bonob

A sonos SMAPI implementation to allow registering sources of music with sonos.

Support for Subsonic API clones (tested against Navidrome and Gonic).

Features

• Integrates with Subsonic API clones (Navidrome, Gonic)
• Browse by Artist, Albums, Random, Favourites, Top Rated, Playlist, Genres, Recently Added Albums, Recently Played Albums, Most Played Albums
• Artist & Album Art
• View Related Artists via Artist -> '...' -> Menu -> Related Arists
• Now playing & Track Scrobbling
• Search by Album, Artist, Track
• Playlist editing through sonos app.
• Marking of songs as favourites and with ratings through the sonos app.
• Localization (only en-US, da-DK & nl-NL supported currently, require translations for other languages). Sonos localization and supported languages
• Auto discovery of sonos devices
• Discovery of sonos devices using seed IP address
• Auto registration with sonos on start
• Multiple registrations within a single household.
• Transcoding support for flacs using a specific player for the flac mimeType bonob/sonos

Running

bonob is packaged as an OCI image to both the docker hub registry and github registry.

ie.

docker pull docker.io/simojenki/bonob

or

docker pull ghcr.io/simojenki/bonob

Full sonos device auto-discovery and auto-registration using docker --network host

docker run \
    -e BNB_SONOS_AUTO_REGISTER=true \
    -e BNB_SONOS_DEVICE_DISCOVERY=true \
    -p 4534:4534 \
    --network host \
    simojenki/bonob

Now open http://localhost:4534 in your browser, you should see sonos devices, and service configuration. Bonob will auto-register itself with your sonos system on startup.

Full sonos device auto-discovery and auto-registration on custom port by using a sonos seed device, without requiring docker host networking

docker run \
    -e BNB_PORT=3000 \
    -e BNB_SONOS_SEED_HOST=192.168.1.123 \
    -e BNB_SONOS_AUTO_REGISTER=true \
    -e BNB_SONOS_DEVICE_DISCOVERY=true \
    -p 3000:3000 \
    simojenki/bonob

Bonob will now auto-register itself with sonos on startup, updating the registration if the configuration has changed. Bonob should show up in the "Services" list on http://localhost:3000

Running bonob on a different network to your sonos devices

Running bonob outside of your lan will require registering your bonob install with your sonos devices from within your LAN.

If you are using bonob over the Internet, you do this at your own risk and should use TLS.

Start bonob outside the LAN with sonos discovery & registration disabled as they are meaningless in this case, ie.

docker run \
    -e BNB_PORT=4534 \
    -e BNB_SONOS_SERVICE_NAME=MyAwesomeMusic \
    -e BNB_SECRET=changeme \
    -e BNB_URL=https://my-server.example.com/bonob \
    -e BNB_SONOS_AUTO_REGISTER=false \
    -e BNB_SONOS_DEVICE_DISCOVERY=false \
    -e BNB_SUBSONIC_URL=https://my-navidrome-service.com:4533 \
    -p 4534:4534 \
    simojenki/bonob

Now within the LAN that contains the sonos devices run bonob the registration process.

Using auto-discovery

docker run \
    --rm \
    --network host \
    simojenki/bonob register https://my-server.example.com/bonob

Using a seed host

docker run \
    --rm \
    -e BNB_SONOS_SEED_HOST=192.168.1.163 \
    simojenki/bonob register https://my-server.example.com/bonob

Running bonob and navidrome using docker-compose

version: "3"
services:
  navidrome:
    image: deluan/navidrome:latest
    user: 1000:1000 # should be owner of volumes
    ports:
      - "4533:4533"
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      # Optional: put your config options customization here. Examples:
      ND_SCANSCHEDULE: 1h
      ND_LOGLEVEL: info  
      ND_SESSIONTIMEOUT: 24h
      ND_BASEURL: ""
    volumes:
      - "/tmp/navidrome/data:/data"
      - "/tmp/navidrome/music:/music:ro"
  bonob:
    image: simojenki/bonob:latest
    user: 1000:1000 # should be owner of volumes
    ports:
      - "4534:4534"
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      BNB_PORT: 4534
      # ip address of your machine running bonob
      BNB_URL: http://192.168.1.111:4534  
      BNB_SECRET: changeme
      BNB_SONOS_AUTO_REGISTER: "true"
      BNB_SONOS_DEVICE_DISCOVERY: "true"
      BNB_SONOS_SERVICE_ID: 246
      # ip address of one of your sonos devices
      BNB_SONOS_SEED_HOST: 192.168.1.121
      BNB_SUBSONIC_URL: http://navidrome:4533

