Sonos

The player page, showing what is playing in the kitchen with transport controls

A Sonos Player I Actually Own

This started as a tile on my dashboard. I wanted my homepage to tell me what was playing in the kitchen, which is the sort of thing that should take an afternoon. It is now a small Node app with a JSON API, three widgets, a full player page, and a second life as the thing my light switches talk to. ...

Two spare dimmer channels pointed at Sonos zones, one lit and one dark

I Gave a Dead Light Switch a Job

When we had the house rewired we ended up with more dimmer channels than lights. A couple of them are wired to nothing at all - one on the kitchen dimmer where a light used to be, another in the dining area. They look identical to the working ones. They just do not do anything when you press them. ...