3 to the Play:5 line-in using a Y connector To play on the Sonos(Dinner) or Sonos(Bedroom), the caveat is that you have to play on SB(Kitchen). On Sonos, configure it to re-play Sonos(Dinner:LineIn) to Sonos(Bedroom) and/or Sonos(Dinner). Using your prefered SB controller, then do what you used to do, and all speakers in Bedroom will play in perfect sync, although they are a combo of Sonos and Squeezebox. If you want to switch off Sonos(Dinner) or Sonos(Bedroom), use the Sonos application on your preferred smartphone. You can also dedicated an "old" Squeezebox receiver to be the bridge between the system, not connected to any speaker - in that case, no annoyance of having mandatory sound to be heard in one room to bridge to Sonos. I feel it is a very smooth transition or a very good combo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102172 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