Running bonob on synology

See this issue

Configuration

Initialising service within sonos app

• Configure bonob, make sure to set BNB_URL. bonob must be accessible from your sonos devices on BNB_URL, otherwise it will fail to initialise within the sonos app, so make sure you test this in your browser by putting BNB_URL in the address bar and seeing the bonob information page
• Start bonob
• Open sonos app on your device
• Settings -> Services & Voice -> + Add a Service
• Select your Music Service, default name is 'bonob', can be overriden with configuration BNB_SONOS_SERVICE_NAME
• Press 'Add to Sonos' -> 'Linking sonos with bonob' -> Authorize
• Your device should open a browser and you should now see a login screen, enter your subsonic clone credentials
• You should get 'Login successful!'
• Go back into the sonos app and complete the process
• You should now be able to play music on your sonos devices from you subsonic clone
• Within the subsonic clone a new player will be created, 'bonob (username)', so you can configure transcoding specifically for sonos

Re-registering your bonob service with sonos App

Generally speaking you will not need to do this very often. However on occassion bonob will change the implementation of the authentication between sonos and bonob, which will require a re-registration. Your sonos app will complain about not being able to browse the service, to re-register execute the following steps (taken from the iOS app);

• Open the sonos app
• Settings -> Services & Voice
• Your bonob service, will likely have name of either 'bonob' or $BNB_SONOS_SERVICE_NAME
• Reauthorize Account
• Authorize
• Enter credentials, you should see 'Login Successful!'
• Done

Service should now be registered and everything should work as expected.

Multiple registrations within a single household.

It's possible to register multiple Subsonic clone users for the bonob service in Sonos. Basically this consist of repeating the Sonos app "Add a service" steps for each additional user. Afterwards the Sonos app displays a dropdown underneath the service, allowing to switch between users.

Implementing a different music source other than a subsonic clone

• Implement the MusicService/MusicLibrary interface
• Startup bonob with your new implementation.

A note on transcoding

tldr; Transcoding to mp3/m4a is not supported as sonos devices will not play the track. However transcoding to flac does work, use BNB_SUBSONIC_CUSTOM_CLIENTS=audio/flac if you want to transcode flac->flac ie. to downsample HD flacs (see below).

Sonos devices are very particular about how audio streams are presented to them, see streaming basics. When using transcoding both Navidrome and Gonic report no 'content-length', nor do they support range queries, this will cause the sonos device to fail to play the track.

Audio File type specific transcoding options within Subsonic

In some situations you may wish to have different 'Players' within you Subsonic server so that you can configure different transcoding options depending on the file type. For example if you have flacs with a mixture of frequency formats where not all are supported by sonos See issue #52 & Sonos supported audio formats

In this case you could set;

BNB_SUBSONIC_CUSTOM_CLIENTS="audio/flac"

This would result in 2 players in Navidrome, one called 'bonob', the other called 'bonob+audio/flac'. You could then configure a custom flac transcoder in Navidrome that re-samples the flacs to a sonos supported format, ie Using something like this or this:

ffmpeg -i %s -af aformat=sample_fmts=s16|s32:sample_rates=8000|11025|16000|22050|24000|32000|44100|48000 -f flac -

Note for Sonos S1: 24-bit depth is only supported by Sonos S2, so if your system is still on Sonos S1, transcoding should convert all FLACs to 16-bit:

ffmpeg -i %s -af aformat=sample_fmts=s16:sample_rates=8000|11025|16000|22050|24000|32000|44100|48000 -f flac -

Changing Icon colors

-e BNB_ICON_FOREGROUND_COLOR=white \
-e BNB_ICON_BACKGROUND_COLOR=darkgrey

-e BNB_ICON_FOREGROUND_COLOR=chartreuse \
-e BNB_ICON_BACKGROUND_COLOR=fuchsia

-e BNB_ICON_FOREGROUND_COLOR=lime \
-e BNB_ICON_BACKGROUND_COLOR=aliceblue

-e 'BNB_ICON_FOREGROUND_COLOR=#1db954' \
-e 'BNB_ICON_BACKGROUND_COLOR=#121212'

Credits

• Icons courtesy of: Navidrome, Vectornator, and @jicho