Fofer
commented
3 years ago My apologies! I deleted my previous reply to instead report that I am, in fact, experiencing this same issue.
My bathroom and kitchen Sonos are often "parked" on whatever music station they were playing last. And now, whenever I go in those rooms, they will start playing that music, due to the motion sensing and this automation. I don't know how to clear out the station that's parked, so I've had to disable the automation entirely.
I really only want automatic grouping to occur (thanks to this excellent plugin) when there is something playing in the other rooms. That's precisely what I've wanted for a long time and this plugin handles it beautifully. I've shared my enthusiasm about this plugin in many forums. It's probably my favorite smarthome thing :)
But I really don't want automatic playback to ever occur, especially if nothing else is playing anywhere else. It's a bit jarring (especially late at night) and unfortunately diminishes the appeal of using this plugin. I'm hoping there's an edit or some additional configuration we can do, so that homebridge-sonos-multiroom only groups rooms as desired, and doesn't simply "start playback" if nothing is playing in that room or elsewhere. Which could be achieved with a different, simple automation anyway ("if motion, play music.")
Thanks for the consideration or any additional assistance. Much appreciated!
lukasroegner
Is there a way to have a boolean option for what logic happens when this plugin finds that nothing is already playing?
Ideally I would like to be able to have the plugin join a group if it is already playing, but not start playing something if nothing is being played? The plugin would simply ignore the switch request, until it is turned off/on again.
Maybe there's just a line or two that I can comment out, but I think others would find value in this config option as well!
Thanks for any input!