wireless_sonos

This script will change your PulseAudio configuration file so it will stream your audio over Sonos speakers on the network. It works by opening a VLC network radio stream, pointing PulseAudio to it and telling the Sonos speaker to listen to the VLC radio broadcast.

This script is Linux only and will probably stay Linux only.

Installation

Make sure you have Python 3 installed with soco. You can install soco with the following command:

pip install soco

Then we clone the repo with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/mvanaltvorst/wireless_sonos.git

Then we setup our firewall to allow an outgoing tcp stream on port 8554

sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 8554 -j ACCEPT

Then change line 3 of the wirelesssound.sh to the IP of the sonos speaker

authenticdefault.pa was the original /etc/pulse/default.pa that was supplied with my Ubuntu distribution. modifieddefault.pa is the same as authenticdefault.pa with the following 3 extra lines appended to the end:

load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp channels=2 rate=44100 
load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor destination=127.0.0.1 port=46998 loop=1
set-default-sink rtp

You should try manually creating these files if my files don't work for you.

To run the script, use the following command:

sudo ./wirelesssound.sh

(the script needs root privileges to modify /etc/pulse/default.pa)